Bah. 4.2 is barely enough to set off car alarms. If that window broke, that was just bad luck. You don’t start getting real property damage until 5.5 or so.
Kids these days. Why, I remember when we used to have real earthquakes…
I certainly felt it in Glendale. It wasn’t very strong but it was a definite jolt. Pretty short, too.
Wacky thing is that I believe the epicenter was pretty much right under my Mom’s house.
Me, being in Torrance, didn’t feel a thing.
There was an aftershock early this morning. The funny thing is that I woke up with a start a second before it hit. Could the aftershock have reached me and awakened me, but I didn’t perceive it for a second? Or did something else wake me just before it came? Did I “sense” it coming before it got here?
Thank whatever gods there are that we got a 4.2 and not an 8.2. Imagine if America had already been rushing to LA’s aid when this happened.
The same thing has happened to me four different times. It’s also happened to one of Melin’s sons. The most memorable time was before the Northridge shaker. I sat up straight from a sound sleep and looked around the room and thought, “Something’s going to happen.” The the room started moving and I went and stood in the bathroom door. I was never so scared before or since.
There are two different kind of earthquake waves, (propagation waves and shear waves) and the p-wave is faster. The s-wave comes later and it’s the one that everyone feels. Read about earthquake waves here on the USGS website. Unfortunately, they say nothing about some people being able to sense p-waves. But doesn’t someone make a device that detects p-waves and shuts off the gas?
Oh, and while I felt the original shaker (being on the 11th floor), I have felt no after-shocks.
Just now noticed the timing of Johnny’s post about the aftershock.
And again I say, I’m consoling myself with the knowledge that both of our major cities weren’t devastated.
Yeah, Ril, I thought of that too.
I hadn’t heard that. I did not wake up before the Northridge quake. I did when the place started to shake. I normally don’t do anything, but I decided to get into a doorway when I heard my shelves come crashing down (during the Northridge quake).
If you were very close to the Northridge epicenter, then the two types of waves would have arrived just moments apart and you wopuld have had no warning. If you were far away like I was, in Downtown, then the p-wave would arrive much sooner and perhaps you would have awakened.
IOW, if you’re close to Northridge, but far from West Hollywood, that could explain why you were warned by this most recent event, but not by Northridge. (And it means it ain’t much of a warning system if it works only for distant earthquakes!)