Small earthquake rattles U.S.-Mexico border regionAssociated Press
EL CENTRO, Calif. - A magnitude-4.8 earthquake hit the southeastern California desert Thursday, rattling buildings as far as San Diego. There were no reports of damages or injuries.
The temblor occurred at 6:27 p.m. near Obsidian Butte, about 26 miles north of El Centro, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. San Diego is about 100 miles to the west.
"Everything rolled for a while, kinda like being on a boat, then it settled back down," said Sgt. Gary Hayes of the Imperial County Sheriff's Department.
Dozens of small earthquakes have hit the southeast California desert since Wednesday.
The temblors have been in the Brawley seismic zone, which is known for having many quakes that strike closely together. The zone runs north to south and is connected on its northern end to the San Andreas Fault and its southern end with the Imperial Fault.
The earthquake swarm started Monday and typically takes a few days to build up and then a few days to taper off, said Kate Hutton, a staff seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
"It will die off," Hutton said. "It might not be right away, but it will."
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
A couple minutes ago. Kinda small, but it lasted longer than usual
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
4.2 in Wrightwood.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Hooray.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
wha?
― gershy, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
A minor earthquake occurred at 9:28:49 PM (PDT) on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. The magnitude 3.1 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) NE of Newport Beach, CA. The hypocentral depth is 8 km ( 5 miles).
― gershy, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
That about figures. I wondered if it was local.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
my thoughts go out to all the victims of the Great Orange County Earthquake of 2008 *prays*
― gershy, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Somewhere out there a drink has spilled onto someone at Muldoon's. I weep for the fabric.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
BIG jolt just now. Almost certainly local.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
aw, i just felt my first earthquake!
― get bent, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy SHIT that was huge here (Valencia)
― admrl, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I was beginning to think you guys didn't have those down here
it's funny... i almost left an open beer on my nightstand last night, but then i thought "naw, this is earthquake country."
― get bent, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
5.6
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Not in LA now but my colleagues are.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
5.8 sez usgs
― get bent, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
A moderate earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The magnitude 5.8 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) SW of Chino Hills, CA. The hypocentral depth is 12 km ( 8 miles).
― carne asada, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
5.8 now.
pitchfork gave it 6.5
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It was adjusted up by USGS right after I posted.
I scared
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You SoCal bastards are just trying to rile me ain't ya?
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
latebloomer FTW, lock thread
― get bent, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone who lives in CA has that site memorized.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought it was just someone vacuuming the hotel room next door to begin with. Then the chandelier in my 11th story room started swinging :(
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lol. i want earthquake too. *bangs table with spoon*
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ton of aftershocks still happening, up to 4.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, up to 3.8. I am such a liar.
MAP 3.8 2008/07/29 18:51:52 33.959 -117.809 15.3 5 km ( 3 mi) SSE of Diamond Bar, CA MAP 3.8 2008/07/29 18:51:46 33.965 -117.788 17.6 5 km ( 3 mi) SE of Diamond Bar, CA MAP 3.8 2008/07/29 18:51:29 33.941 -117.790 16.8 6 km ( 4 mi) N of Yorba Linda, CA MAP 2.4 2008/07/29 18:50:34 33.961 -117.766 14.9 4 km ( 3 mi) WSW of Chino Hills, CA MAP 2.4 2008/07/29 18:49:45 33.921 -117.807 15.3 4 km ( 3 mi) NNW of Yorba Linda, CA MAP 2.7 2008/07/29 18:48:27 33.946 -117.822 16.4 6 km ( 4 mi) S of Diamond Bar, CA MAP 2.8 2008/07/29 18:47:48 33.969 -117.752 16.1 3 km ( 2 mi) WSW of Chino Hills, CA MAP 5.8 2008/07/29 18:42:15 33.959 -117.752 12.3 3 km ( 2 mi) SW of Chino Hills, CA
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ facebook status updates
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly easier to remember facebook as an earthquake indicator than that uggs site
Probably the closest precursor in location and strength
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_Narrows_earthquake
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm guessing schools are being let out for the day.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
probably just a meth lab exploding in chino hills
― carne asada, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw, you guys are making me homesick.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
:( four years in that place and the only real earthquake comes 6 weeks after i leave
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Well done, max.
― Michael White, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
"real", heh.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
"Anyone who lives in CA has that site memorized."
So funny and accurate. It's on my links toolbar!
― Wiggy Woo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a bit strange that it took *that long* for something greater than 5.5 to hit SoCal.
There used to be 6.0+'s every two years BACK IN MY DAY
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ANyway, i hope there are very little to no injuries.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
lol! we walked to school in 7.5 earthquakes
― carne asada, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I USED TO WALK 100 MILES TO SCHOOL UPHILL AND JUMPED SLIP FAULT RUPTURES BOTH WAYS
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
that wasn't so bad
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
A little memory to take home with you.
Lots of books off the shelves in the library here.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
no, it was gentle so methinks it's a slip fault (chino fault) rather than the thrust fault like Whittier narrows. xp
― Wiggy Woo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ned you're in pasadena rite?
― Wiggy Woo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm flying out there tonight, unfortunately no time for fun as I'll be spending a long day each at a site in Ontario and El Segundo.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
i felt nothing up here in the valley.
― tits or kitfo (get bent), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
same
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
woke me up this morning
― buzza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
are you sure? i don't see anything on the usgs map.
― mario bataille (get bent), Sunday, 27 May 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
A shallow magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Sunday morning 18 miles from Barstow , according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:05 a.m. Pacific time.
According to the USGS, the epicenter was 22 miles from Lenwood, 30 miles from Goldstone Lake and 107 miles from the Los Angeles Civic Center.
In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
― buzza, Sunday, 27 May 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
A 4.0 off the coast of Malibu tonight. I didn't feel anything.
― nickn, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
my wife did, i was concentrating on taking a photo of something and didn't feel a thing
― buzza, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
pix plz
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 07:55 (eleven years ago) link
she felt the earth move
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
haw
― buzza, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
didn't feel a thing, tho apparently my roommate did? we were in the same room watching 'mad men' together
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else get woken up last night?
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Felt one just now.
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 06:25 (eleven years ago) link
4.4 near Yorba Linda
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
didn't feel it.
― hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 06:47 (eleven years ago) link
there were just a couple of more in the same area in the past hour, a 4.5 and a 3.4
― omar little, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Vaguely felt something last night.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
Missed them.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
didn't feel a thing
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
dang!
― buzza, Friday, 7 September 2012 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
felt that. 3.4 magnitude, epicenter beverly hills.
― arvo peart (get bent), Friday, 7 September 2012 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
ugh so seasick after this one
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 7 September 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
cat thought it was nbd, went back to watching bugs through the window
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 7 September 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
5.1, didn't feel it at all
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
― gershy, Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:31 AM
― am0n, Monday, 11 March 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
indeed, did not feel it
― buzza, Monday, 11 March 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
i felt it.
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Monday, 11 March 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
¯\(°_o)/¯
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 11 March 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone?
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
A friend in L.A. just posted something about it (prompting my post)--looks minor but in L.A.:http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci15310433#summary
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
missed it -- i was fast asleep. i felt the last one though!
― my cat is an eliane radigue (get bent), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
another day, another earthquake i find out about from twitter. it's better than the big one coming and devastating everything, right?
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
What's the general anxiety level with you Californians then about earthquakes?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
we've been under threat of a BIG ONE for as long as I've been alive.. worst one I was in was Northridge and a bunch of our stuff fell down but not much damage.. if you worry about this sort of stuff every day you'll die early.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
The Big One is one of those things that people generally don't think about or even plan for in their day-to-day lives, even though Northern Californians are basically due to get hit with it any time now. I do know that we've had seismic retrofits in a lot of places in the Bay Area.
― Baruch Olbermann (Leee), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
We maintain emergency kits. Other than that I dont really worry about it cuz whats the point.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
I'm a little nervous about the big one hitting bc our duplex was built in 1919 and it's two stories. it survived northridge I guess. I try to be prepared but I also don't think about it. Everyone I know assumes a 7.0 will hit sooner rather than later but then again we all might be mouldering away dead for years before it occurs. Who knows?
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
There was an article in the latimes about how the water system will break into a million pieces once a big quake hits. Really should have water on hand. =\
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
I used to think abt quakes more when I worked on the top floor of an old building on spring st in downtown. not sure if one of those big lads would collapse in a quake but a lot of the facades would drop right down onto the streets and sidewalks.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
i would have second and third thoughts about moving to california for this very reason. although these days i probably should be just as worried about the eastern seaboard. basically my plan to buy up land in michigan's upper peninsula really ought to be taking shape by now.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
just had a 5 off santa cruz island. it was probably the most intense that I've experienced.
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 5 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
ha felt it
i've felt worse
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 5 April 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
That was fun. Dude in the store looks at me like "uhhh what's this?"
The medical office building on the corner emptied out apparently.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
I was taking a shower, in a mild version of my worst earthquake nightmare.
― omar little, Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link