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07-29-2008, 11:13 AM
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| Administrator  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sunny Southern California
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Reputation:  (47) |  earthquake in socal There was just a 5.8 earthquake east of LA. It was felt as far away as Las Vegas. I was in the car listening to AirTalk (NPR) and Larry Mantle basically told his guest -- hmm, that's an earthquake, so obviously, we're gonna talk about the trembler now, so whatever else you had to say, maybe next time. LOL. I didn't think it was a big enough deal to throw out the rest of the interview! Maybe I've lived in So. Cal. for too long.  |
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07-29-2008, 11:57 AM
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| Administrator  Join Date: Jan 2007
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Reputation: (19) | Caltech needs a twitter account. I hate waiting the extra 2-5 minutes for the TV coverage. |
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07-29-2008, 05:04 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lansing, MI
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Reputation: (44)  | Hah yeah I found out on Twitter before NPR on twitter even reported it. I'm not a Cali person so I have no concept of how a 5.4 would feel. |
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07-29-2008, 08:54 PM
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| Wise Bread Blogger  Join Date: Jun 2007
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Reputation: (25) | I'm a goob.. I just read about this. Everything OK there besides what I see on the news? |
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07-30-2008, 09:57 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas
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Reputation: (33) | Yeah, I saw it first on the Dr. Horrible twitter stream. Our lives are different than they were even a very short time ago. |
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07-30-2008, 04:30 PM
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| Administrator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sunny Southern California
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Reputation: (47) | Check out this graph on the Twitter blog. Twitter users knew about the earthquake before the mainstream news outlets. Of course, it's faster to tweet "earthquake" than to write 300 words on it.  Twitter users break the news while it's happening! Blog post: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/twit...news-wire.html Graph:  @Linsey -- everything seems fine. Family and friends are safe, and no one I know is freaked out. Good times all around! |
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07-30-2008, 04:33 PM
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| Administrator Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sunny Southern California
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Reputation: (47) | Quote:
It's big enough to worry that books may have fallen off the shelves, but not big enough to worry that your house has fallen on itself. | |
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07-30-2008, 08:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Eliot, ME USA
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Reputation: (27)  | Yeah a 3 normally is enough to wake you up but not enough you can't go back to sleep. A 5 is closer to wondering if anything got broken and might set of some car alarms. I remember the days of living in SoCal very well.
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08-01-2008, 09:04 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008
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Reputation: (10) | Kind of scary when you're in the car at the time, like I was. |
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08-02-2008, 12:54 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: California
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Reputation: (141) | I felt it while working at home - about 100 miles north of L.A. It made my head rattle and I was dizzy for a minute or two after.
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