Strong quake shakes Southern California

Sriker00, were you living in San Pedro or Long Beach?

We felt it in the Mission Valley area of San Diego. I am at work on the first floor of a two-floor building, and it felt to me like it rolled right under us. At first, I thought someone was just behind me moving my chair, but then I realized it was an earthquake. We all kind of stood up and looked at each other right after it happened...I've lived in San Diego all my life and earthquakes still scare the crapola out of me!

My wife and I live in Oceanside, and I work in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego. At first I thought the shaking was either some work being done on the roof of our building or a large heavy-set person walking in the vicinity of where I was standing. But we quickly realized it was an earthquake. I had a colleague quickly go onto the internet and navigate to the USGS web site to see if there was any information, but it was too soon afterwards.

Then, I went back to my desk and other co-workers were milling around and they were already looking it up on the USGS web site as well, and we determined how big and where it was. I then called my wife up in Oceanside and she said she felt it and my kids called her in a quasi-panic mode. Obviously there have been numerous aftershocks, and will continue to have them for a few hours and maybe days later.

Nonetheless, there doesn't appear to be any damage. Hope everyone near the epicenter is ok, and that no structures were damaged.

The instantly recognizable it-can-only-be-an-earthquake shaking sent me within 2 seconds into an
inner doorway. I've experienced many quakes here in Los Angeles. Whenever they happen, you wonder how much bigger and stronger it's going to get. Fortunately, this didn't get bigger and stronger.
Whew!

Felt it here in Santa Barbara-of course very mild

Earthquake strong in Culver City!
Whoa! That was intense here in Culver City. I'm just across the street from Sony Studios in a small 2-story apartment building on the second floor. Started out as rumbling under my feet and quickly grew to shaking with things falling off of shelves and cats running for cover. Then building was swaying for quite a while before settling down. Also, a larger apartment building behind me is having work done with men on scaffolding. Things were already falling off my shelves before they starting yelling to get down. Things better now. didn't lose phone or power. Cats are still not happy! Me neither!!!

My wife and I were sitting on a bench on the Seal Beach pier almost at the end. The quake was a sharp jolt that made us stand up and look around. Looking up the pier toward the shore it continued to roll gently side to side for about 15 seconds. There were few people on the pier. There was no question is was an earthquake.

The instantly recognizable it-can-only-be-an-earthquake shaking sent me within 2 seconds into an
inner doorway. I've experienced many quakes here in Los Angeles. Whenever they happen, you wonder how much bigger and stronger it's going to get. Fortunately, this didn't get bigger and stronger.
Whew!

I was in San Pedro when it happened. Definitely felt it...went on for about 30 seconds. Pretty good shake, hanging lamp fixture in the dining room was swaying, but nothing fell off the shelves. We are about 60 miles from the epicenter, so our experience would not be anything close to what people who were close to the epicenter felt.

The earthquake was felt in Boron California 12 miles east of Edwards Air Force
Base California , the bed was shaking while we were watching a movie.

Felt a sharp jolt up here in Bakersfield, CA about 125 miles north of downtown LA. Impossible to make cell phone calls right after but ok now. Guess everyone was trying to call at the same time.

I was on the 23rd floor of our office bulding in Glendale and it shook\swayed us really bad. It was very scary.

I was at work at a school district in about 10 miles west of the epicenter. The sensation was of a rolling that gradually got more intense, peaked, then tapered off. Nothing was disturbed in the office, no damage. Summer school is out of session here, but we had two campuses where students were taking the CAHSEE. No reports of problems there. Students resumed testing after the "all clear" was called. I heard over the district emergency radio system that a ware main broke near on of the schools

I was in my car heading west on Seventh Street in Long Beach, just east of the intersection with PCH, waiting at the light. This is about 20-30 miles SW of the epicenter in Chino Hills. My car starting rocking from side to side. It felt like people were rocking it by pushing it. I thought it must be something weird with my transmission, so I turned off the A/C and radio to listen for trouble sounds. I crawled home slowly, worried about the transmission, and didn't realize it had been an earthquake until I turned on the TV.

I have gotten several automated emergency notice messages from Cal State Long Beach, where I teach. They evacuated and then inspected all buildings for damages but didn't find any problems, so people are now allowed to go back in. There is no apparent damage south of campus where I live.

The people who say this was the worst earthquake they have experienced apparently weren't here in 1994 for the Northridge Quake. Although that epicenter was much farther north in the San Fernando Valley, that was a 7.4 and was much stronger in the Long Beach area than this one.

We had a pretty good shimmy here in Hollywood. The floors felt a little like a funhouse rumble room for about 15 seconds, then it all stopped as soon as it started. We got a pretty good jolt to start things off, though. The news seems to be getting a little carried away. There were a few tense moments, but I was back at my desk five minutes after the quake.

Ocean front property in Arizona...

My wife and I were sitting on a bench on the Seal Beach pier almost at the end. The quake was a sharp jolt that made us stand up. The pier continued to move side to side in a rolling motion for about 15 seconds. There were few people on the pier. A couple of fishermen near us all looked up and there was no question that it was an earthquake. We felt one good aftershock about 5 minutes later.

I work in Commerce, about 30 miles from the center. It was a lot of rolling and swaying, someone mentioned motion sickness and I can agree with that. My coworker and I thought it was a couple big rig trucks moving through at first (we have that a lot here) and as we looked to see what was happing outside there was a bang and then intense swaying. I thought my poor fish was going to flip out of his bowl things moved that much. Then it slowly evened out and went quiet.

We've had a couple small jolts since then but nothing really significant. A lot of my coworkers have headed home though because they all live in the loma linda, chino hills area and they want to check to make sure all is good.

This is my third quake and nothing major and really it seems there is a lot more being made on the news then it really deserves. Who knows though we could get a serious after shock within the next 24 hours as the long time California natives keep saying :)

Felt in Corona, CA pretty good. I have lived here my whole life and earthquakes never scare me except for the North Ridge quake...that one was like the "big one". When we do feel the big one (and this one was not it) it will be so unbelievably large...it will make this quake feel like rocking in a kiddie pool.

i work in Los Alamitos, CA and it sure felt like we were in Chino Hills! i had two panickers on either side of my desks that i needed to calm down, and when the ceiling tiles fell out, that was when we decided to evacuate.

then we were sent home for the day and while we had no damage here in the O.C., i do, however, have a very pissed, very scared cat.

I live in Las Vegas and I'm in the Southwest most part of the valley (closest to the LA area) and I didn't feel anything here. I'm in a three story building too. I might have been driving while it happened but it doesn't seem that anyone else felt it.

It was strong enough here in Rancho Mirage that I thought the epicenter could have been Anza or Yucca Valley.

Things were rockin' and rollin' here in Culver City...here's hoping things aren't a shambles when I get home tonight.

We certainly felt it here in Palmdale. It started as a gentle swaying for about ten seconds, then grew stronger for about another twenty seconds. The real terror in these things is that you don't know how long they will last, how strong they will grow or whether it's an aftershock or foreshock to something larger.

They say the greatest danger of big aftershocks in is the first twenty-four hours, so I'll be staying close to home for the rest of the day.

Quake felt in Goleta at Santa Barbara County Offices according to my son. I was on second level of the library parking structure in Santa Maria and felt car "wobble" for about ten seconds while on my cell phone and guessed it was an small minor earthquake.