OK, did anyone else feel that?

Just had quite a tremor here - enough to frighten the birds off their perches. Anyone else?

Magnitude 5.8 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:42:15 AM (PDT)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 18:42:15 (UTC)
Distance from Chino Hills, CA - 3 km (2 miles) SW (235 degrees)
Diamond Bar, CA - 8 km (5 miles) SE (127 degrees)
Yorba Linda, CA - 9 km (5 miles) NNE (23 degrees)
Pomona, CA - 11 km (7 miles) S (178 degrees)
Los Angeles Civic Center, CA - 47 km (29 miles) ESE (103 degrees)
Coordinates 33 deg. 57.5 min. N (33.959N), 117 deg. 45.1 min. W (117.752W)
Depth 12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Location Quality Good
Location Quality Parameters Nst=144, Nph=144, Dmin=8 km, Rmss=0.42 sec, Erho=0.3 km, Erzz=1.3 km, Gp=18 degrees
Event ID# ci14383980

This message was edited Jul 29, 2008 11:50 AM

it was a strong jolt in the Oak Hills/Hesperia are that lasted a few seconds. no damage except animals a little frantic from the shaking.

The window blinds shook and the lampshade rattled, but nothing fell over. It was enough to get my heart racing but not enough that I felt I needed to take cover.

Hope your animals have settled down, MVR. My parrots were fine as soon as I told them they were all right - they sort of know what that means, since one of them tells the others that when something scary happens. :-)

I was focused on getting to the parrots and didn't look to see if anything was swinging, but there was a bit of noise and it definitely rolled for a long time. DH just called from work and said they had lots of movement in his building. I agree, Kelli, it got my attention but wasn't too bad here. I always imagine myself looking like a cartoon character, though, when they last that long - kind of poised mid-step to move fast if necessary, but really expecting it to stop. LOL

Hope Weegy checks in soon - she's not that far from the epicenter.

It was a strong jolt here - pool rippled - but no damage.

I hope all is well for you folks in Southern California. I lived there for many years and know first hand about earthquakes. Just so you know......if it is a jolting movement, you are closer to the epicenter.....if it is a rolling movement, you are further away.

I used to work with Geologists who got very excited about all the quakes, and they taught me a few things. Hope all the aftershocks are small :-)

It was odd, but even all the way down here in San Diego, it started with a jolt then went into the rolling movement. This was reported by a lot of people at varying distances from the epicenter. The last count I heard was 50-odd aftershocks, but none very big and I haven't heard if they are being felt or not.

I can't count the number of quakes I've been through in my life and they all seem a little different. Everyone who's lived in California for a long time will tell you they usually come with hot weather, too, which the techies say is not borne out by the facts! We still believe it. You just have to live here long enough to know "earthquake weather." LOL!

It seems to me that they are least likely to happen in the summer.

It's a joke, Kelli. It's probably six of one and half a dozen of the other. We always used to laugh about it. What else do you do? Until they get sensors that can pick up the beginnings of the quakes, old wives tales and myths are just as useful as anything else.

We need a good one like today to remind us to be ready all the time and take precautions. Luckily, our only bookshelves are in closets and we don't have tall furniture that will fall, either.

Was at an EXPO Home Center in Monrovia - so I was really feeling the San Gabriel Valley Roll! I was on the phone with a pal in the South Bay (near LAX), said, "Wait a minute, I think we're having an earthquake.", then she confirmed it - she felt it almost the same time as I did. Got home and had a large framed picture on the floor, which took everything off the bureau along with it - luckily - nothing broken.

About an hour later, there was a brush fire in El Sereno, but it seemed to be under control fairly quickly. We have a DG member who lives on a hilltop over there, and hope he is okay. Send your well wishes!

Hope everyone down there is OK!

Up here they always talk about our Indian Summer weather in October as being earthquake weather. Personally I haven't noticed any more then than any other time. Then there's also the thing about animals being able to sense earthquakes before they happen--maybe some of them can but my dog doesn't even seem to notice them when they're happening! LOL

Yep, felt it in Garden Grove, felt like it was right under my chair. A few small things toppled over, nothing at all serious. My theory about "earthquake weather" is that the quake causes the weather, not the other way around. Just kidding--it's coincidence of course, but my theory makes as much sense as any other. At least I think so! LOL!

Our parrots didn't utter a peep until the second part of the quake - the rolling bit.

I never felt anything. Was outside laying sprinkler pipe with another guy and he didn't feel it either. 20 minutes later someone walked by and asked if we felt it.

Cell phones were not working for a few hours afterward, but no damage here.

Anyone heard from Weegy ???

I thought that a cat had jumped on the back of my recliner, but almost immediately knew that it was an earthquake. There was all sorts of noise but virtually nothing was moved, then it was over.

My daughter lives about a mile North of Weegy. She called me and she did not have any damage, but the shaking lasted longer at her place.

It has been a long time since the last one this strong.

We are visiting from Arizona and were in a Target parking lot in Irvine. The car started bouncing around and trees were swaying. I had no idea what was going on, and asked a woman standing near us if that was an earthquake, and she said it was. I guess we felt the rolling part, but weren't aware of any aftershocks later. Welcome to Cali!!

DH was in Torrance and he didn't feel anything. They interviewed some woman who was in a store in Thousand Oaks (~60 miles from Chino Hills) and she said that stuff fell from the shelves. I find that hard to believe.

The ancient Greeks believed that earthquakes were caused by wind trapped in the earth. Therefore, when it was not windy, there could be earthquakes. According to something I read, in Byzantine times, it was believed the homosexuality caused earthquakes.

Weegy was on the ground pulling weeds and got a whole new perspective of earthquakes! She said for once she was not as frightened because there was nothing to fall on her, I guess. She said it was pretty strong, though.

George, did your daughter say if she's feeling the aftershocks?

Heard one of the CalTech folks say that those actually on a hill in Chino Hills might not feel it as much as people on flat ground some distance away. Apparently, the hill structure itself absorbs some of the energy. She described it as holding a bowl of jello and giving it a shake - the bowl doesn't move much, but the jello shakes like the dickens. Hill = bowl. Interesting.

Welcome, Steph!

***Kelli Said - According to something I read, in Byzantine times, it was believed the homosexuality caused earthquakes. ***

We homosexuals also caused Katrina according to some right wingers - so everybody had better be NICE to me, or I will rally my people to bring the wrath down on us all!!!

Bwahahahahahah! (evil laugh, get it?)

Well, I'm sorry that there are so many ignorant people in the world....I blame them for everything.

Good one!

My daughter did not mention any aftershocks. She lives quite high up.a

Weegy being on the ground reminded me of my experience with the Whittier earthquake some years ago. I had just taken my trash out to the curb and bent to pick up something lying in the gutter. I am not sure what, but something caused me to look to the West. There was a rolling wave coming up the street towards me. As the wave passed it felt as though my face was going to hit the curb.

Now if the wave had been as severe as my mind registered the curb would have been cracked all along the street. I did hear the tinkle of broken glass but did not find anything broken at my house.

That's similar to an experience I had, George, so I can picture it. I was standing in one of those 'shotgun' style apartments with friends - one room after the other so you can see almost all the way through the apartment. We had turned as one to talk to someone in one of the back rooms, and we all saw the hardwood floor roll in that wave pattern. Talk about dropped jaws!

My nephew was on the Terminal Island Bridge during one we had and said it was like an E-ticket ride at Disneyland (you have to be of a certain age to know what that means) and he wanted to do it again. Young males are often stupid like that. LOL

OH! I used to love roller coasters...young females are often stupid like that also.

This message was edited Aug 1, 2008 2:40 PM

I was once washing dishes when a quake hit and saw the water running from the faucet make a 'jog' in the flow.....I was amazed. I didn't know that could happen.

Seeing those ground waves has got to be pretty funky. How weird is that?

I hope no one took offense to my Byzantine story. I was just relating a strange old superstition, nothing more.

This message was edited Aug 1, 2008 4:34 PM

No, kelli, no problem....I do mind those who think Katrina could be blamed on any one group of people because their beliefs or lifestyle is different. Judge not........

Not to mention it's just kinda, well, dumb.

People thought for years that the earth was flat, too !

Hey, just saw this thread and thought you all would get a good laugh out of my experience. I was in a dressing room in a dept. store trying on some lingerie and I was, blushing here, not clothed. The dressing room is toward the back of the store and when I heard the first jolt, I thought a delivery truck had hit the building and was coming through the walls....then we started to roll and roll. I got dressed so darned fast and headed out that room as fast as possible. There was a chair right outside of the door and I sat down on that until the rolling stopped.

DH didn't feel it as he was in the car driving to golf and heard about it happening at that moment over the news station he was listening too.

I came home right afterwards to see how the house farred. Everything was fine, so I headed back out to shop somemore. lol

Glad everyone is safe.
Donna

This is the first quake ever to leave me feeling dizzy...I don't know if that says more about the quake...or me.

Oldest daughter is in Chino, 5 miles from it; no damage but scared my grandaughter.

Younger daughter, in Lamplight District of San Diego, said her high rise building swayed a lot. She says, "What do you do in an earthquake when you are 5 stores up?" I have no answer for her. (And, no, I didn't feel it here in Iowa).

Oh, Donna, everyone's worst nightmare! LOL For days after the Northridge quake, I took very fast showers!

Arlene, I would tell her to be thankful the building was swaying - the more flexible the better. My sister worked and TRW & Hughes for years and her buildings would always roll during quakes and aftershocks. Talk about being dizzy - she was often looking through a microscope! Glad you're OK, Arlene. :-)

Donna--that is the worst! I would have totally freaked out and probably run out of the dressing room in my underwear or something and horribly embarassed myself! LOL

Kathleen--When did your sis work at Hughes? A good friend of mine works there, he's only been there since ~2004 though so I don't know if they would have been there at the same time.

I have to say I hate earthquakes when I'm up a few stories, even though the building is just flexing like it's supposed to, it feels so much scarier! Where I work, none of the buildings have more than 3 floors so it's not too bad, but sometimes I have to go to our main offices for meetings and there a lot of times I'm on the 16th floor or so, I really hope there's never a quake when I'm there!

Liz, she took early retirement a number of years ago. She's still in contact with coworkers, though. She's a DGer now, too - Sally_OR.

The ceiling would have to be coming down for me to run out with no clothes on! They really should have bigger benches in those dressing rooms, so you can get under them. LOL