Experienced the first earthquake since I moved to California this weekend. I was up at the campground in Idyllwild, just walking to the tent from our car. Heard this noise all of a sudden and wondered where it came from. Didn't expect so much noise from traffic in a place like that. As it came to my mind that the noise wasn't caused by a parade of trucks but coming from the earth, the earth started shaking and shaking hard. I kind of lost my balance for a second, looked up at the trees above me, looked down on the ground that was moving under my feet, then pondered for a second whether I was in a really save place and decided that unless a tree was gonna fall on my head I was ...Apparently the earthquake originated just east of Anza, or 17 miles from Idyllwild where we were. It was a 5.6 quake and it was felt all throughout Southern California and as far as Arizona, Nevada and Mexico. This is the biggest earthquake I have experienced since the earthquake in Iceland on June 17th 2000. It's bigger than the afterquakes I experienced up in Templeton during Christmas 2003 after the disastrous earthquake of Paso Robles. And it's the first real earthquake we have here since I moved to California.
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