A major earthquake occurred at 3:40:40 PM (PDT) on Sunday, April 4, 2010.
The magnitude 7.2 event occurred 26 km (16 miles) SW of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.
via Recent Earthquakes – Info for event ci14607652.
Nothing to get you living in the moment and aware of nature like an earthquake!
And sadly, the day only got worse and weirder from there — this happened on the next street over from our house… there were sheriffs’ cars all over and two helicopters overhead for hours. Our family was not affected, but we’re very sad for our neighborhood tonight.
Deputies kills Poway gunman suspected in 2 slayings
A Poway man thought to have killed two of his neighbors was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies Sunday night, authorities said.
The identities of the three, who lived on Olive Grove Drive west of Community Road, were not released.
Sheriff’s Lt. Dennis Brugos said two sheriff’s deputies responded within 2 minutes to a 6 p.m. call that shots had been fired. They confronted a man with a rifle or a shotgun, and he was fatally wounded at the scene, Brugos said.
Deputies later discovered that the man also was carrying a handgun, Brugos said.
A search of a house in the neighborhood revealed the bodies of a dead man and woman, Brugos said.
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Oh, my God, that would be a big emotional shock. How are you doing?
Hi la peregrina, I’m doing all right — managed to get some sleep although the dogs got me up early for breakfast this morning. Tons of aftershocks all night, but we’re on a large granite hill so not feeling them much. Not much more info on the shootings yet, apparently some long-running dispute that got out of hand. Probably alcohol involved, but no more details yet. But certainly a shock in our usually quiet neighborhood. It was a weird, strange day all round.
Nothing like a nice quiet Easter Sunday! Glad you and yours are OK. Earthquakes make you feel so helpless. At least with bad weather you can’batten down the hatches’ with an earthquake you just get to hide and keep stuff from falling on you and even worse you get no warning.
fallenmonk, we’re fine here. The earthquakes are somewhat exciting — we do keep a “bugout” kit for fires and earthquakes, so I guess this will remind us to update it and stay prepared. We get complacent if we aren’t shaken up at times — that’s just quite literal here!