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Just Had a Nice 5.0 EarthQuake Here in LA
FredWeinberg
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It was a very long quake, pretty good shake,
and 5.0 is darn decent (6. and 7. are bad)
Our building shook pretty well - we're on the
top floor of a 12 story office building.
To keep it numismatic, I checked and my
plastic container of Jewel-Luster was movin'
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Hmmmm...Is that strong enough to create new die cracks?
(Good that everyone is OK!)
Wow, did not feel here in San Diego.
Be Safe.
Just upgraded to a 5.3, off the coast
I will never move to LA.
Good luck @FredWeinberg! That's pretty serious. Hope everyone out there is ok.
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Jimnight - I'm born and raised in Calif.,
and I've gone thru at least a half dozen
significant Earthquakes, including being
within 2.5 miles of the 1994 7.2 or 7.3 (I believe)
Quake, as well as hundred of minor quakes.
First off, the danger of an Earthquake is pretty
much based on where you are when it occurs.
Second, I'll take a major earthquake once
every 10 or 20 years instead of Hurricanes,
tornadoes, Snow Storms, etc. etc. etc.
Growing up here in Southern Calif., most of
us used to just say 'Feels like a D ticket ride at Disneyland"
Felt nothing here in Corona, (inland about 30 miles). Sometimes, you just never know how far a quake will be felt.....
I'm in the library near Pasadena & didn't feel a thing.
According to LA Times, it was 57km SW of the Channel Islands, offshore.
No damage here, and none reported so
far....doubt there will be much damage at all,
because it was undersea, off the Coast of LA.
But I can tell you it was one of the longest-lasting
one's I've felt since the long '94 Northridge Quake.
Decent shaking on the 12th floor - but we're so used
to it, we just look around and grade 'em based on what's
moving - blinds, hanging plants (or planchets, to keep it
on a numismatic basis)
I wonder if any errors have occurred at the SF mint during an earthquake.
Interesting - you should have felt it in Pasadena !
Roger, Yep - I'll have to check all my defaced dies
to see if they've cracked !
No Tsunami warning, good to know for my fishing bros ....
In Pasadena. Did not feel it.
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...yup...This is why San Diego is so Beautiful...throw Tijuana and LA on the outsides and the middle looks GREAT
The library was built in 2002 so I'm sure it's built to the latest EQ standards.
In my first office here, there were 3 native Californians, and 3 from Minnesota, (oddity of our hiring process...I'm one of the Minnesotans).
During a quake, the Californians would dive under desks. The Minnesotans would stare at the swinging lights. We were improperly trained.
Wow, sounds pretty scary. Glad you're ok and that there wasn't much property damage.
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San Diego is on Bedrock. We are safe unless we fall off into the Pacific. Problem with LA is much of it is built on soft sandy soil.
Yep, Liquafaction (sp) takes place on flat lands
where over hundreds of thousand of years, mud has
accumulated - when it shakes, the soft ground liquify,
and that's what causes most of the major damage in
a quake.
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That is a great comparison. I guess that qualifies my ride in the '64 Earthquake as an "E Ticket Ride." (Those are my hands clinging onto the edge of the crevice.)
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I hope there was no diver down around Catalina Island; abalone time you know.....
For the younger generation, this is what Fred is referencing with regard to lettered ticket rides at Disneyland:
The "E" Ticket, or more accurately, "E" coupon was good only for a single ride. It was in use up until 1982. (Source Wikipedia):
"In June 1959, amid the completion of Disneyland's first major expansion, Disney introduced the "E" designation for the park's most popular attractions and made the new Submarine Voyage, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Disneyland–Alweg Monorail "E" coupon attractions. Additionally, the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, Rocket to the Moon, Rainbow Ridge Pack Mules, Rainbow Mountain Stage Coaches, Mark Twain Riverboat, Sailing Ship Columbia, Rafts to Tom Sawyer Island, and Jungle Cruise – all previously "D" rides – were upgraded to "E".[1] "E" remained the highest attraction/coupon designation for over 20 years."
Apparently the opening of "Magic Mountain" with a pass for all rides put pressure on Disneyland to follow suit.
In Torrance and didn't feel a thing. But I was eating my lunch and was pretty focused on that.
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@ Fred Weinberg
Off topic, but curious if you saw the discussion on the below linked thread with regard to a court case in which you testified as an expert witness. Any update on whether the plaintiffs ever collected anything and/or if there was an appeal?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/997140/1988-morgan-dollar-for-100-000#latest
Sounds a lot like the Napa quake the summer before last - it was in the middle of the night and lasted so long, I was convinced I was dreaming.
Glad you're ok!
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I guess the key to what you're saying is " born and raised "... all I hear is about the " big one is coming " fake news or not..I have a fear of being sucked into the ocean
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Northcoin - I just posted an update
on the NY Post Article in the '1988 $100,000 Error"
thread.
(trying not to mix up Earthquakes with SubHumans)
I was in an earthquake once, in the Midwest........in the 1960's, I was sitting in a small wooden Sunday school chair when it skirted beneath me about an inch. The other kids felt it too. We just looked at each other and laughed. We had no clue what happened.
But......when the big one hits and you don't hear from me anymore..........rest assure, I heard God's word every Sunday, the Holy spirit has my entire family, grandchildren, in-laws and relatives and friends going......I couldn't be more at peace with life or death.
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I feel that as long as I'm not IN a building build
before 1933 or later, or I'm NOT on the street
below an old brick building, I'll be perfectly safe.
(unless the freeway overpasses collapse, as a few
did in the '94 NorthRidge Quake)
Not Fake New - scientists have been saying for
over 50+ years that Southern Calif. will get
"The Big One"in the next 50 or so. So yea,
we might be a bit overdue, but again, if I'm
at home, in my office, on a flat road, we'll be
just fine.
Nothing here in Vegas......just hips on the ladies a swing'n
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E tickets were gold back then. Wonder if you can slab one?
I believe that you WILL be just fine; but with my luck I'd be sucked into the ocean. LOL
I'll take California over living in a place called Tornado Alley
Wow. Glad you're ok!
LOL! I will never move to California!
I would never leave California with the possible exception of Baja Mexico or Hawaii.
Better yet, Cali could break off and become an island, new country?
I was in downtown LA at the building and safety department. My husband was up on the 12th floor and I was 4 levels in the ground parking lot.........never felt a thing. Matter of fact I didn't know we had a quake until I saw your thread.
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Check under the safe, Fred. Maybe the Stella will show up.
Figuratively, it has already done so.
We didn't feel it here in OC either. Like Fred, I was born and raised in SoCal and been through many, many earthquakes, including the Sylmar/San Fernando 6.7 quake in 1971 that jolted me out of bed and knocked me against the wall when I tried to walk down the hallway of our house. But I am still with Fred in that I'd rather feel a quake every few years than be in a tornado, hurricane, or blizzard.
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Pissed I didn't feel it here in Temecula. A good 5.0ish is fun to surf!! It's been a while since we've had a good one..
Doctors see natural disasters everyday!
I love FL. Also love CA and WA though too far from the east coast.
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My wife felt it in Moorpark. I was hurtling down the Southbound Ventura Highway through Westlake Village on 4 bald tires; it would have taken a 6.7 to get my attention
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Well it was not on the San Andreas, so this could be just an isolated event on a peripheral fault out on the Pacific Plate. But these kinds of things have been known to transfer energy to stress build up areas on neighboring faults and trigger them. Probably not in this case though, looks like the energy mostly dissipated before it reached SA.
FWIW, the northern segment through the SF and Bay Area has the biggest probability for a big un in the next 20 years (especially on the Hayward). Doesn't mean LA is off the hook, we just don't know, we can only look at occurrence intervals and try to predict what will happen next.
Best, SH
Been through a number of them, although east at the moment. My son called just after it hit. Moderate. He was on Melrose in W. Hollywood, and his car started bouncing.
LMAO ... be careful what you wish for ..... the rest of the good ole USA would be a world of hurt if the great state of California became its own country and took with it the 6th largest economy in the world.
I was born in Orange and my folks settled in Simi Valley. As a kid I remember the drills at school to get under the desks. My Dad had worked at a Safeway grocery store there and when an earthquake would strike, all the food items would fill the isles. I remember hearing him talking about what a nightmare that was.
We've been out since 1980
My buddy who's from Florida acts like Hurricanes are no big deal and around here we consider a huge snow storm a surprise day off, so I guess it's relative to what your used to.
Those tornados that waste a town look pretty bad from here.
It's tough to watch anybody suffer for these disasters, fire, flood, you name it. We just need to step up and help each other. We're all in this together.