We just had an earthquake in San Diego!

[Sandpiper]

It was a 4.7, so not big enough to do any major damage, but big enough to be pretty damned scary when you're on the 12th floor of a 23 story building, and you feel the whole thing start to shake.

[MissRegina]

1. I've Always Wanted to Feel One of Those

Maybe one day, when you guys in Cal. experience "the big one", I will feel it here in AZ.

[montanacowboy]

2. You will NEVER forget it when you do

in the Seattle quake of 2001 it was a 7.0, and I was on the 21st floor, and I knew the building was going to break in two and fall to earth - it was really swaying off center - and it was a LONG one, 45 seconds - a lifetime.

[Eloriel]

9. Even small ones are unforgettable

Though not nearly as scarey, which IMO makes them tres cool.

I grew up in the St. Louis area (near the famous Madrid faultline which, according to eye witnesses in the early 1800s "made the Mississippi River flow backwards"), and I can remember a few small quakes when I was growing up, and one larger shudder in 1968 when my first husband was in Vietnam. I was in a photographer's showroom and the frame samples banged merrily along the wall for a few seconds.

Then shortly after moving into this house I woke just enough one night (sound and ardent sleeper here) to note the sound of glass things vibrating loudly on my dresser and my bed shaking gently. I went back to sleep. Learned the next morning that the quake was centered NW of us in AL.

[MissRegina]

12. That Would Get My Heart Pumping...

getting woken up by the shaking of my bed. Yikes! Maybe I don't want to feel one after all.

[Emboldened Chimp]

14. You don't

They scare the shit out of you.

[mopaul]

13. i'm from st. louis too

and i felt several big shakers back in the 60's. now in k.c.
my son is in san diego and daughter in s.francisco. and they are basically used to it now.

but once you've felt one, you never forget it. there are hundreds of quakes a year out of the new madrid fault. if it hit now, like it did that last time way back then, when the had no cities, it'd be hugely disasterous

[Leilani]

23. My son is in San Diego, too!!!

Just talked to him...sounded pretty routine.

[Sequoia]

4. Take it from me...you DO NOT want to

feel a big earthquake. That one we had on Martin Luther King Day, The Northridge Quake, was pretty awful. Freeways got ripped apart and an apartment complex in Northridge pancaked the people on the bottom levels, a guy on a motorcycle went sailing off into the sky since the freeway was gone, no electricity or water. No you don't really want it. The shaking went on and on and it was like the houses were banging down hard, not just rocking to and fro. Oh, and right after Christmas I was in the Santa Monica mall a few times and the earth would shake a bit which of course turned out to be a prelude to that big one. So San Diego, stay vigilant.

[PfNJ]

6. Have you always lived there?

I lived in Phoenix for about a year in 93-94, during a pretty major CA quake (was it Northridge?), and a few people I knew at the time said they felt it, something like a few dishes shaking in their cabinets or something, but nothing major, nothing like being thrown off their feet, though.....

[MissRegina]

8. Lived Here All My Life--26 Years

I have heard of people seeing the water in their pools move and chandeliers shaking here in Phoenix when Cal. gets hit, but I personally have never felt one.

[PfNJ]

11. Same here.....

I heard other people talking about that one particular quake, which was the only major one that happened while I was out there, but I didn't feel anything myself.....

[mandyky]

16. Where in AZ?

I lived in Flagstaff in 93/94 and we had 2 about that size. I think the center was Grand Canyon Village for one and near Tuba City for the other. I was on the third floor and it felt like someone was shaking my bed by the head board. 4.7 isn't that bad, unless you are in a high rise.

[MissRegina]

17. Northwest Phoenix

I've lived in this area my whole life.

[Don_G]

3. There Were Actually Two In The Area

One 4.7 and another 5.1: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm

[FlashHarry]

5. Are you sure it wasn't Darrell Issa's head exploding?

:nuke:

[neuvocat]

7. I felt it too just now. Pretty huge.

[lazarus]

10. heh

nice big thread trying to figure it all out over here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1795745

Turns out it's a 5.1 off shore.

[redowl]

15. hoo damn! scary

definitely brings out the primal fear.

[Cleita]

18. Whooeee! That happened to me twenty years ago. I was on the

24th floor. I quit my job the next day. From then on I made sure I didn't work anywhere with more than three stories.

[maggrwaggr]

19. website for earthquakes

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/117-33.htm

This latest was that big red square out in the Pacific Ocean. :)

I felt nothing in Los Angeles, although something sorta shook the house like a gust of wind, but it didn't seem to shake the ground at all

[Hubert Flottz]

20. Prolly Raygoon settling into his new digs!

The 'Mother of All GOPers' had to shuffle some fire and brimstone around to make a place for the new resident!

[Art_from_Ark]

22. They're doing the groundbreaking work for the new

Iran-Contra/October Surprise Library, complete with a special fiction section called "Single-handedly Winning the Cold War".

[maveric]

21. I was on the road in my truck and didnt feel anything.

When I got home my kids were telling me about it.

[LittleApple81]

24. A friend of mine got caught in an elevator during a strong earthquake.

He said the elevator stopped, the lights went out, then the elevator cage started hitting the walls. By the time they got him out his color was green...