EARTHQUAKE

[no name 1]

From FacOps:

All:

After this morning’s 5.8 earthquake, our building has been inspected by the building engineers and has been cleared. The building is secure – no damage occurred as a result of the tremor.

Attached is an Earthquake Procedure document should we experience another earthquake.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact xxx.

Thank you.

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Earthquake Procedures - Employee Instructions:

• Duck down under a desk or sturdy furniture, if away from your desk, crouch down low against an interior wall.

• Cover your head and neck with your arms.

• Hold on if you are under furniture and be prepared to move with it.

• Move away from windows and glass.

• When the shaking stops, check for hazards around you

• Be prepared for aftershocks.

• Follow instructions over the PA or from management.

• Try to account for everyone.

• Assist the injured.

• Don’t be surprised if the fire alarms or sprinklers have come on.

• Evacuate the building only if instructed to do so. Use stairs only. Do NOT use elevators.

• It may be necessary and safer to remain in the building until the extent of damage outside is determined.

Follow instructions from management.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Was rather an interesting experience here on the 7th floor. I've been given the rest of the day and tomorrow off, just in case this was a prequake!

Wow... fingers crossed its just a one-off.

I'd always heard they've been expecting the "big one" for years now. The last major out in CA was in the 90's wasn't it?

[Scott & Lai 12]

I need a drink too.

Everyone always talks about Northridge as being the scariest experience of their lives. What will I be like should there be one that bad if this is "not scary" according to you EQ vets?

Now THAT was an earthquake!! Northridge looked like a war zone afterwards...

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Felt it pretty strong out here in Burbank. I thought my washing machine was unbalanced or something and shaking the house, then I thought, that would be one mother of a washing machine. Looked out the back door and all the trees and the telephone wires were flopping about. It felt like the ground was rolling beneath my feet, dogs were barking, car alarms bleating, etc etc.

I'm ashamed to say I thought it was pretty cool.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Was rather an interesting experience here on the 7th floor. I've been given the rest of the day and tomorrow off, just in case this was a prequake!

Wow... fingers crossed its just a one-off.

I'd always heard they've been expecting the "big one" for years now. The last major out in CA was in the 90's wasn't it?

Northridge earthquake in 94, yes.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I need a drink too.

Everyone always talks about Northridge as being the scariest experience of their lives. What will I be like should there be one that bad if this is "not scary" according to you EQ vets?

hehehe...when I saw EQ, I thought 'emotional quotient.'

I wasn't here for the Northridge, but CalArts had taken some damage that was visible when I went there in '96. That earthquake was still fresh on everybody's mind and I remember waking up at about 3am to an earthquake while sleeping in the dorms my first year. It felt and sounded like a truck slammed into the brick building. I remember falling asleep afterwards and then opening my eyes wide open with each aftershock...it was nerve-racking.

Edited July 29, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[almaty 19]

wow!!!!

[no name 1]

Santa Monica in '99 was bad too...

[Marlita 0]

Was rather an interesting experience here on the 7th floor. I've been given the rest of the day and tomorrow off, just in case this was a prequake!

What?! Where do you work? That is nice of them. I was on the 4th floor. I can only imagine what the top of the US Bank building felt.

[Marlita 0]

Felt it pretty strong out here in Burbank. I thought my washing machine was unbalanced or something and shaking the house, then I thought, that would be one mother of a washing machine. Looked out the back door and all the trees and the telephone wires were flopping about. It felt like the ground was rolling beneath my feet, dogs were barking, car alarms bleating, etc etc.

I'm ashamed to say I thought it was pretty cool.

haha. I think once you get used to them and they aren't threatening it is pretty cool. Its just one of those natural phenomenons that make you realize that you are so much smaller than what mother nature can do. The rolling ones are cool to see if you can actually see the roll. I remember in jr. high after school we had one and were out side and the plain wa open and the EQ hit and it just rolled. You could see the whole world like wave and roll like a slow moving roller coaster. It was very cool to see. no damage at all.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Just had an aftershock here in Burbank.

[Marlita 0]

Just had an aftershock here in Burbank.

see, i felt nothing.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Earthquake Procedures - Employee Instructions:

• Duck down under a desk or sturdy furniture,

I read recently that getting under a desk or the like isn't the best idea. Often people are crushed under furniture they were hiding under when it collapsed. Crouching next to furniture is better, since if the ceiling falls, it will land on and crush the furniture, but a cavity will be created next to the furniture.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Earthquake Procedures - Employee Instructions:

• Duck down under a desk or sturdy furniture,

I read recently that getting under a desk or the like isn't the best idea. Often people are crushed under furniture they were hiding under when it collapsed. Crouching next to furniture is better, since if the ceiling falls, it will land on and crush the furniture, but a cavity will be created next to the furniture.

Aren't you supposed to get in doorways or something?

[no name 1]

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html

shows all the aftershocks...