EARTHQUAKE! SoCal ... stand by for details ... (LINK ADDED)

[ColbertWatcher]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-125.-115.php

Started out slowly, picked up, then sputtered out.

USGS gives it a 4.4 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10403777.php

[Trajan]

1. Are you there ?

What do you think ?

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Meh, probably a 4.5 n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. USGS says a 4.3! (Updated to 4.4)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10403777.php

[Trajan]

7. Yep .... Thanks ...

[Mind_your_head]

I "FEEL" it.......

see: :scared:

[tbyg52]

16. Well, I've *felt* a 3.5 or so.

Once when I was sitting in my car at the time, and once when I was sitting in a dentist's chair at the time.

I was at the epicenter of a 4.something once - feels totally different there - like a quick blow with a very big sledgehammer.

Biggest I've ever been in was a 5.something. Bed shook for a while. I'd heard tales of swimming pools sloshing and hoped to see it so jumped out of bed, but no luck.

Funny thing, none of those did any damage at all to our house, but the extended drought in TX (before the recent heavy rains) damaged our foundation. Just hope not too much....

[The Straight Story]

3. looks like a 4.4 (nt)

[Duer 157099]

4. 4.4

Magnitude 4.4 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Friday, May 1, 2009 at 6:11:13 PM (PDT)
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 1:11:13 (UTC)
Distance from Westlake Village, CA - 9 km (6 miles) SW (224 degrees)
Thousand Oaks, CA - 12 km (7 miles) S (186 degrees)
Malibu, CA - 12 km (7 miles) WNW (300 degrees)
Casa Conejo, CA - 13 km (8 miles) SSE (156 degrees)
Los Angeles Civic Center, CA - 59 km (37 miles) W (273 degrees)
Coordinates 34 deg. 5.0 min. N (34.083N), 118 deg. 53.3 min. W (118.889W)
Depth 9 km (5.6 miles)
Location Quality Fair
Location Quality Parameters Nst=110, Nph=110, Dmin=12 km, Rmss=0.57 sec, Erho=0.6 km, Erzz=1.9 km, Gp=68.4 degrees
Event ID# ci10403777

[underseasurveyor]

6. I felt it

[The Straight Story]

9. I am in Ohio, didn't feel a damned thing

So it must have been small :)

[underseasurveyor]

11. Barely a tremor

By So. Cal. earthquake standards.

[The Straight Story]

13. when I lived in Ridgecrest, CA only remember really one

Shook my bed and woke me up.

Today, about 10 minutes after getting home the tornado sirens went off.

I'll take the earthquakes any day :)

[underseasurveyor]

15. I lived in tornado country for a while

At least with tornadoes you have some warning but I'd rather deal with the occasional earthquake any day myself.

[tbyg52]

20. Ditto.

I (stupidly) had no idea we were so close to the coast as the crow flies when we moved here (to former DeLay land). I've been in a pretty constant state of mild panic since Rita. And that didn't even hit us, as it turned out. But I got a lot of sore muscles and a sunburn from bringing in everything from the yard. I want to go back to San Diego so bad, earthquakes and all. I could even hack the housing prices, now, but they don't have any reciprocal arrangements for teaching certificates.... :cry:

[underseasurveyor]

27. I know I couldn't handle hurricanes

non-stop howling winds drive me mad.

Well perhaps someday you can move back out here. Gotta admit the weather is the best so putting up with an occasional earthquake.... meh, piece of cake

[tbyg52]

29. It's not the sound for me (and I just went through Ike), it's the thought of

breaking windows and flying roofs. If we are going to stay here, I gotta get some proper storm shutters or something. And find a house that's a little higher off the ground.

Can't come back to CA until I retire - most states have reciprocal arrangements for teaching certificates, but not CA. I looked into just getting one the regular way, and came to the conclusion that I don't know how they get anybody to go into teaching there with all the hoops you must jump through.

[Catshrink]

10. Are you all shook up?

Ready to shake, rattle, and roll?
Did you feel the Earth, move, under your feet?

[underseasurveyor]

12. I'm always ready

to Rock~n~Roll :-)

[Catshrink]

19. And shake it up, Baby?

[underseasurveyor]

28. Oh Yea

Shake, shake, shake... Shake, shake, shake.............

Shake my booty :hi:

[Born_A_Truman]

8. 4.4 6 miles SW of Westlake Village, CA

Version #2: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event.
This is a computer-generated message. This event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.


A light earthquake occurred at 6:11:13 PM (PDT) on Friday, May 1, 2009.
The magnitude 4.4 event occurred 9 km (6 miles) SW of Westlake Village, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).

[cbayer]

14. Happy to be offshore! These things just freak me out.

:hi:

[tbyg52]

18. I'd take 'em over hurricanes any day.

And I'd *sure* take 'em over tornadoes.

[Creena]

21. Indeed

Hurricanes and tornadoes scare the crap out of me. :scared: With earthquakes, I'm usually clamoring to the window so I can watch the ground.

[tbyg52]

22. You have actually seen the *ground* move...?! Or just hoped to? nt

[Creena]

25. No, haven't see it move. Just want to see what it actually looks like during a rolling quake. nt

[cbayer]

24. Now, I don't like hurricanes.

I was in NOLA for Katrina and I hope to never see another hurricane again.

But.... at least you get some warning.

Tornadoes would also freak me out!

:hi:

[tbyg52]

30. True, you do get warning.

But if you are too close to the coast, all you can do about it is leave. And you're not in the clear until you get *far* in - Rita missed us, but clobbered Jasper, which I'd *never* thought of as being in line for a hurricane.

At least with earthquakes you can build properly and take general precautions (which I never considered onerous when we lived in SD) all the time, even if you don't know exactly when one will be coming.

I hate knowing I'm in hurricane country a lot more than I hate the politics here, and that's saying a lot!

:hi:

[Creena]

17. Meh.

I didn't feel anything. I'm in South OC and wouldn't think you could feel it, but people around here said they felt shaking. Boo. I always miss the earthquakes.

[malaise]

23. Stay safe peeps

:grouphug:

[xchrom]

26. the older i get -- the less i appreciate earthquakes --

glad evry one is ok.