Earthquake!

FilleBelle · 07-29-2008, 02:41 PM

It just happened and it was a really loooong, rolling one. The epicenter was Chino Hills, CA and it registered a magnitude 5.6. Anyone else feel it? All you Californians okay?

iwantmypup · 07-29-2008, 05:07 PM

I felt it!!

It scared the crap outta me! Because it was really long, and sorta scary. I could stand still and the walls would shake like crazy.
But we are okay...

How is it in LA ? we are just in huntington beach

cshellenberger · 07-29-2008, 05:20 PM

Just got a few rattled windows down here! I think Angel got more agitated than anyone else.

How about everyone else? I know we have lots of members here around LA and OC.

salask · 07-29-2008, 05:30 PM

I work in Ontario so i felt it pretty good! I was upstairs on a ladder and thought it was a truck passing by. When stuff started falling from the shelves, i realized it wasn't a truck so my next challenge (in my head) was figuring out how I'm getting down this ladder, down the stairs and make my way out of the building. Well by then - the shaking had stopped but hey, i managed to get down from the ladder

I HATE EARTHQUAKES!!! but we're all ok - glad to hear you guys are doing good too.

RBark · 07-29-2008, 05:32 PM

Don't bother worrying about us unless it's a magnitude of 7 or above.

FilleBelle · 07-29-2008, 09:22 PM

This is actually the first earthquake I've felt since living in my current house and my first thought was for the tv. We have a new, big screen plasma that we haven't bolted to the tv stand yet and I had visions of heroically holding it up while the house fell down around me.

Surprisingly, it did not come to that.

RBark · 07-29-2008, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by FilleBelle

This is actually the first earthquake I've felt since living in my current house and my first thought was for the tv. We have a new, big screen plasma that we haven't bolted to the tv stand yet and I had visions of heroically holding it up while the house fell down around me.

Surprisingly, it did not come to that.

I work in construction.

I would not be surprised if the very surface of earth opened up big enough to swallow your house whole, only to find out your house was earthquake-code to float in event of that.

Earthquake building codes is crazy in CA.

And.... check to make sure you have straps on your water heater.

Criosphynx · 07-30-2008, 12:06 AM

IM ALIVE!! wow! That was so much fun today....

My work is only 4-6 miles from the epicenter so it was a really neat ride... I almost got taken out by a flying soda can...

Knocked dry goods off shelves and sloshed fish/turtle tanks.

A couple of more seconds and it would have been a BIG mess tho.

at home my SO jumped up and had to think quick about which fish tank to save lol

cshellenberger · 07-30-2008, 10:38 AM

I think I'd strap those tanks down!!!! I'm sure there's SOME kind of device that will make them more resistant to tipping during an earthquake.

Criosphynx · 07-30-2008, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

I think I'd strap those tanks down!!!! I'm sure there's SOME kind of device that will make them more resistant to tipping during an earthquake.

well mine at home have custom stands so they are lower to the ground so they are less likely to tip. But i should look into straps anyway..

At work however there are 90 gal tanks stacked up to the ceiling. My boss came out and looked at them and said, hmmm, we should probably strap those to the wall.....

cshellenberger · 07-30-2008, 11:10 AM

LOL, he has a business with fish tanks in SoCal and doesn't have them strapped down? That's CRAZY!

Criosphynx · 07-30-2008, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

LOL, he has a business with fish tanks in SoCal and doesn't have them strapped down? That's CRAZY!

yeah, i know, I actually saw the lightbulb apear, and turn on, on top of his noggin. I just don't think he'd thought about it before...