SoCal Earthquake

To quote Lewis Black, "Where I live, the Earth doesn't quaketh."

And as much as I love California, I don't know if I'd ever get used to earthquakes.

 

Looks like a 4.1 today, near the same epicenter as Sunday's quake.

 

There are only a couple things we really disagree on. And this is one of them.

99.8 percent of the earthquakes here are like a foot massage. Rumble, rumble, rumble. No worries. Go tell your non-Cali friends so they can freak out about the ground shaking.

Wildfires, now those are some scary mofos.

 

I bet Mark DeRosa also hates earthquakes.

 

I live in La Mirada, which isn't TOO far away and I'd like to overdramatize this and say it was "the big one!", but...its was nothing, simply a little shake. Lasted about 10 seconds or so. Of course the news pounced on the opportunity and it became quite the ordeal.

Still waiting for the real "big one" to stand up. Hopefully I'm in an opportune place when it finally does happen.

And I've never been through a hurricane or tornado yet I still feel its better to live with an occasional shake rather than the apocalypse-like winds you guys have to deal with.

 

I felt it . . . kind of a long roller. Others where I was had no idea there was a quake happening.

 

These quakes aren't registering where I am in SoCal. Deep SoCal.

 

I've experienced a tornado a few blocks away from my house, and a 5.5 earthquake rumbling under me.

I will take an earthquake every time. Tornadoes are no joke. That scared the shit out of me.

 

Didn't feel today's at all and generously, I was about maybe 10 miles away from the epicenter.

And I agree with Shaggy. A tornado ran through my hometown and came within about 100 yards of my elementary school in 1976. I'll take a quake any day.

 

Ding, Ding, Ding. See my post above. The Newport/Inglewood Fault will wreak havoc when it goes.

Now, it depends where the San Andreas shifts. If the epicenter is under our former hometown, the carnage will be pretty heavy. But out by the Salton Sea, where 15 people live? Only the scorpions, snakes and rodents will be affected.

And I didn't feel today's either.

 

Maybe they can have 10 more 5.0s, which equals a 6.0 since the Richter scale is, as you may know, logarithmic. A series of moderate shakers might lessen the danger. But a 5.0 is just a drop in the bucket of pent-up energy. And the longer without a jolt, the bigger it'll be when it blows.