Up late at 4:10 when the sudden jolt tripped me the hell out. At 1st thought it was my nieghbors upstares getting busy.LOL! Haiti,Chile.....Get ready my peeps. Lets see who gives us $$$$$

Yeah I felt it. Shit actually woke me up (which is hard to do). No biggie though. I'll take a million of those small ones as long as they keep releasing the pressure and avoiding the big one.

I like turning earthquakes into farting jokes... Did you hear about the earth quake last night? yeah... feel bad, i had really bad gas... My wife always gets pissed, but for some reason the inmature side of me always laughs.

NOLA native here whos still waiting for some money....citys still destroyed and we won the superbowl, mabye your consistant championship basketball team will make the recovery process speedier.....itll be intersting to see who campigns for you guys since usually its celebs who live IN cali who are running around raising money for these things

It's only fun to raise money for other countries...

yup its comming fellas

it stated shaking my my dog started the bark lol

aww bezzle dont turn this into a sports thread!! lol... we all know ur team wont repeat so good luck with that one... hahaha lake show boooyiiiii!!! o and yeah i felt that "earthquake" i was like WTF? then went right back to sleep... hahaha ppl in cali already too used to them... remember that northridge quake in the 90's now THAT was a quake... lol

4.5 is baby food.

6.6 in northridge when i was in high school and home alone was NO JOKE. saw houses on fire, cars on fire, roads buckled, parking structures collapsed.

Got to see Bill Clinton (no homo) make his appearance and got two weeks off of school.

I can't imagine what a 8.0 feels like.

And yes, a big earthquake is going to come, whether it's tomorrow or 10000 years in the future. We don't know....

4.5 in bed you can feel the bed shake.

6.6 in bed you are bouncing up and down on the bed like you are possessed. It was pretty fun actually.

I don't think the "big one" will come in our lifetime.

I wouldn't bet on that. lol

Btw, the biggest earthquake I've experienced is a 7.2. Yeah. I felt that one. lol

Depends on what you consider the big one. I don't consider a quake like Haiti "the big one". I would call the big one something that breaks off cali into the pacific. Now that my friend is the big one. nm

woke me up this morning...first thing to my mind...was my tv..its not wall mounted..pretty brand new..lol....but everyone need to have some kinda emergency kit or something..

I don't think there's an earthquake powerful enough to break off cali into the pacific right now.

Mexican food will do that to you

LOL only the non-californian natives will make a big deal about a 4.4 earthquake. once you get into a 5 and above, things tend to get more violent. ( the Richter scale is exponential) A 4.4 in socal happens ALL the time, nothing new... get used to it.

A 4.0 aint shit because Its just is like a sudden jolt then stops quikly. The thing that gets people's hearts pumping is that at the moment you dont know if its gonna stop or keep going.Anyway, I aint gonna front, I was on full alert

lol this all sounds so crazy to me the whole ground moving thing, i guess its no weirder than living in a city thats rapidly sinking because someone thought it would be a great idea to build a costal city in an below sea level, shit down here sinks into the ground alot, like on that episode of the simpsons

lol, in hawaii we either dodge lava , sharks or tsunamis

Ben you live in cali. I know you like Hawaii a lot but stop frontin' lol.

do you really want me to move back that bad? ... homo (nm)

that quake was pussy

pussy quake?

(sorry...thought this was the 2word thread)

ahhh another one...better bolt my tv..

Told Ya'll.
7. something,lol

Anyway, sometimes when Im laying down and get up to fast, I get dizzy. Well thats what happend this time and I walked into the restroom.I felt that my dizzyness wasnt going away and actually kinda started to freak out like I was gonna pass out or gonna have a siesure or something. Sure enough it was just my mind playing tricks on me and the ground was actually moving. Like rolling very slowly and for a long ass time. My blinds were swaying back and forth and when I went outside, all my nieghbors were all outside tripping out.

Man that 7.2 kinda had me a lil scared today cause it seemed like it lasted really long

CNN keeps saying that a 6.0 is bound to hit in the next few days.

I was with family in san diego in church for easter services when it hit.

Dont trust anything CNN says. They kept saying "There is Minimal damage in Mexicali" and Spanish TV was like like "There is extensive damage, Loss of infrastructure"... Fucking idiots at CNN.

No need for alarm folks. Best thing to do is be stay calm and be prepared for anything. I like how everyone thinks this is a pre-quel to a larger quake. THE BIG ONE will simply be a quake of 8.0 or higher to occur in either the great LA metro or SF Metro area, where everything is highly populated and the damage to infrastructure and life will be catastrophic. Its going to happen but dont dwell on this shit like its 2012.

While things are still good, Have a contingency plan in place. If you survive, You def want to know where to go to look for relatives and loved ones. If survival matters to you, You'd be prepared for the unexpected.

I know what you mean. One of my co-workers was at her weekend house in mexicali. Fucking house split in half, she says. Good thing she wasn't hurt.
Supposedly, the 2nd person that was killed during the earthquake was someone who was running out of their house to avoid injury and got hit by a car WTF

oh wow www.youtube.com view

Thats the scarey part... My mom was telling me about a guy she met who was telling her about the Tsunami a few years back. he said he was running for the car with his daughter and could see the water about 100 yards in back of him. it kept getting closer and closer.. he didnt know where his wife was.

As they were driving away the water hit, the car started banging around and the water pulled him and his daughter out. they hit a palm tree and were able to climb out of the water. his daughter in one tree and him in the next one over.

Imagine going through all of that and not knowing where your wife/mom is. or anyone who was there with you.

if the phones go out, how do you find anyone?

everyone should just staple one of these to their children and spouses starting today.
www.amazon.com

When cell towers are too jammed to let most calls thru you can usually still get a text thru.



If you didn't get the FEMA $ back in '05, you're shit out of luck.

GPS Locators are a great idea. With my wife and I, We came up with a plan on where to meet up with each other. She actually works for the County so if she survives a quake, She is considered by law a FIRST RESPONDER. She has all sorts of First Aid, CPR, Defib training... Id basically have to trek to her location if I survive. Good to know this stuff.

fixed it

My uncle was having over a bunch of family members for a BBQ... it was odd cause they all said that they started to feel kind of sick, and then the the quake hit... my grandma was laughing cause she was teasing my sis-in-laws sisters that they are were all pregnant (none are married or dating anyone)... i got a funny grandma...

I WANNA FEEEEELLLLLLL IT OH OHH OH OHHHH

Of course being from the midwest I just can't fathom the earth moving under me. This video jus bugged me out.
www.youtube.com view

don't you have tornados that can wipe out your whole trailor park?

LMAO!

Ill put it like this. If your the type that hates not having control of what go's on in your life that directly affects you, then an earthquake will really Piss you off! You will (or should) realize how small of an object you really are compared to the size of the planet let alone the universe.

LOL, OK so Im thinking a little to deeply but It aint nothing nice

That's the only good thing about hurricanes and river floods is they move slowly and give lots of advance notice. Even with tornados and flash floods you have some idea that they might be possible before they happen, but earthquakes almost always give zero notice.

Earthquakes give you little to no notice when they occur. From my experience, since Ive been thru several 6.0+ quakes, including 1989's Loma Prieta Quake in the SF BAY AREA, Some will shake subtly for about 5-10 seconds before everything goes to shit. Just enough time to get under a desk or run outside.

Those videos posted clearly demonstrate how unprepared Californians are when it comes to earthquakes. The best examples are:

- The guy has his camera on, Calls his son and runs to stop his Flat Screen TV from falling over. Your life is worth more than your TV set. Had it been a stronger quake, Beams would have fallen on that man. Is your life worth $800? No.

- The family going Easter Egg Hunting. The earth starts moving.... The first thing any parent should do is pick up their kids and move away from the house. You notice, 10-15 seconds of subtle shaking go by before everything starts to move like crazy. The houses could have fallen on the kids and adults, for their sheer carelessness to the situation. Bad parenting if you ask me.

Some people simply freeze up. You just need to react so you can have a better chance of survival.

Lol. Tru that. Im affraid of those things too. Not sure which could be worse. But like they said above. At least we get somewhat of a warning before tornados.

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I think you just answered your own complaint.

Im not saying its a good thing at all to freeze up but some people are just gonna do that.That shouldnt make them a "bad person" or parent.

I also dont think its a good thing to "just react" although we cant help that either sometimes.You could actually end up putting yourself in a worse situation where you end up failing in your rescue attempts and if that happens.