Awesome Los Angeles Earthquake

[jason_t]

There was just an awesome earthquake in Los Angeles. While relatively weak on the Richter Scale and short in duration it's one of the most exciting I've ever felt (I was in Alaska in November 2002 during the 7.9 earthquake that struck 75 miles south of Fairbanks and was measured as far away as Louisiana) because I live extremely close to the epicenter. The coordinates for the earthquake were

34 deg. 0.8 min. N (34.013N), 118 deg. 27.1 min. W (118.452W)

and my apartment is at

34 deg. 1 min. N 118 deg. 24 min W

putting the distance to the epicenter at about 3 miles. There was one strong shake that caused my whole apartment to tremble which caught my attention in time for me to look around the apartment and see the little ripples afterwards shaking things in my apartment. The blinds in my apartment were shaking for about a minute. Here's a few charts showing the wavefrom from the earthquake.



You can read off the waveform in relation to the distance from the epicenter. Here are waveforms from the earthquake from farther away.