LA Earthquake - Meat????
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7532021.stm

Its been on Sky News and I wondered if Meat and his family lives around that area of LA. If so, I hope his family are okay. I know at the minute no one is to be reported as injured or killed.

Plus if anyone from here lives there, I hope all is okay......
I didn't know so I thought I'd ask...

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An earthquake measuring 5.4 has caused buildings to shake across a wide area of southern California in the US.

The epicentre of the quake was 29 miles (46km) south-east of central Los Angeles, near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County, officials said.

The quake was felt as far south as San Diego, witnesses say, but so far there are no reports of casualties or damage.

The US Geological Survey initially said the tremor measured up to 5.8, but later downgraded its size.

The BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles said the quake initially felt like a rolling motion - followed by a sudden shaking sensation that lasted about 10 seconds.

Pictures fell to the ground and some people reported cracks in the walls of their homes.



"It was dramatic. The whole building moved," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's Monterey Park offices east of Los Angeles.

Many other buildings swayed across central Los Angeles and office workers quickly poured out onto the streets.

"We had forgotten what a big earthquake felt like, at least I did," said seismologist Kate Hutton.

"It's a drill for the big one that's going to happen someday."

There have been no reports of power cuts in the area, although telephone services were disrupted because of a surge in demand on the network, witnesses reported.

More than 20 aftershocks were reported following the quake, the strongest measured at 3.8.

In 1994, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Northridge, California, killed 72 people, injured another 9,000 and caused $25bn (£12.5bn) worth of damage in the area.

5.4 is just a fart in a bubble bath compared to some Earthquakes California has.

Pud :twisted:

Oh right... I wasn't sure - Scotland never has them :lol:

But I thought someone said it was a really bad one. I must of heard it wrong.
Oh well....

It's big enough to be noticed but I don't think it caused too much damage.

BTW Ross, Scotland gets hit by Earthquakes all the time Click --->HERE

Pud :twisted:

Well you learn something new. Mind you though, they are really small hardly to notice but I guess its still an earthquake

You're probably too young to have the earth moving for you anyway Ross...LOL :))

Pud :twisted:

lol

LMAO!

Cruel...but funny, which is the most important thing really :D

Even funnier;)

Meat lives outside LA, northwest I believe, but definitely not near the epicenter of the earthquake, as that was south-south east of LA.
It was a small quake per se for them; enough to scatter groceries off shelves, do some cracking of older buildings, and shaking of loose items and people's nerves. Of course, this starts again the speculation of when the Big One is due, something they and the rest of the US have been living with especially since the Northridge Quake in early 1994.

Man ... almost 80% of the people on this forum are safe when the Big One Hits, but me, vrg, and a few others are, how do I put it, screwed :|