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Pretty good earthquake just now! (Two minutes ago.) Without checking the Richter scale readings from Pasadena, I would say it was a good 5.5, at least. Do I hear six? Re-Re-Update: MSNBC just said it was a 5.4, centered in Chino. Two books fell off my bookcase and that's all. No paintings or framed photos on the floor. Nothing to squawk about. I kind of enjoyed it on a certain level. Better than Sensurround. Chuck Heston, you are missed.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM
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Rich S. says ...
Ah, Sensurround. Be sure to post something when Marjoe Gortner shows up.
Posted by Rich S. at July 29, 2008 11:52 AM
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Dzayson says ...
Just felt it myself. I went into the living room once it was over to find my roommate hovering over his 50" plasma, protecting it like it was a newborn baby.
Posted by Dzayson at July 29, 2008 11:54 AM
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BurmaShave says ...
This is why I don't live in the west coast. Hope the new cats weren't too spooked.
Posted by BurmaShave at July 29, 2008 11:55 AM
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gruver1 says ...
Wells to Burmashave: Dogs tend to go crazy when the ground rolls, yes, but my two kittens were total studs. No reaction at all. Aura looked up and then went back to sleep. Mouse too. I haven't felt any of the three 3.8 after-shocks, which were reportedly centered in Diamondbar.
Posted by gruver1 at July 29, 2008 12:00 PM
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scooterzz says ...
second one today so there might be more...better keep your shoes on....
Posted by scooterzz at July 29, 2008 12:01 PM
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Krazy Eyes says ...
I haven't seen Earthquake since I was a kid. I would think that film would be ripe for remake potential with the advances in special effects.
Posted by Krazy Eyes at July 29, 2008 12:02 PM
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JustThisGuy says ...
Phones have been ringing off the hook over here at Cal Tech, and yet, I didn't feel it. Must have happened while I was walking across campus.
Posted by JustThisGuy at July 29, 2008 12:04 PM
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Marty Melville says ...
I was on a stairmaster at the gym and the only sign I had was when the tv monitors hung on the walls began to shimmy and sway.
Sensurround completely unnerved me back in the day... combined with today's best effects, it would be awesome indeed.
Posted by Marty Melville at July 29, 2008 12:14 PM
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Kristopher Tapley says ...
I was hopping out of the shower. I really wasn't looking forward to running outside naked. Thankfully it was 30 seconds and that's it (but it'll surely clog the news for the rest of the day).
Posted by Kristopher Tapley at July 29, 2008 12:16 PM
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DarthCorleone says ...
I've been out here almost four years, and that's only the second one I've felt. It was certainly the larger of the two. I'm on the sixth floor of an office building, and we got a good prolonged shake that reverberated for over a minute. My boss was disturbed that I was grinning the whole time. Of course, now I'm still feeling a twinge of motion sickness.
Posted by DarthCorleone at July 29, 2008 12:20 PM
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ZayTonday says ...
I read this comment att HuffPo and LOL'd:
"God must have just gotten to Jon Voight's op ed piece."
Posted by ZayTonday at July 29, 2008 12:35 PM
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Jeremy Smith says ...
Happened right as I was writing an intro to a BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA review on AICN. Posted it anyway, and we're not swimming for Arizona Bay... yet.
Posted by Jeremy Smith at July 29, 2008 12:41 PM
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lazarus says ...
"This is why I don't live in the west coast."
Burma, 30 seconds of disorientation every few years is worth all the sunny days. Or did you not notice how flippant everyone seems to be about the whole thing?
I've been out here since 1999 and have actually felt something about 4 times.
Posted by lazarus at July 29, 2008 12:42 PM
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Devin Faraci says ...
Just had my one year anniversary and this was my second quake. But the first one was like a joke quake - this was a pretty good one.
Posted by Devin Faraci at July 29, 2008 12:50 PM
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LexG says ...
THAT EARTHQUAKE OWNED.
Yeah, seriously... 30 seconds of shaking every once in a blue moon versus shit like SNOW and SLEET and DEPRESSING RAIN and dead leaves for half the year, every year? CALIFORNIA OWNS YOU.
Posted by LexG at July 29, 2008 1:01 PM
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Kristopher Tapley says ...
What would we do without CNN's wall-to-wall coverage a full hour and a half after a modest 20 second jolt?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley at July 29, 2008 1:13 PM
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frankbooth says ...
I didn't notice anything up my way, but I feel for you. When you live in the only major U.S. city to have been destroyed by an earthquake (and seriously damaged by another) the possibility of the Big One is always lurking.
I don't think I've ever seen Earthquake all the way through. I do remember all the neighborhood kids talking about it : "...and he gets shot and his wig flies off!"
Certainly seems to deliver on the spectacle. Must've cost a fortune.
Posted by frankbooth at July 29, 2008 1:35 PM
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cjKennedy says ...
By the time I realized that sitting at my desk grinning like a loon was possibly a bad safety procedure, it was all over.
I'll take the occasional earthquake over hurricanes or tornadoes any day.
Posted by cjKennedy at July 29, 2008 1:57 PM
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D.Z. says ...
lazarus: "Burma, 30 seconds of disorientation every few years is worth all the sunny days."
Not if it's coming from the a sky blackened by burning homes...
Lex: "Yeah, seriously... 30 seconds of shaking every once in a blue moon versus shit like SNOW and SLEET and DEPRESSING RAIN and dead leaves for half the year, every year?"
I'd rather have rain than drought, but that's just me...
Posted by D.Z. at July 29, 2008 5:13 PM
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