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Quake, aftershocks rattle Calif. residents
By Gillian Flaccus AP / May 19, 2009 LONG BEACH, Calif. - Glass shattered and ceiling tiles fell as a moderate tremor shook laid-back Southern California, ... read more

USC in the News 5/19/2009
Los Angeles Times quoted James Dolan of the USC College about the fault responsible for Sunday night's earthquake. The northern portion of the ... read more

Today in History - May 19
Today is Tuesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2009. There are 226 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: One hundred years ago, on May 19, 1909, ... read more

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Quake rocks southern California

An earthquake measuring 5.8 rocks the US city of Los Angeles, causing buildings to sway but no injuries, early reports say. read

LOS ANGELES JOLTED BY EARTHQUAKE

BY DAN WHITCOMB An earthquake struck just east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, rocking tall buildings and rattling nerves across Southern California, but causing no serious injuries or major structural damage. The quake hit at 11:42 a.m. local time (1842 GMT) about 30 miles (48 km) east of Los Angeles in suburban Chino Hills and registered magnitude 5.4 — making it the strongest seismic event centred near America’s second-largest city since the 6.7-magnitude Northridge quake in 1994. It w read

“downtown dog day afternoon” at the cathedral this evening

For those with pets that got a little rattled in today’s earthquake, now may be the best time to take your pooch out for some socializing… doggie-style! The Downtown Dog Day Afternoon, sponsored by the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, is running from 6:00 to 9:00pm today at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.  Food will be available at the Cathedral’s cafe. I’ll be there with Bear (pictured above) for the evening. This evening’s event is dedicated to the memory of “Buddy,” read

Astrology Around The Web: Kathryn Cassidy On The California Earthquake, July 29th 2008

Outtakes and various other sundries... CALIFORNIA SHAKING Kathryn writes: “News filtered in this evening that Los Angeles has suffered a moderate earthquake. Having been in a couple of severe earthquakes (7.1 and 7.3) in California, I know all about the anxiety levels in the first few hours and indeed days and weeks after a strong tremor. People try and laugh it off , some even feel thrilled by the short sharp adrenaline rush and sudden community spirit as everyone discusses what happened, bu read

Zemetreseni v Los Angeles

Dneska jsme zazili zemetreseni. Byl jsem zrovna na telefonu a na druhe strane me ten clovek rika.. “Shit.. we have an earthquake”. A v tom okamziku jsem to ucitil. Trepalo se to docela dost a taky dlouho. Videl jsem jak se steny nasi kancelare doslova vlni. Vlnily se jeste chvili po skonceni. Ale nic se nerozbilo, takze vse je v pohode. read

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The Nightowl Newswrap

Um, guys, this isn't news...McCain is a only Senator because his wife is loaded. We all know that she was a 20-something strumpet and he picked her up at a hotel bar...while the woman who waited for him faithfully for all those years, not even letting him be told she was nearly killed in a car wreck so he wouldn't worry, was upstairs in their room with their children. (Family values. Where is the family photo with those kids?) Anyway, he bailed on his wife and started his political career on Cin read

Today’s St. Louis earthquake showed me why news is being shaken-up

Just after 4:30 a.m. today, the unmistakable signs of an earthquake moved my wife and me within seconds from cuddling in our bed to huddling under a doorframe. After 30 seconds of violent shake, rattle, but thankfully not roll, we were back in our bed with the question, “where can I find out what just happened?” Instinctively, I ran for my PC, where I found info within minutes from a seismic center and additional stories as minutes passed. Instinctively, my less New-Media-addicted wife reached read

Boom Boom Boom

As you probably heard from the other midwestern bloggers, there was an earthquake this morning. I woke this morning to my bed shaking. Now I was a bit groggy but it didn’t take too long to figure out what was going on … I was just shocked at how long the tremors lasted. I swear my building even shook. It felt like EVERYTHING was moving. Nothing fell off the walls though; some of my colleagues said photos fell down or off walls at their homes. Then I went back to sleep. I actually forgot all read

"The Jesuit Science"

SEISMOLOGY has been called "The Jesuit Science", having been pioneered by members of the Society of Jesus.  The word 'seismology' comes from the ancient Greek words σεισμός (seismos) meaning 'earthquake' and -λογία (logia), meaning 'sudy of'. Click here to go to the Saint Louis University Earthquake Center. read

Balance and Loss

It is one of those days when nothing can go right, which is certainly not what I expected after my centering and balancing hike yesterday. Generally speaking, one hike out at a place like Potato Creek can ground me for weeks. Growing up in Texas, you'd think that I was an outdoor kid. The reality isn't quite like that. My mother was very scared of anything involving the outdoors - animals, insects, reptiles, dirt ... and we generally lived in the 'burbs, not out on a ranch. There was a tensio read

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Timely earthquake follows yesterday's report on lowered risk from Midwest earthquake

This morning's earthquake centered in downstate Illinois follows a published report in yesterday's Science Daily about a recently presented scientific study that lowered risk estimates for the New Madrid fault. Science Daily reported: The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust one of the major assumptions that go in read

EARTHQUAKE! 5.4 EARTHQUAKE HITS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS - RUMBLES NORTHWARD

As I was getting ready this morning, I suddenly felt my entire home tremor. The tremor lasted only a few seconds and occurred at about 5:40 a.m. Startled, I started thinking of reasons for the shaking. Was it a train rumbling by several blocks away? I often feel the vibrations of trains as they travel across the St. Marys River trestle at Van Buren and Main Street and head east through Fort Wayne. Was it a large semi of some kind that had passed by? Sometimes those vehicles also trigger vibra read

Rock ‘n’ Roll !!

Rock ‘n’ Roll !! 0 Comments Published by Buster April 18th, 2008 in General, News, Iowa, Enviroment, History A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people awake as far away as Milwaukee early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor. The quake just before 4:37 a.m. was centered 6 miles from West Salem, Ill., and 66 miles from Evansville, Ind. It awakened people in neighboring Indiana and even Milwaukee, Wis., read

It's the New Madrid Fault!

Who else felt this morning's 5.4-magnitude Illinois earthquake? Mods, feel free to delete this if need be. I don't know if this is an accepted use of MeTa or not, but I didn't see anything about the earthquake on the blue, and couldn't think of a non-chatfilter AskMe question about it. While I understand that bigger earthquakes than this happen on a regular basis in other places, and in fact do happen fairly regularly on the New Madrid fault as well, this was still a pretty big one for us in the read

Goodddddd Morrrrning, Midwest

Not exactly the way you expect to wake up in the Midwest. A 5.4 earthquake in Illinois has rocked people awake as far away as Indiana, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a large temblor in the Midwest. Yes, you west coasters may be sneering at our puny 5.4. But remember the record of this area is enough to make people nervous. So, did you get rattled out of bed this morning? Update [2008-4-18 6:32:54 by Devilstower]: And as a complete coincidence, today is the anniversary of the read