Here’s a live feed of the local LA news on the quake
Meh….baseball cannot be bothered:
#EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/yDOOEYSk4j
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 6, 2019
Sounds like there are fires in Ridgecrest again. Disney closed rides for a short time. And pools sloshing and lights swinging are all over twitter.
“We’ll be right back!!” #duckandcover 6.9 tonight causes a little panic ? #EarthquakeLA pic.twitter.com/Ub6ID1ub8f
— Jeff Chavez (@JeffChavez) July 6, 2019
https://twitter.com/yiunatf/status/1147354674158137345
#EarthquakeLA felt this one from Hanford pic.twitter.com/C509PS6dAW
— David S (@Annihil8or) July 6, 2019
CA peeps check in. I’m going to put the ducks to bed and call it a night.
Rockin’ and Rollin’ open thread
seaboogie
Mary G check in please…
Mayken
No more harm done here than lost water from the pool, swinging chandelier and the cats bugging out.
Chip Daniels
I’m on the 12th floor in downtown LA. We felt a long rolling but nothing fell off the shelves.
Mostly it was just nerve wracking.
Martin
Everyone in LA south and east through San Bernardino should be fine. There’s effectively no reports of any damage in the larger LA basin. Bakersfield should be similarly safe. You’d really need to live somewhere between Barstow and Lone Pine to see any damage or injury, and man, not many people live between Barstow and Lone Pine.
Inventor
Felt this one in South OC. Slow, rolling side to side. No damage.
NotMax
Dragged from downstairs:
Initial AP story about that latest quake.
Martin
Mutual aid has been requested, so OC search and rescue and some fire crews and paramedics are currently underway to Ridgecrest area.
misterpuff
Moved to LA County in November. First Quake.
Definitely ….disorienting.
TaMara (HFG)
@Martin: The odd part for me is I have friends and family checking in from Camarillo, LA, Santa Monica and Las Vegas. I don’t remember it ever being that widespread before. But I may just be misremembering.
Mayken
@TaMara (HFG): Northridge was.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Already checked in downstairs.
Martin
@TaMara (HFG): I don’t think this is that unusual. It’s almost exactly midway from LA and Vegas, so the location reaches some large population centers on the edges. We’ve felt quakes here in OC from northern Mexico. 200 miles isn’t unusual for a large quake.
I mean, 7.1 is a pretty hefty quake. The Haiti earthquake was a 7.0 and killed over 100,000 people, so this is no joke. I mean, this wasn’t in the middle of nowhere – but it’s about 100 miles from the middle of nowhere. That’s why it’s not a national emergency. But yeah, a 7.1 is going to be noticed over quite a large area.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@seaboogie: Thx – she did in the previous thread.
catbirdman
This one and the Northridge quake were the most intense I’ve felt in 54 years in California, but this one was a rolling quake, not a sharp shock. It was more fun than scary here in Long Beach.
Peale
How certain are we that it’s not caused by Russians operating from a base under a shopping mall in Barstow?
jeer9
Live just on the other side of the Sierra. Lasted about 40 seconds. House shook. Plates in cupboard rattled. Everyone ran outside and felt the ground rolling under our feet. Biggest one I’ve ever experienced. Rather unnerving.
NotMax
@Peale
Or the extra weight from those “tens of millions illegals.”
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?BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale: OMG, I think I was at that mall Monday night.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Donald, that you?
JWR
@catbirdman:
Same here in the Pasadena area, with the attendant and usual fear that it might grow larger. But yeah, rollin’ rollin’ rollin’.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@NotMax: @?BillinGlendaleCA: But how do all those tens of millions know how to jump up and down at the same time?
NotMax
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
App for that on their Obamaphones.
Ruckus
I felt the first ones yesterday, haven’t felt more since and I live in the east San Gabriel Valley. I was walking back from the mailbox after being about 45 miles west all day when the 7.1 hit and I didn’t feel it.
The major difference between the Northridge and this series was that the big Northridge quake was all vertical motion. I was about 4-5 miles from the epicenter as the crow shakes during the Northridge and that was far more severe. I live about 140 miles south of the current quakes and that distance lessens a lot of the movement. There have also been earthquakes in Kansas, 3.1 and Idaho, 3.3 in the last few hours.
Here’s the USGS map of the US with the latest quakes over 2.5.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: They’re obviously highly organized.
?BillinGlendaleCA
IIRC, psifighter’s grandma lives out in that area.
Sebastian
It got a little scary I have to admit. But except for a bruised ego everything’s fine.
Steve in the ATL
@Peale: ha! Did you also watch the entire season on July 4?
JaneE
In Bishop, about 130 miles north of epicenter. I did not feel either quake at all. Nothing, no house creaking, no crockery clinking, saw it on the news but never felt a thing. All the energy must have been directed more to the south or east/west. Friends I talked to today didn’t feel yesterday’s.
JWR
@Ruckus:
In the Sierra Madre quake, (I forget the year), I had friends living right over the epicenter, and they thought all hell was breaking loose. Said they’d never felt anything like it, with the vertical motion you describe. I was maybe 10-15 miles away, and though it was quite strong, it was nothing compared to what they felt.
One good thing is that it keeps Dolt45 off my local news. In fact, I think the only thing that would cause them to break away from this would be a good car chase/police pursuit. ;-)
Mary G
@seaboogie: I’m fine and kind of proud of myself for reporting early on Balloon Juice. The last RA flareup was a doozy and tore another tendon in my hand, so I’m pecking away with the one reliable finger. By the time I am ready to say something, three other people have beaten me to it. I also have a horrible case of vertigo, and was sitting at my PC in a wheelchair on a hardwood floor. The roller type of earthquake that this one was started rolling my chair back and forth an inch or so for the duration. That plus me looking around at the hanging lamps and the freaked out cats made me nauseous for a few minutes.
I always feel bad about it once the damage and injury reports come in, but I love earthquakes. Something about the earth under your feet going nuts is an awesome display of Mother Nature’s power.
I’ve also been through A LOT of them in my 62 years in California. When my dad was dying in 1967, my mom sent me to stay with one of my honorary Marine brothers, his wife who’d immigrated from Norway about 18 months before, and their newborn baby. They lived in an old trailer. It wasn’t like a mobile home that goes one place and stays there; it was a trailer that you hitch up to the car for vacation. It had four rusty metal legs plus a bunch of cinderblocks in piles holding it up. So as you can imagine, when the quake hit, there was a real thrill ride of bouncing and shaking. She ran outside and was screaming and crying in full Norwegian hysterics. He was in a college class, my mom was at the hospital and I couldn’t call them. I kept trying to tell her it was only an earthquake and NBD. Eventually one of her neighbors got her calmed down a bit and took her off for tea and sympathy while In watched the baby, who had slept through the whole thing.
JaneE
Also, Caltrans is reporting “roadway buckled up about 4 feet” in Poison Canyon near Trona, plus boulders on the roads and a sinkhole on highway 178.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JaneE: So much for Milky Way shooting at the Trona Pinnacles.
Aleta
@Mary G: Glad you’re OK. I know what you mean about feeling the power of them. It is awesome, especially hearing the rumble or roar. Really glad you and cats are OK.
JWR
@Mary G:
Same here! But during this one, coming so close after yesterday’s, and with the amount of shaking felt, I was immediately thinking about the people living near this one, who must be experiencing something way, way worse. (Not that you or anyone else wouldn’t feel or think the same thing.) But yeah, for the most part, they’re alotta fun!
Mnemosyne
We were getting seated at a restaurant in Long Beach near the aquarium and everyone felt it. It was definitely a roller, which is an odd feeling. The fans and lights hanging by a cord from the ceiling swayed a lot, but nothing fell over.
And let’s say a quick thank you to the state of California for having strict earthquake building codes. That’s what lets us ride out a 4.5 earthquake without the building falling on us.
The Dangerman
I was at the Brit Floyd show in Bakersfield and they had just started “Another Brick In The Wall, Part II”; interesting effect with the Theater shaking violently (the band finally stopped when the crowd started going bonkers – first it was shock, but bonkers kicked in pretty quickly). The Fox Theater is a little too old to be in with the effects of a 7.1 not that far away but I assume it was retrofitted along the way (the man sitting behind me was a retired Fire Captain and he wasn’t concerned about the theater.
They finished the show after inspecting the rigging but a lot of people, especially people with younger adults, left. Too bad, it was a fine show.
ruemara
I’m good. Also, news on the citizenship front! I got an email yesterday that they had taken action on my case. It turns out they set up my interview & testing appointment. I don’t know when it is because they haven’t told me & I haven’t gotten a letter from them yet, but there’s an appointment I need to be at that I don’t know when it is, so I got that going for me.
CaseyL
I’m so glad to hear some folks here enjoy earthquakes, because when I say that, my friends look at me funny.
I like any time that Nature gets really fierce. It doesn’t mean I want there to be horrible damage, or suffering and death. It’s just fascinating and wonderful to experience primaeval forces doing their thing. It makes me feel more connected to the universe.
The Dangerman
Earthquakes, up to the point where shit starts breaking or people get hurt, are kinda fun.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Thank you! Not here so often as before, and I do so appreciate your caretaking. M’wah!
seaboogie
@CaseyL: right? Wildfires are a whole ‘nother animal altogether…
Martin
Bet geologists are hoping they can get out east of Little Lake. Tons of aftershocks out of that area, all piled up – about a 3.0 every minute or two. That’s deep in the weapons testing range. Pretty sure there’s a betting pool going on somewhere that the next big quake hits there.
JWR
@seaboogie: Yep. About the only similarity is that both can grow incredibly quickly. And while both can level a city, we’re far more prone to massive wildfires these days.
bad Jim
Checking in from Laguna Beach. It went about the same way tonight as it did yesterday morning, rattling noises followed by a prolonged sensation of swaying. My brother, who lives nearby, didn’t notice either of them.
Usually an earthquake is just a sudden bump; the ones that aren’t are memorable. In high school (a LONG time ago), on the second story, the floor swayed like the deck of a boat. More recently, still many years ago, sitting outside in a recliner, it actually felt bumpy, like two rock plates grinding against each other
Mnemosyne
@The Dangerman:
Older buildings sometimes have interesting quakeproofing that still works surprisingly well. One technique was to stack 2x4s inside the wall to disperse the vibrations and allow them to travel up and over. That still works in one or two-story buildings.
Tehanu
@Ruckus: I was living about 8 miles from the ’94 Northridge quake and my experience was the same — that was vertical, bouncing up and down; this one was rolling side to side and, of course, much less severe since the epicenter was whatever it is, 100 miles away or so. In fact, both yesterday and today had the same kind of motion. My husband had a photograph insecurely propped up on a bookcase and it fell down and the glass shattered, but that was the only thing.
@Mnemosyne: Exactly right. Those strict codes are the reason we can — mostly — chuckle once the quake is over. I’ve lived in California all my life since I was 5; I’m not quite as blase about them as when I was younger, because the ’94 quake was really a major disaster, but honestly, one every few years for a few seconds, vs. annual ice storms, hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes like in the Midwest and East? Give me a shaker any time.
frosty
@TaMara (HFG): The ’71 quake in the San Fernando Valley shook me awake in Claremont, on the LA / San Berdoo County line.
frosty
@The Dangerman: My experience was “What the hell, why is the bed shaking? … Must be an earthquake. OK, you can stop now, Really, you can stop now! PLEASE STOP OH SHIT I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER WHAT’S GOING ON ….. OK it’s stopped, roll over and go back to sleep.
ola azul
@Mary G:
Clearly a child born intuitively knowing the trite-but-true wisdom of the serenity prayer.
Ruckus
@The Dangerman:
I understand what people mean about earthquakes being sort of fun as long as no one gets hurt.
But I’ve been hurt by an earthquake and financially it was a disaster. And the one that hurt me was smaller than the one today. Remember that the scale is logarithmic so the intensity goes up a lot more than what it sounds like. A 7 is a lot bigger than a 6. And anything over 7 is a damn big quake.
My boss asked me yesterday if I was having PTSD because of the quake. I’m not sure if he was kidding. And like any trauma if one has had PTSD, a reoccurrence of the same type of event can trigger it. I don’t think I did 25 yrs ago but usually the person involved isn’t that good of a decision maker about a reoccurrence. It certainly isn’t a fun thing for me if that counts for anything. But it also doesn’t seem to be that big a deal. But if you live in an area of natural occurring disasters, which most humans do, it isn’t unusual to be scared of one’s that you aren’t used to.
The Dangerman
@frosty:
I was pretty amazed by the people in my immediate vicinity in the theater, which was reasonably chill; down front was a different story (picture “hair on fire”), but I’m sure being in the immediate vicinity of a shitload of heavy rigging probably isn’t too much of a thrill.
opiejeanne
@TaMara (HFG): When the Loma Prieta earthquake struck in 1989, people felt it in tall buildings in Los Angeles. There were frantic phone calls from out of state to us and everyone we knew got the same frantic calls, even though we were about 400 miles away.
The worried messages still come to us from at least one cousin who doesn’t seem to understand where we live, although these days it’s about brush fires. Near Seattle on the east side is not an area that worries very much about brush fires, at least not yet. That’s likely to change as the climate changes.
ola azul
@CaseyL:
I hear ya, it’s ennervating, no doubt. But: Having seen my overabundance of towering green water pummeling the wheelhouse windows, am of the decided opinion I likes my nature mild as a kitten.
JWR
@frosty:
Same with me and my brothers and sisters. We were just kids, and what added to the fear was seeing the flashes from the transformers out in the valley blow. I thought, “OMG! We’re being bombed! We’re at war!” Very frightening.
opiejeanne
@Martin: Huh. They need to watch for graboids.
opiejeanne
@frosty: the 71 quake woke us up in Riverside. We caught things as they jumped off of shelves. Our baby thought the whole experience was a lot of fun because his crib went scooting back and forth across the floor. Before the house stopped shaking our phone started ringing. It was my dad, in Temple City. Most of the houses on his street had lost their chimneys because it turned out that a local extinct fault line crossed the one that was jumping, so it moved too. .
Ruckus
@Tehanu:
My post at #50 was about the Northridge quake in 94. That one cost me. 57 people paid a much higher price than I did. But of course it was a pretty big quake at 6.7, and the one today was a 7.1, much more severe but a different type of movement. My house suffered minor damage but several of my neighbors had much more severe home damage. Most of my damage was to my business and my person. I’ve been in massive winter storms at sea for days on end and that didn’t cause me any major concern. Earthquakes do concern me a bit because I know that if it’s big enough, someone is going to be hurt. Yes we’ve improved our building codes a lot after each major quake so fewer pay too much for the experience. There is still pain and suffering, sometimes a lot of it.
VeniceRiley
@Inventor: I’m also in south OC.
I think everyone not in Ridgecrest/China Lake area are fine.
Time to stop putting off getting a wall mount for the TV though
Ruckus
@JWR:
In the Northridge quake my ex and I were thrown about 18 inches upwards off the bed and with the transformers and lines down there was enough light at 5:30 in January to easily see under her when she was thrown upwards. Also there was a TV on the dresser on my other side and I watched as that came flying at me, with nothing I could do because I was in the air. The cord caught and it never hit me and it worked fine afterwards. Every dish and everything in the fridge was on the ground. My friend who lived a mile east of us lost his house to the quake and following fire. I was visiting them today when the 7.1 hit.
Jay
@Ruckus:
There’s a lot of different factors aside from size that determine if an earthquake is going to be “bad” or not, like depth, geology, many which they are still trying to figure out.
There were 3 off the West Coast of Vancouver Island to day ranging from 3.1 to 3.2 which caused a tsunami alert in a couple of places, but the shelf didn’t slide, this time.
JWR
@Ruckus: Wow. In Pasadena, during the Northridge quake, it felt strong, but not quite that strong. But then I looked at the news, and could not believe the damage and the number of lives lost, especially given that I’d guessed it was maybe a strong 5. It’s weird how differently a quake is felt, depending on the geology(?), and not just the distance. That was the quake that taught me not to trust multi-level parking structures. I park on top, if at all possible, regardless of when it was built.
SectionH
@ruemara: Go You! Update us when you can/want/need to.
RAVEN
@Jay: There were quakes there today?
eta
My colleague is out there with her family and her hubby’s band on a tour.
JPL
Over 1000 aftershocks and now another earthquake. That has to be unsettling.
sukabi
Caltech map and real time updates on quakes…they are roughly a minute apart.
Buckeye
My sister’s in Ridgecrest, and she is not having a fun last couple of days. At all. She and the dog are now sleeping in car.
donnah
We get little earthquakes here in SW Ohio and they’re very unsettling. I felt a tremor as I sat in my kitchen one morning, not realizing at first what was happening. I felt nauseated and off balance for a few seconds and realized what had happened. I can’t imagine what a big quake would be like,
We also had a quake the day my eldest son was born, in June of 1987. I was the only new mother in the recovery room after he was delivered and I was still on a gurney. There was one nurse in attendance and suddenly the lights flickered and my bed started rolling back and forth. I sat up as the nurse ran to the window and we both said, “Earthquake!”
I still tell my son he is very important because the earth moved on the day he was born.
burnspbesq
The quake upstaged Zion Williamson’s NBA debut. Summer league games at the Thomas & Mack Center were shut down when the scoreboard started swaying.
MomSense
@Peale:
Hahaha!
Uncle Cosmo
Have a look at the video – some of the airplane photoshops are LOL funny.
mrmoshpotato
@Uncle Cosmo: Haha. The dancing planes are the best – especially the Shuttle carrier.
feebog
I am most concerned for the residents of Trona, a small town 30 miles north of Ridgecrest. Population 1750 and no real services. They do have a Sheriff’s station (they are in San Bernardino while Ridgecrest is in Kern county) there but that is about it. Reports last night that the only road between Ridgecrest and Trona was much more severely damaged than during the foreshock on Thursday. To get in from the North side of Trona you have to go way around. I was there a few days ago for an arbitration hearing. They are really isolated, scary.
Roger Moore
@JWR:
It was 1991. I remember because that was my first quake after coming to California for college. The building I live in now was red tagged after the Sierra Madre quake (it’s in Pasadena, but Sierra Madre is right across the street) but it was seriously retrofitted as part of the repairs.
Ruckus
@Jay:
That wasn’t a dissertation on earthquakes. I linked twice to the USGS site yesterday, get the info from professionals. I’m just an interested victim.
@Roger Moore:
Unreinforced red brick buildings are all over the LA area. The update orders have been in place for decades now and most of them have been, especially residential buildings. Not sure it would be enough depending on the quake level and location. And the building codes have gotten better as technology has gotten better and more has been learned about both earthquakes and construction.
Ruckus
@RAVEN:
There are quakes here all the time. Most of them are too small to be felt but they are here. And as @donnah: wrote they happen everywhere. Much more likely in some areas than others but it really just is the earth stretching. It’s living too. Here is a link to the USGS site about a 5.8 quake in 2011 in central VA. Has lots of interesting info on quakes in areas that are not considered earthquake zones. Except every place is an earthquake zone, some are just far less active and/or normally smaller.
Ruckus
@Ruckus:
OK, Here is a link to the USGS site about a 5.8 quake in 2011 in central VA.