Earthquake (UPDATED: It's Not That Serious)

In LA right now...rockin the house.

UPDATE: Alles in Ordnung. For now.

UPDATE:5.6 5.8; felt from San Diego to San Francisco Santa Barbara. LA Times server must have caught something heavy. It's down.

Epicenter: 29 miles east of LA...Chino Hills.

UPDATE:LAT back up.

UPDATE: Breitbart (AP):

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury in Los Angeles. San Bernardino County fire dispatch also had no immediate reports of damage.

The quake struck at 11:42 a.m. PDT. Buildings swayed in downtown Los Angeles for several seconds.

Workers quickly evacuated some office buildings.

"It was dramatic. The whole building moved and it lasted for a while," said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore, who was in the sheriff's suburban Monterey Park headquarters east of Los Angeles.

UPDATE: My great-aunt, a Californian through and through: "Enough with the earthquake coverage already!"

UPDATE: They're still talking about it on FNC. Overheard passing by the TV: "...as soon as we get some video of those [presumably broken] ceiling tiles..." ZZZZ

East Coasters, relax. We're used to this.

UPDATE: Gabriel Malor was taking his bar exam in the LA Ontario Convention Center where the ceiling tiles in question fell and that they're heavy enough to hurt someone. My bad. I'm glad that no future lawyers were hurt.

Seriously, though.

Comments

[doubleplusundead]

Sean M. at my place got it too, knocked some stuff off his shelves, but nothing major I guess.

[Caltechgirl]

All ok here too. Waiting to hear from Darleen. They live in that area......

[Samantha]

It's like snow here in central New York. Two inches, two feet, same difference.

[Gabriel Malor]

First day of the f'ing bar exam.

We had about thirty minutes left to go in the morning session. My first real earthquake. Epicenter is 11 miles from the test site. I didn't know what to do (I'm not from around here), but the sight of all the other test takers ducking under their tables got me moving. Especially after a ceiling tile came down and we all got a nasty reminder of just how heavy those convention center lights and conditioners are.

Exhaustion. Two more days to go.

[baldilocks]

Saw that about the bar exam at Insty.

How big are the tiles?

[Gabriel Malor]

Not big, at least, it didn't look big to me, but I was on the other side of the room from it. I'll ask my friend Patrick tomorrow. He was the closest to the one falling tile I noticed. I've heard that other people are saying more than one tile fell, but I didn't see that in my room.

[Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life]

"Enough with the earthquake coverage already!"

You gotta love it! Glad to know the old house rode it out well.