AH, HERE THEY come...
It's the Angeleno ritual:
CNN: "Chandeliers swung and water sloshed around in swimming pools in the Los Angeles suburbs, witnesses reported..."
Hollywood: "What a strange, slow, rolling earthquake that was. Doors and things swayed in our house afterwards for minutes."
Silver Lake: "CNN already in semi-hysterics mode ...."
Leimert Park: "Weeee! Chandelier was swaying this time!"
Highland Park: "Hey CNN! Stop asking people in L.A. if they felt their fannies jiggle, and maybe find out if people in Mexicali are okay. Christ."
The Facts: From Cal Tech -- A strong earthquake occurred at 3:40:39 PM (PDT) on Sunday, April 4, 2010.The magnitude 6.9 event occurred 68 km (42 miles) SSE of Calexico, CA.The hypocentral depth is 32 km (20 miles).
Update: 7.2
And so, what was it like for you?
And so, what was it like for you?
This I found on my Facebook feed this morning; a quote from another L.A. journalist:
ReplyDelete"I live in the city that waits to die. I live in Los Angeles.
Of course, it’s not just Los Angeles that waits. Sacramento, Oakland and San Diego, among other California cities, large and small, bide their time. But since I live in Los Angeles, because places like Pasadena and Rancho Cucamonga sound too sleepy for such an ominous aphorism, and because San Franciscans turn their noses up at us, at the moment Los Angeles is the city whose destiny concerns me most.
According to experts, in the near or distant future, some part of California is going to experience a major earthquake. Makes sense. The occasional tremor notwithstanding, we haven’t had an honest to goodness earthquake since the 1994 Northridge quake that tossed me out of bed at four AM. (Speak of the devil. As I write this, Sunday, April 4, there was an earthquake. Centered in Mexicali, the capital of Baja, California, it registered 7.2 on the Richter Scale and was felt in parts of Arizona and Nevada.)
Based on recent global earthquake activity–China, Peru, Chile, Haiti–you don’t have to be Nostradamus or a seismologist to figure California’s turn for a big one can’t be far off.
And everyone in California knows it. We live with this weight of inevitability the way humanity understands tomorrow is promised to no one. Californians live with that idea AND earthquakes. "
Thoughts anyone?