Who felt the earthquake? (San Diego, Riverside: photos, Chinese, porch)

[CA4Now]

It was a 5.4 magnitude quake with an epicenter in Chino Hills.

See: Earthquake! (under "Los Angeles")

[bhcompy]

had quite the jolt here in los alamitos.. live in a 3 story townhouse and it felt like a train had hit the building at 80mph, then reversed and hit it repeatedly again at lesser force

[JFRRACING]

hi, all of us back east in the nh forum are wondering if you all are ok....

[steelstress]

I'm in Chino Hills... it was one heck of a jolt, and seemed to go on for quite a while. Nothing broken, nothing falling, just 4 dogs under the bed.

It scared the crap out of me, though.

[Artful-Thang]

My husband was getting dental work done this morning. The dentist was just about to give him the novacaine shot, when the earthquake hit (we're in South OC). He said the big picture window shook like from a big jolt two or three times. He jumped up and said he had to call me to see if I was okay.

I thought he hadn't gotten to the dentist yet when he called. I was online on the Southern California Recent Earthquakes site, looking at the map. There was nothing there so I thought maybe it wasn't an earthquake. I hit reload a few times and then the page wouldn't reload. So I figured it must have been an earthquake.

I was freaked out that the shaking would get big and I'd be smashed by the large TV or refrigerator. I completely forgot I had my husband do those earthquake straps on our large appliances several years ago. Thank goodness I tend to react to these kind of events by preparing for a bigger problem.

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by kidcanaduh

This is just a foreshock. We're find here in Canaduh, cali. No need to set up a cash account for us.

How do you know that is was a foreshock?

[kidcanaduh]

You know my record. I'm rarely wrong. Its 2008. I told you LA was due. Today was nothing but a warning. This fall you're f-ed.

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by kidcanaduh

You know my record. I'm rarely wrong. Its 2008. I told you LA was due. Today was nothing but a warning. This fall you're f-ed.

I know it is 2008. You "predicted" (on what basis, I still don't know) that there would be a large quake in the L.A. area on or before March 21 of this year. Nothing noteworthy happened. You were wrong. Everybody knows that L.A. is due. So are many areas of California. The problem is, nobody really knows when or where the next large quake will happen. Perhaps you can answer that? Where will it be? Santa Barbara? Camarillo? Riverside? Palmdale? Disneyland? When will it happen, what will the magnitude be and what time of day will it occur?

Back in Aug., 2007, there was a 4.6 magnitude quake north of Chatsworth. It was not a foreshock; there were no quakes larger than that after the main event.

I suggest you read some books on Seismology (not "prediction" books) so you can learn what I have during the last 30 years.

And I'll ask again... how do you know today's quake was a foreshock... what information shows this?

[kidcanaduh]

I don't pretend to be Ms Cleo. She's a fake. I told you a quake would hit in the fall or winter of 2008. The fall hasn't even arrived yet and you've written me off. You seem to forget the shaker off the coast that hit earier this year...in the winter.

This was a foreshock. You'll have a larger one before the year is over or my name isn't kidcanaduh.

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by kidcanaduh

I don't pretend to be Ms Cleo. She's a fake. I told you a quake would hit in the fall or winter of 2008. The fall hasn't even arrived yet and you've written me off. You seem to forget the shaker off the coast that hit earier this year...in the winter.

This was a foreshock. You'll have a larger one before the year is over or my name isn't kidcanaduh.

Where and when?

It's more likely your name will be "mud!"

Maybe if your posts were more accurate, you would be more believable?

Kidcanaduh: "4 billion years ago, all of the landmass on earth were joined together."
Nope, it was 250 million years ago.

Kidcanaduh: "Big earthquakes only happen near the equator."
Nope, the 9.2 magnitude 1964 Alaska quake was nowhere near the equator; neither was the 9.5 1960 Chile quake. Or the many large quakes in Japan.