Oh, nice little earthquake/jolt in L.A.

[gini]

I felt absolutely nothing!!! My house is bolted to the foundation which makes a difference.

That may seem strange to a lot of you - but older California bungalows were built with a foundation and the house simply "sat" on the foundation.

In earlier earthquakes here there have been pictures of homes that slid off the foundation causing a great deal of damage.

Actually a 4.7 or 5. isn't that large - but it gets your attention for sure.
I always wonder if this is just a foreshock of a larger one to come - but there have been lots of aftershocks of smaller size on this one - so let's hope that that's it!!

I hope everyone was safe though.

Phred, if God is sending us messages here on the left coast, then HE has been doing it for a long time (and we still don't get it!). We have had earthquakes and fires every single year. We sit on two fault lines
that are moving past each other and we have been building in areas that we should not because of the tinder dry brush during drought years.

[lvpets2002]

Yup heard about you alls Quake.. Hey even Texas got a 3.3 scale of a Quake on Saturday morning.. The town is about a 1 hr from me.. So glad everyone is ok..

[Cinder & Smoke]

Phred, if God is sending us messages here on the left coast,
then HE has been doing it for a long time (and we still don't get it!).

We have had earthquakes and fires every single year.

We sit on two fault lines that are moving past each other
and we have been building in areas that we should not
because of the tinder dry brush during drought years.

Sorta seems like nunbuddie *gets* those Divine messages, huh?

[carole]

I sure hope you all in california keep safe, earthquakes are scarey, we in NZ are on the earthquake belt too, we had one in Wellington of about the same magnitude last week, luckily it is around 8 hrs away from me, and i like it that way,keep safe everyone.