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Muse2NoPharaoh said:

huh? where at?

Los Angeles area. My friend who lives in one of the valleys just texted me.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Exactly what Mother Earth is doing

Hang tight

NastradumasKid said:

It was baja Cali area.....we are in the hospital on the second floor in Temecula so we really took it hard!

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Please be careful!!!!!

The Earth is so angry with us...

Stay safe.

sammij said:

sammij said:

I told my mom I had one nerve left and that earthquake just jumped on it.

Diego got a nice jolt

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Imagine what the quake does to the nerves of others who've fallen victim to such power (Haiti, Chile, etc.)

sammij said:

Seriously.

Hope everyone is okay.

sammij said:

I know..... so heart breaking. My nerves are more so frazzled by my main situation...

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

Be careful, stay safe.

They are showing home videos...some people are laughing..I wouldn't be...I would run out of my house as fast as I could.

peacenlovealways said:

make sure you don't run right into one of these!

ZombieKitten said:

ok that looks really creepy

The New York Times

Strong Mexico Quake Shakes Buildings and Nerves in CaliforniaBy JENNIFER STEINHAUER and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: April 4, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/20...tml?src=me
LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake just southeast of Tijuana shook southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in border towns and rattling a seismically-sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute as the quake rocked states in Mexico and the United States.

The 7.2 quake struck just after 3:30 p.m. local time, and was centered 16 miles south-southwest of Guadalupe Victoria in Baja California, Mexico, and about 108 miles east-southeast of Tijuana, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Carlton Hargrave, 64, was standing in the entryway of Family Style Buffet in Calexico, a California border town, when the quake hit. His restaurant, he said in a telephone interview, was “almost completely destroyed. We’ve got tables overturned, plates broken on the floor.”

“The ceilings caved in. It was big. I mean, it was major,” he said with a shaky voice and the sound of his feet crunching rubble and glass and plate fragments.

Reports from the remote area in Mexico where the quake hit were slow in coming and Mexican Web sites were overloaded in the two hours following the shaking, but an earthquake of that size would probably cause major property damage and perhaps injuries to anything or anyone near its epicenter, experts said.

A reporter in Tijuana for the newspaper Frontera who did not want to give his name said there were no reports of damage or injury there but reporters were awaiting definitive word from the authorities.

El Imparcial, a newspaper in the state of Sonora, south of Arizona, reported cracks in condominium buildings in Mexicali and burst pipes but the damage did not appear severe.

The shaking was particularly acute in San Diego, where the quake set off several alarms and sent the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department out on several calls, according to the San Diego Union Tribune’s Web site.

“We have some reports of scattered property damage,” Ramona Hastings, a sergeant assigned to the watch command at the San Diego Police Department, said in a telephone interview. Among the reports were several burst pipes, including at least one under a house, and damage to a three-story apartment building.
In Los Angeles, homes slid from side to side for well over a minute, a nauseating and seemingly endless wave that could be felt from the beach to the Hollywood Hills. Twitter was quickly filled with reports from the border to Phoenix to Los Angeles.

“People were outside crying because the beams looked like they were going to collapse and a wall cracked (along with various things falling) and the power went out in some parts,” read one message from Calexico. In Imperial, California, another border city, Eslibonita tweeted, “It’s still going.... My dresser fell on my and half of my fish tank’s water is on my carpet.”

The earthquake occurred about 6.2 miles below the earth’s surface, considered a shallow depth by experts. A 7.2 earthquake has the capacity to cause major damage, including destroying masonry and frame structures, cracking the ground and triggering landslides. Water can also be sloshed over riverbanks and rails can be bent.

At least five possible aftershocks were reported, including a 4.5-magnitude quake 62 miles east of Tijuana, reported at 4:09 p.m., and a 5.1-magnitude quake near Imperial, Calif., at 4:15 p.m. A 3.8-magnitude quake was also reported 12 miles northwest of Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. at 4:19 p.m. A 3.6-magnitude quake was reported 7 miles northeast of Julian, Calif., at 4:22 p.m.. A 4.3-magnitude quake was reported 15 miles west-southwest of Calixico, Calif., at 4:34 p.m., and a 4.7-magnitude quake was reported 14 miles south-southwest of Mexicali, Baja California in Mexico, at 4:37 p.m.

Emergency officials urged residents to contact each other using text messages in order to keep cellphone signals clear for emergency workers responding to distress calls.
A viewer told CNN that their boat in San Diego Harbor began rocking from the quake and that pilings began shaking for several seconds.

The quake quickly affected other areas. In Century City, KABC-TV reported that a woman was trapped in an elevator in Century City. And at the LAX Airport, some passengers told CNN that they had felt rumbling and were worried that flights might be delayed.

People in Arizona and Nevada reported feeling the quakes. “My family and I live in Gilbert, Arizona, and we could feel the house shake and our pool was sloshing against its sides,” said Donald Whiting. “I’m not sure how far we are from the epicenter, but it’s no surprise Los Angeles felt this one.”

ZombieKitten said:

I wouldn't I hope...

http://www.youtube.com/wa...s-T1rymP8M

Scary!

Vancouver hasn't had an earthquake in the longest time, so everyone's afraid our next one will be big. Hope everyone's safe.

It shook things up a bit but here in California we are sort of used to these.
Nothing happened, it was a boat in the water type of quake.

As nothing happened it was both funny and frustrating see CNN put up their graphics and over do this into something. I was at the gym and we all stopped, accessed the the situation and moved on fairly quickly. Nobody panicked or gave it much thought afterward. CNN however devoted much too much airtime to a non event, spending much too much time reading viewer tweets or facebook posts to try and make something out of something that should have just been a sentence until they received more information rather than trying to get folks in frenzy.

violetblues said:

Although I totallllyyyyy agree with you in regards to the news crap, do consider you are in Palm Springs and not San Diego county which was a very different experience.

violetblues said:

That is exactly how it felt like to me it was scary for a few seconds, you just never know how bad it will get.

Hoping Karen and all my L.A area pals are okay. The quake was real close to where I was born, Mexicali. I still have family there.
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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

awwwww, r they ok?

Stay safe everyone

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