I was awoke by an earthquake

[DemocratSinceBirth]

There was a 4.2 earthquake in Malibu. I live in Woodland Hills which is about 22 miles away. I must be a light sleeper. I heard some shaking and went back to sleep.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. you didnt dream it . this details.

https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/ci40161279.html


i aint smart, but i aint stupid either. milton the monster.

[Model35mech]

4. USGS is at this moment saying it was 3.6, an increase from first estimate.

I do expect that LA area seismologists have a faster input to these estimates.

It sure caught everyone's attention

[Lovie777]

2. Didn't feel it .......

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Where were you?

[Lovie777]

6. Gardena................

a couple of miles from the city of Los Angeles.

[MineralMan]

3. It's good to be woke!

[DBoon]

7. Will DeSantis ban earthquakes in Florida then?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

8. I guess I was wake, as I heard and felt the first wave and thought, "I wonder

where this one is going"? Then the second wave was bigger and I thought this might become something. But that was about it.

Being a native Angeleno it needs to shake harder than 4.2 to get one out of a warm bed. LOL

[2naSalit]

9. Lived in...

San Diego, off and on, for several years, never got used to it. I was in Redondo Beach when that big Palm Springs quake happened in the late 80s and that was definitely a "get out of bed" quake. I was, gladly, out of state by the time the Northridge quake and others happened.

[crickets]

10. I was one valley over from Northridge and still couldn't believe

how hard the house shook, and for how long. Be glad you missed it. After Whittier Narrows and that one, I was ready to move back to the east coast. I never did get used to them either.

[beaglelover]

16. I lived in West Hollywood in a rental house when Northridge hit.

It was intense to say the least. I woke up when the wooden windows creaked right as it started then all hell broke loose.

The damage was interesting. Our TV in the living room that was on a table about waist high, was 6 feet in front of the table on its face, yet all the chotskes (sp) on the mantel did not move. We had one of those moveable dishwashers in the kitchen that had rolled itself all the way to the other side of the kitchen. The worst of the damage was the chimney cracked at the roofline and had to be replaced. We could no longer park our cars in the driveway until it was replaced several months later.

The funny thing is we had just gotten our first beagle pupply that afternoon and she had kept us up most of the night crying in her kennel. She finally settled down around 3 a.m. and then the quake hit at 4:33 a.m. Not a good night for sleep.

I remember being in Costco in the valley the following Saturday when an aftershock hit and the super high shelves in the store just swaying and looking threatening. Everyone just abandoned their carts and ran out of the store!

[electric_blue68]

11. I (also) was awoke by an earthquake....IN *NYC*! And why I didn't recognize it!

😮
Back in the ?mid '80's.

[ok, this turned longer than intended - you have to understand it's so rare for us.
Imagine you Southern Californians maybe getting a ?1/8 -1/4 inch of snow that doesn't turn to ice bc it warms up again very quickly might be a close equivalent]

(pertainent set up)
The apt building I lived in (with a few others) was partly built on a steep hill. The fronts faced the avenue, the backs over the hill. Our building had this ?15+ foot (3+ ft thick) long ledge that jutted from the base over the hill.

This created a sound amplifier on just about any noise going on below on the sidewalks & streets such as motorcycles, and kids bouncing basketballs as they walked along. Even a heavy garbage truck could also cause mild vibrations besides the noise.
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Sooo... I was asleep, and was dreaming of being in a desebding elevator with a few people. Suddenly the elevator started to sway side to side."

I woke up as I bolted upright in bed yelling...
"EARTHQUAKE!"
I felt mild vibrations (but perhap vaster) now fading away. I hear a low (but also perhap vaster) steady rumbling noise now also fading away.
But these subtle vaster sensations didn't register with me.

I looked around and everything appeared fine.
I thought..."Eh... A Truck"." I went back to sleep.

Several hours I woke up for the day. I learned above and below my pillow to my stereo system, and switched on the rock station that was in the middle of playing "Shake, Rattle, and Roll".

It wasn't till the DJ said... "did you feel that earthquake this morning?!".....

"An earthquake? A freaking Earthquake?!!!".
(I thought to myself)

This one was 4.0.

The epicenter was not that far away, several miles north of the city line which where I lived was like 80% closer than much of the rest of the 5 Burroughs of NYC.
(Without the Internet at my disposal it didn't occur to me what the difference was like about 8-10 miles south of me in the Southern ends of our City; Brooklyn, Staten Island.

Now I don't know (and you can chime in) bc it seems to me this would not feet like much to you in California...
but when these mild ones occur to you, how often do you tense up for the beginning of "the Big One" (which I hope doesn't happen in any of your lifetimes?

Being a bit of an Earth Sciences buff I'm sure than other than being quite young (I was in my early 30's by then)
I'd have remembered that!
Earthquakes are increquent in the actual NYC area but the biggest (5.0+) in the 1730s, 1780's and 1830s. We also felt mild effects from ones in Virginia 2010, 2011.
Earthquakes in the Northeast are felt over a much wider area.

From the NYTimes:

"While damage was negligible, the quake was the talk of the day for millions of people. Many at first thought that trees had toppled or that oil and gas furnaces in their homes had exploded.

Experiences varied widely. Some felt sharp tremors and loud noises, while others felt only vibrations and heard prolonged rumbling."

I sure hope we don't get one again for decades more esp a 5.0+ one!


Take care, Californians!

[Xavier Breath]

12. In the summer of 1980 we had an earthquake

in my small town in Ohio. I was at my dad's apartment, and at first we thought a large truck had rumbled down the street. We went to the door only to see all of his neighbors looking out to spot the same elusive truck. It's wasn't large, and we didn't suffer so much as a crack in the plaster. But it was disorienting, none the less. That was the first time I heard of the New Madrid fault.

[electric_blue68]

14. I get it! And your neighbors...

out their doors perplexed like you as well!

I can imagine disorienting, esp since you reacted with a immediate stronger response with the supposed truck right "outside" your door!
Freaky stuff.

Yeah, I know I heard about the New Madris Fault sometime in my thirties.

For our area a few cracked roads close to the epicenter (out of NYC), a few broken dishes here and there.

[beaglelover]

13. It woke us up too in North Hollywood at 2 a.m.

Took me a little while to get back to sleep. Always wondering it its a precursor to the 'big one'.

[Beaverhausen]

15. I"m in Winnetka and it woke me up

and scared the shit out of me!!!

Gawd I hate them...but we have to deal with them so we can live in all this sunshine!