HUGE earthquake in southern california just now

[sonick]

it was a 5.8. I felt it, hard. I thought it was the big one.

Originally Posted by Manton

I don't mean to be calous, but 5.8 is not huge, and it's about two orders of magnitude south of "the big one."
That's what she said.

 

[Baron]

Originally Posted by redcaimen

We felt it here outside Julian. Odd when you consider 5.8 is not particularly impressive. Whenever I feel the earth shake a little here I wonder if Im just feeling the periphery of a massive city leveling earthquake from a few hundred miles away.

I have that same thought every time I feel a quake. I was in the Loma Prieta quake in '89, and as soon as it ended, my first thought was, hey, that wasn't really all that bad. My second thought was, what if that was centered in L.A. - damn!

 

[itsstillmatt]

I didn't know you guys even had earthquakes worth mentioning down in SoCal.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I didn't know you guys even had earthquakes worth mentioning down in SoCal.

 

[Very_British]

Nice one grimslade. You're a star!

Originally Posted by grimslade

So you thought, "Hey, I'll post a message about it on a clothing forum!"?

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008...910001215a.txt

 

[Very_British]

Gentlemen, take a step back and think for a minute.

The amount of death, injury, carnage, misery and dire straits, which have to be endured by hundreds or even thousands of people after an earthquake...

and there have been films on at the pictures (movies, for you guys in the States) and it's ferckin FULL!!!

The human being is a rather sad, little species my friends!

V_B