Earthquake — Who Felt It?

According to preliminary reports on the U.S. Geological Survey’s website, an earthquake measuring 5.0 struck near San Bernardino at about 7:50 p.m. this evening. I felt light to moderate tremors for about 10 seconds here at the beach. Anybody else?

UPDATE: USGS now lists the earthquake’s strength as 4.5.  Before the 5.0 listing, the initial report I saw was 4.9. The number may well change again shortly.  It’s normal for the figure to fluctuate for a while, apparently because the initial reports are straight from the computers before being reviewed by USGS seismologists.

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10 Comments so far

  1. gesiku on January 8th, 2009 @ 8:15 pm

    felt them in the Los Feliz area


  2. mkinla on January 8th, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

    felt like the wavy kind versus the shaky kind (technical terms!) in Monterey Hills


  3. chezshoes on January 8th, 2009 @ 8:30 pm

    Minor shaking at Wilshire and Fairfax. More of a roll than a shake.


  4. Edward Padgett (edpadgett) on January 8th, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

    Matt,

    Here in San Dimas the earthquake was a quick, but strong, jolt that lasted maybe two seconds. We are about 35 miles west of the epicenter near the 210 and 57 Freeways next to the foothills.


  5. benh57 on January 8th, 2009 @ 8:51 pm

    Did not feel in Westchester.


  6. Julia Frey (lajulia) on January 8th, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

    Did not feel it in West LA, though my stepmom in Hawaii called to make sure I was okay…


  7. frazgo on January 9th, 2009 @ 5:40 am

    Missed it, kids were rowdy around that time and I was in bed reading ready to call it a night. Am near 210/605 in the sgv.


  8. Chenhao » Blog Archive » links for 2009-01-09 (pingback) on January 9th, 2009 @ 7:04 am

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  9. wilberfan on January 9th, 2009 @ 12:07 pm

    [holding up hand] Burbank


  10. Jodi Kurland (jodi) on January 9th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm

    Didn’t feel it in North Hollywood. I was kind of dizzy though, so might have just thought it was that!



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