California earthquake

Just experienced a very obvious earthquake in Southern California. Terror anyone. Bob

I didn't feel it but a few others in my office did

He said for him, the earthquake was mild, but it lasted a long time. I'm glad he is ok.

Breaking Now...

:scared:

strikes SoCal

I'm in Hollywood, didn't feel a thing.

They say Central CA coast...

I live in the hills on the Eastside and I felt it. It wasn't dramatic--but I felt my house "swaying" and my cats freaked out. Not the jerky rumbling kind like you usually think of.

Anyone hear where the center was?

See post #6

(EDIT: Post #9 has a link to the info)

--Peter

Very near to San Simeon, and about 190 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

Does this sound right to our Cali DUers?

Cambria is a small town somewhat near Monterey/SLO.

At work (in the boss's house). Whoa! Cabinets came open, books & stuff fell off shelves, broken glass all over. Just did a walkthrough & don't see any cracks in the walls or broken windows.

My first "real" earthquake. I'm still shaking.

5 ish aftershock.

I wonder if Cambria bike outfitters is ok?

And of course, I hope San Simeon weathers it through.

Glad you're okay.

my partner's mother lives down that way too

he hasn't talked to her yet--she's in Paso Robles and he heard that there was damage down there too

buildings were commercial, not residential. Aftershock right now (I'm in SLO). Hope your partner's mom is OK.

My step mom lives in Atascadero and was in Pismo when I hit. I just spoke to her and she's in San Luis. I told her to call me when she gets home.

I work in the basement of this house with the boss, who is blind. There's a door out to the garage. About an hour before the quake, the door rattled violently, as if someone was out there. This continued for some time. I was afraid to open it, but when I finally did there was... no... one... there.... *creeepy* Of course at that time I had no idea.

So the boss says, looks like we have a built-in earthquake predictor!

The boss is on the phone now with the didja-feel-it calls, and we are enjoying some coffee with brandy in it (and I don't drink hehe *hic*)

yikes we're still bouncing as I type this.

:scared:

Fault...that's right down the coast. SLO still shaking off and on. Guess Paso's had some significant damage. 3 bldgs, buckled roads. Take care, Pinto.

i felt it pretty good here

in Torrance and didn't feel a thing. :shrug:

6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.101W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.html

and please check in California DU'ers

All those National Guard construction and transport battalions overseas... timing stinks.

In Santa Barbara we have wires down and stuck elevators. No damage reported yet. It was a very rolling type earthquake, not jerky. Lasted abut 30 seconds or more. Felt like I was having a dizzy spell. Bob

:shrug:

map 2.9 2003/12/22 11:33:58 35.602N 120.930W 0.1 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
MAP 4.0 2003/12/22 11:31:05 35.541N 120.853W 5.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
MAP 4.4 2003/12/22 11:30:10 35.597N 120.982W 0.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
MAP 3.9 2003/12/22 11:29:39 35.557N 120.842W 2.5 12 km ( 7 mi) W of Templeton, CA
MAP 4.7 2003/12/22 11:26:07 35.627N 121.020W 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NE of Cambria, CA
MAP 6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.102W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA

Whole lotta shakin' going on!

:dem: :kick:

3.3 2003/12/22 11:35:28 35.563N 120.878W 4.4 14 km ( 9 mi) N of Cayucos, CA
2.9 2003/12/22 11:33:58 35.602N 120.930W 0.1 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
4.0 2003/12/22 11:31:05 35.541N 120.853W 5.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
4.4 2003/12/22 11:30:10 35.597N 120.982W 0.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
3.9 2003/12/22 11:29:39 35.557N 120.842W 2.5 12 km ( 7 mi) W of Templeton, CA
4.7 2003/12/22 11:26:07 35.627N 121.020W 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NE of Cambria, CA
6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.102W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, C

Damn, they are getting stronger now! :wtf:

MAP 3.3 2003/12/22 11:39:58 35.667N 121.051W 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) E of San Simeon, CA
:dem: :kick:

:scared:

:wtf:

Usually they get smaller - the last two were both 3.4's!

:dem: :kick:

3.2 2003/12/22 11:43:50 35.722N 121.079W 0.8 13 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:42:33 35.671N 121.034W 6.4 14 km ( 9 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:41:04 35.547N 120.853W 0.9 12 km ( 8 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:39:58 35.667N 121.051W 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) E of San Simeon, CA
3.6 2003/12/22 11:37:44 35.589N 120.971W 5.6 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
2.5 2003/12/22 11:37:24 35.736N 121.114W 5.4 12 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:35:28 35.563N 120.878W 4.4 14 km ( 9 mi) N of Cayucos, CA
2.9 2003/12/22 11:33:58 35.602N 120.930W 0.1 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
4.0 2003/12/22 11:31:05 35.541N 120.853W 5.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
4.4 2003/12/22 11:30:10 35.597N 120.982W 0.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
3.9 2003/12/22 11:29:39 35.557N 120.842W 2.5 12 km ( 7 mi) W of Templeton, CA
4.7 2003/12/22 11:26:07 35.627N 121.020W 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NE of Cambria, CA
6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.102W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA

say.

3.3 2003/12/22 11:51:25 35.703N 121.045W 9.2 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA
3.2 2003/12/22 11:49:23 35.664N 120.857W 0.1 8 km ( 5 mi) SSE of Lake Nacimiento, CA
2.6 2003/12/22 11:48:34 35.678N 121.056W 5.8 13 km ( 8 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA
2.9 2003/12/22 11:48:00 35.584N 120.975W 15.7 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:46:38 35.589N 120.852W 2.2 13 km ( 8 mi) WNW of Templeton, CA
3.6 2003/12/22 11:45:37 35.650N 121.051W 3.9 11 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA
3.2 2003/12/22 11:43:50 35.722N 121.079W 0.8 13 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:42:33 35.671N 121.034W 6.4 14 km ( 9 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA
3.4 2003/12/22 11:41:04 35.547N 120.853W 0.9 12 km ( 8 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:39:58 35.667N 121.051W 0.1 13 km ( 8 mi) E of San Simeon, CA
3.6 2003/12/22 11:37:44 35.589N 120.971W 5.6 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
2.5 2003/12/22 11:37:24 35.736N 121.114W 5.4 12 km ( 8 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:35:28 35.563N 120.878W 4.4 14 km ( 9 mi) N of Cayucos, CA
2.9 2003/12/22 11:33:58 35.602N 120.930W 0.1 15 km ( 9 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
4.0 2003/12/22 11:31:05 35.541N 120.853W 5.4 12 km ( 7 mi) NNE of Cayucos, CA
4.4 2003/12/22 11:30:10 35.597N 120.982W 0.0 11 km ( 7 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA
3.9 2003/12/22 11:29:39 35.557N 120.842W 2.5 12 km ( 7 mi) W of Templeton, CA
4.7 2003/12/22 11:26:07 35.627N 121.020W 0.0 10 km ( 6 mi) NE of Cambria, CA
6.5 2003/12/22 11:15:56 35.706N 121.102W 7.6 11 km ( 7 mi) NE of San Simeon, CA


Very weird here.

4.6 2003/12/22 11:53:30 35.581N 121.121W 5.0 4 km ( 3 mi) NW of Cambria, CA
3.9 2003/12/22 11:52:40 35.808N 121.235W 4.8 19 km (12 mi) NNW of San Simeon, CA


Latest one is 4.6. Total of 21 quakes now.

3.3 2003/12/22 11:58:09 35.704N 121.062W 1.9 13 km ( 8 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA
3.3 2003/12/22 11:56:46 35.663N 121.026W 6.2 13 km ( 8 mi) NNE of Cambria, CA

3.7 2003/12/22 11:59:31 35.600N 120.961W 0.0 13 km ( 8 mi) ENE of Cambria, CA

3.9 2003/12/22 12:01:03 35.588N 120.902W 0.6 17 km (10 mi) N of Cayucos, CA

3.0 2003/12/22 12:03:04 35.700N 121.063W 0.0 13 km ( 8 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA
4.0 2003/12/22 12:01:32 35.544N 120.938W 0.0 12 km ( 8 mi) NNW of Cayucos, CA


Original quake is about off the page of thirty most recent quakes:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/121-36.html

2.5 2003/12/22 12:03:53 35.681N 121.066W 6.9 12 km ( 7 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA


At least it went down in intensity.

3.3 2003/12/22 12:05:34 35.670N 121.059W 5.4 12 km ( 8 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA
3.7 2003/12/22 12:05:18 35.702N 121.060W 8.6 13 km ( 8 mi) ENE of San Simeon, CA


Somebody else will have to monitor now.

I have personal experience with the Big Bear 6.6 quake of 1992, and that afternoon I must have felt dozens upon dozens of moderate to fairly large aftershocks (in the 3.5 to 4.5 range, I would guess). And a small number of large ones (approaching 5.0).

--Peter

This is "normal" (as normal as normal can be after a large quake) -- expect hundreds of aftershocks for the next 24 hours, at least.

Sign me,

Native Californian
Epicenter, Whittier-Narrows Quake of '87 (5.9)
NorCal, Summer of 1980, cluster of 6.0+'s
(& too many others to count)

that nothing aftershocks you anymore?

sorry couldn't resist. hope all are ok. hung on through loma prieta in '89...scary business.

20 of them as of now ... none of them are all that small either. A couple of 2's - mostly 3's .... just had a 4.6 :scared: they are getting bigger!

THE GOD'S MUST BE ANGRY!!!

:dem: :kick:

Ahnold for governor! :lol

But ya never know!

Just heard this on CNN - hope it didn't get wiped out!

Nothing felt far north here either ...

:dem: :kick:

As most folks know Hearst Castle is in San Simeon.

... as the main quake loosens up the other fault lines.

I'm in Oxnard in a 22-story tower, 16 stories up. It's on rollers. We rocked and rolled for a long time. Could hear the beams creaking or whatever. Everyone in the office called their homes; seems everyone felt it from S.B. to Santa Paula and Fillmore, to Ventura, Oxnard and Camarillo.

is the Hamburger Habit next door okay?

:hi:

edit EQ-related spelling (hands may still be trembling)

I live between Berkeley and San Jose. Just got home from shopping. Didn't feel anything here but, while out, I had the unusual thought -- what if there is an earthquake around here with so many fewer first responders available...?

Probably did feel it on a subliminal level.

"I live between Berkeley and San Jose"

You can call it Oakland! No stigma attached here! j/k ;)

I was wondering the same thing

there's a lot between Berkeley and San Jose

Japan 4.6 shaker

New Zealand 5.2

Lake county gets a 3.3 on friday

and now SLO gets 6+


The Ring o' Fire heating up? Does one get a tinhat for seismic events too?

and stronger than * and the terra lerts!

This is REAL and cannot be manufactured! GOD wins again!!!

*reality check*

Too bad its an orange alert, all of the "personnel" are busy ....

:dem: :kick:

that's some good tinfoil.Or maybe gropenator dropped his barbell.

... even if I'm up in the Bay Area. Felt and saw the slight swinging and swaying. Luckily the thing was on the central coast so damage (other than nerves) should be minimal. On the USGS's 'did ya feel it?' page, it gave my location an intensity factor of III.

"Did ya feel it?"
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/

office building rocked back and forth for a few seconds.

We're glad you are ok. :hi:

thank you myrna. :)

Although our computer mysteriously shut down and so did the modem.

At&t wireless is shut down I think here too.

went out at about the same time as the quake. It runs from outside, underground to the server room. Maybe the quake tripped a switch???

:shrug:

BTW - I live and work in Sacramento!

:hi:

Hope everybody else is OK!!!

:grouphug:

About 30 mi south of the quake. No power, minor damage to the house contents (hasn't had a chance to check for structural damage).

Best news ... no warning from Diable Canyon nuclear power plant.

Didn't they build that thing upside-down and backwards originally, LOL! I remember reports that they were using shoddy materials, and had the schematics reversed for what was the intended layout of the plant.

Hey Greg! Whatever happened to our camping trip dude???

:hi::evilgrin::hi:

pretty good, in a brick building in southern SF. I was surprised to have felt it at such a distance.

6.5 is damn healthy in size. And there's always a risk of having an even BIGGER one with hours of a big temblor like that. I'm keeping an eye on those aftershocks.

We had a few local quakes on the Hayward fault that had us all saying it was time for that puppy to rip. THAT is going to be ugly.

Last time that sucker blew, my late father said the street looked like ocean waves in the east bay. This was in the 1950s!

and she lies just waiting to BLOW!

She's probably freaking out. But then again she freaks out about everything.

living in Hayward I mean

:bounce:

I lived there for about a year and a half. Hated it.

It's not so bad. Had some great music, hiking, and diverse community. Very progressive politics. Course I left when I was 18 and have never moved back. ;-)

rather than a rocker/jerker. Much like sitting in a boat gently bobbing up 'n down on waves. At least that's how it felt here in Huntington Beach.

No fast-food restaurants there, I noticed! :D

Hope all is well at Hearst Castle, which is a pretty amazing place. Glad to hear that no one seems to have been seriously hurt. Lucky.

in downtown LA - 7th floor Fig & 7th street
http://babyurl.com/GrjBsX

All the women in the offce freaked...no surprise there :evilgrin:

OK some of the guys freaked as well.

I was in the bay area in 89 for the 7.1 and this 6.5 was a walk in the park.

In SF in '89, you would have been about 50 miles from the epicenter.

Today, you were approximately 200 miles from the epicenter. 6.5 is no 7, but just the same, if you were 150 miles closer, you might not call it a "walk in the park".

It was a very mild swaying here on the 17th floor in downtown SF.

Surprised at how long the swaying lasted.

I was in SF for the '89 quake and I'll never forget that feeling.

Then on 9/9/01 we had a 4.1 here in West Hollywood (centered here and was close to the surface) and it was totally different. Much more sharp shaking as opposed to the 1989 quake.

Some in SF report feeling the quake... didn't feel nothing out here on by the Cliff House.

windows rattled...nothing much

But then again, I work in a big concrete box, so I would have been surprised to feel anything.

There was damage after all. Paso Robles is a pretty small town, so it will take a little time to get pictures and video from there.

read on for details:

6.5 Quake Damages Buildings in Historic Paso Robles
Source: kcbs
Publication date: 2003-12-22

(KCBS) - The Central Valley town of Paso Robles has sustained severe damage, because of a strong earthquake that shook the region earlier today, which was felt from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
The quake, with a magnitude 6.5, hit about seven miles north of San Simeon near Hearst Castle.

KCBS listener Karen is visiting Paso Robles from Mill Valley.

"We went into town, and it is like the 1906 earthquake down there," she said. "There are buildings down. There are (some) trees collapsed. There are a lot of brick buildings in Paso Robles that are very historical."

Also, "there's a lot of cars under buildings. I saw one truck that was completely buried by a pile of bricks."

Pedestrians are directing traffic, because the stoplights are out.

"It's pretty bad downtown," Karen said. "All the old brick buildings look like they're going to have to be torn down. They've got big cracks."

KCBS listener Lisa said the historic Paso Robles clock tower, which was built in the 1880s, has also come down.

"It's just a pile of brick right now," she said.

==snip==

article continued at:

http://www.kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=45097886&&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers

<<CAMBRIA, Calif. - A powerful earthquake rocked a wide swath of California on Monday, collapsing downtown buildings in one town not far from the Hearst Castle, causing some injuries and a widespread blackout in the remote area. >>

<<The quake struck on a series of faults that run parallel to the San Andreas Fault, said Lucy Jones, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Pasadena.

The quake likely ruptured along roughly 20 miles of a yet-unknown fault, Jones said. >>

<<"It's kind of hectic," he said. "It felt like a big one, like the San Francisco earthquake years ago. The lights went out. We're on emergency power here."

John Nelson, a spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric, said approximately 10,000 homes and businesses were without power in the San Luis Obispo area.

The utility reported no major damage at its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant; it was being checked for minor damage. Another utility, Duke Energy, said there was no substantive damage at its two coastal power plants, Morro Bay and Moss Landing.>>

I have always thought that it was/is idiotic to have a nuclear power plant right off the San Andreas Fault. This time they got lucky, what about the next time? :nuke:

link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031222/ap_on_re_us/california_quake_13

:dem: :kick:

The media is great about never putting things into context.. They forget just how BIG California is.. This map can help give perspective to where the quake was and how close your relatives may or may not be..

MSRNC spent an HOUR interviewing people in the LA area..(over 200 miles SOUTH of where the quake actually WAS.

I live far north of SF near the Oregon border (nothing felt up here). I am 800 miles from LA and probably 600 miles to where the epicenter is located (or more).

I always laugh when I get some idiot telling me that they have services right where I live in LA - duhhh .... I'd be better off looking in Oregon or Nevada than this part of southern CA.

:dem:

and, pet peeve, we are not Southern California....(local bias)

"Frisco" ... angers me something fierce and I know what you mean ... :grr: LOL! :evilgrin:

I can see why you have this bias as a native of northern Calif. myself! Not all of Calif. is the same nor are its beaches (cold cold cold here!). :D

:dem:

I missread your l to read i and was trying to find the i in Paso Robles on the map lol.:silly:

Their website (KSBY San Luis Obispo) has next to nothing on it. Just MSNBC's report.

Saw local videos and it looks rough for Paso Robles - 3 dead, some folks trapped under fallen bldgs, lots of general shake damage.

SLO County has ~250,000 people, clustered in the North County's (that's Paso, and others) Salinas Valley; San Luis Obispo, 32 miles south; South County (that's Pismo Beach and Diablo Canyon nuke plant) and the Coast (Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria, and San Simeon). Everything else is (still) cattle, wine grapes or empty.

I went to the wine festable in Paso in 2002. It had been years since I'd been to downtown Paso and I love the shops there. It's so sad to see this.

Do you know if power is back up in Atascadero yet? My step mom called me about an hour and a half ago and she's w/o. I called a friend of mine that works near city hall in Atas they are worried about that building. Have you heard anything about that?

It's an old bldg. We haven't had any more after shocks down here in SLO for a while, maybe it's settled out for now.

"MSRNC spent an HOUR interviewing people in the LA area..(over 200 miles SOUTH of where the quake actually WAS"

Of course they are - there're just aren't enough good restaurants up in Paso Robles :). Seriously, my distrust of the national media stems from Rather's coverage of the Loma Prieta quake in '89: lots of coverage in San Francisco (since everyone was there for the World Series anyway), a decent amount in Oakland (not that far away, as well as having the most casualties), almost none in the non-affluent, largley Hispanic farm town of Watsonville, which was devastated by the earthquake (what - go all the way down *there* just to see the destroyed downtown?) If it's near a camera, it's news. (Sorry, discussions of earthquakes get us Californians talking about where we were during our big ones. I was on a train about 200 miles north of yesterday's quake, and didn't feel it over the normal train motion.)

linda, 2 miles from the San Andreas fault

...and that was about it. 6.5 earthquake, not very powerful. What really bothers me about it is that it took up more than half of "Inside Politics" which I was hoping to watch. :(

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CALIF_QUAKE?SITE=WVHUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The bodies of two people were pulled from the rubble of a building in downtown Paso Robles, said Terry Minshull of the Paso Robles Fire Department. He said the victims were people missing from a nearby store.

Firefighters searched debris along a block of collapsed buildings in the town of 25,000 about 20 miles east of the epicenter. Cars were crushed by the debris.

My step mom called and said they still don't have power in Atascadero. They are worried about the City Hall building there. It suffered some damage.

:(

:-(

Sadly there might be more. :cry:

I felt It here In Fresno, I didn't even know what It was when It happened.
It was different than the other earthquakes that I felt here, this one felt like a vibration Instead of a shake or rolling motion.

I'm now in Sacramento, but am a home grown Fresno gal - nice to *see* you on DU. :hi:

in the burbs of Los Angeles by the ocean. :shrug:

Like your tree.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Science&cat=Earthquakes_and_Volcanoes

Click on 'slide show'.

It's so sad.

My heart is just broken seeing the destruction, knowing that people lost their lives in what should be a joyous season. I sat in front of that jewelry store with my dog so many days.. and have done so much Christmas shopping in that block. It was our favorite place in SLO County for evening and morning walks. It's really quite lovely. It's so hard to see those photos. My father in law and his wife live in Paso, as well as several friends. In nearby Atascadero and Templeton, we also have friends. I'll be anxiously awaiting word on the victim's identities, and hope that they will not find any more. It is so devastating to lose someone near the holidays...

We just moved to Washington state from the Paso/Atascadero area. I lived in the area for 15 years, my husband lived around SLO county his whole life. Because so much of that area is unreinforced masonry, I always have an escape plan in the back of my mind when shopping in towns like that. When the ground starts shaking, I'd be in the middle of the street. The sad thing is that there is a large open park and street just steps from where the building fell. But no one thinks that the buildings will fall. It's the facades that are so dangerous in those towns.

Thanks for posting that link.

:-( :-(

The poor souls lost were a 19 year old young woman from Atascadero and a 55 year old woman from Paso.

God bless them and their families.

first there were fires...then Arnold...now an earthquake...

this isn't CA's year is it...?

It woke me up with a gentle shake. I thought someone was nudging my bed to rouse me. Then I thought it was my own heartbeat! LOL It was later in the day that I realized it was a quake.

It was some distance south from Monterey. Not quite the "central" coast. Oh details details, picky picky eh? We are fine, but some are not so fine in Paso Robles. They say the diablo canyon NUCLEAR reactor is "OKAY".....eeeek
Peace

Don't want to get political .... oh fuck it.....has our "governor" made any statement yet?

Warm thoughts and best wishes to the folks that were affected by it.

It was a beautiful building.