Okay in LA? Check in please if you were in the area of today's earthquake!

[Heather]

please? Thank you! Hope all are fine!

 

[rdlsreno]

I hope all our friends in LA are OK. Peter Lin are you OK?

Ramon

 

[Heather]

Not sure Peter is a member here but I can try to check in on big leaf tomorrow if no one else can beat me to it!

 

[neo-guy]

Hi, I'm the other Peter (T.) Lin! I get confused a lot with Peter in Texas.
Ramon, I'm fine as well as my family. My sister actually lives in Chino Hills, and had no damage.
I was at work when the earthquake hit, about 25 miles south of C.H., and still felt a pretty strong jolt.
When I came home, i immediately checked the greenhouse as well as stuff in the house. I was worried i might come home to a mess in the kitchen.
Anyhoo, i was very fortunate as i did not see any visible damage. The plants looked the same as i had left them!
Thanks,
Peter

 

[Heather]

Oh gosh! Didn't know there were two!

Glad you are okay Peter!

 

[Greenpaph]

Glad everything is ok, Peter!

 

[goldenrose]

Whew!!!

 

[practicallyostensible]

A few plants and wine bottles knocked off the shelves, but nothing major. It was a quite a shake though!

 

[NYEric]

Yup! Is the weather really worth it!? oke:

 

[Drorchid]

Glad Julia and Peter are OK!

Robert

 

[practicallyostensible]

Yup! Is the weather really worth it!? oke:

YES!

 

[rdlsreno]

A few plants and wine bottles knocked off the shelves, but nothing major. It was a quite a shake though!

Thank God you are OK too Julia!


Ramon

 

[goldenrose]

Glad to continue to hear people are OK! I heard this was a rolling earthquake, what's the difference?

 

[neo-guy]

Big difference between rolling and jarring. The Whittier quake was a jarring one. Felt like a mac truck hit the side of the house. It also seemed like there was a loud sound with the jolt. Not pretty....
Rolling is more swaying or somewhat smooth motion.
Peter.

 

[NYEric]

Wow, earthquake idioms! You're all crazy!

 

[goldenrose]

Big difference between rolling and jarring. The Whittier quake was a jarring one. Felt like a mac truck hit the side of the house. It also seemed like there was a loud sound with the jolt. Not pretty....
Rolling is more swaying or somewhat smooth motion.
Peter.

Thanks Peter! Not living in an earthquake area, I don't know & this was the first time I've heard any type of reference to type, usually strength gets all the attention, understandably so. Would one assume that jarring ones are higher on the richter scale? After shocks, any different then too?

 

[neo-guy]

Not sure on higher scale...I think rolling motion is more prevalent the farther you get from the epicenter. After shocks are just like the first, but usually shorter and not as strong.
Overall, an earthquake is very un-nerving at the least. When something like the ground moves, that usually does not, it is a most unusual experience!
Once one starts, you never know how long it's going to last. Could be a second or two, or a minute long!
Perhaps the saving grace is you never know when one is going to hit, so you can't prepare for it mentally.
Peter T.

 

[Heather]

Last fall we had one where I live in Massachusetts. The epi was about 5 miles from where I live. It was very minor at 2.5 on the scale but, living in the basement as I do, I'm close to the ground and it woke me up. It was a rolling one and it literally felt like it! The ground basically "did the wave" underneath my bed. It was the first time I had experienced one, and though it was very minor and nothing moved other than the floor, it was unmistakeable.

 

[NYEric]

In 2001, I think, there was one in NY. I remember it was about a 4 on the richter scale and it knocked me out of bed.