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Roguish Lawyer
06-16-2005, 14:45
We just had a solid one. Nothing to get excited about, but my building just shook pretty good. :munchin
The Reaper
06-16-2005, 15:30
We just had a solid one. Nothing to get excited about, but my building just shook pretty good. :munchin
Only a 5.3, no biggie. Barely noticed it.
Thought that it was a big wind at first when I heard the roof creak. Looked outside and no leaves blowing, so I sorted the options figured it out and watched people run around.
TR
Roguish Lawyer
06-16-2005, 15:31
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-061605quake_lat,0,7523966.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Earthquake Shakes Southern California
From Times Staff Writers
An earthquake struck Southern California early this afternoon, shaking buildings across the region from the desert to the Pacific Ocean.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
The quake measured 5.3, according to Brian Grade, a spokesperson for the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colo. The quake struck at 1:53 p.m. Pacific time.
A quake that size is widely felt and can cause slight damage near the epicenter.
The epicenter was three miles east-northeast of Yucaipa in San Bernardino County.
"We have not had any reports of any damage," said Toy Snyder, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. "But the phones are ringing off the hook."
The county sheriff's patrol station in Yucaipa was evacuated after the jolt but there was no damage to the building and the electrical and phone service were not interrupted, according to a clerk reached by telephone.
"It was felt very strongly … but nothing fell," she said.
Telephone lines were down in Yucaipa, according to police spokesperson Anthony Vega.
The quake was felt in downtown Los Angeles, Palm Desert, and office buildings swayed on the Westside.
Today's earthquake followed several other quakes during the past week. An earthquake measuring 7.0 rattled off the coast of Northern California on Tuesday evening. Authorities, in turn, issued a tsunami warning for coastal areas from Alaska to the Mexican border.
On Sunday, a quake measuring 5.2 struck 20 miles south of Palm Springs in Anza. And a larger shaker, at 7.8, hit Chile a day later, killing at least 11 people. In recent days another earthquake measuring 6.8 struck the Aleutian Islands, where it was preceded and followed by smaller quakes.
Roguish Lawyer
06-16-2005, 15:32
Only a 5.3, no biggie. Barely noticed it.
Yeah, you notice it more when you're in a tall building.
Peregrino
06-16-2005, 15:43
Yeah, you notice it more when you're in a tall building.
I'm glad to hear ya'll are allright. After being in the one in San Salvador in 1986, I want nothing to do with tall buildings and earthquake zones. I don't care what the building code says. Peregrino
Smokin Joe
06-16-2005, 15:43
Yeah, you notice it more when you're in a tall building.
Get a parachute and have TR teach you how to jump, Sissy :lifter
Roguish Lawyer
06-16-2005, 15:50
Get a parachute and have TR teach you how to jump, Sissy :lifter
LOL -- I'll need a shaped charge to take out the glass too. :lifter
Smokin Joe
06-16-2005, 15:53
LOL -- I'll need a shaped charge to take out the glass too. :lifter
I'm sure AM could tell you how to cook one up in about 5 minutes using products that you have readily available in your office. :cool:
Peregrino
06-16-2005, 15:57
Get a parachute and have TR teach you how to jump, Sissy :lifter
It usually takes about 400' for the "average" round reserve to open fully. YMMV :D Some of the squares can be packed to open faster but base jumpers are still screwing the pooch regularly (Darwin does work if allowed). NTM - skyscraper windows are not designed to open casually, by the time you get the chute on and the window open, the crisis will have resolve itself one way or the other. And my first jump was in August, 1977 (and some of the real FOGs had to fight off teradactyls on the way down!). :p Peregrino
Bill Harsey
06-16-2005, 16:02
As ya'll know we had a 7.0 earthquake 80 miles off the Northern California coast Tuesday night. This caused tsunami warnings to go out the length of the Oregon coast. No big wave because it was a sideways shift.
Glad you guys are good.
Team Sergeant
06-16-2005, 16:05
We didn't feel a thing here in Arizona! :cool:
(I have been thinking about purchasing some property in Western Arizona in the off chance it would someday become beach-front property.)
The Reaper
06-16-2005, 16:15
I'm glad to hear ya'll are allright. After being in the one in San Salvador in 1986, I want nothing to do with tall buildings and earthquake zones. I don't care what the building code says. Peregrino
Building codes, in El Sal?
Hahaha!!
I can show you how to open the window quickly, with or without expensive equipment.
How high are you in the building, before we get into jumping?
TR
Roguish Lawyer
06-16-2005, 16:16
How high are you in the building, before we get into jumping?
16th Floor
(I have been thinking about purchasing some property in Western Arizona in the off chance it would someday become beach-front property.)
LOL!
Glad you Gents are okay out there.
Bill Harsey
06-16-2005, 18:44
16th Floor
Get a bungee cord.
Ambush Master can teach you how to release at the correct point.
Jack Moroney (RIP)
06-16-2005, 19:06
16th Floor
Nothing to the jump, it is the landing that might be a little tricky :D
SnafuRacer
06-16-2005, 19:16
Third time I read about earthquakes this week, and I don't feel anything until it's on the news. :confused: Am I in a floating bubble? Friends and neighbors say that they felt the quakes around San Diego but I don't feel nothing.
Peregrino
06-16-2005, 20:43
16th Floor
IIRC there was a spate of manufacturers offering parachutes for high rise building evacuation after 9/11. I haven't heard anything about/from them in years though. I also don't remember if you're high enough up (there really is a minimum opening altitude). Screw it up and COL M gets the last word! :D Peregrino
One can figure roughly 10 feet per floor. Actually, per story. Have you taken up rappelling yet RL? ;)
The Southern CA quake today was lowered to something like a 4.9. Another one hit tonight up North. Seems it was 2.2... 10 miles or so a tad southwest of San Francisco.
Damn! All we get around here is an occasional dust storm during Monsoon season.
AngelsSix
06-18-2005, 15:27
I have felt them in PR before. We actually had one that woke us all out of a well-deserved drunken slumber one Sunday morning. Everyone came out of their rooms going "what's going on??" The folks from CA were telling everyone "it's just a quake, go back to bed". Cracked me up they were so non-chalant about it. I felt something weird the other day at a stop light. I thought it was my truck stalling, but I looked at the tack and it was steady. Weird stuff.
Goggles Pizano
06-18-2005, 18:37
"it's just a quake, go back to bed". .
Relax! It's only a Tornado, Hurricane, Tidal wave, etc. LOL I'll take the east coast and it's three to four evacuations somewhere between FL and VA each year thanks. :D
The Reaper
06-19-2005, 22:58
16th Floor
Too low too jump, too high for the ladder trucks. You are screwed.
Get 200 feet of high quality rope and keep it there, if you are really worried. Since it would take more than a minute to breach the glass, tie on a seat, deploy the rope, and get out, probably a moot point, unless you can get them to install an ejection seat in your office. :D
TR
alphamale
06-19-2005, 23:12
RL,
When I lived in Tokyo, I was in one. Nothing that made more than a small mention in the news, but I could defintely feel it.
My impulse was to want to jump UP. As if I would be OK as long as I wasn't earth bound.
The only thing hanging from the ceiling was a light though...
FrontSight
Weazle23
06-19-2005, 23:55
I was in downtown Seattle when one hit a few years ago. I was on the ground floor and would have hated to be any higher, because there was a LOT of movement.
Yeah, you notice it more when you're in a tall building.
The only earthquake of any note that I was in was when our team was down in Antigua. Four of us were bouncing back from Crabs to the NAVFAC one morning on the local road in a rent-a-SUV.
The guard waved us through the gate and we drove by the barracks. Everybody was standing out in the front yard in various stages of un-dress. We asked just what the heck everybody was doing out in the yard, were they all nuts? They replied "Didn't you feel it?" "It was an eathquake" and similar stuff.
The local roads bounced us around so much that we never noticed the earthquake.
Pete