Holy shit that was some earthquake

[RandySF]

San Francisco. Rattled widows. Neatly toppled furniture and the television. I’m still jumpy.

[livetohike]

1. Glad you are okay. Brace yourself for the aftershocks.

Hopefully they will be much less intense.

[NBachers]

2. Yup - woke me right the hell up and got me out of bed! 5 to 6 seconds of heavy shaking. No damage,

But I ran to the United States geological survey site to report it. I’m in San Francisco; it was right across the bay near Berkeley.
https://www.kron4.com/news/sizable-earthquake-jolts-east-bay-monday-morning/amp/

[RandySF]

3. I thought it was about to "the one".

[diane in sf]

7. What neighborhood are you in? My friend on 12th and Folsom said it was strong.

[RandySF]

9. Nob Hill/Union Square area.

[NBachers]

18. Yeah, it was a real heart-beater.

[Grokenstein]

4. Got a really solid rattle down here by the airport.

Wonder if the USGS is still functioning? Yes!!

M 4.3 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

[democrank]

5. Glad to hear you're okay.

Take good care~

[diane in sf]

6. Rattlely and crunchy up here in Vallejo. Scary, but not too dramatic. House and contents are fine. People

reporting in Crocket that live on a hillside felt it less even tho they’re closer. This neighborhood is made up of filled wetlands. The houses are from the 30s and 40s and well built. My house is bolted to its slab, tho that wasn’t mandatory back then. All the brick chimneys cracked or fell down in the 2014 Napa quake, but no badly damaged homes.

[HeartsCanHope]

8. Glad you're okay!

I lived in Israel for a year and we had a very small earthquake. The thing that scared me was the room actually undulated!
I grabbed my son and got to a doorway, and then the quake was over. Nothing broken in the house, just scary. Again, glad you made it through relatively okay.

[surfered]

10. Yikes!

[Jacson6]

11. I didn't feel a thing down here in San Luis Obispo. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

12. Fuck, not the television.

Anything but the television in our house.

or the computer. anything but the computer and the telev.

Oh. the iPhone. anything but the computer and the iPhone and the television ... maybe the refrigerator..

Anything but the tv, the iPhone, the.....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Nicely done. You made me smile. . . . nt

[RVN VET71]

14. The Old Baby-Raper controls the tectonic plates

and farted in the direction of California. He's angry at San Fran because, despite his personal hobby of having sex with children, he regards it as a modern-day Sodom and Gemorrah, a stain on American "kill the homeless" morality.


AND WHERE THE HELL ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES DONALD THE SYPHILITIC NAZI PROMISED US?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. I experienced Loma Prieta earthquake in 89

Magnitude 6.9.

I was in Silicon Valley 45 km (30 miles) from the epicenter. Office shook for 30 seconds in the main shock. I shouted "I'm getting under my desk" and office mate took the cue and did the same. Lamp fell off filing cabinet. It would have been difficult to walk in the main shake.

Our house 15 km (10 miles) from epicenter had a crack in the wall, and a bookcase fell over damaging a door. It was built in an area over a solid mass of bedrock.

About 3 km (2 miles) away, in sandy/silty area, ten people perished. In SF 75 km (50 mi) from epicenter, in a sandy silty area, more people died. In total 63 people died.

Shi{f}t happens.

[Zorro]

20. I left Silicon Valley in July 1989 just before Loma Prieta

I had decided I was getting too blasé about earthquakes; when one would rattle through I'd try to mentally calibrate the magnitude ("oh, felt like a 4.2... " ) -- really missed working there but relocated to Florida and traded earthquakes for hurricanes...

[Duncanpup]

16. Glad you are safe.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

17. I grew up in San Jose....earthquakes were common occurrences.

When growing up, I would feel them. It was as if someone took a huge rolling pin and ran it under the house.

The San Andreas Fault is near the city off Hollister.

It was the earthquake of October of 1989 during the World Series that shook up a huge section of California. My father had just finished up a job in Hayward, gotten off the Bay Bridge, San Francisco to 280, when the earthquake hit. It took his calm and strength to keep in control of the steering wheel of his truck.

I turned on the TV when I got home from work from the costume shop in Rochester to CNN. There were fires in the area of the Marina. The epicenter of that strong earthquake was in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the South and West of San Jose. I was able to call my mother and ask her what condition things were in San Jose. She said there were some new structural cracks and everything on shelves were now on the floor.

Stay safe California DUers.

[msfiddlestix]

21. I live in the north bay woke up to the sensation of a mildly decernable tremor. I had actually forgotten about it!

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Being Reported As A 4.3

Non-trivial, to be sure.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7news.com/amp/post/east-bay-earthquake-preliminary-magnitude-46-temblor-strikes-berkeley-usgs-says/17864788/

[RandySF]

23. We live pretty close to the epicenter.

[electric_blue68]

24. Be safe over there! Quite rare in NYC...

(When I visited SF & LA in '79 I was like "Oh, God, puleeeze, No earthquakes!". ) There weren't.

We here get all "wooaah !" understandibly!

April '24 felt like 3 short upwards jolts.
4-ish. Seems like I totally missed the 5.8 in 2011.

The "wildest" one bc of my area, and my reaction was in '85. Sleeping late, and dreaming I was in an elevator descending when it started to rock back, and forth. I woke up as I sat up yelling "Earthquake!".
I looked around nothing was amiss, there was a fading vibration, and a sound fading away from the building.
But it wasn't so unusual for us bc of how we were situated.

Our family apt building was partly perched 8 stories above the next eastward Ave, and buildings on a steep hill. Regular in the ground on our (westward) Ave side, where we faced in the back was the hill; w a massive balcony jutting out, that connected basement areas, stairs to our Avenue, and a concrete, and boulders structure holding the rest of the building up on the hill.

It acted like a sound amplifier! A basketball being boinced on the sidewalk could sound like shots, motorcycles were really loud, and small trucks would rumble with occasional vibrations traveling all the way upward to us.

I went back to sleep. When I woke up about 3 hours later, I turned on my rock station. I'd already forgotten about it. They were playing "Shake, Rattle, and Roll". It didn't "ping" me at all!

Finally, the DJ said, "did you feel that earthquake this morning?".
....Whaaaaa.... ?!!

How did I, who'd never been in one know it was one - in my sleep ?!
The actual sound that faded away wasn't really loud but thinking about it at some point later it felt vast (relatively) like the waves expanding from a stone tossed in a pond.
So it was something! A 4-ish and north of us.