HOLY SHIT!!!!!

[RandySF]

That was a helluva earthquake

[Glimmer of Hope]

1. Oh no!

Stay safe.

[Cha]

2. WOW! I knew if it were Randy saying

"HOLY SHIT!!!!" it had to be something big!

You ok?

[RandySF]

4. One BIG jolt

[Cha]

11. Scary.. were you standing, sitting.. ?

I experienced a couple of minor ones in San Diego back in the 80s.. one I was in bed.. I looked under by bed! It was my first one.

The other one I was in my car stopped. Nothing major but we did feel the Earth move!

Hope that'd it for you guys up there in California!

[BigmanPigman]

17. I remember those two very well.

My bed was on the floor and at first I thought someone was under it. The trees outside were even swaying. Then there was the second one so after that I had a pair of shoes and jeans ready by the door everyone I went to bed.

[Cha]

23. Good times.. You got prepared! Kinda hard for someone to

be under a bed on the floor. lol I know 'cause that's how mine is now. I like it that way.

I was in one of those big hospital type beds.. I can still see my head looking under it.. my first and understandable reaction from a former Colorado girl. We didn't have Earthquakes there. Lot of snow, though.

[madamesilverspurs]

29. My first earthquake was in Colorado,

late '50s, early '60s, somewhere in there. We lived in Lakewood, just west of Denver. During the night, the thing shook me and the mattress off the box springs and onto the floor. I remember screaming down the hall and seeing Mom in the living room, leaning against the secretary desk to keep it from tipping over.

Decades later, the folks retired to Eureka CA. They tried like crazy to get me to move there, saying they worried about me living in tornado country. They couldn't argue with my insistence that tornados can be predicted, not so with earthquakes. And I found it a bit unsettling that the Eureka newspaper carried a daily quake report right next to the weather report. Daily?? No thanks!

Now most of my family lives in Pacific Rim territory, with lovely views of a volcano (likely their most common thing shared with Hawaii, eh?).

Colorado is home. We do have a history of quakes; we just don't have a history of massive quake devastation. Lately, most of our pops are fracking related. And we are downwind from that caldara thing up around Yellowstone . . .


.

[Cha]

34. I wondered if anyone would correct me on that.. lol

how vivid your recollection of the Earthquake in Lakewood, Madame.

We left Colorado in 1962 and moved to Phoenix, AZ.. I had spent the last 3 years of high school out on the Plains in a small town called Hugo. No Earthquakes.. snow and tumbleweeds.

But, I did go back to Colorado in 1990 for a couple of years.. to be by my Mom.. and actually lived and worked in Lakewood. Biggest Mother Nature event then was the Billion Dollar Hailstorm on July 11, 1990 that I got myself into.. scary! You remember that!

And, I see they had another Billion$$$ Hailstorm.. this time in Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, and Thorton, too!

At $1.4 billion, recent hailstorm that hit Denver was likely Colorado's costliest ever

https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/05/24/hailstorm-battered-denver-likely-colorados-costliest-ever/102108158/

If I had stayed in Lakewood on that day July11, 1990.. I wouldn't have spider webbed my boss' windshield and dinged his classic '72 black Ford.

You really don't like Earthquakes! I know you love Colorado.. Home Sweet Home.. fond memories there.

[moriah]

32. I've only felt two, the first was a high 3...

... but we were very close to the epicenter.

This was in Arkansas, and the house was old and built connected directly to the bedrock. It shook and I had no idea what hsd happened, ran outside. Was fast, just a jolt.

One person standing on some rock beds fell from it, and I helped her up. Her husband, working on a part of the property with more soil, didn't feel a thing.

The other was the biggest one in the Guy earthquake swarm. My relatives had been dealing with 2s and 3s regularly, but we felt the 5 outside of Guy.

Glad we usually only have weird mild quakes with no explainable pattern... usually...

[California_Republic]

3. Yes sir!

[ailsagirl]

5. I'm in Marin-- albeit on bedrock

Didn't feel a thing. Heard it was centered in the East Bay

[kimbutgar]

6. I felt it also

No report on tv though.

[RandySF]

9. 3.8 centered in Oakland

[kimbutgar]

18. It was a little shaker

Native San Franciscan. Rather have those little shakers every now and to relieve the pressure on the earthquake fault instead of one big jolt.

[mshasta]

30. Very normal

Yes small shake

[still_one]

33. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[BigmanPigman]

7. Was it over 6?

[Leghorn21]

8. This? (doesn't sound all that "minor" though, so sorry!!)

[RandySF]

10. It felt bigger than the 5.0 we had in 2007

[RockRaven]

12. Based on the time of the post

and what's on the USGS latest earthquake website right now, I'm guessing it is the 3.6 located 3 km ENE of Oakland.

Stay safe everyone, in case it's just the beginning of something more.

[misanthrope]

13. My phone app says 3.6

and centered in Oakland.

[Heartstrings]

14. Uh oh!

Felt a few in LA back in the early 2000’s....scary!


Will be watching for news reports and sending good vibes!

[Eko]

15. 3.8 magnitude earthquake 3 km from Piedmont, California, United States

https://www.earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2018-05-15-02-18-34-utc-3-8-9
eom

[B2G]

16. 3.6? Lol. Nt

[jalan48]

19. I have good friends in Oakland. I hope the city os OK

[RandySF]

20. We're

It was a good jolt, though. Almost took out the tv.

[jalan48]

21. Hang in there.

[Cha]

24. Wow!

[Demovictory9]

31. take care!

[Jacoby365]

22. It was a big jolt.

I live in San Francisco. For being a 3.6 across the bay, it was a pretty big jolt, but it didn't last more than a few seconds. It felt like a car drove into the side of the house.

[Cha]

25. Wow! Glad it didn't last long for

you guys!

[rustydog]

26. Magnitude 3.6- 9 km deep Centered Piedmont

According to Earthquake Track.

[VOX]

27. Veteran of the Kern County, San Fernando, Sylmar, Sierra Madre, Landers-Big Bear, Northridge quakes.

And many more smaller temblors in Southern and Central California. Earth is a living thing, and every now and then it shifts, shimmies and shakes. Boy, does it ever shake.

Been through so many that I no longer fear them, I just dread the cleanup after a good-sized shaker. Bookshelves' contents flung about, full bottle of salad dressing tossed onto the kitchen tile floor, etc.

[B2G]

28. Veteran of Loma Prieta.

I moved to the opposite coast a year after. No thanks.

[VOX]

35. I hear you. That was a doozie. I don't blame you for relocating.

For me, the Northridge quake in 1994 was the biggest so far. I was living near UCLA in Westwood, and it was intense enough to throw me out of bed. Everything in the house was crashing, thumping, breaking and pinging around. Houses rolled off their foundations in Santa Monica. My mom had suffered a stroke a few days before, and was in St. John's Hospital, which had to be evacuated -- there were cracks in the structure that I could easily put my hand through.

My office (also at UCLA) looked like a bomb had hit. DOS computers flung several feed from their usual spots. Books and papers everywhere. Broken glass, too. A royal mess. The quake was so violent that it damaged the Jumbotron at Angels Stadium in Anaheim.

My brother (who is usually cool and collected) was really freaked out, just beside himself with anxiety. Not interested in repeating that scenario ever again. Even though I live not all that far from the southern San Andreas Fault. Gulp!

[B2G]

37. I worked at HP at the time.

I was on the disaster recovery team. I cannot even begin to describe what those data centers looked like.

It was surreal.

[MFM008]

36. Im concerned

In 2001 we had a 6.8 here in Western WA.
Nothing feelable since.
Thats not good.