Quake Updates
Sounds like buildings have been evacuated. Roderick at LAO is blogging the quake also. Los Angeles City Council was in session at City Hall apparently they've taken a 15 minute recess.
Metrolink is up and running, they've just rolled by the building here in West Covina.
I'm fascinated by TV coverage. They are hovering helicopters downtown. You'd think be now they'd be flying over Chino Hills or DBar to check for damage there?
Lt. Salibe at Walnut Diamond Bar Sheriff's Station said there are no reports of damage or injury in their service area.
I'm looking for tales of how the quake affected you. Let me know. You can send email to frank.girardot@sgvn.com or simply write your story in the comments.
CalTech now says the quake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale..
No word from Edison or the Gas company about outages or other problems yet...
Paula Green, Director of communications at Citrus College said officials there have cancelled classes and asked all students to go home.
The closure affected about 6,000 students. Green did not know if the school would reopen Wednesday. There were no reports of damage or injuries at the Glendora college.
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Can not get any phone service yet through a land line or cell phone.
Few wine bottles down at the Arcadia Claro's...not much else here...land line phones ok, cells down for a bit...
Not cool dude...
I am a grown man and I thought that this was "The One". Started off very strong...scary. Glass everywhere.
All is good now though.
Shook hard here in my corner of the Valley for 45-60 seconds. I was entering the Fresh & Easy in Arcadia and felt it rocking and stepped back into the parking lot. Could see the street lights with a good 2-3 foot sway after the sharpest of the jolts.
My wife works for HSBC in Pomona. She called right afterwards and said it shook hard there. She said some ceiling tiles fell as did some files off of desks.
She called and said that shortly afternoon they were evacuated from the building as several tiles were down on the second floor and a portion of their ceiling was sagging. She said they were told it is precautionary as they don't think it is anything more than loosened tiles but are making sure.
This certainly didn't feel anywhere as bad as Northridge did.