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Strong quake rattles buildings, nerves in S. Calif

LOS ANGELES – The strongest earthquake to strike a populated area of Southern California in more than a decade rattled windows and chandeliers, made buildings sway and sent people running into the streets on Tuesday. But there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage.
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The 5.4-magnitude quake — considered moderate — was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and as far east as Las Vegas, 230 miles away. Nearly 30 aftershocks quickly followed, the largest estimated at 3.8.

The quake was centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills, a San Bernardino County city of 80,000 built mostly in the early 1990s with the latest in earthquake-resistant technology.

For those of you that didn’t hear; My area was doing a little rockin and rollin.

I really hate earthquakes, it’s not so much the shaking, it’s the short period of time when things are shaking that you are out of control, all you can do is wait. You get no warning, and you don’t know how far away it hit. We were worried that somewhere got really hit hard and we were far away from the center, not the case at all this time. Chino Hills is not that far from us, and we felt it pretty good.
Luckily we are all fine, thanks for all your emails and calls..