L.A. Earthquake Live as it Happened

LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE 5.4 July 29th 2008. The slight rattling and what sounds like cowbells are my windows shaking. lasted about 55 seconds.not a whole lot of action, but this was the experience i had as it happened. I was layin down checking my emails, then heard a thud and felt my bed move. i thought it was the neighbor moving something, then realized quickly it was an earthquake. i jumped up grabbed my camera and this is what i caught about 15 seconds into it. the whole building was swaying back and forth. it would be a jolt then a wobble. pretty cool.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• EARTHQUAKE
• LOS
• ANGELES
• Live
• chino
• hills
• 5.4
• 07-29-08

[museinter]

so the first thing you do in the middle of a earthquake is filming with your camera?you must be smart LOL

[davedubya]

@museinter yeah dumbass.....you watched it didn't ya....I must be smarter than you!

[DarkNatasX]

@davedubya But him watching has nothing to do with anything, because their isn't a earthquake going on.

[davedubya]

@DarkNatasX - Ok take a look at the date I posted the video.....then type in that date and Earthquake into the search bar above.....then my friend you will find 100's of videos documenting this earthquake. read the description....I don't claim that it is an awesome video, I just said I posted my experience. If the quake had been worse....i would have caught something awesome. But since it kind of rolled through, I did not catch "The Big One".

[VinceLA91]

are those apartments on Sunset blvd?

[KoRnYFingers]

i slept right through this, and woke up thinking it was my brother jumping on my bed

[yago1078]

It's not an earthquake, you're just not holding your camera still.

[ssdiablomg]

@DarkNatasX It's there not their you idiot. Go back to school dumbass.

[SuperSparksTV]

@Spaceshotx7 I was is a earthquake when I was 2 years old. My mom was brushing my teeth and she said all of a sudden there was a sudden jerking in the whole house. My mom quickly picked me up and ran down stairs when our whole front door went blasting breaking towards us. (Our front door was made of almost all glass) We were both injured and had to go to the hospital. We also lived by a forest and a tree fell just missing our house by about 10 feet. This took place in Seattle.

[TheBbinca]

I don't doubt this video at all. A mag.5.4 sounds small but will feel differently according to where you are and how far from the epicenter. In a car I've heard it feels like a flat tire. I live in CA and been through many quakes that didn't bother me. I was very near the epicenter in Chino CA this day. It was several jolts and then a lot of swaying back and forth. It scared me. Downtown Los Angeles (over 20 miles away) felt it but not as much. There's time to film. Running is not advised.

[willychavez22]

i swear i had a dream about this earthquake right before it happend......