Felt like a bomb, just, it felt like your truck
hit the house.
We were listening to the windows kind of shake and
then all it just kind of like ### wow.
The 10 shaking and rattled nerves.
People jolted awake this morning by a 4.7 magnitude quake,
the 14th quake above point O 7 in Southern California
this year, which experts say is above average.
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Did you feel it?
I did.
I got woken up.
The, the alarm worked.
The, the app worked.
Yeah, I got the app as well.
The shake alert.
Yes.
And I felt the jolt at my house, right.
The epicenter was in Malibu, where they really felt it.
And that's where we find Fox 11, Hal Eisner.
Hal.
Yeah, That earthquake this morning, preceded by that earthquake alert
was quite the wake up call, wasn't it, Especially for
some of my colleagues.
We have an earthquake right now.
If you were watching Melvin, Jen and Amanda this morning
on Good Day LA at 7:28, that is an earthquake
that we just experienced that's still going.
And naturally, it's a little bit jarring when that happens.
That's what it looked like in Thousand Oaks at 728,
where Miguel Gorilla Lopez and Megan Nicole live.
It felt like the truck hit the house.
We were listening to the windows kind of shake and
then all it just kind of like ### and then
a wave.
In West LA, as a precaution, students at Daniel Webster
Middle School at their classrooms at Ontario Airport, our camera
was shaking as the ground did.
Same with our Santa Monica camera crews were cleaning up
dirt and rocks and fell in Malibu Canyon.
The intensity of the shaking varied with your location.
Like Chevelle LeBlanc from Calabasas.
To her, it felt like a bomb.
It didn't feel like like a rumbling like the normal
earthquakes.
This was, like, hard.
It was very shaky.
Like it was angry.
It was angry.
Yes.
Jolting.
Yes.
It was shaking like that.
Shaking.
Yeah.
Like, the floor was shaking.
I was, like, trying to walk.
I was going to, like, take cover.
But then by the time I found cover, it was
already over.
Were you scared a little bit?
Yeah.
I was scared because it was pretty strong.
I've never felt that strong of an earthquake before.
All my plants are moving, and the whole bed was
moving.
So it was pretty scary.
In Malibu, the epicenter of the quake, Scott Richter felt
it at his market just like a violent rattling for
like 10 seconds, which was like, stronger than like your
your average quake.
Recently, Serena Avery was working as a nanny when it
hit.
And I just felt the house shaking.
So I ran out and checked on the kids and
grabbed them.
And then we stayed put and it felt like 10
seconds long, which is really long when your house is
shaking.
I was like, what's going on here?
It was a big one.
Yeah.
Yeah, for some people, it was a big one.
The good news here, there were no injuries.
There was no damage in Malibu.
I'm Hal Eisner.
Fox.
Love the news.
Yeah, as you would expect from a quake of this
size.
No injuries, no damage.
Thank you.
Hal mentioned the earthquake felt from Santa Barbara to Orange
County.
People in different areas of Southern California felt different intensities
or even said they didn't feel it at all.
So today we asked renowned expert and seismologist Dr.
Lucy Jones why that's the case.
I felt nothing because I was on my exercise bike
pedaling away.
I was already moving.
If you're moving, if you're walking, it's very hard to
feel it.
If you're sitting quietly, you're much more likely to feel
it.
If you're sitting quietly on an upper story of a
building, you're even more likely to feel it because the
building can amplify the shaking a little bit.
I like her humble brag about the exercise this morning.
Way to go, Doctor Jones.
September also happens to be National Preparedness Month.
Doctor Jones reminding everybody if you don't have your earthquake
kit ready to go, this temblors reminder to make that
a priority to keep your family safe.