Lance Foxx's Journal

4.2 Earthquake - Borrego Springs
At about 8:48pm last night, I could hear a distant but very loud boom, two of them, then silence...

Being this close to the largest marine base on the west coast, you can sometimes hear live fire exercises. What surprised me, though, was that it started at 8:48pm. I've been in the military. Usually you start operations at the top of the hour, not at some random time within the hour. And the booms started so late. I didn't remember hearing any at all during the day.

I listened closely... and moments later, I heard a couple of more booms.

Well, I figured, it must be Camp Pendleton. Usually when they fire the big guns, you hear shots fired in twos or threes, or at least that's the way stuff echoed.

I shrugged it off and keep playing video games.

Little did I know, what I just heard may have been an earthquake. Nothing shook at my house, but around the same time, a 4.2 earthquake hit the East County area, out in the desert. The quake was felt within San Diego's city limits, however it wasn't reported to have done any damage.

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