Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Los Angeles 5.8 Earthquake

今天中午洛杉磯發生了5.8級的大地震,還蠻可怕的,大家都沒事吧?

Today around 11:45am, I just turned on my computer and was getting ready to check my emails.  All of sudden the floor started shaking.  I was on the second floor of my house.  It felt like somebody was jumping up and down and the floor was also going up and down.  Soon after it started swaying from side to side.  Earthquake!  And it was a big one!

The news said it was a 5.8 magnitude earthquake.  The center of the quake was 30 miles east of Los Angeles.  The quake was felt all the way in San Diego and Las Vegas.  I've heard it on the news so many times that there was a big earthquake that is way overdue in Los Angeles.  I hope this was the one.  No more big earthquake, please!

Is everyone in LA ok?

13 comments:

  1. 天啊! 真的是很大耶!! 據說和1987年的那個一樣
    我住在CHINO HILLS附近, 感覺好明顯喔! 電視上的東西都掉下來, 落地的玻璃衣櫃好像要震碎了一樣, 我抱著我家的狗一起蹲在一角尋求掩護...Orz...
    還好目前沒有什麼災情發生的樣子
    剛剛還有餘震呢!!! 希望大家都平安!!


    我也覺得搖得好大
    但是你比我更東邊一點應該晃得更嚴重
    還好這次真的都沒有什麼人受傷

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  2. 人沒事,可是嚇壞囉~
    1個人在12樓高的辦公室,然後旁邊都是很大的那種玻璃,我根本整個人僵住.躲桌子鏬也不是,也沒有什麼牆壁讓我擋.我心裡一直想,再晃厲害一點我12樓也跑不到哪裡去阿!我同事比我可憐一點.她那個時候正好躺在dentist chair上面.嘴巴張的開開的 很驚慌又不能怎麼樣.回到公司的時候,電梯又都停住.她只能慢慢的爬12樓回來公司囉.


    12樓那真的很可怕耶
    你同事的遭遇也夠慘
    讓我想到如果大地震的時候正在馬桶上大便到一半
    這時到底該怎麼辦呢

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  3. 改為5.4級了....


    還是很大的地震呢

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  4. i was at the schoool and all of sudden the floor started to shake, but our class room didn't shake form left to right though...at first i thought it was my friends making noises by stumbling their feet then i realized that it's an earthquake.


    Did you guys run out from the classroom?

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  5. 好可怕,
    地震一發生我馬上跑到牆邊躲起來,
    地震完才發現那面牆是空心的。。


    有同事教我也是要躲在牆邊或是柱子邊
    但是我會擔心要是牆倒下來或是柱子倒下來
    那我不是馬上被壓到嗎

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  6. Yeah it's pretty scary.. Hopefully this is the "overdue" earthquake and no more will come..


    So far so good.
    Let's hope there's no more earthquake in LA.

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  7. 我在downtown工作, 所以沒有感覺那麼可怕.
    我當時正在外面和同事吃飯, 聊天聊到一半忽然地面開始晃動起來. 商場附近的人都跑出來查看. 還好辦公室都沒事.
    好幾年沒有大地震了, 這是最近幾年最大的一次地震.


    洛杉磯的人好像都還蠻鎮靜的
    都不太驚慌的樣子

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  8. I was on phone with my boss at the time the earthquake started( she was planning to see me during her lunch break cuz i was sick and stayed http://www.eileenlikestoeat.com to rest).......i had kinda same feeling as you at firsthand...just thinking WTH my neighbor upstairs were jumping so hard to make the wooden-framed apartment shake......then the jolt was getting more intense...and my boss over the phone told me it was an earthquake-- in a quite clam tone...i was totally freaked out...brain went blank..i started to scream coz the shaking was getting stronger...my boss told me to stay clam, get under a table or desk, then held on something sturdy if i can....I just screamed, screamed for the entire 15- 20 minutes or so.....that was just so scary....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I come from Hong Kong where basically is very far from natural disasters like this.....so it was my first time experienced that....Too bad that i realized i was totally like a no common sense idiot screaming all over....after this incident, i thing people should be more disaster-conscious and get some, at least,preparartion for that.

    Thanks for my boss's direction and being bear with my "Screams"...


    I think you meant 15-20 seconds.
    15-20 minutes of screaming is too long... haha....
    Earthquake is really scary. So your screaming is totally understandable.

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  9. 我在睡夢中被驚醒
    真的很大耶
    我很慌!!!!!
    東西也是掉落一地


    我們家倒是沒有東西掉下來
    只是廚房有些瓶瓶罐罐倒下來
    我也是慌到不知道該怎麼辦

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  10. 我覺得搖滿久的但也就是靜靜等它搖完 當時不覺得恐怖也沒想太多
    後來陸陸續續接到好幾通電話簡訊 才知道大家都認為這次挺可怕的
    有個朋友傳簡訊說 "Everything is fine. JUST SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME" 我還以為他在開玩笑
    想說台灣人應該很習慣 沒在怕地震的阿
    陸續幾個朋友都跟我說 他們本來是不怕 經歷921過後才開始特別怕


    西邊可能晃得沒有東邊來的大
    以前我也不怎麼怕地震
    也是經過921之後小小一晃就會怕

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  11. We were all fine. I was in the yard sweeping the leaves when it started, I actually got "thrown" around a bit. First I was like WTH? Then I realized it was earthquake, quickly went inside and got my son downstairs and we all stood under the door frame. I actually stayed very calm, but he was totally freaking out. Can't blame him, he's only eight. It lasted about 30 seconds or so. No cell services after wards for a long time, but still had internet.


    Yeah my cell phone didn't work for a while.
    I was upstairs, then went downstairs, then came upstairs during the earthquake.
    Just didn't know where to go exactly.

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  12. 我當時正在半島吃飲茶。

    地震一來、一大堆人尖叫啊躲桌子底下啊等等、也很多人奪門而出。

    我看到不少台灣人(別問我為什麼我真的分的出來)老神在在、和我跟我爸媽這桌一樣、搖啊搖的照吃不誤。

    想必接受了九二一的洗禮、膽量變大不少。

    不過搖完、我可以體會服務生跟餐廳人員的傻眼:


    [滿座的餐廳給我跑光一半、錢都沒付咧!!!!]




    後來我媽說我們也該趁亂吃一吃然後揮揮衣袖、不帶走一片雲彩的悄悄離開...


    Orz


    哈哈你們也應該一起溜的
    大家還真的都沒付錢就跑掉喔
    蠻好笑的

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  13. I was in the office (Culver City) talking to my co-worker. It got pretty rocky, like standing on the deck of a boat in the ocean. And it lasted over 20 seconds; a long one indeed. I guess we are all pretty used to the quake, we just kept on talking as if nothing "unusual" happened. ;-)


    Wow! You guys just continue talking like nothing happened?
    That's pretty funny though. haha.... Really brave!

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