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So Cal Earthquake, 6/12/05 |
Humuhumu
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|  Posted: 2005-06-12 08:46 am Permalink
Just felt an earthquake, checked the USGS website and it looks like it was around 5, and inland from here... everyone ok? Everyone's mugs ok?
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Humuhumu
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| Posted: 2005-06-12 08:50 am Permalink
Looks like it was around 5.6, and south of here, southwest of Palm Springs:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14151344.htm
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Tiki-Kate
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| Posted: 2005-06-12 09:03 am Permalink
Scared the hell out of me. I was watching Hawaiian Eye on TV Land when the house started shaking. No broken mugs, but I'll be buying more earthquake hold today.
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Humuhumu
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| Posted: 2005-06-12 09:05 am Permalink
Map with area reports of how strongly it was felt
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ookoo lady
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Posts: 779 | Posted: 2005-06-12 2:29 pm Permalink
I didn't feel it, but Krustiki did. He thought I was shaking his chair. All of our hanging lamps were swaying, especially the puffer fish lamp. Fortunately nothing fell off the shelves.
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Tangaroa
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Posts: 1549 | Posted: 2005-06-13 08:09 am Permalink
All cheap, non valuable mugs and Disneyland props are just fine....
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PapeToaTane
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| Posted: 2005-06-13 08:49 am Permalink
I was driving. Felt nothing. A lot of people at the church (Hollywood) felt it.
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MachTiki
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| Posted: 2005-06-13 09:52 am Permalink
The first thump felt like something fell in the house, so I went upstairs to see if anything did... that's when the roll started. It was a nice couple jolts, but (thankfully) nothing fell.
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martiki
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| Posted: 2005-06-13 11:20 pm Permalink
Who's a jumpy California transplant?
jk, h2
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Humuhumu
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| Posted: 2005-06-13 11:55 pm Permalink
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On 2005-06-13 23:20, martiki wrote:
Who's a jumpy California transplant?
jk, h2
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Not exactly... I went through regular earthquakes in Seattle, including a biggie a few years ago... I barely felt this one.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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| Posted: 2005-06-14 12:35 am Permalink
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On 2005-06-13 23:20, martiki wrote:
Who's a jumpy California transplant?
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Certainly not I. My wife and I were knocking tectonics ourselves at the time. No stranger to the art of subduction, I had already set off a number of small tremors and foreshocks by focusing my energies on the epicenter of her ring of fire, when suddenly, my Blind Thrust Fault locked with her Benioff Zone, triggering a seismic moment that registered completely off the Richter Scale, resulting in the liquification of her molten core and my own personal tsunami. I don't mean to brag, but there were several moderate aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater. If I had known about the earthquake, I would have asked her if I had made the Earth move for her, but unfortunately, neither one of us noticed it.
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TikiGardener
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| Posted: 2005-06-14 12:54 am Permalink
Slept right through the whole thing.
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Doctor Z
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| Posted: 2005-06-14 05:52 am Permalink
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Certainly not I. My wife and I were knocking tectonics ourselves at the time. No stranger to the art of subduction, I had already set off a number of small tremors and foreshocks by focusing my energies on the epicenter of her ring of fire, when suddenly, my Blind Thrust Fault locked with her Benioff Zone, triggering a seismic moment that registered completely off the Richter Scale, resulting in the liquification of her molten core and my own personal tsunami. I don't mean to brag, but there were several moderate aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater. If I had known about the earthquake, I would have asked her if I had made the Earth move for her, but unfortunately, neither one of us noticed it.
Sabu
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Hmmm... I wonder what Lucy Jones would have to say about that!
(FYI - Dr. Lucy Jones of USGS is So. Cals. 'go to gal' for instant earthquake info. She's all smart like that.)
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PapeToaTane
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| Posted: 2005-06-16 2:00 pm Permalink
O.K. I just felt that one!! 1:54 P.M., Thursday the 16th. I think it was out San Bernadino way - pretty good shake in Pasadena!!
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dangergirl299
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| Posted: 2005-06-16 2:07 pm Permalink
first earthquakes, then tsunami warnings, then rain and snow in June, and my mother and I had flat tires on the same morning (two separate counties); and when I went to get my tire fixed I heard the song "Its the End of the World as We Know It" by REM playing in the fix it shop.
I'm inclined to hope it's not true, but I have not been presented with facts and statistics establishing otherwise...
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