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Funny, (actually it's not), me and my GF were talking about L.A yesterday, and I mentioned the Big One.
While it was not the Big One, it's really weird that and earthquake happened after that conversation
Me and my big mouth....
I was at DisneyATM last week and I was wondering to myself if they'd shut the park down should an earthquake hit. I guess I got my answer.
Funny, (actually it's not), me and my GF were talking about L.A yesterday, and I mentioned the Big One.
While it was not the Big One, it's really weird that and earthquake happened after that conversation
Me and my big mouth....
My cousin lives a bit north of LA and she sent me the EXACT same text message (ok, not EXACT but still, close enough).
I think you are my cousin and I don't even know it. :P
Stranger things have happened.
No Costa Mesa.
I was in a 7.1 one time @like 3 in the morning, and had no idea (I was sleeping). I thought my roommate was just jacking off in the bottom bunk. I yelled for him to stop a couple of times, and then went right back to sleep. When I woke up in the morning I realized he had gone home for the weekend, and everyone told me there was a massive quake.
My friends told me you could see my building swaying back and forth during it (it was 7 stories).
Last edited by baseline bum; 07-29-2008 at 07:47 PM.
Thoughts and prayers for all my friends and family in LA.
It looks like I picked a good time time to visit San Antonio.
wait a second.... think for just a minute.... thats over your house.... It happens EVERY YEAR.... EVERY MOTHER ING YEAR!!!!!
We are the strong! we are goin 'ta rebuld!
SUGESTION:
PULL THE ING TRIGGER NOW!!
This is ing awesome!
I live in Utopia!!!
We are safe, it doesnt happen THAT often!!
Im just as dumb as those stupid ers that live in tornado alley, but I laugh at them, because I live in California with an actor as a governor!!
I will just rebuild... there is no concievable ing way its going to happen after the last 2340598623502345698 times!!!
seriously... I dont ing get it. Does Cali even know the saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." ????
I mean, Texas has their share of dumbasses but come on!!!
You're overstating how often earthquakes happen and I don't think you understand how awesome California is. Why do you think they're so populated? Have you ever been there in the summer? 95 degrees with 60 percent humidity when you have nearly perfect weather in almost all of the state.
I'm going to assume you never get on a road because god knows your chances of living in California and being hurt by a quake are far less than that of being in a car accident and I KNOW you wouldn't want to take that kind of risk, right? I'm sure you leave that to the dumbasses, right?
Is Manny being sarcastic on how good Cali is? Sort of seems like it LMAO
No. I like Cali a lot. I don't really like the LA area too much, but Central California along the coast is without a doubt where I'd live if I could afford it.
Sucks that you will be seeing more of thesesoon.
I could give too s if California has gold plated roads and lollypops for trees......... earthquakes. I would never, ever live in that hole. San Antonio FTW!!!!
Here's video footage from Judge Judy during the earthquake
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...judge.judy.cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/30/ear....ca/index.html
Experts, officials say earthquake a wake-up call to be prepared
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- One reason the California earthquake caused only minor damage was new, tough building codes enacted since the deadly Northridge quake in 1994, according to an expert with the U.S. Geological Survey.
AutoZone manager Daniel Sanchez cleans up after the earthquake in Diamond Bar, California, on Tuesday.
1 of 3 more photos » Tuesday's quake "was located in an area that's been almost completely built since about 1995," seismologist Lucy Stone told CNN. "We had major changes in the building codes because of what we learned in Northridge. And the most modern construction is really much, much better to withstand earthquakes than earlier buildings. There weren't many older buildings nearby."
The magnitude 5.4 earthquake in metropolitan Los Angeles, California, caused no serious damage or injuries, but experts say it's a reminder that the "Big One" could happen at any time.
"This earthquake reminds us to be prepared," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. "We were very fortunate that there were no serious injuries or property damage."
California has a 99 percent chance of experiencing a major earthquake within the next 30 years, according to a report by state and federal agencies.
The Los Angeles quake "is a sample, a small sample," said Kate Hutton, a seismologist at the California Ins ute of Technology. Watch 'Judge Judy' taping rocked by quake »
Hutton said there is a 5 percent chance the quake could be a precursor to a larger earthquake. After 24 hours, she said, that chance will drop to 1 percent.
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"Every earthquake relieves some stress," Hutton said. "It's usually only a drop in the ocean. In other words, the amount of stress released by this earthquake is minuscule compared to the amount that's built up and is building up for the Big One when it happens some day in the future."
And when will that be?
"From a geologist's point of view, the answer has to be soon," she said. "But geologists are used to thinking on millions of years and thousands of years time scale, so I don't think that gives any useful information for people, except be prepared at any time because it could happen at any time." Watch Hutton say Tuesday's quake was a sign of bigger ones to come »
A magnitude 5.4 quake shook northern California in April. A magnitude 4.4 struck the greater Los Angeles area in August 2007.
There is a 99 percent chance of California experiencing a quake of magnitude 6.7 or more within the next 30 years, according to the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, the California Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center in a report published in Science Daily in April.
Schwarzenegger said he believes the state is "as prepared as anyone can be. We have continuous discussions about that. We are fanatics about emergencies and to be ready."
The largest earthquake in recent years in California was a magnitude 7.1 in 1999, Hutton said. But it was centered in the desert, near Twentynine Palms, in a sparsely populated area.
Tuesday's quake struck about 11:42 a.m., according to the USGS. Its epicenter was about 2 miles southwest of Chino Hills and about 5 miles southeast of Diamond Bar.
More than 30 aftershocks were recorded. Hutton said the largest was a magnitude 3.6.
Los Angeles police said a downtown hotel sustained some structural damage, but no one was injured and the building was not evacuated. There were some unconfirmed reports of minor injuries.
Despite the absence of serious damage or injuries, some Los Angeles-area residents were left rattled. The quake was felt as far south as San Diego, and the USGS said it received reports of light shaking as far north as Rosamond, California, about 55 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles.
Reports from those who felt the quake poured into CNN.
"My house was like a fun house. Everything was moving," said Danny Casler, 28, of Huntington Beach. He said he was sleeping when his house began shaking, and some things fell in the living room. He ran out of the house in his boxer shorts.
Lawyer Kevin Crisp said he was on the phone with his partner, who burst out, "Big quake!" Crisp said he felt it about five seconds later. "This was very impressive. Long and very uniform. Really had the building going." He said doors were swinging on the hinges and bottles of wine were rolling back and forth on his shelf.
"It just started with a really strong jolt," Wendy Criner said. "I ran and got my daughters from different rooms, and we squatted in the living room. I did have stuff fall off the shelf, some books in my daughters' room and some things in the kitchen."
The quake knocked out a ground radar system at Los Angeles International Airport, but that did not interfere with operations, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Tiles fell from the ceiling in one terminal as water flowed from a burst pipe.
The calculation of the quake's magnitude fluctuated as seismologists reviewed the data. Initially classified as a magnitude 5.8, the quake's intensity was reduced to a 5.6 and then to a 5.4. Because the earthquake magnitude scale is exponential, a 5.8 magnitude quake is four to five times more intense than a 5.4.
Two nuclear plants are in the vicinity of the quake's epicenter near Chino Hills, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The closest to the epicenter is in San Onofre, 50 miles south, but an NRC spokesman said, "this is well below the threshold for any conceivable damage to the plants."
Still, the quake jolted the nerves of many Californians.
LOL. they even capitalize it ... "the Big One"
MAKE YOUR OWN EARTHQUAKE
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/plan...teractive.html
I have a friend who was visitin L.A. yesterday when it happened. She said it wasn't anything big or real scary
Oddly enough, that's exactly what I thought had happened.
I had just left the house to go to work. I was no more than three houses away when it hit. My truck jerked to the right really sharply, and I wondered wtf? Got it straightened out and kept rolling, not really thinking anything of it. Turned on Jim Rome's show. He was in the middle of an interview, and broke in really fast to say that we had just had a sizable earthquake. Thought to myself "So THAT'S what that was!".
Hope I qualify.
No such luck.
The diva is already in China for the Olympics.
Funny story: the show on out here after Rome's show has two of the biggest Kobe fluffers walking the planet (Mychal Thompson and Vic "the Brick" Jacobs). The other host, Steve Hartman, reads the station's message boards all throughout the show. Most of the posts are really negative; always bagging on the hosts for something or other. One of the ones that came in after the quake was read on the air, and I couldn't stop laughing as a result.
It read "Quick, Vic: call Kobe! See if he's alright!!!!"
You couldn't have chosen to speak of money falling from the sky out here, huh?Funny, (actually it's not), me and my GF were talking about L.A yesterday, and I mentioned the Big One.
While it was not the Big One, it's really weird that and earthquake happened after that conversation
Me and my big mouth....
Bas !
Oddly enough, that's exactly what I
No such luck.
The diva is already in China for the Olympics.
Funny story: the show on out here after Rome's show has two of the biggest Kobe fluffers walking the planet (Mychal Thompson and Vic "the Brick" Jacobs). The other host, Steve Hartman, reads the station's message boards all throughout the show. Most of the posts are really negative; always bagging on the hosts for something or other. One of the ones that came in after the quake was read on the air, and I couldn't stop laughing as a result.
It read "Quick, Vic: call Kobe! See if he's alright!!!!"
Hahahah, Vic, he is like that lovable homer, but everyone else hates him.
SorryYou couldn't have chosen to speak of money falling from the sky out here, huh?
Bas !
It turns out that Shaq was playing a pickup game at Venice beach
learn to swim....
learn to swim....
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