It happened about 12 minutes ago. It was a 5.0.
I didn’t feel it. My wife told me about it. She heard about it on the radio.
UPDATE: Looks like it’s been changed to a 4.5.
Meanwhile, a more severe quake in Costa Rica has killed three.
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I felt it somewhat here in eastern Ventura county.
ML (14488c) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:18 pmI asked my wife, was that an EQ or is the beer and head cold getting too me?
I live in North Orange County, and I felt absolutely nothing.
Sean P (4e644b) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:22 pmFelt a strong jolt here in Spring Valley. Like someone slammed a door right behind me but without the sound. Nothing at all like the ’89 earthquake in San Fransisco. That was an earthquake. 😎
Jay Curtis (8f6541) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:23 pmThere was a 6.1 in Costa Rica today, about 5 hours ago.
jeff nolan (e45581) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:26 pmNot much in the shaking department here in Pasadena. Barely noticeable. In fact, my husband didn’t feel a thing.
caltechgirl (0799cc) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:30 pmOne quick jolt and a few very minor shudders in SE L.A.Co. But, the announcers at Staples felt it during the hockey game.
AD (80a16b) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:32 pmWe all felt it here in No. Orange County.
Looks like it’s been downgraded to 4.5 — here’s a map and listing of recent CA quake activity.
Best wishes,
Laura (d8da01) — 1/8/2009 @ 8:50 pmLaura
I barely felt it here in Temecula, although the news said it was centered only about 25 miles from me. However, it did move my TV 2 inches over the edge of the cabinet it sits on. The only thing I felt was my chair rock once, so I’m assuming this was a rolling quake, rather than a shaking one.
Sara (Pal2Pal) (84fd4f) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:12 pmMy china hutch rattled, didn’t feel the jolt. My dogs began to howl and then it sounded like the hutch had fallen, but I’m assuming it was just the sound from the jolt. I’m at Huntington Harbor in Huntington Beach
HB (aaaace) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:13 pmI felt a gentle rock and roll here in Altadena. I was watching the game. I would guess about a 3.0 here. My wife was standing in the kitchen doing dishes and didn’t feel a thing. I would have been helping her but for the football game, honest.
Alta Bob (f69930) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:25 pmIf you listen to Tom Leykis, count on him tomorrow making a point of it to make fun of people who call radio stations to talk about having felt an earthquake.
L.N. Smithee (b7dc6e) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:36 pmim in oceanside and i felt the wall shake similar to having a door slammed. thought it was the marine base. guess not!
andiee (a79073) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:38 pmI recall some guy back in 1994 saying that prior to the Northridge earthquake, he’d always wonder what it would be like experiencing a quake that kept growing in intensity and lasted much longer than usual.
And so just as there are riders on a roller coaster or folks watching a movie full of stalker-murder scenes anticipating a buzz from adrenaline-fueled moments, the resident of Northridge originally had a similar daredevil wish of going through a huge quake. But then the earth moved greatly in that part of LA, and both his curiosity about and anticipation of a nature-driven thrill ride got trounced very quickly, and he regretted his previous way of thinking.
When an earthquake causes people to feel like THAT, that’s the time when major news coverage of and headlines on such an occurance make sense.
Mark (411533) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:53 pmWow…..I was sitting watching football in my living room. Then, I felt the floor shake litely and it felt like a heavy gust of wind blew on the house. So I went to the window and saw no signs of wind and the trees were still…Then I thought hey “That might have been my first earthquake!” It only lasted 1 second long. I live in Costa Mesa! I Love CALIFORNIA ………….
Angelo (d40799) — 1/8/2009 @ 9:58 pmAre you getting any after-shocks?
DRJ (345e40) — 1/8/2009 @ 10:00 pmHey, it’s great to see caltechgirl post. She rocks!
Forgive the earthquake pun.
When I lived in San Diego, I was sharing a house with a bunch of nefarious types and my huge dog. We had a 5 AM serious quake. My speedfreak roommate was working on his car at the time, and it fell off the blocks…but he was fast enough to get out from under the car before it pancaked.
My dog—recall the stories of the ESP of canines—snored through the whole thing. That dog may have been useless as an earthquake detector, but I sure do miss her.
Eric Blair (3e2520) — 1/8/2009 @ 10:31 pmWOW From Costa Rica: We feel a quake 6.2 today.
Most of the damages are around the Poas Volcano.
Some medium material damages, But it is not to alarm the world.
If you need to contact or locate somebody
Costa Rica Information (2a6bd7) — 1/8/2009 @ 10:33 pmYou can use http://RegistroNacional.Com
to to search people if you know the name, phone, address, properties or cars.
I’ve been through some serious quakes in So. Calif. over the last 30 years, this was not one of them. One of the coolest, however, was one I never felt at all, but saw. I was sitting by my backyard pond when all of a sudden a tiny tidal wave formed and rolled down the length of the pond. I ran inside to the computer and checked and found we had an earthquake just seconds before I saw that little wave.
My very first earthquake experience was in 1968 in Imperial Valley. I was visiting my aunt and uncle who were just getting ready to take the wheels off their new mobile home and get it up on jacks. We were inside when the quake struck, a rolling quake, and I thought we were going to roll right out of their space and onto the street.
Speaking of animals – tonight almost simultaneously with the one rocking of my chair, the dog jumped on my lap shaking. I would say she felt it about a split second before I did.
Sara (Pal2Pal) (84fd4f) — 1/8/2009 @ 10:56 pmAs it happens, my daughters were watching some sort of “mega-disasters” program on the
HitlerHistory Channel last night, and they kept showing pictures of the 1994 LA quake.My older daughter leaves for basic on the 20th, and she’s already attached to a reserve engineering battalion, but sometimes it seems that she’s more interested in blowing up things than building them; Mythbusters is one of her favoritest shows. She liked the quake destruction pictures.
Should I be worried?
The Dana who's the father of a soldier (3e4784) — 1/9/2009 @ 6:57 amNo, but I’m starting to think that those around her should be. 🙂
Don’t read a few of the last entries over at Acute Politics (they are a bit old, but you’ll see why I suggest you not).
Scott Jacobs (a1c284) — 1/9/2009 @ 7:08 amWe didn’t feel anything here.
MayBee (5b642f) — 1/9/2009 @ 7:31 amI’m in South Orange County near the Coast and I felt the quake just after 7:30 PM (so the time reported is accurate…). It was first a rattle as if someone jumped on a floor downstairs/upstairs, then stopped, then the quake returned with a long rattling/shaking, enough to shake the desklamp and jiggle the PC monitor around a bit.
I’d estimated it at about 4.5 so it seems my “earthquake estimator” is about right. What’s remarkable is that I didn’t so much as write about it on my own blog, I’ve grown that accustomed to the quakes.
Anything MORE than last evening’s, however, and I’ll write about it because 5.0+ quakes are unnerving, to state the obvious.
-S- (9ca85c) — 1/9/2009 @ 9:29 amIn Laguna Beach it gave my two story apartment building a good shaking.
snaggletoothie (532a38) — 1/9/2009 @ 2:30 pmSome people from my town got “trapped” at this place in the Costa Rica quake
http://www.waterfallgardens.com/
My wife and I stayed there three years ago.
Hopefully the Flor y Cana outlasts the emergency
SteveG (a87dae) — 1/9/2009 @ 2:36 pm