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Old 05-18-2009, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Whittier
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I was in my car.

It was pretty fun.

I would be scared if we all lived in mud huts, OR if I was on/under a crappy overpass, but I'm pretty sure since the Northridge quake a lot of them have been retrofitted. Or at least I like to tell myself that.
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Old 05-18-2009, 12:05 PM
 
Location: los angeles
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Being close to the epicenter makes a world of difference so it is unfair to make fun of those who were frightened The LA Times printed that even a movie theater began losing it's ceiling tiles & why the people bolted outside screaming. One of the worse earthquakes I experienced was a measly 4.1 several years ago that just so happened to me centered right under the area I live in [Mt Washington\ Eagle Rock]. It hit at night & felt like the entire house had been lifted up & dropped. Things flew off shelves & 2 windows shattered. I cut my foot stepping on glass as I jumped out of bed. Yet the rest of LA hardly noticed the earthquake because it was mild elsewhere.

When a window explodes next to you when you are drinking coffee at Starbucks in Lennox then I think most people are going to be shook-up for a while. To laugh at them for being sissies isn't fair.
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Old 05-18-2009, 12:50 PM
 
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Unbelievable, a real earthquake!! /sarc
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Old 05-19-2009, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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When a window explodes next to you when you are drinking coffee at Starbucks in Lennox then I think most people are going to be shook-up for a while. To laugh at them for being sissies isn't fair.
No, that's karma for going to Starbuck's.

Now, where's our 5.0? No fair! Then again, apparently the next fatty (6.5+) is now predicted to be as likely to be in Lake Tahoe as anywhere else (new fault found), so...anybody still all jazzed on lakefront property?
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Old 05-19-2009, 06:27 PM
 
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I was in San Diego (wrong forum, I know, but I felt the aftermath), and I felt maybe 2 seconds of it. I was going to report it, but nobody else felt it - I thought I imagined it.
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