Eek. Earthquake in la

[IcyPeas]

[Beaverhausen]

1. Felt big. It woke me up

[IcyPeas]

5. 3.6 Grenada hills

[Beaverhausen]

6. I'm about 5 miles from there

That’s why it felt so big

[IcyPeas]

7. Felt bigger. Sherman oaks

[applegrove]

10. Maybe it was really shallow? Glad it wasn't bigger.

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Up in the AV. Didn't feel anything. How bad was it?

[lapfog_1]

3. M3.6... hardly worth mentioning.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Didn't feel it in San Diego.

Dogs are barking oitside though.

[Basic LA]

8. Woke me up in Sherman Oaks.

Had just fallen asleep. Hope it's not a prelude.

[Mike Nelson]

9. Woke me up...

... turned on the TV and no local stations were confirming. I had to go on the computer to confirm...

[diva77]

12. I always turn on AM 1070 News Radio - I find the earthquake "town halls" they have after every

palpable quake very comforting.

[Mike Nelson]

20. Thanks for the reminder...

... that's another place to check... and I've had them on the car radio to follow impeachment news while driving.

[BamaRefugee]

11. I'm way East, in Monrovia, and my 3 story building had a big jolt, felt bigger than a faraway 3.6!

Not as big as the Northridge earthquake of course, I lived in Studio City then, LOTS of destruction everywhere.
And of course it happened on Martin Luther King Day, so tonight I was like NOT AGAIN.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Does la mean Louisiana? Los Angeles?

A bit of context is always helpful.

[mnhtnbb]

14. Los Angeles.

Those are all parts of the LA basin mentioned by people.

I lived in SoCal from '65 to '88. The Big One is coming. Maybe not my lifetime, but it's coming. I was a student at UCLA when the Sylmar quake hit in '71. Buildings and freeways fell. Gone by the time of the Northridge quake.

The Sylmar quake was in February.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Thank you.

Again, context or more information is helpful.

And yes, the Big One will someday happen. I read lots and lots of things about earthquakes. I will strongly recommend On Shaky Ground by John J. Nance. It was published in 1988, and is still one of the very best books about earthquakes out there. The first chapter is a preliminary one, centering on Puget Sound. The next six or seven are about the 1964 Good Friday quake in Alaska. OMFG. I'm old enough to recall that quake, and the first, preliminary reports.

That evening, in (I hope I have this correct) Seattle, a group of seismologists were having dinner at the top of the Space Needle. It started swaying, and they all more or less said to each other, OMG, an earthquake is happening somewhere.

The book goes on to cover other earthquakes and other aspects of seismology. The first time I read this book it was exactly 25 years after the Good Friday quake. My original paperback copy had worn out, so a few years ago I ordered a hardback replacement. It showed up on my front doorstep on March 11, 2011. Earlier that morning I'd awakened to NPR reporting a devastating earthquake in Japan. Wow. Amazing coincidence.

More to the point, anyone reading this who is at all interested in earthquake stuff needs to read this book. While there have been any number of books on this topic published since, none of the science has been superseded.

Oh, and this book was the first time I ever learned about the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812. It's worth it for that information alone.

[SharonClark]

15. I thought it meant IA and it just didn't make sense.

[Basic LA]

16. L.A., it should've said. Los Angeles.

I knew only because I'm here & felt it.

[Hortensis]

17. :) I'm from L.A. so made the assumption. Earthquake-L.A.

Funny, 2 days ago my husband and I were lying totally still in bed when it barely, barely quivered twice. Earthquake in Florida.

Sounds like the Angelenos here had everything puttied and bolted down the way we used to. Glad all are okay.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. The only time I've been in an earthquake I slept through it.

Sigh. It was an aftershock of the Northridge quake. So now, I simply tell everyone that I can sleep through earthquakes.