July 29, 2008

  • Holy Crap! EEAARRTTHHQQUUAAKKEE!!
    "Approximately at 11:42AM, there was a 5.4 earthquake, and the epicenter was about southwest of Chino Hills." I live no more than 7-8 miles away from that city, so you know I really felt that. I was asleep at the time when the bed just started shaking like crazy. Half asleep, I hear the loud rumbling, the house shaking, and I could hear stuff falling to the floor. That lasted maybe a good 15-30 seconds or so. I live in a two story house, so my bedroom was affected the most.

    One of the first things I did, was call my wife, and then my Mom.
    Cellphone was down, probably dude to traffic, so I actually had to use
    the landline phone. All the little ornaments and figurines that my wife has all over the room fell. Drawers opened up, but thankfully no huge items like cabinets tipped over. Three particular things that I thought may fall during an earthquake,
    thankfully did not fall; my CD and DVD collections, and my HDTV. My dogs were scared, and stayed with me all the time, as I checked the rest of the house for any significant damages; which I did not find any. Although checking out the backyard, it looks like the house either moved or the yard did, because the boundary of the grass next to the back patio is about two inches away from each other now. Apparently my neighbor's house got a huge crack on the wall to the ceiling, so we got off luckier than he did.

    I'm hoping that this earthquake is not a foreshock, as there is a 5% chance that it is, with that dropping to 1% after 24 hours from the time. Imagine if it was, and something much stronger than a 5.4 earthquake was still going to happen. Scary. So far, I've only felt one small aftershock, so I'm hoping the worst has already passed. Man, imagine if this happened while Comic-Con was going on....

    I guess it's a good enough time to point out this link below.
    http://www.shakeout.org/
    November 12-16, 2008
    The Great Southern California ShakeOut is a week of special events featuring the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history, organized to inspire Southern Californians to get ready for big earthquakes, and to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes

Comments (3)

  • eeps. glad you guys are ok!

  • scary my @$$!  You're in a fairly new house that stand up to recent earthquake building codes.  On campus the buildings are older than both of us.  Not to mention having to deal with some of the aftermath.

  • Dar : We can act nonchalant about earthquakes all we want in california, especially since like you pointed out that most newer buildings are built for them, but it's still a scary thing.

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