I’d been equipped with a satellite phone the size of a suitcase, which I was to power from a car battery using an electric inverter, and then aim skyward at just the right trajectory to establish communications with New York. or San Francisco bureau might be leveled or incapacitated, so I had to be prepared to go to work on a moment’s notice, and perhaps a long way away. The paper’s planning assumed that, in the event of “The Big One,” either the L.A.
Twenty years ago, when I first lived in Southern California as the Los Angeles bureau chief of The New York Times, I took the prospect of an earthquake very seriously indeed. When your 100-year-old house shifts and groans with a sound like the straining timbers of a wooden vessel under sail-as ours did the other day-it’s hard not to feel a certain nauseated intimation of mortality. I can’t pretend it’s quite like living in Israel in the midst of an intifada, or in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, but there is nevertheless a low-grade febrile uncertainty amid the routines of daily life here. Depending on where we live, Californians are just one spark, one mudslide, or, yes, one earthquake away from severe destruction-a reality that can be met with fatalism, fear, or some combination of both, but one that is omnipresent, if surprisingly easy to forget.
“The closer you are, the larger the shake,” he said.To live in California is to make a wary peace with an existential dichotomy: breathtaking weather, astounding natural beauty, bounteous food and wine, stimulating multiculturalism and … the possibility of imminent, unpredictable disaster. He didn’t feel the quake himself, in Santa Barbara, where the ground motion was not that large. Archuleta said the standard USGS response is a 5 percent probability. Archuleta said, though Ojai had a swarm near Meiner’s Oaks about six months ago.Īsked if another large quake was likely, Prof. The Lion fault had not been that active, Prof. He noted the quake seemed located near the Lion Canyon Fault, based on the USGS mapping so far. “It’s not unusual to have aftershocks after a 5.1 earthquake,” said Professor Ralph Archuleta, a distinguished professor emeritus in seismology at UC Santa Barbara. The most recent was a 3.7 magnitude quake at 3:08 p.m. However, since this story was first posted, additional aftershocks have been registered in Ojai by the USGS. “We got a pretty good jolt,” said Anthony, a store supervisor, “The banners were swaying back and forth, but nothing fell off the shelves.” If dogs and cats in Santa Barbara are anything to go by, the earthquake was lightly felt in Santa Barbara, which was more captivated by the rain falling from Tropical Storm Hilary. Closest to Ojai over the Santa Barbara County line, at the Albertsons grocery store in Carpinteria, customers and employees all looked at each other asking if that was an earthquake they were feeling.
Aftershocks of 3.1 to 3.6 in magnitude continue to shake the area, with effects felt in Santa Barbara, as well. Geological Survey reports the first and largest quake was 5.1 in magnitude and occurred at 2:41 p.m. Ventura was shaken violently by a number of earthquakes centered 2-7 miles southeast of Ojai.
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