Wow - Earthquake

["Got Disney"]

Any idea of how folks near San Diego faired? My brother lives in San Marcos.

San Diego was shaken up, but friends on Facebook aren't reporting damage - just shaking.

I live in San Diego and that is the biggest that we have felt. We live on a mountain and that cushions some of the shaking and rolling and the way our house was shaking I knew that it was a big one somewhere and felt more at the bottom of our hill.

DH was at Vons/Safeway and he called me and said that stuff was falling off the shelves and lights swaying. He said everyone stood and waited than went back to shopping

our pool water was splashing around....kids were on the computer and said that the cats went running and hid. POOOOR kitties, the dogs and I just kinda looked at each other before I got up realizing what was happening...

it was more of a rolling EQ instead of a long jolt.....dont like the jolty kind

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I have had worse shaking on a ship at sea...or with a bad hangover!

hehehehhe

 

[Duckyiam71]

Watching CNN and they just upgraded the EQ to 7.2 at the epicenter. They too have reported Disneyland closing the rides for inspections and have several earlier reports of people stuck in the elevators at DL hotel. Pray everyone is ok.

 

["Got Disney"]

I have had worse shaking on a ship at sea...or with a bad hangover!

hehehehhe

Grumpy...glad to hear that you didn't loose any bottles of RUM
Has been upgrated to a 7.2....

 

[focusondisney]

OMG--Is anybody else watching on CNN. The coverage is just very very sad. They were actually talking to Bill Nye the science guy a few minutes OK.

ETA--not laughing at the earthquake, just at CNN

At least CNN is covering it. All the other "news networks" have on generic programming. Even the weather channel just has a crawler on the bottom of the screen. Guess if nobody dies it's not news?

 

[AnnaS]

Hi Mary Jo

How are you? Glad to hear you are safe as well as everyone in the affected areas. Then one needs to also worry about aftershocks


Had not heard about the earthquakes til I now. Just got home recently. Will check the news in a bit. Hopefully no injuries or damage.

 

[Cinerbelle]

The shaking here in Temecula was pretty good. This was the hardest I have felt since the Northridge earthquake when I was living in the OC. This was the biggest my kids have ever felt and they were a little scared. Hubby was at the grocery store and he said some women freaked out and dropped their stuff and sprinted for the doors.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

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["Got Disney"]

its not even on our local news except for a few break in's here and there from the regular programing. Tells ya how much we are use to having them.

They are saying that within the next few days that we can expect up to another 6 pointer can hit the next few days so anyone that lives on this end be sure not to sleep naked and to have your shoes on the side of the bed....althout if you live out here you already know that

This quake has sparked more all over Ca....we are just rocking and rolling today.

Dont forget also that the more EQ we have means the more EQ we will have.....

 

[disney777]

I'm in the L.A. area, and CBS has been doing nonstop coverage for the last 2 hrs. ABC has been covering it nonstop also. Starting to show some of the damage, but luckily no problems around here.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

I'm surprised, living in Oregon, that you'd have such little appreciation for how scary a big earthquake can be (especially for people who have been through a big one before).

Edited to add: This footage is from the mall where my local grocery store was. It's a good thing the earthquake happened at night, or a lot of people would have been seriously wounded or killed. You can be darned sure that if I'm ever in a large open building like a grocery store during a large quake, I 'll heading for the exits pretty quickly myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1DafQyq0Is&feature=related

 

[Feralpeg]

What about Mexico? I haven't heard any reports of the damage there. Surely, it must be pretty bad.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

What about Mexico? I haven't heard any reports of the damage there. Surely, it must be pretty bad.

CNN is reporting one fatality in Mexico and they are starting to show pictures of the damage from that area.

 

["Got Disney"]

here is an article on it and about 16 videos from folks that were recording at the time for some reason or another. The first one is how my house shook...DH said that Vons shook worse than that....Mexico pictures are still not coming through the media all that much. Tomorrow guess will see how they weathered all the shaking.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/04/la-earthquake-2010-video_n_524825.html

 

[MoniqueU]

Most of my family lives about 20 miles from the epicenter in El Centro so I am sure they got shaken.

We are 45 minutes east of Disneyland and 20 minutes north of Temecula and everyone downstairs didn't feel a thing. My son was upstairs and felt it but said it wasn't a big deal. I am not sure why others further away really felt it and we didn't at all? I guess we are sitting on granite or something.

 

["Got Disney"]

Most of my family lives about 20 miles from the epicenter in El Centro so I am sure they got shaken.

We are 45 minutes east of Disneyland and 20 minutes north of Temecula and everyone downstairs didn't feel a thing. My son was upstairs and felt it but said it wasn't a big deal. I am not sure why others further away really felt it and we didn't at all? I guess we are sitting on granite or something.

El Centro was shaken pretty bad....the epicenter was very close to El Centro......Good thing this was a deep EQ instead of one closer to the surface...much more damage could have happened.

The article I posted has video from San Diego up yo LA, however that was farther away....

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

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[TwinsinCA]

Most of my family lives about 20 miles from the epicenter in El Centro so I am sure they got shaken.

We are 45 minutes east of Disneyland and 20 minutes north of Temecula and everyone downstairs didn't feel a thing. My son was upstairs and felt it but said it wasn't a big deal. I am not sure why others further away really felt it and we didn't at all? I guess we are sitting on granite or something.

We must live *really* close to each other! We're just north of Temecula too. My husband was upstairs when it started and I heard him scream downstairs but I couldn't tell at first what he said. It was a few times back and forth before I finally heard him say "earthquake". And it was only then that we started feeling shaking on the ground floor.

I watched the news for a while after it and someone called in from Van Nuys and said something fall off the wall. I too am surprised the shaking was that strong there but not bad here.

 

["Got Disney"]

We must live *really* close to each other! We're just north of Temecula too. My husband was upstairs when it started and I heard him scream downstairs but I couldn't tell at first what he said. It was a few times back and forth before I finally heard him say "earthquake". And it was only then that we started feeling shaking on the ground floor.

I watched the news for a while after it and someone called in from Van Nuys and said something fall off the wall. I too am surprised the shaking was that strong there but not bad here.

yet here where I live in San Diego it shook pretty good go figure. I have friends from LA that called us to see how strong it was here but they said they didn't really feel much of anything...guess just depends on where you are in the scheme of things.

 

[Melissa<3Disney]

I'm in downtown San Diego. We live on the third floor of an apartment complex and it shook for a good minute or two. My boyfriend and I just moved to San Diego from the east coast less than a year ago, so not to make light of an earthquake situation, but you should have seen the two of us. You would have been laughing your heads off! We both dropped to the floor and were like "okay what do we do?" "I don't know, what do you think?" So we just laid there in between our couch and our bar and held hands. When it was over we started to laugh, because honestly it really did just feel like when we had a particularly rough night on a cruise ship. So we spent the rest of the hour researching what we actually needed to do in the event that an actual big, damaging earthquake was to hit near us. I'm just glad it wasn't a horrible one, and no one was hurt!