CA earthquake?

[Earth_First]

Just on the telephone with a friend of mine who swears he felt a rumble in S.F.

Everyone alright?

In search of link...



http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-38.htm

[haele]

1. 3.7 - just happened.

Nature's li'l wake-up call.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc51177042.php

Haele

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. I can't believe I didn't notice it

I thought my son was tripping when he came out and asked if I'd felt it. Nothing to worry about, though, it wasn't very big. (Unless it was centered far away.)

[Higans]

3. I didn't feel any thing in San Jose.

we have small ones often, only get a big one about once every 100 years or so.

[TomInTib]

4. I didn't feel a thing

but I am directly north across the Bay from SF (Tiburon).

[Moochy]

5. Yeah I felt it, very close to epicenter

No damage to report, just a slight boom and subsequent house shakeage.. but no breakage. :+

[Generic Brad]

8. Glad you had no damage from the earthquakage!

[Tom Joad]

9. Hey neighbor.

:toast:

[jgraz]

11. Go Berkeley

:woohoo:

My Wisconsin-born pooch just had her first earthquake!

[Tom Joad]

6. Yep, underneath my house.

www.sfgate.com

I reached up to save my monitor. What an instinct!
No damage, no problems.

[TahitiNut]

7. Little 3.7 near Berzerkley on the Hayward fault(?)

Yep... folks would feel that on both sides of the Bay Bridge.

[Pastiche423]

12. Unless the folks were on Russian Hill

[TahitiNut]

15. I figure folks downhill in the Marina District felt it. They're on Jello.

Nobody feels anything around Haight, of course. :silly:

[Pastiche423]

17. Yep. I lived on jello in 1989

Nasty place to be in October.

I din't learn about Russian Hill being mostly rock, until a g/f of my daughter's was sleeping over. A quake (about a 5) hit. My daughter and I immediately went to our safe place (large beams). Her friend looked over at us w/a wtf look on her face.

She had lived on Russian Hill all of her young life and had not experienced a quake before.

[TahitiNut]

20. (It's a Christmas gift to think about 'home' now.) I was down at Santa Teresa for Loma Prieta

... working at the IBM programming laboratory. I rode the quake standing against a load-bearing wall on the 4th floor of one of the 4-story towers and watched out the window at the large expanse of plaza/patio undulating like it was liquid in a bowl. It was one helluva ride so close to the epicenter. I had quite a mess to clean up at home in Cupertino/Monte Vista - sticky liqueur from busted bottles, toppled floor speakers, books, etc. (And one traumatized Labrador Retriever.)

I'd trade these Michigan winters for one of those quakes (w/o the Cypress!) every 10-15 years in a nanosecond, though, to live back in the Bay Area. I <heart> it there.

[Pastiche423]

21. You made me cry

I :loveya: and miss SF too. Would move back in a NY second if I could afford it.

South City was where I was at 5:04 when the longest 15 seconds of my life happened. My radio din't work at all until I passed Candlestick, but din't think about the game. All I could think of was getting to the Jewish Community Center in the City to pick up my daughter.

We were relatively calm until we came over the Presido hill and saw our neighborhood on fire. I stayed up that night, my eyes stinging from the smoke, looking out my bay window until that fire was put out.

An album of photos and newspaper clippings I made is somewhere around here. Gonna look for it.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Feh! When I lived in Eureka...

The Times-Standard, every Saturday, provided a list of all the earthquakes that occured in the past week. Typically, there were about five.

[Clarkie1]

13. Yes, a little one. No worries. nt

[kestrel91316]

14. I had a 3.0+ aftershock of Northridge directly under my house

a couple of years ago. Tiny quake, but up close and personal it was quite scary for a few seconds.

But then every little shake, even trucks going by, gets my heart racing since Northridge. I have never been the same.

[goclark]

16. We're in Los Angeles and didn't feel anything

yet... :scared:

[kestrel91316]

18. Hi neighbor!

:hi:

[goclark]

19. Hi ~ no shaking yet nt

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

22. Whoah!

The Hayward Fault is the "Big One" waiting to happen. Any movement there is of the utmost importance to analyze and form predictions. I wonder if there will be aftershocks, and what the pattern might be.

I was at the 'Stick, 3rd tier, when Loma Prieta hit. The stadium sort of liquified for about 25 seconds, rolling, "undulating" as someone said earlier.

Thankfully, Scramento is immune from earthquakes. Spring runoff... well, that is a different problem altogether!