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The Big California Quake of 09
Monday, May 18, 2009 9:40I was 3/4 of the way through a wonderful Pinot Noir with a sweet fruit undertone when suddenly, the house was rocking back and forth! Wow! What a Pinot!
It was this quake - a 4.7 on the richter scale right around these parts. We are about 85 miles south of LA and about 70 miles south of Inglewood (close to the epicenter) and the house rocked gently for a minute or so with decreasing intensity and a few things rattled.
But we are close to Camp Pendleton which is forever blowing themselves up and doing that exercise they do where they learn how to attack a soundly sleeping town with low flying helicopters in the dead of night so I’m not sure that it was all that thrilling for us. We’re old hands at this rattling the windows bit.
My first earthquake was in 2004 and was a 4.7 as well.
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