Just now. 7:50 p.m. Pacific time.
Didn’t last too long (about two seconds). Just a lateral jerk of the earth.
Anybody else feel it/know the epicenter and magnitude?
Felt it here as well in Van Nuys. Reported to the US Geological Service. (earthquake.usgs.gov)
Felt very mild here in Pasadena. Hard to believe it’s a 5.0.
and my poor kitty is freaking out. He really hates earthquakes.
Huh, I’m in Van Nuys and didn’t feel anything. Part of that may be the fact that 10 minutes ago I was concerned with putting out a fire I started in my own apartment by absent-mindedly heating up vegetable oil on “high” heat instead of “medium/medium-low”.
Heh, that would do it. It wasn’t much and if I was really focused on something like that I probably wouldn’t even have noticed. Then I would be wondering why the cat was spazzing.
I’m in Van Nuys as well (actually 1 block away from Van Nuys) and I kind of felt it. Well I didn’t really feel it as much as I saw it. Was thinking “why the hell is my monitor moving by itself?”
Felt it in Los Angeles. The kitty got up, stretched, and went back to sleep.
According to the GPS, it occurred directly under the restaurant we had dinner at tonight! 5.0. Freaked the kitties, it did.
Hey, good to know I’m not the only Doper around here. I tend to think of this as kind of a crummy neighborhood (not nearly as bad as where I used to live in south L.A., but still - it’s kind of crummy) and I picture most Dopers living in their majestic castles on high - or at least nice homes with ample square footage in suburbia.
You West Coast people are so blase about earthquakes, everyone would be freaking out over a 5.0 in the midwest like they did last April when a 5.2 in Illinois hit very early morning.
It shook enough to get me out of be to check the computer, and I live 200 miles away
Why do you think I haven’t changed my location field from Studio City? 
I really miss the boulevard…I used to live right by Ventura and Fulton. ::cries a little::
OTOH, I freak around tornadoes. Earthquakes are nothing. The house shook a bit and nothing fell. Big whoop. But tornadoes are Evil Incarnate. I could never live in the Mid-West for that very reason. Too many watchings of Wizard of Oz as a kid, I guess.
I swear I’m always in the damn car for earthquakes. Dammit.
It woke me up right after I moved here. I looked at the ceiling and decided that if it wasn’t falling on me it must not be New Madrid cutting loose, so I went back to sleep.
Michala is out of the house now, at a choir practice for her school. The last time we had an earthquake that we felt (07-29-08), she absolutely freaked.
I’m about to go pick her up, in fact. I hope that she’s not a quivering mass of jelly…
It’s amazing what a difference a few miles makes around here. When I first came out to this area, I couldn’t get over how close Beverly Hills is to the shitty parts of Hollywood leading toward downtown L.A. - you can get from 90210 to skid row in under 20 minutes if traffic isn’t bad (yeah I know that means pretty much only the dead of the night :p)
I technically live in North Hollywood (Saticoy and Woodman) so Van Nuys is right there. Sure it isn’t the nicest of places but everyone from outside of here makes it out to be a lot worse and dangerous than it actually is.
Wow, you are actually really close to me. Also you are really really close to the set where they film The Office (are you a fan of the show? Shit, do you work on the show?)
And I agree, it’s not too bad a place, it’s just not too good.