A light earthquake occurred at 3:29:25 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 15, 2004.
The magnitude 4.7 event occurred 11 km (7 miles) SW of Edwards AFB, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 25 km (16 miles).
It still amazes me how scared I get when I feel the earth shaking. I’ve lived in California almost all my life and have been through some of the big ones, yet I still get freaked out. Hope that was the extent of this small one.
Yes, indeedy. I’m in San Diego, out on Point Loma, and we got a good rattling. Nothing damaged here, though. I work in an old building that shakes when the UPS truck goes by, though, so I’m kind of used to it.
I was sitting here at my computer when it hit. What it felt like for me was a single short sharp back and forth movement; quite brief.
Local TV here in San Diego is talking about two separate reports of epicenters and magnitude readings, one being what dreamer reported, the other being a 5.1 centered in the Pacific Ocean west of Rosarito, Mexico. Haven’t seen/heard enough yet to understand why there are these two separate reports.
And by that, I of course mean that they are disrupting the “work environment” around here. Not that you are all jerks for talking about it. (can I quit digging now?)
Their chatter is forcing me to surf instead of work. Yeah, that’s it!
There were, apparently, two earthquakes, almost one right after the other. One was felt in the San Diego/Mexican Border area, the other was felt, as per the OP around the high desert area NE of Los Angeles. I felt a slight swaying as I sat at my desk on the third floor. It’s the second one I’ve felt here since we moved into the new building, which is built on huge rollers. This earthquake and the Cambria earthquake last December both translated into long, slow, rolling motions that made me feel slightly dizzy.
I’m one of the few people I know who was in the Bay Area for the Loma Prieta quake and in SoCal for the Northridge quake. The Northridge quake is the only one I’ve been in that really, truly scared me since I was a little kid.
Man. Didn’t even feel it. But they kinda gotta rattle me good before I do. I’m at the top of a 6 story building right by some train tracks, and every time a line of tanker cars go by, I have to stand up to make sure it’s a train and not a tremblor shaking my chair. This building has some kind of resonance. But small shakers don’t get much notice here.
I’m in Pasadena and didn’t feel it at all; I didn’t even know about it until I saw this thread.
I was on my feet organizing a lab at the time, which could explain it. My experience is that one is much more likely to feel a quake when sitting or lying down.
Local TV is reporting a 3.6 aftershock occurred at 5:43 PM local time; the USGS page I linked to in my last post is showing it. I didn’t feel that one at all.
This may sound a bit weird, but I felt it here in Las Vegas.
I felt it at the time Jeffwc quotes, I was getting up to go home to watch the Pistons game. I paused to see if anyone else was going to comment but since the room was full of whiny kids I think everyone else missed it. The 5:43 shake was slight, I thought I was fainting.
So I’m not crazy? I thought I felt a little wobbling, but it was very subtle. I’m way down on the border, an hour from Arizona and 2 hours from San Diego, so that baby had decent range.