It's 4:56. KTTV is saying it's a 5.9 in the "Palm Spring area."
4:57: KCBS is saying it's "near Borrego Springs." 5.9. The crew at the station claim to have felt it for "30 seconds." In my case, it lasted maybe five-ten seconds.
KCBS's website asserts that the quake's epicenter was "13 miles north north-west of Borrego Springs." Further, it "was reported to be 28 miles south of Palm Springs." Hence:
Quake shakes O.C. hard (OC Reg)
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So when is the big one due?
Any minute now, dude. On the other hand, it could be decades away.
Watch the tea partiers clammoring for government help after it hits.
I had a bizarre experience of how one sense can confound another:
My dogs were madly barking away (no doubt detecting the quake before I did), and I was preoccupied with getting them to be quiet ("SHUUUT UUUP!!!") but gradually, I came to realize that there were other, subtle sounds, those hard-to-pinpoint sounds of the earth moving (thrilling, to me when I recognize it) but also just little squeakings and groanings of my house. Then, at last, it came to me that I was having a little trouble standing there; that the ground was floating and waving gently.
What I thought was kind of cool (though a bit scary) was that the loud barking and my annoyance with it delayed my recognition that the ground was rolling beneath us--kept me from feeling it.
More than you ever wanted to know, maybe--but really interesting to me. ;)
MAH
Barking at an earthquake. How very human!
When I first moved to So Cal it was claimed that "the big one" will hit within the next 30 years. That was 27 years ago... and now they are saying that "the big one" will hit within the next 30 years!
Like all natural science, the science of earthquakes is a matter of probabilities, not certainties. We have a good rough idea of the frequency and strength of earthquakes in California going back well into the 18th Century. On that basis, we can state that we are "overdue" for major earthquakes. With every year that passes since the last major earthquake, the chances of another major earthquake goes up. That, thirty years ago, a major earthquake was likely to occur within the next thirty years is perfectly consistent with no earthquake occurring during that period. But, that no major earthquake has occurred means that the likelihood of a major earthquake occurring is much higher today than it was thirty years ago. It ain't rocket science.
Let's all pray and ask god to send the earthquake somewhere else.
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