(Jesus overlooks the hills of B.C. back in 2006)
Like everyone else in Los Angeles, I was watching the Santos (it is Easter after all) vs Jaguares match on Univision, and it all started shaking. Turns out its a pretty big quake from out of Baja California, our lil’ sister state down south. A whopping 6.9 quake to be exact, according to this government site. And they’ve even issued a Tsunami warning. Ay caray!
Aguas con las aguas.
Update: Oops, no Tsunami warning after all.
Update 4:21 pm: 5.1 earthquake in So. Cal, near Brawley.
Crazy picture from Mexicali (via LA Weekly): http://tweetphoto.com/17203656
Update 5:37pm: Check out ABC Ch. 7 for the latest twitter updates. Seriously?
Update 9:05 : KCAL 9 “We’ve been monitoring twitter all day.” Great!
Update 9:24 : CBS 2 wants you to join their Street Team and email earthquake photos/videos of splashing swimming pools. Since when are we employed by CBS?
Update 11:13pm : Univision 34 has a live call with an official from Baja California. I guess they have Spanish speakers on staff.
Update 11:16pm : Telemundo 52 has Jorge Fregoso from Mexicali talking about the situation there. I guess Ch. 52 also has Spanish speakers on staff.
Update 11:19pm : Univision 34 reading messages from their facebook page.
Felt nothing here in Montecito Heights (although water did splash out of the pool). Hope it’s not because I was watching “American Me.” Mom wasn’t watching, and she did feel it pretty good down in Bell.
The earthquake was upgraded to 7.2, it seems more likely because I felt it here in Lincoln Heights, 250 miles away!
felt it pretty good here in Boyle Heights. In fact, I was able to have a conversation with my mom and sister about as it was going on.
It felt like being on a boat. Haiti, Chile, & now a 7.2 in Baja California? makes you wonder if Califas will really break off in our lifetimes.
http://www.impre.com//laopinion/noticias/2010/4/4/sacude-a-los-angeles-el-temblo-181633-1.html
Elia Magallanes vomitó tras la sensación que le dejó el sismo cuando estaba en un restaurante de la Zona RÃo, en Tijuana.
“Estaba comiendo cuando empezó a temblar, la gente gritó, yo seguÃa sentada, ya que vi que no paraba nos salimos, y del susto hasta vomité, es que me sentà rara, por el embarazo puesâ€, comentó.
I was in Victorville having lunch at a Thai restaurant and it wasn’t very strong but it kept going & going! I too felt mareado.
I was at Knotts Berry Farm with my lady and boy.Of course, it would be difficult to feel an earthquake amongst the rumble of rollercoasters, so we didn’t realize there was a terremoto until they stopped all the rides and someone mentioned it.
I was at TV Cafe on Alameda and felt is really swaying, thought it was a flash back, then I thought maybe bad tomatos in my veggie burrito or I had eaten too fast, was sooo hungry. I looked up and saw the lights swinging and turned to the heads behind me and asked “Esta temblando?” They all said YES.
and then we all laughed!
Did Chivas-America playing at the same time save lives like having the New York Giants play on Monday night football on 9/10/01 (hangovers)? In my town north of Chicago, drunken fans began turning on each other after Univision interrupted the broadcast with the special report about the earthquake.
the pic reminds me of a story about one of my cousins when he was little — they took him to mass one morning and over the the church doors was a statue of jesus with his arms outstretched. my cousin looked up at the statue and yelled, “jump, jesus! jump!”