Boy.....we just had a good earthquake.....:-()
6.9, located near Mexicali. I'm just thankful that it wasn't any closer. Jed barked, and then sat down by the back door -- kind of like he was guarding things. I keep thinking that I'm feeling another one. THAT'S the part I don't like.
Happy Easter, everyone! :D
Laura -- and Jed
i thought it was the wind. :D
It lasted a long time.
I have a security camera on the roof (5 story building), and it shows the jacuzzi. It was kinda cool watching the water slosh around.
One time, we had a quake that through about 20% of the water out of the jacuzzi so this one wasn't too bad.......it just lasted a long time.
Not sure about using the words 'good' and 'earthquake' in the same sentence.
Hope there wasn't a lot of damage anywhere and especially no injuries.
Quote from: wavery;216265It lasted a long time.
I have a security camera on the roof (5 story building), and it shows the jacuzzi. It was kinda cool watching the water slosh around.
One time, we had a quake that SLOSHED about 20% of the water out of the jacuzzi so this one wasn't too bad.......it just lasted a long time.
It was kind of a rolling one down here and but no damage, the dog didnt even bark and she's a BIG baby.
Quote from: Spirit Deer;216266Not sure about using the words 'good' and 'earthquake' in the same sentence.
Hope there wasn't a lot of damage anywhere and especially no injuries.
On a
personal level.....any earthquake that you don't get any damage from is a "Good" earthquake....... Once there is damage........everything changes.
I feel for the people in Mexico, that were close to the center. It must have been very violent......7.2 is not a good day.......
we'd just got home from the Easter rally and Dan was putting the stabilizers down and he thought wow I need to be more carefull I'm making the trailer rock alot...I was with the kids looking down at the table when the rolling motion started..at first I thought something was wrong with me...it was a weird one
Quote from: Dee4j;216272we'd just got home from the Easter rally and Dan was putting the stabilizers down and he thought wow I need to be more carefull I'm making the trailer rock alot...I was with the kids looking down at the table when the rolling motion started..at first I thought something was wrong with me...it was a weird one
that one would have been fun with a few blue bombers!!
We are about 50 miles from where it was centered and it really jolted us. I was laying on my bed watching TV and working on an improved ad rotation routine for PUX and PUX Trading Post when things started to shake, then it started getting violent. so I closed my laptop, about that time the power went out. One of the girls was trying to pick up the printer that fell over, the other was sceaming and my wife was just finishing her shower so we could go out. It was hard walking to the back of the camper with all the shaking. But I agree it lasted a long time and was more violent than anything I've experience before, including the quake a week before the Haiti quake.
When I steped outside, I noticed we were moved forward about four or five intches, the stabalizers were no longer on the blocks, the locking chock was almost out between the tires. The blocks under the tounge looked like they were drug along the ground a couple inches. I reset the stabalizers and locking chock and then checke on the water and electric. I had filled our water tank a month ago when they were working on the plumbing for the park so we just switched to the pump. I connected my inverter to power my router and modem so I could get internet which I had for about 40 minutes when it cut out.
The power is back on now for aa few hours now, the neternet came back about an hour ago.
walking around thepark I was shocked to see the mess in the parking lot from the lagoon around the office and club house. There were rocks and mud and fish everywhere up to 60 or 70 feet away from the lagoon. The pool lost about 2 feet of water and much of that water ended up in the common room and office, looks like quite a clean-up operation. At least three of the park model homes lost stablizers and collapsed.
I hear a house was on fire on my mother-in-laws street in Mexicali. A buddy of mine lost about a foot and a half in his pool at his fiesta park in Mexicali. I did hear of a collpsed parking structer and about six houses burned also in Mexicali. The rood from the interstate to the RV park here was closed due to some damage or split in the road. It sounds like most of El Centro shut down when the power was lost, so we never did make it out. Of course now it's rreally windy so it's been a heck of a day.
Wow Dean, you were right on top of it, Hope all's well for you and your family.
Quote from: dno;216276We are about 50 miles from where it was centered and it really jolted us. I was laying on my bed watching TV and working on an improved ad rotation routine for PUX and PUX Trading Post when things started to shake, then it started getting violent. so I closed my laptop, about that time the power went out. One of the girls was trying to pick up the printer that fell over, the other was sceaming and my wife was just finishing her shower so we could go out. It was hard walking to the back of the camper with all the shaking. But I agree it lasted a long time and was more violent than anything I've experience before, including the quake a week before the Haiti quake.
When I steped outside, I noticed we were moved forward about four or five intches, the stabalizers were no longer on the blocks, the locking chock was almost out between the tires. The blocks under the tounge looked like they were drug along the ground a couple inches. I reset the stabalizers and locking chock and then checke on the water and electric. I had filled our water tank a month ago when they were working on the plumbing for the park so we just switched to the pump. I connected my inverter to power my router and modem so I could get internet which I had for about 40 minutes when it cut out.
The power is back on now for aa few hours now, the neternet came back about an hour ago.
walking around thepark I was shocked to see the mess in the parking lot from the lagoon around the office and club house. There were rocks and mud and fish everywhere up to 60 or 70 feet away from the lagoon. The pool lost about 2 feet of water and much of that water ended up in the common room and office, looks like quite a clean-up operation. At least three of the park model homes lost stablizers and collapsed.
I hear a house was on fire on my mother-in-laws street in Mexicali. A buddy of mine lost about a foot and a half in his pool at his fiesta park in Mexicali. I did hear of a collpsed parking structer and about six houses burned also in Mexicali. The rood from the interstate to the RV park here was closed due to some damage or split in the road. It sounds like most of El Centro shut down when the power was lost, so we never did make it out. Of course now it's rreally windy so it's been a heck of a day.
Glad everyone in the family is OK.
There have been well over 100 tremors since the main tremor, 15 hours ago. 3 of them have been over 5.0, located near Seely, CA. The one at 6:33 this morning woke me up (in Los Angeles). The tremors arrive hear about 2 minutes later.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/116-33_eqs.htm
Well, we've been rockin' 'n rollin' since yesterday. Like Dean, I, too, was about 50 or so miles from the epicenter. I live in the Imperial Valley,as well, but about 10 mi N of El Centro in Brawley. I didn't get any damage or things falling (just lucky, for sure) but my neighbors' homes look to have been ransacked inside. Everybody that has a pool lost at least a foot of water. Some had the pool water come in the house, so they have some flooding issues.
I work for the irrigation district, so was put on standby for emergency responce. Several of our canals lost alot of water as the quake sloshed it out, resulting in some minor road flooding. Fortunately no water control structures were damaged. Canal banks, levees, structures etc. are still being assessed for damage.
I was activated, with the rest of the Aerosquadron, as part of the Sheriff's dept search and rescue groups, to provide aerial surveilance of the populated areas for building collapses, road damage, looting, flooding etc. I ended up spending about 4.5 hrs flying around the valley at low altitude. I could see that there wasn't much damage at all. Some buildings in downtown El Centro had the front glass windows blow out, and there were reports of looters, but we couldn't spot them.
In Brawley, the Walmart, Von's and other large buildings were closed while the fire dept inspected them for structural damage. Obviously, there was alot of merchandise that ended up on the floor, as well. I heard a report this morning that some water damage occured in a building or two as a result of the fire sprinkler system activating.
When I came into my office this morning, there wasn't any damage, but there wasn't anything left on any of the bookshelves in any of our office spaces, so we're still cleaning up in the office.
I heard a radio report this AM that there were several buildings that collapsed in Mexicali, some are thought to be trapped, and there are 2 confirmed dead.
Interstate 8, between San Diego and El Centro was closed for a time last night due to landslides (big boulders!!!) but is now re-opened.
We're getting ourselves put back together and back to our regular schedules. We're still having aftershocks of magnitude 3 or better pretty consistantly. According to the USGS earthquake info, most of the quakes are along the Laguna Salada fault which is west of us a ways, but runs, pretty much, SE to NW thru the mountains west of us. Apparently, this fault hasn't had a major quake over magnitude 5 on over 50 yrs.
Anyway, I'm rambling. That's about it from this end. I'll keep y'all posted if a REALLY BIG ONE hits.
Steve :usflag:
Quote from: waterdoctor;216283Well, we've been rockin' 'n rollin' since yesterday. Like Dean, I, too, was about 50 or so miles from the epicenter. I live in the Imperial Valley,as well, but about 10 mi N of El Centro in Brawley. I didn't get any damage or things falling (just lucky, for sure) but my neighbors' homes look to have been ransacked inside. Everybody that has a pool lost at least a foot of water. Some had the pool water come in the house, so they have some flooding issues.
I work for the irrigation district, so was put on standby for emergency responce. Several of our canals lost alot of water as the quake sloshed it out, resulting in some minor road flooding. Fortunately no water control structures were damaged. Canal banks, levees, structures etc. are still being assessed for damage.
I was activated, with the rest of the Aerosquadron, as part of the Sheriff's dept search and rescue groups, to provide aerial surveilance of the populated areas for building collapses, road damage, looting, flooding etc. I ended up spending about 4.5 hrs flying around the valley at low altitude. I could see that there wasn't much damage at all. Some buildings in downtown El Centro had the front glass windows blow out, and there were reports of looters, but we couldn't spot them.
In Brawley, the Walmart, Von's and other large buildings were closed while the fire dept inspected them for structural damage. Obviously, there was alot of merchandise that ended up on the floor, as well. I heard a report this morning that some water damage occured in a building or two as a result of the fire sprinkler system activating.
When I came into my office this morning, there wasn't any damage, but there wasn't anything left on any of the bookshelves in any of our office spaces, so we're still cleaning up in the office.
I heard a radio report this AM that there were several buildings that collapsed in Mexicali, some are thought to be trapped, and there are 2 confirmed dead.
Interstate 8, between San Diego and El Centro was closed for a time last night due to landslides (big boulders!!!) but is now re-opened.
We're getting ourselves put back together and back to our regular schedules. We're still having aftershocks of magnitude 3 or better pretty consistantly. According to the USGS earthquake info, most of the quakes are along the Laguna Salada fault which is west of us a ways, but runs, pretty much, SE to NW thru the mountains west of us. Apparently, this fault hasn't had a major quake over magnitude 5 on over 50 yrs.
Anyway, I'm rambling. That's about it from this end. I'll keep y'all posted if a REALLY BIG ONE hits.
Steve :usflag:
Glad to hear that you're safe & sound. Look forward to hearing all about it in a couple weeks, at Santee.
Thanks Wayne, we'll see ya there.
Also, I thought I'd pass this along. It's not from our local rag (they don't print on Mondays :confused:)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-quake5-2010apr05,0,3291994,full.story
Also, if you're interested, you can see whata our local paper has online by clicking here: http://www.ivpressonline.com/
Now, I've got to get out in the field to do some inspections. I'll check back later.
Steve
After shocks centered under seeley, that is about a mile away from us, that's where the girls are going to school at the moment. We felt one good aftershock this morning, I want to say it was around 4:15am. The kids and wife have been nearvous. Me, I'm not too worried about us. I think I would rather be in my RV during these earthquakes, although from what I can see we get a somewhat amplified movement. During one aftershock I could barely feel it on the ground, but could see the camper swaying front to back.
My wife has mostly been worried for her mom In Mexicali. I guess her sister stayed at her mom's house and they stayed in a bedroom that had an exterior door.... just in case. Her brother and some of the kids slept in their car so people are afraid to be inside. I know as of last night they were still without water or electricity I have not heard on the status this morning, my wife calls her mom after every aftershock.
Actually what I find most frustrating is not being able to find information about the quake other than what everyone has already heard. I guess there was not enough devistation for the news to give it any interest.
Here's something one of my coworkers found.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2010/04/05/deadly-magnitude-quake-strikes-near-mexico-border
DNO, I think you're right about the media. Unfortunately, the Imperial/Mexicali Valleys don't seem to rate much attention :mad:
I'm glad to hear you guys made it thru OK. From what you described it sounds like you're address is at Rio Bend.
Your close, rio bend is down the road a bit, we are on the other side of the interstate at Sunbeam Lake. thanks for the link.
Quote from: dno;216300Your close, rio bend is down the road a bit, we are on the other side of the interstate at Sunbeam Lake. thanks for the link.
:sombraro:
Yup - I know exactly where that's at. I go by there often on my way to Mt. Signal area to check fields. Looks like a nice place (from the road). It looks like the aftershocks are slowing down quite a bit. That 5.3 at oh-dark-thirty this AM was a real wake-up call. There's several road closures, mostly at bridge crossings over the New River in the SW part of the valley, making it difficult to get down by Mt. Signal. :mad:
Well so much for INCOGNITO.......:)
I like the layout of Sunbam Lake vs Rio Bend, we drove through rio bend a few years ago when we were visiting down here. Also a few years ago sunbeam lake was not very busy, this year during the same period it was full, now things are thinning out however.
Looks like there was more damage to the pool area than I first thought. I went by yesterday and it was full again, but, it looks like the tile edge was damaged there are several chunks missing and there seems to be somthing wrong with the deck. the office was closed yesterday so I could not ask about it. I did go into the laundry facility at the clubhouse to recharge our laundry card and there was a bunch of water on the floor, hopefully that was from the lagoon and not from a leak in the plumbing.
I think my in-laws have their power back now. I felt an aftershock last night, but I don't remember feeling anything this morning.
Dean
I'm sure you're aware, but if not, that road just outside Sunbeam is closed northbound to Seeley. But you can still get to I-8. If you try to get to Camacho's for their good Mex food, you might have to take a bit of a roundabout route to get there. It looks like LaBrucherie is open from EC south, you could go into EC then backtrack a bit to LB and head S to Wahl, then W to Camachos. I'm sure you've eaten there. Yummmmmm!!! :p
Steve
When I first heard about the Drew road closure, I understood that the closure was south of Sunbeam. The school called about the bus pickup and drop off change and mentioned that it was closed between sunbeam and Ross. I normally drive the girls to school in the morning but they take the bus home. I was thinking that with the road closed there I would have to go out of my way to go one mile to the school. Turns out the RV Park has a gate on the east side of the park that I can get through to get onto Drew so it's too bad.
Dean
I sent you a PM this morning.
Steve
I glade i don't live in california i don't think i could handle all the shack rattle and roll
Quote from: WolfPack;216438I glade i don't live in california i don't think i could handle all the shack rattle and roll
Yep!!!!! Pretty freaking awful........shakin' all the time :yikes:....whooooey!!!!
I wouldn't recommend
anyone live in California..........:banghead: CRAZY.........WILD........shakin' kinda place.........:p
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