Cali Earthquake...y'all ok?

[Arcadian]

Just heard about it and wanted to see if you all were ok on the left coast!

 

[JPie]

Didn’t feel anything in the Bay. Do we have PSers in Fresno or Bakersfield?

 

[nala]

I felt it. Strong and long. I’m in so cal. We are all ok, thank you for asking. My family who lives 8 miles from me did not feel it though.

 

[Arcadian]

@nala @JPie I'm so glad to hear all is OK. Does look like it was a pretty good jolt and they're saying at to expect at least 5.0 aftershocks....

 

[AGBF]

Didn’t feel anything in the Bay. Do we have PSers in Fresno or Bakersfield?

Was it centered in Fresno/Bakersfield? I will have to go to a map to see how close they are to each other. My friends and family are all on the coast. I'm glad our Pricescopers are all OK.

Deb

 

[luv2sparkle]

I'm in SoCal too. I felt it. This is the second time in my life I have been caught in an earthquake while in the shower. My first thought was 'not again!' We didn't have anything even fall over. My husband was on the road coming home and he felt it too. It's a weird sensation to be driving and feel one. It's hard to recognize what it is at first. You are not sure if its the road or your car until you can get a sense of stuff moving outside in a different direction than inside your car.

 

[MamaBee]

I’m glad everyone is okay....

 

[Weeivy73]

Glad to hear there were no pricescoper injuries or incidents. Having lived through the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it always triggers a few scary memories!

My ex husband and I were sitting on a Cafe on the big on moment. It was a multi story concrete block style modern building and we heard this huge rumble coming and it just shoved us off our seats, plates of food and hot cups OD coffee went flying, we dived under the table and then once it had finally stopped we raced out and ran to our car. We had 3 children at school that afternoon and our youngest had just started his first day a week earlier!

Sitting in traffic on the way to school and there were some pretty major aftershocks and it is the weirdest feeling, like your on a waterbed in your car, but the waterbed is a raging whitewater rapid!

I'm praying that there are no more major aftershocks in California and that everything will settle down and noone will be injured xx

 

[MamaBee]

Glad to hear there were no pricescoper injuries or incidents. Having lived through the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it always triggers a few scary memories!

My ex husband and I were sitting on a Cafe on the big on moment. It was a multi story concrete block style modern building and we heard this huge rumble coming and it just shoved us off our seats, plates of food and hot cups OD coffee went flying, we dived under the table and then once it had finally stopped we raced out and ran to our car. We had 3 children at school that afternoon and our youngest had just started his first day a week earlier!

Sitting in traffic on the way to school and there were some pretty major aftershocks and it is the weirdest feeling, like your on a waterbed in your car, but the waterbed is a raging whitewater rapid!

I'm praying that there are no more major aftershocks in California and that everything will settle down and noone will be injured xx

That sounds so scary @Weeivy73..I’m glad you and your family are okay!

 

[nala]

Well we just had another one! We are ok! It’s a 6.9

 

[Weeivy73]

Well we just had another one! We are ok! It’s a 6.9

Oh Nala! Take care hun!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

its a good reminder to check your emergency kit and the fine print on your insurence policies and make sure you know where all your important documents are and revisit your family's emergency plans

my sister lost her house in Christchurch but it was just a house and all our family was ok

 

[Calliecake]

Stay safe Nala!

 

[prs]

We felt the one this evening much more than yesterday. It lasted about a minute and the water in our pool was surging back and forth from end to end with huge amounts sloshing over the sides. Our chandeliers were swinging about like crazy. Fortunately it doesn't seem like we had any damage, although it's dark now outside, so will have to do a better inspection in the morning.

Ridgecrest, the epicenter of the quake, is in the high Mojave Desert about 75 miles East of Bakersfield. The 75 miles includes about 40 miles of a 6,000 ft high mountain range. The fact the quake had enough power to move that mountain range and still get to us amazes me, we are insignificant compared to this.

We just got another small after shock, those poor people in Ridgecrest must be going thru hell.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

We felt the one this evening much more than yesterday. It lasted about a minute and the water in our pool was surging back and forth from end to end with huge amounts sloshing over the sides. Our chandeliers were swinging about like crazy. Fortunately it doesn't seem like we had any damage, although it's dark now outside, so will have to do a better inspection in the morning.

Ridgecrest, the epicenter of the quake, is in the high Mojave Desert about 75 miles East of Bakersfield. The 75 miles includes about 40 miles of a 6,000 ft high mountain range. The fact the quake had enough power to move that mountain range and still get to us amazes me, we are insignificant compared to this.

We just got another small after shock, those poor people in Ridgecrest must be going thru hell.

keep sturdy walking shoes/ boots
by the bed just in case
i went to bed with my steel caped work boots on for a few nights after the Kikarura earthquake - it struck in the middle of the night and went for a couple of minutes and scared the shit out of me
i hope you get no more aftershocks

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

does not look nice on the news tonight
seven point something and shellow
hope no one was killed or serously injuried

 

[Dancing Fire]

Hope all PSers are Ok. Stay safe.

 

[missy]

Keeping all California PSers in my thoughts and prayers and relieved you are all safe and sound. Stay safe.

 

[luv2sparkle]

We felt that one last night. I thought my husband had restless legs or something. I told him to quit shaking his legs. We were sitting on our bed watching tv and I was getting drowsy. Haha. He wasn't to happy with me but he often does that without even realizing it and it always startles me a little bit as it shakes the bed. I never even thought to look at our pool, but we didn't have a single thing fall.
Our house is completely strapped and is on tension set concrete so it rolls as a unit. We have been through all the major earthquakes here in southern ca. We lived in Whittier for the one in 1987 and the 88 one. For some reason, they don't scare me. There are many things that do, and I can't explain why they don't. I have many friends that I know are terrified. I also feel better knowing my husband will be home if we have more. As a firefighter for more than 30 years, he was never home for anything. It became a running joke at our house. I had to learn how to do it all if something happened, it was me or nothing.
Thinking of all the shaken people in Ridgecrest and praying for the best for them. Hopefully, they had the last aftershock and things settle down for another long long time.

 

[AGBF]

I wish all the best to those of you in California. When I was in college I took some summer courses in physical geography at UC Berkeley. What I learned about earthquakes in those classes made me decide never to live in the Bay area, even though I had fallen in love with it. I am not as brave as you people!

 

[nala]

Thank you all. It was a restless night. Still praying that last one was an actual earthquake and not a predecessor. Welcome your prayers.

 

[Tekate]

My brother lives in San Diego and he said eek! but he's fine.. Crazy times, I read that the area will have probably another aftershock in the 6 range.

 

[nala]

My brother lives in San Diego and he said eek! but he's fine.. Crazy times, I read that the area will have probably another aftershock in the 6 range.

An aftershock would be preferable to the big one. But no one knows if the last one was the real deal or the foreshock. We usually take quakes lightly in So Cal. My hubby is a Ca baby and is usually chill. Last night really freaked him out tho. I heard the first 36 hours are the most active ones so I’m just laying low.

 

[Tekate]

@nala lay low and hoping it's an aftershock if it happens at all. Take good care of yourself and the fam girl!

 

[luv2sparkle]

I don’t think it was THE BIG ONE, because I think Lucy Jones has said that is expected on the San Andreas fault. Not to say that there couldn’t be a huge one on one of the many other faults, and some could trigger THE BIG ONE. I heard her say in the last couple days that these wouldn’t trigger the SA fault because they are not close enough in proximity to each other for that to happen.

For those not in SoCal- Lucy Jones is the seismologist who always comes on the news as the expert talking about the earthquakes. She started doing this as a young woman when I was in my twenties. I feel like we have grown old together, lol.

An aftershock would definitely be preferable @nala! Hoping you don’t sustain any damage either! It certainly was a big one.

 

[yennyfire]

Yikes! How scary! Glad everyone is ok! Stay safe!!

 

[LightBright]

We felt it last night in San Diego. 20 seconds of the house shaking. I knew it had to have been a pretty big one up north. Stay safe everyone.

 

[Arcadian]

OMG I was thinking of you all last night!! Please keep us up to date as to the conditions there when you can!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

last night i lay in bed worrying if our house is strapped onto it's piles.
those poor people in California