A Rockin' and Rollin' Easter in Southern California

Wow...I've been through the Sylmar, Whittier, Northridge and Landers quakes, but we just had a doozy here in Southern California. The initial report is 6.9 in Baja California, although typically the magnitude is scaled down in later reports.

This was the longest earthquake I ever remember experiencing; it seemed to last a couple of minutes. It wasn't a sharp, scary jolt like some other quakes, but a rolling quake which went on, and on, and on. Initial anecdotal reports on the radio share my opinion that it was unusually long. It left a couple of us feeling quite a bit dizzy.

We looked over the fence into our neighbors' yard and the water was still sloshing out of their pool after we stopped feeling the quake.

It was gentle enough, due to the rolling, that we don't seem to have had anything fall or be damaged. (In the summer of 2008, while we were in Reno, there was a quake here in Orange County's Chino Hills which caused several items to fall, but nothing broke.) So all is well in our particular home, we're just still feeling a bit as though we're on a boat!

Update: The quake has been upgraded to a 7.2. There has been a swarm of aftershocks, including a 5.1 in Imperial (now upgraded to 5.4).