The earth has moved for the first time ever ;)

Experienced my first small earthquake here in LA in the early hours of this morning (Tuesday). Woke up just before 2am with my bed shaking (No jokes please ).

Thought I was imagining it .. phoned down to the front desk to be answered by a german receptionist as shaken as I was. (it was her first time too )

I know its nothing to the locals.... but here is the Fox11 news article !!


Cheers

Mark

Feels odd doesn't it. Closest I've come to an earthquake in LA was seeing the engineering going into a house that a friend was having remodelled.

Earthquakes I have felt though; once in Antigua and a couple of times in Manchester, of all places.

Paul

Oh Dear! I'm in the LHR CH right now, waiting for VS7!

I hope this is an isolated incident and not the precursor to the big one :-)

David

[HighFlyer]

Awesome! I remember a small earthquake we had here in the UK about 4-5 years ago, but not quite as bad as the one you experienced.

Thanks,
Sarah

I'm due to be in SF from Monday, and despite visiting 40+ times and living in Northern CA, I've never experienced a quake.

Still want to experience a real one, Universal Studios is good, but it's not the real deal.

Manchester seems to have had a few tremors over the last year or so. Not good as I am only 20 miles up the road. [:0]

Manchester seems to have had a few tremors over the last year or so. Not good as I am only 20 miles up the road. [:0]

In fact I was at Mancehster Airport sometime in August when Manchester city centre had a tremor...when I went through Manchester Piccadilly all was well as if nothing had happened so it must've been minor - for now.

[ChuckC]

Hi, Mark:
Glad to hear you were only "shaken" a bit. I lived in LA for over 25 years and experienced many of the larger earthquakes, including Big Bear/Landers (actually two quakes at around 7.0, within two hours of each other) in 1992 and Northridge in 1994. Was not in town for the deadly 1989 Northern California quake but was told by people in our office that they felt it -- nearly 500 miles from the epicenter.

Then there was the quake one very early morning in Palm Springs. It nearly knocked me out of bed. At daybreak I ventured outside and found that about 3 feet of water had been sloshed out of the swimming pool.

Quakes in California are a fact of life, but it's still a great place to live and visit.

Chuck-

[fozzyo]

Not experienced an earthquake, but we were in Amsterdam for a weekend a few months back. For the first time we were there for the monthly testing of the Nuclear or Air Raid siren - its really wiered! Goes for a good few minutes and everyone carries on on their business.

Still want to experience a real one

Careful what you wish for;)

45.

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by ukcobra

Still want to experience a real one

Trust myself and Chuck...no you don't [V]

Originally posted by ChuckC
Northridge in 1994

Chuck-

I was laying on a floaty thing in my pool here in Vegas when that one hit, it turned into a wave pool, flipped me off the floaty thing.
I ran into the house, found the cat attached to the screen door and the phone ringing.

The wife at the time was a VP at the Mirage, they lost a $100,000 chandelier, being a VP and getting a call in the early hours her response was "what do you want me to do, come down there and sweep up the crystal...clean it up, I will deal with it in the morning" [y]

There was also one I felt while working at the Strat one night, signs swinging, people screaming, in typical Scrooge fashion I remember saying "FFS, I go on vacation tomorrow and I am going to get buried by the F***ing tower falling"

There is a video somewhere of the tower swaying back and forth, stunning really to watch.

Take a look here, this is the earth quake activity for the past week.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

[ChuckC]

Love that description, Scrooge. Just like being there. I didn't realize Vegas had felt Northridge. It was a real bellringer ... pretty much knocked me out of bed. You must have been coming home from working all night; probably poured yourself a little drinky or a coffee, headed to the pool to relax a bit in the early morning mist, and then -- wham!!

Chuck-

Originally posted by Scrooge

Originally posted by ukcobra

Still want to experience a real one

Trust myself and Chuck...no you don't [V]

I'll second and third that one! Big quakes are no fun at all.

What makes me laugh is listening to quickly-decamped Californians who skate up to Seattle after big quakes before they clue in that yes, we have earthquakes too! And we're not so well prepared for them.

Alas, they're also the same people who complain about the rain...

4.2 was a big enough quake. Be satisfied. You really don't want to go through one of the bigger ones! (And never in Asia... trust me.)