Earthquake~

By jozjozjoz
July 29th, 2008 @ 11:43 AM Announcements, Breaking News, Earthquakes

Whoa.
LA Quake Map - July 29 Quake

A moderate earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008.
The magnitude 5.8 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) SW of Chino Hills, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 12 km (8 miles).

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8 Comments so far

  1. Chal Pivik (thunderboltfan) on July 29th, 2008 @ 11:49 am

    5.8, felt in Las Vegas. East of Pomona epicenter according to CNN>


  2. kfreyla on July 29th, 2008 @ 11:50 am

    5.8 2008/07/29 11:42:15 33.959N 117.752W 12.3 3 km ( 2 mi) SW of Chino Hills, CA. This info comes from http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes.big.html

    Felt fairly large rolling bumps and it lasted for a good while here in Rancho Park. Whoa indeed.


  3. WILL CAMPBELL (willcampbell) on July 29th, 2008 @ 11:53 am

    Here on the 10th floor at the Howard Hughes Center in Westchester it certainly "rolled" on through. No visible damage other than some coworkers’ nerves.


  4. ehadams on July 29th, 2008 @ 11:55 am

    Here on the 22nd floor in downtown the entire building shook and shook and shook for minutes. It was quite scary. Now the elevators aren’t working. Which sucks, cause I forgot my lunch at home. What a day to forget it on the kitchen counter.


  5. Spencer Cross (spencercross) on July 29th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    That was a good reminder of why we spent the dough to get our 80-year-old foundation earthquake retrofit!


  6. heatseeker on July 29th, 2008 @ 12:28 pm

    Can’t reach anyone, lousy cell phones, never work when you need them.


  7. mofomon on July 29th, 2008 @ 2:06 pm

    At work in thousand oaks I barely felt this… but my cell phone network totally did. Lines were tied up for over 30 minutes.


  8. Shake shake shake! at jozjozjoz.com (pingback) on July 29th, 2008 @ 11:47 pm

    [...] us), I was like “I’m going to blog this before anyone else does!” And so I made this post at LA Metblogs WHILE THE ROOM WAS STILL SHAKING. Damn, I’m hardcore. Either that, or my survival instinct loses to my blogging [...]



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