That was a good one!

backyard brewer · Post by **backyard brewer** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:01 pm

Who felt that EQ? Brad, you had to feel that as well as i did. That was quite a good shaker. The news is calling it 5.8 in Chino Hills.

lars · Post by **lars** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:02 pm

Felt it out here at UCR. Pretty good shaker. USGS is calling it 5.8 too.

maltbarley · Post by **maltbarley** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:03 pm

Yep, our building (Irvine) was swaying for a while after that.

kevinham · Post by **kevinham** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:12 pm

Yeah we got a real good shake out here in Santa Fe Springs.

Oskaar · Post by **Oskaar** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:19 pm

Now that was a good ride.

I'm on the 25th floor here in downtown LA and we were shaking for quite a while. Plenty of people with varying degrees of panic on their faces.

We're on roller so we felt the initial movement very lightly then the momentum and intensity increased markedly over the course of about 30 seconds. Everything is bolted down pretty good here, and non of our servers came out of our racks so we're golden.

Cheers,

Oskaar

hoppette · Post by **hoppette** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:42 pm

Shook good here in Lake Forest. Dog was freaked out hours b/4 and stood in backyard moments b/4 it hit. They are GIFTED.

Post by **brahn** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:44 pm

Pretty good shake in Santa Ana. I'm only on the 4th floor and we had a pretty good ride. Some of our coworkers were at Crystal Court and said that metal started falling from the ceiling and crushed some chairs. It looks like it's been downgraded to a 5.4 now according to USGS.

tylking · Post by **tylking** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:58 pm

I stood in the middle of the brewery hoping I wouldn't get crushed by a vat of beer!

Oskaar · Post by **Oskaar** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:25 pm

TylKing wrote:I stood in the middle of the brewery hoping I wouldn't get crushed by a vat of beer!

OMG Yet another brewing related tragedy!

Cheers,

Oskaar

jward · Post by **jward** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:41 pm

I was at lunch. No big deal here at least on the ground.
We have been moving server racks to a product called ISO-base that does seismic mitigation. I would like to have seen them in action. Basically the floor should move under them and the up and down motion should be gentler too.

backyard brewer · Post by **backyard brewer** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:57 pm

Just had a small aftershock.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:31 pm

Backyard Brewer wrote:Just had a small aftershock.

Nope, sorry, that was me, you should see what the men's room looks like after that. Damn Yeasties can really cause some havok to a digestive system.

In all seriousness, Felt it pretty good in Tustin as well.

dhempy · Post by **dhempy** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:02 pm

Nuthin' goin' on up here in Camarillo ... I was in the car but the wife/kids didn't feel anything.

Dan

maltbarley · Post by **maltbarley** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:50 pm

Well I came home to see that John Lackey tried to commit suicide. He suffered a broken leg and wrist. Funny that he was the newest addition to the bobble-head family. That's LIFO for you accountant/inventory guys.

backyard brewer · Post by **backyard brewer** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:55 pm

maltbarley wrote: That's LIFO for you accountant/inventory guys.

LIFO is the bane of my existence some days. We have an inventory tax in MI and use LIFO. When you source a lot of parts at dramatically different costs, it really f's you up.

Viva la FIFO !!!!