San Diego Housing Bubble News and Analysis

Yeah, my chair swayed and the walls kinda creaked. It's a 5.6 around Chino Hills/Diamonbar area.

Lived in CA all my life, just felt my first earthquake. I thought someone had nudged my chair from behind. I didnt even realize it was an earthquake till someone from Texas yelled "It an Earthquake!!!". It was over before she was done yelling.
Hope no one got hurt.
upgraded to a 5.8 from what I hear.

I'm here in Riverside. Boy, did we feel it! It was 5.8 and epicenter in chino hills. Folks, that's a pretty big one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rece...

I'm here in Riverside. Boy, did we feel it! It was 5.8 and epicenter in chino hills. Folks, that's a pretty big one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rece...

I felt it. I could also hear rumbling or maybe that was my stomach growling.

Anyhow, here's the earthquake info:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quake...

Magnitude 5.8 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:42:15 AM (PDT)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 18:42:15 (UTC)
Distance from Chino Hills, CA - 3 km (2 miles) SW (235 degrees)
Diamond Bar, CA - 8 km (5 miles) SE (127 degrees)
Yorba Linda, CA - 9 km (5 miles) NNE (23 degrees)
Pomona, CA - 11 km (7 miles) S (178 degrees)
Los Angeles Civic Center, CA - 47 km (29 miles) ESE (103 degrees)
Coordinates 33 deg. 57.5 min. N (33.959N), 117 deg. 45.1 min. W (117.752W)
Depth 12.3 km (7.6 miles)

Yep, my wife says it was caused by our anniversary because "we rock the world."

Looks like it's been downgraded to a 5.4 magnitude.

Of course, the 5.8 factor still applies to the impact on the So Cal housing market as a result of the tremor. "Honey, pack your bags. We're going back to Kansas!"

I was doing laps in the Toby Wells YMCA pool at 11:42. Didn't feel a thing. No mini-tsunami or anything. Interesting...

The odd thing is that they are about 3 times as likely to die in a tornado in Kansas than an earthquake in LA.

In the past 20 years about 50 people have died in tornados in the state of Kansas, population 2.7 Million. A rate of 18 per million people.

IN the past 20 years about 72 people have died as a result of earthquake in the Los Angeles Metro area, population 12.8 million. .
A rate of 5.6 per million people.

The odd thing is that they are about 3 times as likely to die in a tornado in Kansas than an earthquake in LA.

What about their chance to become homeless?

There was a study a couple of years ago by UCLA. They've concluded that a 7.0+ is likely to happen in the next 30 years somewhere along San Andreas Fault in Southern California.

LA may be fine, but San Bernardino and Palm Springs sit directly on top of the fault. Last time we had a 7.0 in a populated area in the U.S., 63 people died and around 20,000 buildings were damaged.

Man, I missed it! I'm in Missouri right now.

I was in Seattle during the Nisqually quake (2001), it was a 6.8 - oh yeah, and I was in the hospital in active labor when it happened.

What about their chance to become homeless?

Personally, I'd rather be temporarily homeless than permanently dead. But that's just me.

There was a study a couple of years ago by UCLA. They've concluded that a 7.0+ is likely to happen in the next 30 years somewhere along San Andreas Fault in Southern California.

I saw the same prediction of the big one within 30 years on a May 1977 episode of "In Search Of: Earthquakes" narrated by Leonard Nimoy.

Anyway, people are usually more afraid of the more rare threats (e.g. shark attacks, earthquakes, terrorist attacks) than the more common ones (car accidents, smoking, hit by a falling coconut) whereas the more common event usually tend to be far more damaging.

oops double post

This was a weak one yet since we havent had anything so big in the LA/Socal region in a while the news gurus are blowing it up. "People Shakin by quake" shake this - tornadoes are more violent, as are hurricanes.

As for the big one, Im glad I live in San Diego and not LA or SF.

didn't feel it.

san diego is due for a big one, isn't it? rose canyon comes up on google, but i think there are a couple other active faults, besides or branching off of the san andreas.

figure, baja was created somehow and that's a pretty interesting looking (and close) piece of geography.

That wasnt an earthquake! It was the Real Estate market hitting the bottom!

jus kiddin

lol...Judge Judy...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008...

No order in that court.

was at work and when it started rumbling and kept going I prayed that it was not the "BIG" one...yikes! Just a reminder of what kind of activity is going on underneath this place!

I felt in Escondido, but my realtor said she didn't feel it in Oceanside.

I was not in California for the '94 Northridge quake, but I did experience
the 7.2 Petrolia quake of '92 from about 30 miles from the epicenter. That
one was scary, particularly experiencing an aftershock outdoors that felt
like one had gone suddenly from solid ground to a small boat at sea.

Rocked us in Carson big time. Scared the crap out of my wife. Funny thing is, we felt quakes like that all the time when we lived in Japan, but I never saw her dive under the table so fast.

I was near palm springs eating at quizno's but didn't feel anything. But I can be spaced out sometimes.

Building shook

In Ocean Beach/Point Loma, definitely felt it! It was way kewl! Whole building shook felt it good while working in home office.

we were in a meeting a few floors up, and it shook the building pretty good, at first everyone was relaxed but then it kept going and that's when one guy ran out of the room lol

I haven't been living here that long.. every muscle in my body wanted to run, being my 1st earthquake, but I didn't know where to run to!

Yeah, I felt it too in San Diego. I was taking my licensing exam and was too involved to notice what was happening. My chair gave a violent roll to one side and I did not even realize what caused it. Just rolled back to the front of the monitor and continued my exam.

Anyway, cleared the exam despite a earthquake!!!!