Earthquake in Pasadena.
UPDATE: Well, you can’t see the chandeliers rocking very well here. 🙂 Pretty much a solid jolt to the restaurant, as if a large truck had rolled into the building (not smashed, but solidly impacted), with light rolling for another 20 seconds thereafter.
Cell service is still down/packed, but managed to (a) get an IM from Jim & Ginger that all is well with them, and Katherine thought her first quake was “awesome” (they just did the Discovery Museum yesterday and visited the Quake House), (b) get a call from my Mom that they (and my brother’s family) are all okay, and (c) exchange IMs with Margie.
Quake was centered in the Chino Hills, about 30 miles from here, and midway between the two sets o’ ‘rents.
More news as it comes up (or falls down).
Felt it while sitting at my desk at work. At first, I though it was someone trying to unlock the front door, but when my chair started to rock… Mostly a small rolling quake in SD.
My parents report that they did not feel it at all in Westlake Village, west northwest of LA about 40 miles. I am reminded of the last quake I felt, which was the 1987 Whittier Narrows Quake. I’m glad there were no serious injuries. Here’s an interesting history of quakes in California that I think is incomplete since it ends in 2004: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/info/cahist_eqs.html
This was (the news tells us) the largest quake in a populated area of California since 1993. Along those lines, a lot of folks in the office here had not been through a perceptible quake before, which struck me as very odd.