Earthquake

[jackhutchinson]

When the quake hit I was in the shower after having worked out at the gym.  I was so scared I couldn't move.  When the rolling/shaking stopped about 30sec after it started I put my clothes on without even drying off.  

The epicenter was about 35 miles north of my home in San Luis Obispo.  The only injuries and fatalities have been from Paso Robles (30 miles north of SLO).  I have not felt any of the 60+ aftershocks that have hit since then.

Jack

[summer007]

Wow it takes a real Man to admit Fear.........I too felt the quake here in L.A.. At first I thought I was Dizzy..very unusual....and then I noticed my daughters Elvis clock's legs swaying back and forth sure sign....Hope everyone is O.K. up there...Time for the dramamine.....

[sfortescue]

I felt it slightly here in Simi Valley.  Since the shaking was very slow, I deduced that it was far away and therefore a fairly strong quake.

I've been through two quakes.  I lived in Granada Hills during the Sylmar quake in 1971 and here in Simi during the Northridge quake.  In both quakes bookcases fell over and thing fell out of cupboards and broke.  In the Northridge quake the block walls around my house fell over.  In the Sylmar quake there was a two story house a few blocks away in which the second floor came loose and shifted over relative to the first floor, and also a few blocks away a gas main broke and caught fire and left a large hole in the street.

[editor]

As far as Earthquakes go, it was average.  However, it is the biggest earthquake on the Central Coast in recent memory.  We had plenty of broken glass in our house, but no one was hurt.  It is all cleaned up now, and we go on with normal life.

I am thankful that this wasn't a HUGE quake in the Bay Area, or LA, as California does not need another natural disaster right now.  All in all, damage was minimal, with the tragic exception of 3 people who were killed very near our home when a brick building collapsed on them.

Brent

[Oscar]

As far as I am concerned the Northridge quake was huge.

Valley people from the 70's and 80's can remember door to door witnessing around CSUN.  All of those 3 story apartments were shut down for a year or so.  The 12 story Northridge Towers dorm had to be demolished.

Repairs to my house on Andasol cost me $25,000.  To me, thats huge.

Tom

[editor]

As far as I am concerned the Northridge quake was huge.

Valley people from the 70's and 80's can remember door to door witnessing around CSUN.  All of those 3 story apartments were shut down for a year or so.  The 12 story Northridge Towers dorm had to be demolished.

Repairs to my house on Andasol cost me $25,000.  To me, thats huge.

Tom

Quite right Tom.  

This quake was nothing at all like Northridge.  The amount of damage there was incredible, whereas up here it is relatively negligable.  Of course if you were one of the three people who were killed, or their families, than what I am saying is not true.

Nevertheless, from a public health standpoint, this quake is miniscule.   At our house, I estimate 50 dollars worth of damage.  We had several decorative olive oil bottles, filled with oil and spices all pretty like.   Well, they were on top of our cabinets, about 10 feet in the air, and they all broke on our tile floor.  Lots of glass and oil to clean up, but that's it.  We feel very thankful, as do most people around here, with the exception of those in the Jewelry store that collapsed.  That is tragic.

While this quake was occurring, I thought,  "This must be a gigantic quake in San Francisco, if we are feeling it this much down here."  Thankfully, I was wrong. Hopefully, this quake doesn't trigger a "real" earthquake down in LA, or up in the Bay Area.  We don't need another natural disaster in California right now.

Brent

[Kimberley Tobin]

I can't agree with you more, Brent.  California DOES NOT need another natural disaster!

I lived through the Sylmar earthquake in the 70's, the Northridge earthquake in 94 and the San Diego fires that just recently occurred.  In my experience, the natural disasters are progressively getting worse.  This is what the Lord said would happen, but it is rather unsettleing in the midst of the situation.

It does however, stop everyone in their day to day hum drum lives and for many, get them to reevaluate what they find meaningful.  For those purposes I suppose they are worth it.

[Recovering Saint]

I am glad there was minimal damage and loss of life. We saw the pictures on CNN and the Canadian Networks.

Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. I am sure people in California understand that better than most.

BTW is this warfare or persecution?

Hugh  

[Joe Sperling]

Hello everyone--what's shakin'?

Having lived in So. Cal. all of my life, yesterday's quake was kind of like "business as usual". I was sitting at my desk at work and started to feel the quake. Upon feeling it's extent I said "That was probably a 5.4" without moving from my desk. I was off of course by 1.1, the quake being centered further north. But it's amazing how some of us are so used to quakes that it takes quite a "shaking" to get us up and under a doorway. The biggest quake I have ever lived through was the Feb. 9, 1971 earthquake in Sylmar. That was a massive quake---at least massive due to how close I lived to the epicenter. I hope I never have to live through another one like that.

--Joe

[editor]

BTW is this warfare or persecution?

Hugh  

It happened because I have been persecuting The Assembly.  They are the salt of the Earth, and now that they are mostly gone, we can expect more earthquakes and fires.   Isn't this the last days?  

Brent

[Eulaha L. Long]

I am in San Francisco right now, visiting my relatives.  I didn't feel the earthquake...although many in the Bay Area said they did...I hope everyone is alright, I was so worried...

[summer007]

Another sign is "False Prohets shall arise and show great signs and wonders;insomuch that,if it were possible,they shall DECIEVE the very ELECT" MT 24 .....and in Luke 21 it says, " When these things bgin to take place then LOOK UP YOUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NEAR" So be ready always....Of course most Assm people know all these verses by heart..I remember someone who left and I asked him where he went to church now and he said,'Where do you go when you know it all' hum...Yes where do you go when you know it all? I think this is an understatment ...Its only what you learn after you know it ALL that really counts... If that does'nt give you Vim, Vigor and Vitality then your Deader than a Door -Knob Or Door-Nail I dont know Its one of those.....I must of been nodding off....

[sfortescue]

I dont know Its one of those.....

To quote an expert on the subject:

    Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

     Mind!  I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.  I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.  But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.  You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

                                   -- Charles Dickens  A Christmas Carol

[Scott McCumber]

. . .  then your Deader than a Door -Knob Or Door-Nail I dont know Its one of those.....I must of been nodding off....

Summer,

Stephen cleared up the "door nail" part. The "doorknob" part is used when describing particularly icy surfaces, such as roads or steps on a front porch. As in, "slicker than snot on . . . " Or maybe that's just a Midwest thing!

Scott

[al Hartman]

Hello everyone--what's shakin'?

 ...I was sitting at my desk at work and started to feel the quake. Upon feeling it's extent I said "That was probably a 5.4" without moving from my desk. I was off of course by 1.1, the quake being centered further north...

     Actually, Joe, you may have been right.  Jay Leno said that the quake registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, or 5.4 on the BCS computer...  

 ;)al