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We just had a quake here. Biggest in my memory. I’m just outside downtown San Diego and we had sustained rumbling for a few seconds. The real deal.
It looks like it’s not this one.
It appears to be this one: centered offshore: via Southern California Earthquake Data Center:
A moderate earthquake occurred at 22:28:49 (UTC) on Tuesday, June 15, 2004. The magnitude 5.2 event has been located OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO. The hypocentral depth was poorly constrained.
San Diego Bloggers feel it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
Is this the quake predicted by Vladimir Keilis-Borok? And USGS on the prediction
See also: Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
signonsandiego.com (the SDUT) is VERY slow, presumably as everyone stampedes to get the news from our hometown paper.
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UPDATE: New York Newsday has a good piece on the quake, as does the San Diego Daily Transcript.
UPDATE 18 June 04: I was curious about previous quakes in San Diego, and did some digging on the San Diego Historical Society.
Listed below are the major earthquakes that occurred in California, Nevada and Baja, California from 1769 to present. The list includes all known earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 6 and selected smaller events.
The 1862 quake is referred to here as a “Day of Terror” by an A.A. Ensworth, a man with no regular source of income, apparently. He did so in correspondence between Ensworth and Thomas Whaley. In this image is a sketch of the damage to the Whaley house. Rather underwhelming.
For California, San Diego seems historically to be less seismically active than San Francisco or Los Angeles, not to mention the rest of California - at least for larger quakes. There are several places on the sandiegohistory site that indicate many transplants to San Diego did so because of the 1906 quake in San Francisco.
felt it in la jolla, too. dunno which one, though. kinda reminds me of home - we’d get quakes all the time in alaska…
hello, put a freakin coherent sentence together. I don’t know which quake we felt here in La Jolla…
Heh. thanks for the comments mikey. It’s really neat to see all the bloggers posting right after. Gotta love the compulsive bloggers!
Heh.. I just asked you where you were from in my comments.
My mom used to live in Alaska I had no idea it was earthquake-prone.
Up to the minute earth-quake news within seconds by San Diego Bloggers.. lol
The comments entry box goes under the right nav, btw.. WAY off the edge of my screen..
sh*t howdy - i immediately put my meds in the backpack, eyed by cat carrier and then…put on my pants. Where are my priorities?
Not enough “here” links in the original blog entry above.
How about one more? It’s here
felt it in newport beach, strong enough to move my 16 story brick/glass at fashion island. kind of reminded me of one that woke me up when stationed at NTC back around 92.
In Clairemont I heard my windows suddenly rattle loudly and my dog ran to the door barking but I thought it was just a strong gust of wind.
An observation from Oklahoma, the nice thing about tornados vs earthquakes: You never have to guess which one hit you.
Nothing out here by the Wild Animal Park. I think last years fires scared it away.
im afraid its going to happend here in san diego but i live in imperial beach do you think qe are goin to fell it ?
I just felt an earthquake in my beach cottage zip 92107 Ocean Beach. It had to be big somewhere for my couch to move and the wall made cracking noises. (around 2:55am 8/30/07)
I felt an earthquake in Point Loma at 2:55 pm also. My couch was shaking and woke me up.
Just fely a rumbler here in Poway. Lasted a few seconds.
mira mesa just shook for about 10 seconds pretty good rumble but no appearant damage
The earthquake woke me up this morning in OB and I turned on the news at 8am and they said it was a 4pt 7 miles SW off the coast of La Jolla. They said it was pretty much in the same place as the one last Thursday.
We felt it today near the San Diego Airport, it shook a second floor conference room for 5-10 seconds.
There have been 10 earthquakes near the La Jolla area in the last 24 hours. The largest magnitude appears to have been 4.0 at about 8 am this morning (Sept 4.th) For up to the minute (well within 5 minutes of a quake at least) information on quakes, see: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
I think it’s weird. It’s the most activity that La Jolla’s seen in a while, and in the mean time, the La Jolla quakes started just prior to the biggest heat wave we’ve had in a while. I’m no geologist or meteorologist, but could they be related ya think?
Felt Earthquake on Sat last at 6:00 AM in OB - Dogs nearby were barking then neighbour yelled to stop then Earthquake -
Tonight also felt ripple in OB at around 10 PM - is this significant for something larger? - not use to EQ’s - just moved here from Ireland
In Hillcrest last night (Sunday around 2:15 am) I felt a strong shock moving the floor and the walls of the apartment. The shock wave seemed to come from the West-NorthWest direction. It lasted only about one-and-a-half seconds. I immediately thought “earthquake,” and the only other possibility that came to mind was a big military explosion.
just move in the de anza park and today i came home from walking and i flet a small earthquake, and them i for tonight i felt another one , kathryn atnoson
Is there a chance San Diego could be hit by a big one like San Fran? We are moving to SD this summer and I have slight concern.
Just felt an earthquake in Escondido. It rattled windows and doors. A few car alarms went off.