HOLY MOLY

I was driving home from my doctor's appointment, listening to my favorite rock station when the dj announced that a 5.8 earthquake had just hit the Los Angeles area! He said they were worried about the skyscrapers downtown.... AND THAT THE EARTHQUAKE WAS CENTERED IN CHINO HILLS!

(For those that don't know ~ Chino Hills is my home town)... That just so happens to have an enormous fault line down the center of it.

It freaked me out! A 5.8 is nothing to scoff at.

I finally got ahold of my dad (phone lines were down), and he is ok!... Phew! (Don't worry, my mom is out of town =D)

**Update: OK - they are now calling it a 5.4 and according to bloomberg.com, "As of 12:03 p.m. local time, 16 aftershocks had been recorded, ranging from 1.4 to 3.8 in magnitude, according to the USGS Web site." They also included an interesting tid bit from a USGS study issued in April:

"The study found that California will almost certainly be hit within 30 years by an earthquake as strong as the 6.7-magnitude temblor that struck the Northridge area of Los Angeles in 1994, killing 60 people, leaving 20,000 homeless and damaging 40,000 buildings."

...Scary. :(