"A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has rattled Los Angeles, California"

CNN

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

KCRW simulcast broke in to say the earthquake epicenter may have been downtown LA.

5.8

http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fearthquake.usgs.gov%2Feqcenter%2Fmapplets%2Fearthquakes.xml&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=1.933227,-132.890625&spn=118.142717,170.15625&t=k&z=3

5.8 centered in Chino Hills...I'm IMing with a friend in San Diego

KCRW simulcast broke in to say the earthquake epicenter may have been downtown LA.

Freaky. I thought you were talking in some kind of metaphorical sense about this, related to your obesity post:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fast_food_ban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_Narrows_earthquake

This is pretty much exactly the strength and location of this one.

It's central to L.A., Orange County, and the inland empire.. hence everyone down there feeling it.

I suspect and hope that there weren't minimal injuries.

Friend in San Diego said the epicenter is in Chino HIlls

Great men think I like Dan. I automatically went to the LA Times page too and got the same message.

Everybody went to the LA Times website, THAT'S why it's down...not because it got "shut down" by an earth quake.

@8 i.e. me: sorry. remove "minimal". Damn double negative.

Geologically, it looks like the Orange County, Los Angeles County, and San Bernardino County three-way got a little out of control.

elswinger: I *have* heard that you like Dan, and I'm not even a great man.

This is like five miles from where I grew up. In fact, I remember being in my 8th grade classroom for the Whittier Narrows quake... bouncy!

It's either all the syncronized butt-wiggling. Or God's wrath. Your choice.

USGS "Shake Map" of how people perceived the earthquake in the area:

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/STORE/X14383980/ciim_display.html

Just think of the TV and other movies about the quake we'll be seeing over the next few years ...

Is there any truth to the rumor that civilization has come to an end?

God's wrath is sort of scrode-y. There isn't any damage around here in Hollywood and all it did here was wake up some of my house guests. I guess divine punishment isn't what it used to be.

Hey, it was only a 5.4 magnitude. God is mildly miffed, at most.

God is my vibrator.

We're here and it doesn't seem to be much more than a old C-ticket at Dizzyland. Mild compared to some of our others.

I'll take these anyday over hurricanes in the Bible Belt.

hmmm. posted earlier, then nothing there till this hmmm. hmmm.

Yes, it's a conspiracy, DBK. Everything's a conspiracy.

Greetings from East L.A.: Apparently, God's wrath has missed the obnoxious gas-powered leaf blower outside my window. Sigh.

leek @14, it's not far from where I grew up in Riverside & Corona, either. Nowhere near Whittier, though, so I'm not sure mackro mackro @8's on about.

In any event, I wouldn't get too worked up about a 5.4.

I thought everyone had forgotten those poor folks in my home town - Cedar Rapids. Dan didn't!! Thanks, Dan.