earthquake today in the L.A AREA

[ghettoenhanced]

Quake was quite long. I'm fine and the statues are good, but the SS Fantastic Four dio looked like it was about to take a dive.

 

[tylerd]

earthquakes in california? how is that possible?

 

[Malice]

Re: 5.8 Hits LA

Got outta there just in time

 

[Malice]

Quake was quite long. I'm fine and the statues are good, but the SS Fantastic Four dio looked like it was about to take a dive.

yeah i was looking at my saruman and i was like, " don't fall mada F'R!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Nice shake in Brentwood. Some figures fell but nothing bad.

It started out as a rumble, then the place started shifting left to right. About 10-15 seconds or so. No damage, I'm lucky. Cell's seem to be having problems now. Stacie, my fiance, works downtown LA, which I understand got hit pretty good. Heavy shaking.

 

[Eli26]

Man, I wouldn't be a collector in California because of this problem. I couldn't take seeing my entire collection being destroyed by one quake. I hope nobody's stuff was damaged. More importantly, I hope nobody got hurt, but it sounds like it wasn't big enough where someone could. Hopeful thinking.

 

[Trevolver]

It was pretty tame out here near San Bernardino. Definitely rolled for a little while.

I've only ever felt one really strong quake in my lifetime, which is pretty strange considering the San Andreas Fault line runs right through this area.

Trev

 

[tomandshell]

Trev, I love your avatar, by the way.

 

[Darth Madden]

I don't remember how big it was but we had one about 7 years ago here and I was trying to take a piss when it hit. It felt like 30 semi trucks driving right by me... at least I didn't get any on the floor.

 

[tomandshell]

earthquakes in california? how is that possible?

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph. The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude, with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale.

At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by a shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami. The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity.

In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, huge amounts of gas migration, mainly methane deep within the earth, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments.

An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter means the point at ground level directly above this.

Tectonic earthquakes will occur anywhere within the earth where there is sufficient stored elastic strain energy to drive fracture propagation along a fault plane. In the case of transform or convergent type plate boundaries, which form the largest fault surfaces on earth, they will move past each other smoothly and aseismically only if there are no irregularities or asperities along the boundary that increase the frictional resistance. Most boundaries do have such asperities and this leads to a form of stick-slip behaviour. Once the boundary has locked, continued relative motion between the plates leads to increasing stress and therefore, stored strain energy in the volume around the fault surface. This continues until the stress has risen sufficiently to break through the asperity, suddenly allowing sliding over the locked portion of the fault, releasing the stored energy. This energy is released as a combination of radiated elastic strain seismic waves, frictional heating of the fault surface, and cracking of the rock, thus causing an earthquake. This process of gradual build-up of strain and stress punctuated by occasional sudden earthquake failure is referred to as the Elastic-rebound theory. It is estimated that only 10 percent or less of an earthquake's total energy is radiated as seismic energy. Most of the earthquake's energy is used to power the earthquake fracture growth or is converted into heat generated by friction. Therefore, earthquakes lower the Earth's available elastic potential energy and raise its temperature, though these changes are negligible compared to the conductive and convective flow of heat out from the Earth's deep interior.

 

[Darth Loki]

Classic Tomandshell

 

[Minimodel]

Just heard about this as "breaking news" on BBC Radio.Thought if anyone had the lowdown it d be my fellow freaks.Glad your all OK.Stay lucky.

 

[MeguiarsEM]

I was on my way to lunch, didn't feel a thing.

 

[CAhobbit]

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.

Ha! Thanks tom!

 

[SOLIDSNAKE]

well I am glag you guys and your families are ok and the collectibles too LOL.

I experienced a couple of earth quakes when I lived in PAPUA NEW GUINEA ( small Islad near AUSTRALIA)
there was earthquakes every day but small ones.

 

[orbitingx]

Glad I got the hell outta dodge....I lived about a mile away from the Northridge (Reseda) Quake. I don't ever want to wake up to one like that again or better yet be on a freeway overpass when another biggie hits......I'll take a tornado warning in the South any day. At least there is time to flee to the basement. I'll never forget the feeling of feverishly clinging to the center of my bed.

 

[KAOSINLA]

Now, it's been downgraded to a 5.4 with about 27 aftershocks as of 25 minutes ago (highest being with three at about 3.8). I only felt one of the AF's, but the quake was a pretty good shake. My floor lamp was smacking the wall a bit and I actually held my desk lamp and monitor in place, but the collectibles are fine (thanks to the heavy weight - although I was worried ). It started with a little up and down and then some heavy swaying. Cell, landline, and internet went down, but was up in about 15 minutes.

Surely breaks the monotony of the day!!!

 

[Battletroll]

This certainly was an experience!

We don't have any earthquakes in the Netherlands. So of course my first time in LA, I must have experienced it all.

A bit scary at first, I was doing groceries and suddenly the whole building started to shake and everything around me fell out of the shelves. Lots of people panicked and tried to get out of the building asap.

Outside, everyone seemed to be ok and all the buildings and traffic were intact, so I just walked back to my hotel, glad nothing serious had happened. I watched the news and went back later to pick up the groceries I had to leave behind.

Now I got my holiday story for home, so here's to hoping everything stays safe and quiet for the rest of my vacation

 

[dharper]

It was the strongest on I've felt in a long time. I had quite a few figures go shelf diving. The only real damage I had was my TV broke through the glass TV stand and crushed my VCR and Direct TV box.

 

[Shropt]

Glad to hear everyone is ok so far.