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Post by jesse on Apr 6, 2010 10:49:32 GMT -5
???Tom, did you Shake, Rattle, and Roll during the big one a couple of days ago?
Hope all stayed in one piece.
Jesse
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Apr 6, 2010 11:29:16 GMT -5
Yep, I was watching TV at the time. When it started it felt like a "typical" one, but then it increased in intensity and just kept going. I jumped out of my chair and stood under a doorway, until it stopped about 20 seconds later.
When I took stock of the house a few things had moved on their shelves, but nothing fell off. At work the next day same thing - a few things moved around but nothing fell over (except a stack of empty cardboard boxes). A few things fell off coworker's shelves, but nothing breakable, luckily. We have earthquake wires on most shelves - a good thing. Several people were driving at the time and never even felt it.
When such a long temblor hits, I always wonder who got hit bad, so I searched around the TV stations until I found out it had hit Baja California in Mexico. If that would have hit LA it could have been pretty severe, I think.
Thanks for the concern,
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Post by sunny9850 on Apr 6, 2010 18:50:54 GMT -5
I had just landed at L67 returning from Sin City and got out of the airplane at the pumps when the rolling motion started. Even that far away from the epicenter it was strong enough to make me grab the handhold on the Saratoga's roof as I staggered down the wing-walk.
As quakes go though this one felt "softer" than others. Not so much a violent shaking ... more that of a small boat in medium swells. At least up here. After blocking the airplanes wheels I went to the hangar first to turn on the radio. But it took a while for the first report to come in.
Stefan
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Apr 6, 2010 19:37:16 GMT -5
Hi,
Yes, it wasn't that violent, I agree, except at the peak intensity for a few seconds - then we got tossed around pretty good.
For those that don't know, L67 is Rialto, CA, - much further away from the epicenter (LA metro area).
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Post by Jorge on Apr 6, 2010 19:42:45 GMT -5
Glad you guys are okay. I went through one in the '80's myself. I was a kid and visiting family in San Juan, PR. I think it was summertime since we were there longer than the usual week you would have during the school year, but I can't remember. I do remember the big, white, Eastern L1011 that took us there, though! ;D
Apparently there's been another one near Sumatra today. Makes me wonder what's happening since that's about a dozen or so quakes since the Haiti quake so far this year, and we're only in the start of April!
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Post by sunny9850 on Apr 6, 2010 21:17:29 GMT -5
LOL thanks for clearing that up Tom ... yes Rathole is quite a ways from Tom's neck of the woods. About 50 miles east of LA.
During Santa Ana winds L67 is the place to go if your airport just doesn't have enough crosswind excitement for you anymore ;D ;D
Stefan
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Post by ejoiner on Apr 6, 2010 21:43:30 GMT -5
I have customers in Mexicali and go down there a couple of times a year. Epicenter was 20 miles south of Mexicali. Some damage to a hotel and a couple of maquilladora manufacturing plants, but nothing permanent. I was sending email to them sunday night to check!
Eric
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Post by ashaman on Apr 7, 2010 8:53:03 GMT -5
Always nice hearing when things like that leave no victims behind. Of course this is because buildings are built with the necessity of weather through those happenings. I live in Italy. In the Mediterranean, we're THE seismic superpower, much like Japan is in East Asia or California in the USA, and had something like that happened here, we would be counting corpses ( it HAS happened, quite recently too, so I'm not being catastrophic, simply stating a easy to document truth). Laws, even when they exist, are a point of view for the " palazzinari" ( house and buildings builders) hereabout, not a something to abide to, thanks to our governments ( made of as a former "palazzinaro" as the boss... nuff said). The only law they abide to as such is the ones that allow them to gain more money. I wish I could come living there where you are... actually, I wish I could go living ANYWHERE ELSE for that matter...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Apr 7, 2010 9:30:25 GMT -5
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Post by okami on Apr 7, 2010 10:38:17 GMT -5
Good to know you all have escaped injury, though.
Such things make me happy to live where I do. We don't get earthquakes very often here in Belgium, and when we do, they're usually not that big either. In fact, the last three we had here (strongest one of which was 5.8, but 150 km from here) I slept right through them... <.<
My mum tells me I slept through a relatively large one too, though, back when we were in Japan, now very long ago. I was just a tod back then, so I don't have any memories of that.
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Post by ashaman on Apr 7, 2010 12:17:20 GMT -5
It didn't go without any tragedy Well, hearing from your previous messages seemed quite less serious... all my sympathies to those who were damaged in any way.
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Post by jesse on Apr 7, 2010 12:44:40 GMT -5
Good to know you all have escaped injury, though. Such things make me happy to live where I do. We don't get earthquakes very often here in Belgium, and when we do, they're usually not that big either. In fact, the last three we had here (strongest one of which was 5.8, but 150 km from here) I slept right through them... <.< My mum tells me I slept through a relatively large one too, though, back when we were in Japan, now very long ago. I was just a tod back then, so I don't have any memories of that. I was based in Tokyo for seven years (Haneda) and we went thru quite a few big ones. The really big one that wiped Tokyo off the map occured the year of my birth in 1923. The only building left standing outside the Royal Palace Grounds was the Imperial Hotel which was designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. It did suffer some damage in the 8.2 quake, but not enough to bring it down. Jesse
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