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-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), October 16, 1999

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Sorry Ron - posted this at same time... anyway the LA one seems to have been felt in Phoenix, if this is possible...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), October 16, 1999.

Nothing on fox news yet, cnn website has a teaser. I gotta traverse the house to change the channel on the satellite receiver, the cats must have moved the remote control relay box, argh.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 16, 1999.

Sheesh, I guess it's big alright -- according to the map on CNN right now, it moved New Mexico over to the California border!

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 16, 1999.

99/10/16 09:46:44  34.60N 116.27W   6.0 7.0ME  C   32 mi. N   of 
Joshua Tree, CA
99/10/16 10:02:41  34.58N 116.37W   6.0 4.7ML  C   31 mi. N   of 
Joshua Tree, CA
99/10/16 10:09:54  34.65N 116.29W   0.2 4.5ML  C   35 mi. N   of 
Joshua Tree, CA
99/10/16 10:20:58  34.14N 116.43W   6.0 4.8ML  C    1 mi. N   of 
Yucca Valley, CA
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 <> Last update was on 16-OCT-1999 10:31 gmt

-- Nunja Biznec ( @ .org), October 16, 1999.

Yes, I felt it in Phoenix. About 2:55 AM, my clocks could be off. I was upstairs on the computer at this ungodly hour. Very rare for me. The floor started swaying under me, the last thing I thought it could be was an earthquake. I looked at the aquarium and the fishies were rolling around, I thought it was going to topple over. Ran downstairs and outside. Water sloshing back and forth in pool. Lamps swaying back and forth. We had a tremor about 10 years ago. I don't remember feeling it like I did tonight. Too dark to see if there's any damage, but I don't anticipate any.

This is why I left CA in the first place!

Anybody else feel it? The news said it was felt from LA to Las Vegas.

-- (jlinn35323@aol.com), October 16, 1999.

Southern California Seismic Network

The Joshua Tree rocks!!

No early reports of casualties or damage.

-- earth (sh@k.e), October 16, 1999.

You guys are quick. Do you ever sleep? I came to post this "breaking news" and found several threads already opened.

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), October 16, 1999.

I guess you didn't see the title of the thread right *before* these -- "Waiting for the crash". [g,d&r]

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), October 16, 1999.

jlinn,

You might not want to touch that aquarium for a day or so. In an earthquake, water can slosh into the filtration motor. Touch it, and you can have a shocking experience on top of a shaking experience. You might want to give the motor a day to dry out. Fish aren't grounded, so they wouldn't be an indicator of whether your tank is "live."

-- (sh@ken.com), October 16, 1999.

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http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpne0a.htm

Earthquake Strikes Southwest U.S.

By ANTHONY BREZNICAN Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A magnitude-7.0 earthquake centered in the Southern California desert shook buildings from downtown Los Angeles to Las Vegas and Arizona early today. An Amtrak train was knocked off the tracks, but no serious injuries were reported.

Amtrak said its Southwest Chief en route from Chicago to Los Angeles derailed in the Mojave Desert near Ludlow, a community on Interstate 40 more than 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

There were 155 passengers on the 25-car train and none were injured, said an Amtrak official at the Wilmington, Del., operations center. The passenger cars remained upright, and Amtrak planned to take the passengers to Los Angeles by bus.

Karen Kahler, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, said the quake hit at 2:46 a.m. and was centered 32 miles north of Joshua Tree, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. There were multiple aftershocks.

The earthquake was felt for hundreds of miles across Southern California and at least as far away as Yuma, Ariz. There were reports of scattered power outages and transformer explosions. Downed power lines started small brush fires near Palm Springs.

``That was a bad one. Things are bouncing around all over. But we are all right. I have to go and call the kids,'' Lucille Manning said from her home in Chino, east of downtown Los Angeles.

The earthquake woke up tourists in Las Vegas, 170 miles from the epicenter.

``I wasn't sure what it was,'' said John Fabian, who was staying on the 18th floor of the Mirage Hotel. ``My wife hit me and said we've got to get ... out of here.''

Fabian's wife, Michele, added: ``The whole place was shaking like crazy.''

Authorities in Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area said there were no reports of serious damage or injuries.

``Most people just slept right through it,'' said Lt. Rich Paddock of the Orange County Sheriff's Department. ``It shook everything pretty good, but that was about it.''

The few calls authorities received were from mostly from frightened people who were awakened by the quake and were curious about damage.

The effects of the earthquake were more pronounced in the lightly populated region around the epicenter.

California Highway Patrol dispatcher Joe Serrano in Barstow said a bridge on Interstate 40 was heavily damaged but the freeway remained open.

Jacob Naylor, night manager at the Joshua Tree Inn in Joshua Tree, said the structure lost power but there was no sign of damage.

``Twelve guests, all definitely awake. A couple in from Holland, definitely shocked. A couple in from the U.K. asked me, `Is this normal?''' Naylor said. ``They're all taking it rather well, kind of excited. Vacationers, new experiences, what can I say?''

In Yucca Valley, Dr. Daniel Injo said the Hi-Desert Medical Center was relying on emergency power, as was the San Bernardino County Sheriff's station in Joshua Tree.

Gerri Hagman, owner of the Homestead Inn bed-and-breakfast in Twentynine Palms, near the epicenter, said she had a lot of broken dishes and things thrown off shelves. She couldn't see any structural damage.

``I'm a native Californian and I've been in a lot of them; this was a whopper,'' Hagman said.

In Ridgecrest, a small community about 250 miles north of Los Angeles, groceries toppled from shelves and awoke residents, but officials said there were no reports of damage or injuries.

``I was asleep and shaken out of bed,'' said Rachel Holden, an editor at the Ridgecrest Daily Independent.

Caltech at first said the temblor was an aftershock to the 1992 Landers magnitude-7.3 earthquake but then said it was not. The Landers quake was followed a few hours later by a magnitude-6.5 quake in the San Bernardino Mountains in which one person was killed. There have been more than 70,000 aftershocks.

On Jan. 17, 1994, a 6.7-magnitude quake struck Northridge, just north of Los Angeles, killing 72 people and causing an estimated $40 billion in damage.

``The level of shaking is comparable to what was experienced in Northridge,'' said Lucy Jones, a seismologist with U.S. Geological Survey at Caltech. ``The good news is that there are fewer people out there.''

AP-NY-10-16-99 0838EDT

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), October 16, 1999.

What those articles mentioning the tag line about the Northridge quake always fail to mention is that over 11,000 structures... homes and offices were damaged.

If it had to be a 7.0... glad it happened out in the desert.

Tomorrow is the 10-year anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. The media's having a field day going over all the old "stories." Big quake section coming up in tomorrow's San Jose Mercury News. Bet they integrate this one.

Should be "interesting."

Diane, living on (((shakey))) ground

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), October 16, 1999.

Watch the 17s!

Northridge, Kobe, January 17, 1700 9+ Cascadia, etc

"The quake occurred almost 10 years to the day after the big Loma Prieta quake that did serious damage to the Bay area, and 12 years after the Oct. 17, 1987, Whittier Narrows quake that caused substantial damage and took the life of one Cal State L.A. student."

Tomorrow is the 17th!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 16, 1999.