Earthquake!

[furtech]

Decent sized one, too-- the whole house rocked gently (gently, but the *whole house* rolled!).

I'm guessing about 25 miles north/NE and mag4.8.

EDIT: Wrong...was south-east, near Chino Hills and Diamond bar.

Magnitude 5.6! Wow-- hope everyone out that was is all right!

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.htm

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14383980.htm

PS: for those not earthquake-saavy, a 5.6 isn't that bad: just a rattler-- a perfect "tourist" quake. You get a good shake and roll, but little damage (maybe a jar falling off a shelf at 7-11). The Northridge Quake was a 6.8-- about 30 times stronger than this one.

EDIT EDIT: Okay, now they're saying 5.8...that's starting to get into the cracks-in-plaster stage. 6.0 is where you start seeing some real damage (still mostly limited to cinder block walls falling, lots of glass-goods falling off shelves, etc.) Above 6.4-6.6 and you start to have serious structure failure, depending on the type of quake-- whether the motion was mostly up-thrust or sliding. There should be plenty of videos of jars and stuff falling off shelves. But that won't stop the news media from really playing this up as a "Major event".

Comments

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Naw...they both pretty much ignored it (I think Rondo slept through it). Apache came in a little while afterwards looking for a cookie, but she does that at any excuse ("Woof-woof--I barked at the garbageman! I deserve a cookie!")

I'd be very surprised if the news can find any actual footage of damage.