Who just felt the quake? Bay Area.

[jgraz]

[Az]

1. Not here. Detroit Area.

:hide:

[jgraz]

4. Thanks, Az, you're always such a help

:P :P :P :P

[MADem]

2. Was it a big'un or a small'un? nt

[Newsjock]

3. M2.7; east bay; url here

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40200208.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Just as I read this the house creaked in that familiar earthquake way,

However, I'm far down from you.

[Hieronymus]

6. Nope

[Maddy McCall]

7. Here's the info on it:

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40200208.html

Magnitude 2.7 - duration magnitude (Md)
Time Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 11:45:33 PM (PDT)
Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 6:45:33 (UTC)
Distance from El Cerrito, CA - 1 km (1 miles) ESE (118 degrees)
Kensington, CA - 1 km (1 miles) WNW (298 degrees)
Albany, CA - 2 km (1 miles) N (9 degrees)
Berkeley, CA - 5 km (3 miles) NNW (341 degrees)
Oakland, CA - 14 km (9 miles) NNW (337 degrees)

Coordinates 37 deg. 54.7 min. N (37.912N), 122 deg. 17.5 min. W (122.292W)
Depth 6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Location Quality Good
Location Quality Parameters Nst=106, Nph=106, Dmin=5 km, Rmss=0.19 sec, Erho=0.1 km, Erzz=0.3 km, Gp=46.8 degrees
Event ID# nc40200208
Additional Information 2-degree map
Google Earth KML (Requires Google Earth.)
Topo map centered at earthquake (This link takes you offsite.)
NCSN First Motion Mechanism 1
Waveforms

[EFerrari]

8. My cat fell off of the teevee but, no milk in the aisles.

[flyarm]

9. my son is in LA and called me two days ago and said THEY HAD 4.5

i am very sensitive to the earthquakes as we lost our home in the 94 northridge quake...

please stay safe..i think there is some volitive activity going on out there...

i hate that my son moved back out there..i get paranoid..

fly

[EFerrari]

13. Oh, fly, that's terrible! My brother was a senior at Northridge

that year. We were beside ourselves.

[shance]

10. I have felt a series of 'booms' today but I've been hearing that for months.

I concluded for most of the time it was construction, but not on Friday nights and/or today or Saturday night.

I called my neighbor to see if they had felt it too.

Don't know what they are.

Heard them tonight as well, but have not felt any quaking per se, other than the earthquake the other night.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

11. Observations of Earthquake Sounds on USGS site link

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics/booms.php
The most recent documented earthquake sounds were from a swarm of small earthquakes that unnerved the city of Spokane, WA in 2001. Many of the Spokane quakes were definitely accompanied by "booming sounds". The quakes in Spokane were shallow, sometimes only a mile or two deep. This probably contributed to all the noise they made. Higher-frequency vibrations make the booming sound, and when quakes are deeper, those vibrations are gone by the time they reach the surface. Sometimes the quakes boom even when no vibration is felt.

See the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter article "A mysterious swarm of noisy earthquake unnerves Spokane".

[shance]

12. Its not simply recently that I have heard these sounds.

I have heard them for weeks now.

In addition, I continue to wonder about the whole "Weather Modification Act of 2005", and how much impact that is having on global warming and our modification of earthquakes, hurricanes and such.

Apparently it has an influence from what I have researched.

Perhaps we should be asking how much is our weather actually being modified?

Apparently, our weather has been being modified (at least with cloud seeding) since the mid 1950's.

In fact there was actually a Texas Weather Modification Act of 1967.

[Feron]

24. Weather modification aside..

seismic activity can result from waste disposal practices. A great example is the series of earthquakes in Colorado that resulted from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal's waste injection well.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/colorado/history.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Arsenal

[windbreeze]

15. ever heard one that sounded like a freight train???

coming right through the living room, that is??? I have...and have heard the booms associated with earthquakes also...not fun...don't like...going, going, gone...next time we have a 7.0 pointer...family has already been warned...this 2.7...was only 3+miles deep...that's pretty shallow...anyone who felt it...really felt it...wb

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

16. I've never experienced an earthquake. I hope to never feel one!

You people are tough customers to endure such daily occurrences.

[windbreeze]

25. I am

in Washington state...we don't have eqs on a daily basis...but....every one I have experienced, has been 5.7 and up......add to that....the Mt.St.Helens eruption...and a small tornado that sat down in my side yard, about 13 years ago...(incredibly unbelievable, you bet, but it was all anyone was talking about around here for quite a while)....I can say it's definitely been an exciting place to live, but......wb

[MuseRider]

17. The only one I ever felt

was like that. I live in Kansas so we do not have them like you do, in fact I don't recall when the last was here, long time ago.

I was in Honduras in the 80's on an island. There was a "no fly time" when being in the air meant you would be shot down. It sounded like a low military jet coming and going with a wave of the earth. We all looked at each other with puzzled expressions. It was very loud but a small quake but we did feel it, like the ground raising and then going back down. Creepy.

Take care and be safe everyone.

[Eurobabe]

18. Only one I ever felt was in Charlottesville VA in 1997 (?)

I can't remember the exact date, all I remember was being upstairs in the bedroom, sitting on the bed and feeling the house shake/jolt - which was not an unusual occurrence, because we lived on a major road with truck traffic. This road has since been closed to all truck traffic because it went through a sensitive part of the historic district, my house was built in 1886, wood and brick veneer. I think it was a 3.0, there was quite a buzz about it on the news for a couple days. It was a weird sensation though...I wouldn't want to experience the real thing. I have earthquake and tornado phobias. :scared:

[WillyT]

14. Nothin Here In Sacto

But y'all are the little red square there. Check out Geyserville, north of Santa Rose!



:shrug:

[NuttyFluffers]

21. ooh, look at all those little yellow squares atop me!

:)

when you lay down it's like a back massage! :7

got my eq kit, so pretty much sitting pretty. 2-liters of water in the freezer and toilet are a good trick, btw, in case of any emergency. that way you don't have to think so much about getting water, you'll already have it. also it'll keep your food cold in case of a brown out, and the toilet 2-liters help prevent water waste. FYI
:D

edit: i don't live in Geyserville. ;)

[Steepler0t]

19. Did not feeel it here

in SF, a 2.7 9 miles from oakland is pretty far. Although one of our cats has been meowing randomly and climbing into crazy places past 2 days now. Had me wondering last night if he was trying to tell us something.

Probably just being a freak as cats do at times.
:shrug:

[deutsey]

20. I was in SF a couple weeks ago when a 4.2 quake hit Oakland

I felt a brief tremor where I was near the Fisherman's Wharf area. Freaked me out, not being accustomed to such things.

Do you think there's been an increase in CA quake activity (LA's 4.5 last week), or is this common? We lived in Long Beach back in the early '70s and I only recall one earthquake (and I slept through that one).

[NuttyFluffers]

22. it's pretty common. 4's are a little rarer, but it's pretty common.

something like 100+ earthquakes on the west coast everyweek. most of them are below 2, though.

[Wilber_Stool]

23. I bet

crazy Bob Murray did.