Earthquake Warning!

A nice magnitude 5.7 jolt rolled through the area last night, an aftershock from Easter Sunday's 7.2. With that, I felt that it was appropriate to post this video warning us of the forthcoming big one...

Be sure you have your preparedness kit all put together!

California Curiosity

When shopping at the local Home Depot over the weekend, I discovered a section that's not found in Midwestern home improvement stores.
Yep - the "Earthquake Safety Center". Consisting of primarily straps to keep your furniture and electronics in place during a seismic event.
I've felt a couple of small tremors here, it's quite exciting and odd all at the same time. Thankfully San Diego County isn't known for devastating quakes like L.A. or the Bay Area. Or St. Louis, where a several 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes in 1811-1812 caused severe damage to the lightly-inhabited land. Maybe the Midwest Home Depots should dedicate an end cap to the same wares.

Our First Earthquake

Well, we just experienced our first SoCal earthquake. 8:41 PM here in C'Bad, my chair was rocking into the computer desk while Allie was riding the bed as the headboard gently tapped the wall. Lots of side-to-side motion for about five seconds.

5.0 on the Richter scale, just south of the greater LA area. Details here. Seems that it hit the LA area about three minutes before we felt it here. 3.1 aftershock - didn't feel that. Exciting night!