6.4-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Southern California.
Source: nyt
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit a remote area of Southern California Thursday afternoon, the most powerful tremor to shake that region in many years, according to media reports and the United States Geological Survey.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured in the quake, which struck the Los Angeles area shortly after 1 p.m. EST. Its epicenter appeared to be in a remote area of San Bernardino, but its impact was felt in Los Angeles.
This story will be updated.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/us/earthquake-southern-california.html?
kimmylavin
(2,284 posts)Got a little shook up, but all my family is okay, thank goodness.
Just waiting for Trump to announce it's because California hates the 4th of July!
Happy Independence Day, DU!
Wheezy
(1,763 posts)Several seconds of light rolling/swaying and one of my lamps was rattling. Crazy that it traveled this far.
I'm in Sacramento, too, barely 2 miles north of the Capitol, but didn't feel a thing. What part are you in?
Wheezy
(1,763 posts)I was on the top floor of a 6 floor apartment building, so that might be why. Usually we get a little movement up here with a heavy truck rolling by, but this felt like about twice the sway of that and lasted much longer, maybe 10-15 seconds. I've been in earthquakes before and I was sitting quietly, working, when it started. I sort of looked up, unsure and thinking that must be a pretty big truck, and then my lamp started rattling and the swaying got stronger and then sort of melted away.
My son and his fiance were in West Sac and didn't feel anything either.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)My apartments are all ground level. If I remember correctly, multi-level buildings in California are engineered to flex and sway a little to make them more resilient.
I'll never forget my first earthquake experience a few months after I first moved to California. It was a long, slow, gently rocking sensation that made hanging plants swing and seemed to go on forever. Everyone else in the room ignored it, but I was looking around in confusion until someone noticed and told me - with great amusement- what it was.
Mine was similar. San Diego in a hotel lobby bar. All the glasses and bottles were clinking hard and few fell and broke. I was freaking out because my young teen kids were up in the room alone. (They thought it was pretty great).
silverweb
(16,402 posts)Summer of 1981, I forget which month.
After we moved to North County a few years later and my preteen son had a paper route, I would drive him on Sundays because the papers were so big. One Sunday, he threw a paper onto someone's porch while I sat in the car at the end of the block and at that very moment, everything started rocking. It continued for quite a while and he stared at me with confused horror from where he stood in front of that house.
Later, he said his first thought was that he had caused it because he threw the paper on the porch too hard - even though he knew that was impossible. That quake's epicenter was right off the coast of Oceanside and we really felt it.
Wheezy
(1,763 posts)I might have to steal it for my next book.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)Wheezy
(1,763 posts)It was stronger than yesterday's.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)At the time it occurred, my daughter and I were in the car, in traffic. I'm guessing that fact either distracted us from noticing or we were insulated from it somehow by being on the road.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I have friends in San Diego so I was switching between MSNBC, CNN, and Fox to see if San Diego was mentioned.
I did not hearing anything.
But I did hear Fox say:
"The center of the earthquake was not near any civilized part of California."
I assume they meant 'heavily populated'?
BootinUp
(47,201 posts)In Temecula. Bare as in naked in the tub, lol. No but it was very weak here and Im closer than SD.
Xolodno
(6,406 posts)....so....Freudian slip?
I'm so going to get alerted for this.....
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)See:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdate%22%3A%5B%22autoUpdate%22%5D%2C%22basemap%22%3A%22street%22%2C%22feed%22%3A%221day_m25%22%2C%22listFormat%22%3A%22default%22%2C%22mapposition%22%3A%5B%5B34.352506668675936%2C-119.33898925781251%5D%2C%5B37.15156050223665%2C-115.47180175781249%5D%5D%2C%22overlays%22%3A%5B%22plates%22%5D%2C%22restrictListToMap%22%3A%5B%22restrictListToMap%22%5D%2C%22search%22%3Anull%2C%22sort%22%3A%22newest%22%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22utc%22%2C%22viewModes%22%3A%5B%22list%22%2C%22map%22%5D%2C%22event%22%3A%22ci38443183%22%7D
(all that link stuff gets you the street view and a zoom-in)
Otherwise, go to: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ and zoom in.
Looks like about 100-mi. NNE of LA area near a town called Ridgecrest with the epicentre within the Naval Air Warfare Center (China Lake).
KY.......
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)I initially thought I was going to pass out or have a stroke.
OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Obviously, the Times doesn't know about time zones.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)1 p.m. EST.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)Posted: 10:41 AM, Jul 04, 2019
Updated: 2:46 PM, Jul 04, 2019
See: https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/6-6-magnitude-quake-felt-in-bakersfield
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And the Associated Press is reporting: "Crews responding to at least 24 medical and fire incidents after earthquake near Ridgecrest, California."
KY.......
riversedge
(70,350 posts)https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/us/southern-california-earthquake/index.htmldam/assets
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pecosbob
(7,545 posts)mommymarine2003
(261 posts)My husband and I spent the night in Ridgecrest in March after driving through Southern California to see the wildflowers and on our way to Death Valley. Ridgecrest is a very nice community with a great little visitor center and very friendly people. We took a hike up a canyon near the town and saw an incredible display of flowers.
I experienced a 6.9 earthquake in the Seattle/Tacoma area in 2001. That is an experience I will never forget. The ground rolled; and the trees swayed so much, they almost touched the ground. Now I live in the Portland, OR area. We have water and freeze-dried food in case the big one hits. I also know how to shut off the natural gas to the house. We can see three volcanoes from our house, which is a reminder everyday (unless it's raining/foggy), that we live on the Pacific Rim including all the various faults that run up the coast.
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)on Monday.
Son in LA said he felt it but went by very quickly.
We lived there through Northridge and Whittier Narrows. Just ordered him an emergency escape ladder as he lives in the 5th floor. Had been meaning to do that. Saw 6.4 on the ticker and it freaked me out.
dalton99a
(81,637 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,534 posts)dalton99a
(81,637 posts)https://ktla.com/2019/07/04/6-6-earthquake-jolts-southern-california-on-4th-of-july/
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Here in Riverside County...
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)as of 8p.m. EST.
Thoughts and best wishes go out to the good folks of Ridgecrest. It's going to be a long night.
KY..........
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,534 posts)mag 6.4, initially reporte as mag 6.6 dr jones said that that was a factor of distance due to the rolling motion. the la tv stations at that time hadnt got any news trucks yet into the area. apperently last nite , a friend of mine had said that there was a swarm of quakes there rangeing from mag 4 or less . apperently that was a pre shock train . pretty hefty aftershock train going on as we speak, found this on youtube via bloomburg.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Largest earthquake in decades hits southern California
The largest earthquake to hit southern California in decades rumbled across the region on Thursday morning, striking a remote part of the state with a magnitude of 6.4.
The earthquakes center was near the small city of Ridgecrest, near Death Valley national park and about 100 miles (160km) from Los Angeles. There were reports of people in Las Vegas and Los Angeles feeling the tremors.
There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries after the earthquake struck at 10:33am. A series of small aftershocks followed.
It was the most powerful earthquake to strike the region since 1994, when the 6.7 magnitude Northridge earthquake hit the populated San Fernando Valley. The Northridge earthquake caused 57 deaths and billions in dollars of damages from collapsed buildings and destroyed freeways.
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