5.8, felt in Las Vegas. East of Pomona epicenter according to CNN>

5.8 2008/07/29 11:42:15 33.959N 117.752W 12.3 3 km ( 2 mi) SW of Chino Hills, CA. This info comes from http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes.big.html

Felt fairly large rolling bumps and it lasted for a good while here in Rancho Park. Whoa indeed.

Here on the 10th floor at the Howard Hughes Center in Westchester it certainly “rolled” on through. No visible damage other than some coworkers’ nerves.

Here on the 22nd floor in downtown the entire building shook and shook and shook for minutes. It was quite scary. Now the elevators aren’t working. Which sucks, cause I forgot my lunch at home. What a day to forget it on the kitchen counter.

That was a good reminder of why we spent the dough to get our 80-year-old foundation earthquake retrofit!

Can’t reach anyone, lousy cell phones, never work when you need them.

At work in thousand oaks I barely felt this… but my cell phone network totally did. Lines were tied up for over 30 minutes.

[...] us), I was like “I’m going to blog this before anyone else does!” And so I made this post at LA Metblogs WHILE THE ROOM WAS STILL SHAKING. Damn, I’m hardcore. Either that, or my survival instinct loses to my blogging [...]