earthquake

[NelsonDiesel]

everyone stil alive?

No trucks fell off the rack

Woohoo

 

[Poltergeist]

Still here, hope my house is, they are saying it was centered near Chino Hills which is the next city over.

 

[05smoker]

Heard the news just now - hope everyone out that way is ok.

 

[LBZrcks]

5.8

 

[LB7Diesel]

Earthquakes, Fires, Compton Man you Cali guy's and girls live on the edge

 

[McRat]

Bah.

Babycake.

If it don't break a piece of freeway off, it ain't sheet.

 

[Poltergeist]

I wonder if people are going to start looting.... I need a new TV.







:rofl:

 

[fast03]

Biggest we have had in some time. It rolled for 10-15 seconds after the big slam. Sounds like everybody is ok.

 

[LBZ DMAX]

felt pretty strong here in ontario...

saw someone from my office make a mad dash outside...comical!!!:baby::rofl:

 

[malibu795]

felt it out here in ventura
5.8 out in san bernadiano
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_re_us/california_earthquake

LOS ANGELES - A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. No immediate damage was reported.

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The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas.

Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Ten aftershocks occurred in the next dozen minutes, including three estimated at 3.8, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake was about 8 miles below the earth's surface.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury in Los Angeles. San Bernardino County fire dispatch also had no immediate reports of damage.

The quake struck at 11:42 a.m. PDT. Buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds.

Workers quickly evacuated some office buildings.

"It was dramatic. The whole building moved and it lasted for a while," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's suburban Monterey Park headquarters east of Los Angeles.

In Orange County, about 2000 detectives were attending gang conference at a Marriott hotel in Anaheim when a violent jolt shook the main conference room.

Mike Willever, who was at the hotel, said, "First we heard the ceiling shaking, then the chandelier started to shake, then there was a sudden movement of the floor."

Chris Watkins, from San Diego, said he previously felt several earthquakes, but "that was one of the worst ones."

Delegates and guests at a cluster of hotels near the Disneyland resort spilled into the streets immediately after the quake.

The 1994 Northridge earthquake under Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley was magnitude 6.7. It killed 72 people, injured more than 9,000 and caused $25 billion in damage in the metropolitan area.

The damage created by an earthquake depends greatly on where it hits. A 7.1 quake — much stronger than Northridge — hit the Mojave Desert in 1999 but caused only a few injuries and no deaths.

California is one of the world's most seismically active regions. More than 300 faults crisscross the state, which sits atop two of Earth's major tectonic plates, the Pacific and North American plates. About 10,000 quakes each year rattle Southern California alone, although most of them are too small to be felt.

 

[BigRedHD]

Heard on the radio. Didnt feel it i was driving on the freeway. Freeway didnt fall.

 

[ruffmanatv]

Glad to hear that everyone is ok..

 

[dieselson]

Biggest earthquake in my entire life, i was born about 2 months after the northridge quake. It went on for a long time, and I was surprised at how big it was.

 

[sweetdiesel]

It wasnt Johnny tearing up the streets with his new motor was it?:joker:

Hope no one got hurt:hug:

 

[05_LLY]

Just heard about this, hope everyone is safe!!!

 

[coldLBZ]

Hope everyone came through it ok.

 

[MAXLLY]

little wobble in Northern San Diego. No big deal, until the buildings start falling over it's standard issue.

 

[Mike L.]

Pat and I were on the phone when it hit. No big deal. It was a nice ride though.

 

[slowlmm]

the walls in the house i am working on moved 4 feet in one direction then sprung back it was a nice little jolt

 

[NukleusX]

saw someone from my office make a mad dash outside...comical!!!:baby::rofl:

saw same thing in my warehouse, this guy jumped out the loading dock quick, and ran to the center of the yard. :rofl:

myself and everyone else just carried on doing normal work, cept the proximity of the product racks was cleared of personnel and forklift traffic for a short bit after.