At about 3:40 PM, people across Southern California felt a long, strong earthquake. USGS gives it a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 7.2 and it was centered in northeastern Baja California, about 50 miles south of Yuma, near the mouth of the Colorado River.
We didn’t feel it here in Monterey, but all my SoCal family and friends on Twitter and Facebook sure did.
No reports of damage yet, though with a quake of this size, I’m sure there will be at least (and hopefully nothing more than) minor damage in the Imperial Valley and cities like El Centro and Mexicali.
We certainly felt it in San Diego! Aftershocks all afternoon, too…
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recen…
we were walking around by the ocean in Venice. Kind of strange, people a couple miles down the road felt it.