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LA wakes & quakes to a 4.4

post #1 of 37
3/16/10 at 9:03am
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Did any LA Chewers feel this one?

It was a magnitude 4.4 on the Richter scale, and it struck in the early morning hours when most people are least on the look out for earth quakes.

EDIT: Or Cali-Chewers in general I guess. I'm not sure what the range is for something like this, whether you'd be able to feel it as easily in Claremont as in Century City
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post #2 of 37
3/16/10 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post

It was a magnitude 4.4 on the Richter scale, and it struck in the early morning hours when most people are least on the look out for earth quakes.
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post #3 of 37
3/16/10 at 9:55am
If only Port Au Prince had made it until 11am.
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post #4 of 37
3/16/10 at 10:11am
Jan, today you are king of the internet.
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post #5 of 37
3/16/10 at 10:58am
It's inaccurate to refer to it as "on the Richter scale" anymore. Also, you failed to provide a link. Your reporting is shittier than the Huffington Post.
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post #6 of 37
3/16/10 at 10:59am
And the trolling happens.
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post #7 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:06am
The trolling was starting the damned thread.
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post #8 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:10am
Really? A thread about an actual event that occurred and that probably impacted some Chewers is trolling?

Consider this a last warning when it comes to this bullshit. You want to bully someone, do it on another board.
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post #9 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:13am
Not sure what the hate is here, a genuine thread with genuine concern for her fellow Chewers.
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post #10 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
Really? A thread about an actual event that occurred and that probably impacted some Chewers is trolling?

Consider this a last warning when it comes to this bullshit. You want to bully someone, do it on another board.
Last warning for what? For yesterday? You're the only one here thinking Princess Kate is a legit poster. She's not. Ask any Chilean board member (ryoken, Feral) if they felt Kate's thread was respectful. There was no concern at all, it was just an excuse for her to get attention.

And to be really honest, you're the last person I'd expect to denounce message board bullying. Ever.
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post #11 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:30am
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage View Post
Not sure what the hate is here, a genuine thread with genuine concern for her fellow Chewers.

Thanks, Ken.


And as to the lack of a link with the first posting (which a chewer pointed out), I caught the story on TV as I was getting dressed to go to an "appreciation breakfast" but wanted to post this up before I left. I'm on 56k at home and it literally would have taken me 10+ minutes to load HuffPo and find a story link. I'll try to get that for you when I get to work later

As for "on the Richter scale" being an out of date phrase... OK. I didn't know that. I'll try to word things differently in the future
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post #12 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Last warning for what? For yesterday? You're the only one here thinking Princess Kate is a legit poster. She's not. Ask any Chilean board member (ryoken, Feral) if they felt Kate's thread was respectful. There was no concern at all, it was just an excuse for her to get attention.

And to be really honest, you're the last person I'd expect to denounce message board bullying. Ever.
I can't believe I'm even responding to you after yesterday, Martin (didn't you say you put me on ignore???), but I just wanted to say this:


Feral Akodon specifically praised the fact that I had cared about not just the second Chile quake but also the first.

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PK gave a shit about the first quake (which was a huge 8.5).
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Oh, and as for your complaint that I displayed no concern for Chile...

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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post
I am sorry to hear that you have friends/loved ones in that situation. I wish you and them the best of luck. I'd imagine it's an awful feeling to live with the worry of that kind of thing hanging over your head, and my sincerest sympathies are with you, 100%

And all I was saying is that the tectonic plates are always in motion, everywhere, to some degree or another. It's just that 99.9 percent of quakes are so weak as to be undetectable by humans and movement of the plates so slow as to be almost unnoticeable.

EDIT: But that's just the science lesson.

The bottom line is this: I've never been to Chile, but you seem like you have a cool country there. I've always admired the degree of geographic diversity, what with the coasts and all, and it makes me feel bad to see a population living in fear and uncertainty after having two traumatic events in short order like that. I wish you guys all the best and just know that people in other parts of the globe have you in their thoughts

That's all. G' Night
Now that I've debunked your facetious attacks, I hope we can return to the subject at hand.


Did anyone feel this quake? I'd be curious to hear quake experiences. I assume everyone is OK, as the news just reported the quake but mentioned no major damage.

The only quake I've been through was a 2.7 or so, and

A) I was very young and don't really remember it
B) I did not notice it happening at the time

So I'd be interested to know how a 4.4 compares to that.
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post #13 of 37
3/16/10 at 12:25pm
Didn't feel a thing, but I sacked out at 10:00 last night and slept like the dead.
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post #14 of 37
3/16/10 at 12:31pm
I seem to remember Molt saying he won't stop shaving his balls for anything less than a 6.0.
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post #15 of 37
3/16/10 at 12:57pm
I had woken up a few minutes before the quake (hungover, FTW), so I felt it. Having lived in L.A. for seven and a half years now, I've found the earthquakes to be stunningly mediocre.
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post #16 of 37
3/16/10 at 12:58pm
Yeah, I'm getting close to six and they seem a little overrated.

We should probably shut up now lest we doom ourselves.
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post #17 of 37
3/16/10 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
Didn't feel a thing, but I sacked out at 10:00 last night and slept like the dead.
If I recall the plate tectonics section of 8th grade Earth Sciences, I think anything less than a 2.0 (or it might have been a 1.0) is generally undetectable by humans. So I guess I'm not surprised that you slept through it, though the TV (was either CNN or MSNBC, don't remember) made it out to be a bigger deal
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post #18 of 37
3/16/10 at 1:12pm
It gave me a bit of a jolt in Burbank (enough to wake me up). There was noise as the building settled, but nothing fell down.
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post #19 of 37
3/16/10 at 1:32pm
Can you actually feel a 4.4 quake? I know I can't. We get 4 to 5 magnitude quakes all the damn time here and I always find out afterwards from the news.
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post #20 of 37
3/16/10 at 1:52pm
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Can you actually feel a 4.4 quake? I know I can't. We get 4 to 5 magnitude quakes all the damn time here and I always find out afterwards from the news.
Same with me. I slept right through the fucker.
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post #21 of 37
3/16/10 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Last warning for what? For yesterday? You're the only one here thinking Princess Kate is a legit poster. She's not. Ask any Chilean board member (ryoken, Feral) if they felt Kate's thread was respectful. There was no concern at all, it was just an excuse for her to get attention.

And to be really honest, you're the last person I'd expect to denounce message board bullying. Ever.
I love you, dude; I really, really do right now.
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post #22 of 37
3/16/10 at 2:11pm
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The promised link


It says it was centered around "Pico Rivera"
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post #23 of 37
3/16/10 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Can you actually feel a 4.4 quake? I know I can't. We get 4 to 5 magnitude quakes all the damn time here and I always find out afterwards from the news.
Of course the news overblows everything. Much like when it rains ("Huge amounts of water are falling from the sky!! Run for your lives!").

I find it pathetic that they have to send a reporter out to the epicenter city to interview the locals. For a 4.4, which is basically just a little shake, Channel 5 interviewed this lady. "My dog woke me up first, and then I felt it shake for a second. Nothing was destroyed." Destroyed, really? It's sad how those other recent HUGE quakes have hundred and hudreds of dead and people trapped in rubble for days, and today's 4.4 probably only busted a coffee cup somewhere, yet it's Breaking News!!! for us.
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post #24 of 37
3/16/10 at 2:11pm
Yeah, in California, if you want to experience an earthquake that doesn't make you look a giant pussy for complaining about it, you pretty much have to move to the SF Bay Area. Things in your house actually move when those happen. You don't sleep through them. If you're in bed during them, it's likely that you're going to be shaken out of the bed and onto the floor.

People in Southern California who make a big deal about the earthquakes down here annoy me just a hair less than the people who complain that California is hot during the summer months. Yes, yes it is. That's sort of what the state is known for, the warm weather and sunshine and all that. Complaining about it is like moving to the Midwest and complaining that it's cold and filled with dairy farms and breweries.
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post #25 of 37
3/16/10 at 2:24pm
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Of course the news overblows everything. Much like when it rains ("Huge amounts of water are falling from the sky!! Run for your lives!").

I find it pathetic that they have to send a reporter out to the epicenter city to interview the locals. For a 4.4, which is basically just a little shake, Channel 5 interviewed this lady. "My dog woke me up first, and then I felt it shake for a second. Nothing was destroyed." Destroyed, really? It's sad how those other recent HUGE quakes have hundred and hudreds of dead and people trapped in rubble for days, and today's 4.4 probably only busted a coffee cup somewhere, yet it's Breaking News!!! for us.
I think for me, the story here is that LA is over due for a big quake (they happen aproximitely every 150 years), and that there has been an unusually high level of tectonic activity lately, on a global scale. So there is a concern (however illsuory) that this might be a "pre shock" (if there is such a thing)
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post #26 of 37
3/16/10 at 9:58pm
Earthquakes, while serious, aren't that big a worry in Southern California. Fire, on the other hand...
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post #27 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:44pm
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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes View Post
Earthquakes, while serious, aren't that big a worry in Southern California. Fire, on the other hand...
Unfortunately, CH, the two often go hand in hand.
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post #28 of 37
3/16/10 at 11:56pm
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Earthquakes, while serious, aren't that big a worry in Southern California. Fire, on the other hand...
Yeah, once you've had ashes falling from the sky, a little shake doesn't really register. And I slept through it, too.
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post #29 of 37
3/17/10 at 12:47am
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
Didn't feel a thing, but I sacked out at 10:00 last night and slept like the dead.
How do you know you're not dead? What if it was the big one and this (-----------------------------) is your afterlife?

Food for thought. That's just depressing.

I felt nothing as well but I slept through almost every earthquake I've ever been involved in.
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post #30 of 37
3/17/10 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post
How do you know you're not dead? What if it was the big one and this (-----------------------------) is your afterlife?

Food for thought. That's just depressing.

I felt nothing as well but I slept through almost every earthquake I've ever been involved in.



aasdasd"!?"


PS Jake, in case you did not see PASSENGERS and thus did not get my joke, SPOILERS
In that movie Anne Hathaway discovers that she died in a plane crash that occurred before the film even started, and that she and everyone in the entire movie is a ghost

END SPOILERS
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post #31 of 37
3/17/10 at 12:57am
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How do you know you're not dead?
I woke up and there weren't smoking hot demon chicks flocking to me and worshipping me for finally making my long-overdue return to the Dark Veil. I refuse to believe that anything is the afterlife until that takes place.
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post #32 of 37
3/17/10 at 1:02am
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I woke up and there weren't smoking hot demon chicks flocking to me and worshipping me for finally making my long-overdue return to the Dark Veil. I refuse to believe that anything is the afterlife until that takes place.
Fair Enough

and may I add,... that's just fucking AWESOME!
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post #33 of 37
3/17/10 at 1:14am
Snaieke, did you move? For some reason I always thought you were in Connecticut.
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post #34 of 37
3/17/10 at 8:34am
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Originally Posted by devincf View Post
You want to bully someone, do it on another board.
Are you feeling quite alright, Dev?
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post #35 of 37
3/17/10 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by soylentgreen View Post
Snaieke, did you move? For some reason I always thought you were in Connecticut.
I was, moved west to avoid paying outrageous New York state taxes and to avoid the upcoming snowpacalpse.
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post #36 of 37
3/17/10 at 7:15pm
slept through it.
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post #37 of 37
3/17/10 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Miller View Post
I seem to remember Molt saying he won't stop shaving his balls for anything less than a 6.0.
Huge LOL since I was using my razor cut during a big aftershock the day after the big one. I didn't notice it and in the meantime my housemate was scared.
I'm glad this one wasn't that hard. check http://piks.nl/bcv
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