UPDATE: Click here to read about the two earthquakes that have followed this larger one. Both were smaller and also in the Hawthorne/El Segundo area.
You may have felt the 5.0 quake that just hit us. I looked it up at the Southern California Earthquake Center, and found that the epicenter was the City of Hawthorne, in Los Angeles County.
Keep a flashlight and shoes by your bed tonight. And be sure to have extra food and water on hand. No need to panic, but this could be a precursor to something bigger.
Remember, if there is a big quake, don’t panic. Stay indoors and shelter in place until it passes. Do not go running into the street. You want to avoid glass windows, heavy objects, and overhead power lines.
Be sure to talk to your kids and have a plan in place. Just in case.
Click here to visit the American Red Cross Earthquake Preparedness page.
From the sake map it looks to be between LAX and the Hollywood park house track, the western end of the Newport-Inglewood fault. Sure don’t want that one to unzip.
Cant spell worth a dang
I felt it. That was biggest one that I have ever experienced while living in CA. I thought it was all over but the shout. I know what we are supposed to do when an earthquake happens, but I still just “do nothing” hoping it will go away and just stop after 1 second. One of these times, that will get me.
http://snipurl.com/earthqu
I made this awhile back…if anyone is bored.
Felt it in Costa Mesa… a jolt. made us move to a doorway. Only about 8-10 seconds. If you’re interested, I wrote this essay a couple years ago on my old blog. Enjoy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~thepotstirer/id6.html
Biggest earthquake in California history was the “Fort Tejon” quake of 1857, a whopping magnitude 8 that ripped a 100+ mile scar down California from Parkfield in the central valley south to San Bernadino. Looking back 1600 years at similar scars along the San Andreas fault, geologists estimate these giant shakers occur about every 150 years, give or take a few decades. You do the math for the next one.
Google Fort Tejon earthquake for details.
Pot Stirrer,
I got an email from a friend who felt it in Mission Viejo.
Not the big one but it was big enough to get our attention!
Art you see why we need a shiny new helicopter is to safely evacuate Pulido, Ream, & Claudia out of harms way
CAN YOU SAY SANDWHICH
I guess it was indeed a series of quakes, but my first thought was that the bottom had just fallen out of the State budget —-