jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

There's been a 6.6 earthquake near the Mojave Desert in California.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38443183/executive

BlueMorel Loc: Southwest Michigan

No news of damages yet. It's in a remote area. Happened about 10:30 a.m. PDT.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Yes there was. We felt it start and finish. I have been in lots much worse but the numbers were up there. My granddaughters and their mom had never been in an earthquake. This didn't feel like more than a couple of minutes of the earth rolling. No china falling from cabinets etc.

Dennis

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

I'd described as ----
"Slightly Moving"

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Me too. If I remember correctly Yorba Linda is East of Los Angeles. We are up in the Santa Barbara area.

Dennis

Muddyvalley Loc: McMinnville, Oregon

My nephew and his wife work at the china lake naval weapons center. Mechanical engineers. They live in Ridgecrest. He called us shortly afterwards. The Walmart there had all the paint dept. cans dumped off the shelves & of course the lids popped off. Same with lots of oil in the auto dept. Quite a mess. I can hear them now....clean-up on isle 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11....

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

A bird group on FB I belong to a women posted a video of her father's liquor store in Ridgecrest - a mess. The city has also reported broken gas lines and at least 5 structure fires as a result.

I worked at a Ralph's Supermarket in Huntington Park when the 1971 Sylmar/San Fernando 6.6 quake hit. My mother and I were just fixing breakfast and shortly after the phone rang, it was the market calling to see if I had classes at the University or could come in an help - at overtime/holiday rates. I went in combat boots, jeans etc and spent a good part of the day shoveling broken glass and the contents in several isles and the liquor department. We used first a hose and then a commercial size wet vac to get rid of the booze - hosed it out the door and down the storm drains - must have been a lot of drunk rats etc in those storm drains for a while. We had a very good crew that was heavy on college students, a few of us veterans. By afternoon we had the shelves completely restocked and floors clean (except the liquor dept, some of their new stock came by special truck the nest day) and totally open for business shortly after noon. The store only missed 9 AM to Noon from our regular business day. I and others from the midnight crew worked all day and then our regular shift until midnight. Then we went out for a midnight breakfast together at the local Denny's.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Torrance area/
Just a little back and forth.
The vertical shades wiggled.
My wobbly monitor wobbled.
My cat wanted me to stop it.
Other than that- nada

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

What a mess! It sounds like they have to take earthquake precautions.

Roger Dickinson Loc: Boston

You can download an app for your phone called MyQuake. From Berkley Seismological Lab. I opened it and found this particular quake and a few dozen smaller ones in the same area. Lot of activity there.

folkus

Lived there during Junior High and High School. That is quite an active area though most register less than that.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Same area had a 5.4 this morning.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

They do, but esp in a retail environment putting rails etc on shelves makes it harder for customers to get things and slows the stock crew down.
They either go for saving stuff during a quake or saving time, money etc putting stuff on shelves or getting it down. Even here in California quakes this big are rare so they go for the speed, time and money saved while stocking and customers getting things off the shelf.

sheebe Loc: Lake Isabella, CA

Scared the tar out of me. 6.4 where we live. Was like a wave, rolling. Many aftershocks. I slept through the 5.4 at 4:00 AM This morning. Very scary. After it was done I did cry. It takes a lot for me to cry.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

We get used to the little ones.
Leno said it best. Welcome to California, some assembly required!