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7/29/2008 11:49am
7/29/2008 11:49am
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1/27/2012 5:21pm
Just heard a mag. 5 earthquake shook L.A. That sounds like it could be bad...
Hope all is well.
Hope all is well.
Edit: Now they're saying 5.4
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That is one thing I'd like to expierence one day, away from anything tall though.
Date-Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 18:42:15 UTC
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:42:15 AM at epicenter
Location 33.959°N, 117.752°W
Depth 12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Region GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
Distances 3 km (2 miles) SW (235°) from Chino Hills, CA
8 km (5 miles) SE (127°) from Diamond Bar, CA
9 km (5 miles) NNE (23°) from Yorba Linda, CA
11 km (7 miles) S (178°) from Pomona, CA
47 km (29 miles) ESE (103°) from Los Angeles Civic Center, CA
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Parameters Nph=144, Dmin=8 km, Rmss=0.42 sec, Gp= 18°,
M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=E
Source California Integrated Seismic Net:
USGS Caltech CGS UCB UCSD UNR
Event ID ci14383980
So, when is it really bad? 6.0? 6.5? I don't really understand how the scale translates to damage.
Hurricanes and tornados I get, earthquakes, not so much.
You're also thinking, "Hmm...where's the epicenter, and how much worse is it there?"
I live probably 6 miles from the epicenter, in Yorba Linda.
Lots of stuff fell over, but the only real damage was my daughter's Martin acoustic.
It was leaning on the liquor cabinet, and bottle of scotch fell and punched a hole in the body.
The scotch is fine, though.
Any reports of damage yet?
The Mercalli scale is I to XII, which is used for damage assessments. A Mercalli VII would be expected to cause damage to weak masonry but not to wood framed structures. There's a good wiki on Mercalli scales.
Northridge in '94 was a 6.7. I think the Mercalli scale hit between IX and X in several locations in the San Fernando Valley.
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Its kind of amazing that something can be so powerful that tens of millions of us can feel the same thing at the same time and yet no real damage occured. Shake Rattle and Roll.
I was in the 6.9rs world series deal. bout 35 miles away from the epicenter. rock and roll big time for sure where i was.
A 6.0 ain't no thang...a 7.0 will fuck you up...and yer world along with it. and 8.0 I can't imagine.
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