Is because of stuff like this right here:
A string of earthquakes and aftershocks rattled the Pacific Coast of the United States and Mexico on Sunday, including a magnitude 7.2 quake that could be felt across Baja California, Arizona, and southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
There were no immediate reports of injuries and only limited reports of damages from that quake, which struck northwestern Mexico's Baja California at 3:40 p.m. PT (6:40 p.m. ET) about 110 miles (175 kilometers) east-southeast of Tijuana, Mexico.
Residents across southern California and Arizona reported serious ground shakes.
“We have not felt a shake like that since about 1979,” Michelle Tapia told CNN from Brawley, California.
The Left Coast Rebel is on it. As is Ed Morrissey.
Many others: L.A. NOW, The Moderate Voice, Mashable!, Gawker, The Lonely Conservative
This is why I stay my butt here in Michigan. We may have high unemployment and much snow. But Earthquakes are quite infrequent! 😀
Video of water shaking out of a pool, this is freaking crazy:
Again, that stuff is just freakin’ crazy. 😯 😮
Update: American Power, who also lives out in that area has pics and video.
Update #2: Temple of Mutt has coverage too.
Update #3: Liberal Blogger John Amato said it made him Dizzy. I am resisting the urge to be snarky here. 😉
Update #4: (H/T Douglas in comments section) CNN is now reporting:
[Updated at 9:40 p.m.] At least one person has been confirmed killed in a building collapse in Mexicali, according to the assistant director of civil protection in Tijuana. There have also been reports of injuries and structural damage, according to Alfredo Escobedo, Mexico’s director of civil protection.
Pictures from Mexicali showed the sides ripped off buildings, toppled telephone poles, cracked roads, and supermarket aisles strewn with food that had fallen off shelves. In California and Arizona, there were no immediate reports of injuries and only limited reports of damages. Residents across southern California and Arizona reported serious ground shakes.
So sad. 🙁 Thoughts and Prayers to our Neighbors to the south.
Earthquakes are no big deal if your building codes can handle them, so John Amato was quite right in saying it made him dizzy. That’s how I have felt during every earthquake I’ve been through in California. It’s sort of like being on an ocean liner and dizziness is quite common. Anyhow, as you will note in the news articles, there wasn’t much damage and very few to no injuries, courtesy of the strict building codes. But it’s OK if you want to stay in Michigan with the unemployment and the cold. I’d rather be in California any day.
To each to his own, I guess.
One death is being reported, and we’ll hear of more casualties because the news is slow coming out of Mexico. Thanks for the link, Patrick. Earthquakes are inherently dreadful, and the fires in California are the devil’s work, but compared to the hurricanes? I don’t know. I hope no one faces a natural disaster.
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Oh man, that stinks. 🙁
No Problem Douglas, anytime man.
I hear ya man, hang in there…er… Hang ON, out there…
I left California in 2005…..best choice I have ever made. In fact all 4 of our families left. Great weather….but that is all. High cost of living, high taxes, traffic jams and a government that is running the state into the ground. Did not want to be there for the bankruptcy. I now live in a low tax state. Unemployment below 7% and a conservative governor. Low cost of living. ie Gas 2.63 a gallon, low utility rates. Wonderful seasons, but hardly ever below 20 degrees. The Atlantic is warm and the beaches much better. I feel sorry for the people who bought our new house. It will stand in an earthquake but eventually it will be so far underwater, it will bankrupt them. The land of mild and honey is no longer there. Some of us find it a complete waste of money. We laugh at the commercials they run here asking people to visit.
I hear ya Rosi, thanks for the comments.