Earthquake
TV ClubHouse: Archive: Earthquake
Pcakes2 | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:45 am     Did anyone feel this??? I am in North of San Francisco, and we felt it a bit up here. Can find any good reports on it yet. |
Pcakes2 | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:48 am     here's all I could find so far... (from CNN) (CNN) -- A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit the central California coast about 11:15 a.m. (2:15 p.m. ET), the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was located about 7 miles from San Simeon, 240 miles north of Los Angeles, the USGS reported. There was no immediate report of damage from the quake, but park rangers in San Simeon have ordered evacuation of the Hearst Castle, the palatial home built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, a worker at the attraction's gift shop told CNN. |
Egbok | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:50 am     Pcakes, there are some posts in the Community Corner - Right Now thread.... |
Pcakes2 | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:59 am     ok...thanks Mods, can you delete this thread? Thanks! |
Azriel | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 02:47 pm     As soon as I saw the news of the earthquake I wanted to head over here and make sure our California members are all okay. I'm praying that all of you made it through safely. |
Mocha | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 03:16 pm     Hope everyone's ok. |
Tabbyking | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 03:24 pm     i think i am one of the closest to the area and i am about 150 miles away. we felt it big time, but no damage at all. just lots of swinging light fixtures and pictures hanging crooked on the hall walls. my son is home for christmas, but attends cal poly in san luis obispo. i am so glad this didn't happen with 18,000 people on campus!! if there had to be an earthquake, it's good that it hit a relatively unpopulated area (by california standards!) at a time when cal poly was closed for christmas. also, it's good that the nuclear power-plant 100 miles from the epicenter did not seem to have any problems. |
Moondance | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 10:31 pm     I am about 100 miles away but I was in Beverly Hills at the time so I didn't feel it... everything at the house seems to be alright |
Sanfranjoshfan | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:01 pm     I felt nothing here in SF.....in fact I was rolling my eyes a little after seeing nothing but earthquake coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews. They were all excited and went on and on about it....but the report showed only pictures of nice looking neighborhoods and freeways with idyllic traffic....nary a broken window or any other sign of damage in the whole half hour I watched! I wondered what the big deal was and a friend of mine suggested that the fact that those news networks all have offices located right near their quake was what caused the excitement. I had friends in Texas and Alabama call me up to ask about it....but I told them it was a hoax. (Of course, they knew I was kidding.) After the Loma Prieta quake here in '89, a little shaking that doesn't really dislodge much just isn't much of a big news story to me....just jaded, I guess.) |
Wargod | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:10 pm     I thought for a brief moment we may have felt it up here (except for me who never feels anything!) but according to the article I just read, it wouldn't have been felt this far away. Adelphia has been working on the cable lines in our neighborhood since last week, so we've had iffy service. Most of today I had no cable and wasn't even aware of the earthquake til I came online about noon. I still haven't seen any tv news. I'm hoping that those of you who are close are doing ok and staying safe. |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:27 pm     Well I certainly felt it way down here.. just squishy rolling but my vertical blinds were dancing But of course it wasn't fun near the epicenter, buildings damaged and down, two deaths, power out, some buckled roads. War, you may have felt it out there; at least it was reported by some in your area and all the way to the Nevada border. map of reports |
Wargod | Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:37 pm     Hmmm...well, I never feel them. I think the last one I felt was the Northridge quake. So maybe it was that that knocked the presents out of the closet afterall, lol. I really thought just the kids slamming doors had knocked them down, then thought the earthquake, then figured if we didn't feel it, it had to be the kids. All I know is the kids weren't in my room, the present were too high up, but something knocked them down. |
Tishala | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 12:48 am     I think I was napping during it...and I don't think people really felt it in L.A. anyhow. But our news stations provided lots of coverage. |
Tabbyking | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 06:58 am     sanfran, i kept wondering about the scenes they showed, too...i was really wondering 'why show LAX when they were talking about an earthquake more than 240 miles north of it?' my husband works in sunnyvale, probably about 35 miles south of san francisco, and they felt it big time, too. there were areas that felt it and some that didn't and those that didn't were sometimes closer to the epicenter than those that did! we are 100 miles from where the loma prieta quake hit and our entire neighborhood was without power except for our house for about 18 hours. we also got some cracks in the living room from that one. anyway, to me, this one was scary because of its proximity to cal poly. the timing was good though! no one but skeleton crews are at the school over the holiday. |
Landi | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:35 am     loma prieta was the longest earthquake i ever felt. here in napa it went on for almost a minute, it was nauseating the rolling. dang scary. the napa earthquake a couple of years back was scary in that it was like getting raised up in the air and thrown back down. but the worst quake i was in was the livermore quake. i was at cal state hayward at the time (built on a BIG fault) and tiles were falling off buildings and the big tower was swaying like in some sci fi flick! i grew up with earthquakes but i don't like them one bit!!! |
Tabbyking | Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 10:23 am     hey, landi, a good friend who lives in livermore went to hayward probably about the same time you did. she is 42, i think. anyway, we are off like a dirty shirt in an hour or so. i am waiting for a last load to come out of the dryer. i have the brandy, the spinach dip, the hot artichoke dip, the low carb beer and warm boots. i'm set! lol oh yeah, and my cell phone dd passed her driving test--pouring rain, but she did really well. the instructor wrote 'great job!' and put a smiley face on the comments section. dd did not make one error. my smiley face was gone when we went to AAA for her insurance. we have 4 vehicles, a motorhome, our homeowners policies all with them and our 'discount' for being multi-vehicle, multi insurance means we only pay 1,340 bucks a year for her to drive in a 4x4 mile area! the closest town is 35 miles away. it would have been 1,440 if she put more than 4k a year on the car and didn't have straight A's. no break at all for being a girl. i am so proud of her, but what a mixed-blessing HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!! I HOPE I CAN GET TO A COMPUTER SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND SATURDAY TO CHECK IN WITH YOU ALL. HUGS! MICHAELA |
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