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EARTHQUAKE

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Felt it pretty good here in El Monte, the train does pass about 10ft away from out building so at first we thought it was a train, but when the building started to sway a little bit we knew it was an earth quake. Can't really tell if aftershocks are aftershocks or not because of the trains 🙂
 
I am in South Orange County. The Data Center here road through fine. That is why I tell people to lock the server back into the rack when you are done with it. Also seismic bolts are a good thing in S. Cal. Never did see a loss of service on my Sprint BB. Fairly good jolt it was right the middle of the LAN meeting and we were discussing DR. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Wow, that was an earthquake... Felt it in SD
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felt it here in Bakersfield, too.
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What was it like there, like a gentle shiatsu massage?
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Like sitting on top of a really small ocean wave. I felt it enough to know something had happened before it hit the news, but not enough to stop eating my whole wheat pancakes.
 
Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Like sitting on top of a really small ocean wave. I felt it enough to know something had happened before it hit the news, but not enough to stop eating my whole wheat pancakes.
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My pancakes, you are not worthy of interrupting them.
 
The chick from Caltech is on now she says ALL earthquakes of this size etc are a 5% chance of being a foreshock to a bigger quake, after 24 hours it drops to 1%.
 
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: mjuszczak
Like sitting on top of a really small ocean wave. I felt it enough to know something had happened before it hit the news, but not enough to stop eating my whole wheat pancakes.
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My pancakes, you are not worthy of interrupting them.
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Pancakes are pretty awesome...gonna take a good amount higher than a 5 to interrupt those babies.
 
Originally posted by: MotionMan
We were about to start a deposition in downtown LA (on the 10th floor). One of the lawyers was freaking out.

She has calmed down now and we finally got the depo going.

I sure hope my LCD TV is OK.

MotionMan
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haha everyone just thinks of their LCD's

A couple of IM's i recieved:
[12:04] Jay: my gf is so cool, she saved my TV first
...
[12:49] Jay: yeah she's a keeper

[12:42] Hubert: you know
[12:42] Hubert: my first reaction was
[12:42] Hubert: waking up to an earthquake
[12:42] [dan]: "wtf lemme sleep"
[12:42] [dan]: ?
[12:42] Hubert: I rushed over to my monitor to make sure it didn't fall...


My dad on the phone:
dad: earthquake!!!
me: ya i felt that too in SD
me: is the LCD TV ok?
dad: yes. that was the first thing I looked after when the building started to shake
me: cool

 
Originally posted by: iBPJohn
Felt it pretty good here in El Monte, the train does pass about 10ft away from out building so at first we thought it was a train, but when the building started to sway a little bit we knew it was an earth quake. Can't really tell if aftershocks are aftershocks or not because of the trains 🙂
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Cool, I live there too..kind of interesting just because I don't imagine too many techy people in this area =P..but towards the freeways so no trains...but we had construction some time ago and that kept shaking our house. Thought someone was pounding the ground again at first -_-
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Originally posted by: MotionMan
We were about to start a deposition in downtown LA (on the 10th floor). One of the lawyers was freaking out.

She has calmed down now and we finally got the depo going.

I sure hope my LCD TV is OK.

MotionMan
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haha everyone just thinks of their LCD's

A couple of IM's i recieved:
[12:04] Jay: my gf is so cool, she saved my TV first
...
[12:49] Jay: yeah she's a keeper

[12:42] Hubert: you know
[12:42] Hubert: my first reaction was
[12:42] Hubert: waking up to an earthquake
[12:42] [dan]: "wtf lemme sleep"
[12:42] [dan]: ?
[12:42] Hubert: I rushed over to my monitor to make sure it didn't fall...


My dad on the phone:
dad: earthquake!!!
me: ya i felt that too in SD
me: is the LCD TV ok?
dad: yes. that was the first thing I looked after when the building started to shake
me: cool
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I IMed my GF and she said the first thing she did was get out of bed and hold down her 24"
 
The last real one in Florida
"On November 18, 1952, a slight tremor was felt by many at Quincy, a small town about 20 miles northwest of Tallahassee. Windows and doors rattled, but no serious effects were noted. One source notes, "The shock interfered with writing of a parking ticket." It didn't say in what way. "
 
Originally posted by: dbk
24 aftershocks in 46 minutes... fox news
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I'm just a couple of miles from the epicenter and I haven't felt one aftershock. although I haven't really been paying attention while running around.
 
I was in bed while it happened. Didn't even get up. Wasn't big enough to warrant getting up. I'm here in Whittier, not too far from where it happened so I could feel it but could tell it wasn't that big but it did last for a good while. All I know is that T-mobile sucks. Couldn't get through to anybody to give them a call or text. I guess everything was busy.
 
I can't wait until the big one hits.

:music:
I wanna see it all come down.
suck it down.
flush it down.

P.S. - Learn to swim.
 
As the earthquake rolled through, I was im'ing friends

EARTHQUAKE!!!!

I just sat here, riding the shaking, since there's no room under my desk to duck and cover, and there's no point in running outside.
 
The first earthquake I've ever experienced. It sounded like the noise when you have 3-4 people on the floor above you in the dorm running.

Kinda freaky as there are pots and boxes filled with paper work stacked up to the side of me.
 
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