CNN is reporting that Los Angeles just had a medium-sized earthquake at 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Located about 30 miles east of downtown L.A, it was about 7 miles deep, which means that the quake feels stronger and cause more damage. Over at the P+P home office in Santa Monica, our wooden one-story apartment structure sort of felt like it was reverberating. Since we are right near a major street that has lots of traffic blazing past all day, including service and delivery trucks, we at first thought it was a parade of Mack trucks, but then when we noticed the desk seemed to be moving for an extended period, we thought maybe all that teenage substance abuse wasn’t a good thing after all and was coming out to haunt us. Then, we thought we were just going crazy, until all of the neighbors came out simultaneously and we realized, yep, just your average SoCal moderate earthquake!
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I was on the 10th story of a building at Wilshire/La Brea (LA Magazine offices). Definitely a quality 20-30 second shake going on here. Incidentally, I think the rollers that earthquake-fortified buildings are built on exacerbate the sensation because the building kept rocking for what seemed like a minute after the actual quake died down. Scurrrrry.
At Annenberg HQ we all ran outside promptly only to realize we were standing in front of large plate-glass windows. Hmm…
I was in santa barbara when it happend, i felt for 30-40 sec. I really enjoyed the feel of it! It felt as if I were rocking back in forth in a calming manor in a 3 story photo studio! The only thing that bummed me was having to re-focus my camera! Lol! It was my first time feeling a quake in Ca. Waiting to feel more before I can really judge that one!