Menzo
1984
Small earthquake in the Bay Area a few mins ago.
Yep. 4.5 centered in Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill…basically under my bedroom. Whole house jolted a little.
Scared the shit out of me. Biggest one I’ve felt since I moved here in 2014.
That was a bit of a nice quake, felt it all the way out in Ocean Beach. A gentle sway, a lull and then another. Probably about 6-8 seconds long.
— Alan
Had a massive 2.6 magnitude in northern Ohio. In some household, a precariously balanced glass figurine will never be the same.
I’ve only experienced one in the Midwest. I liked the sensation that my bedroom was sitting on a giant tub of Jello.
Another 4.7 south of Hollister this afternoon.
As if that wasn’t enough, a big refinery explosion in the East Bay, spreading to local fields and closing I-80 with a shelter-in-place order for locals.
NSFW explosion video:
I was working from home yesterday and heard the house timbers crack a little during the shake (building from 1890, thoroughly modern double foundation). For some reason earthquakes don’t alarm me in the least, though I suppose that will change if I’m around for the next Big One. Depending on what time it is when they hit, I’m either “Hey, neat” or “Unh? G’back sleep.”
MattN
1992
Same. The only one that got to me a little was a few months ago in LA at night. It was a long swaying one, and I know from the earthquake in Japan that a sway motion sometimes precedes a violent updown motion. Ran to my daughters room just in case she needed a dad shield +5
Not sure why the links sometimes don’t show. The headline is " Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor"
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article236370028.html#storylink=sectionheadlines
aeneas
1994
That was a good way to start the morning. Only 50kms NW of me and shallow.
Such the opposite of the newscasters in LA jumping under the desks when aftershocks of the '94 Northridge quake were hitting. One guy, Kent Shocknek, was forever known as “Kent Aftershocknek” after that ridiculous on-camera performance. He’s a native Californian, too! We’re famous for our nonchalant attitude toward quakes, and he shamed us all.
Edit: My mistake, it was the '87 Whittier Narrows quake. But here’s video of Aftershocknek hopping under the desk a couple of times: https://youtu.be/Ex8f5Wgsuxs?t=42
And here is video of Letterman making fun of him for it: https://youtu.be/_7sYB1uxt6o
aeneas
1998
To be fair in this case. The PM is standing in the middle of the media briefing room in one of the most earthquake tolerant buildings in the world. I say tolerant since it’s designed to go with the quake. There’s nothing she could be diving under even if she wanted to ;-)
And she’s hard as nails…
rowe33
1999
I can’t remember what it feels like to have one of the top world leaders in charge of my country. I mean I’d settle for top 100 at this point.
aeneas
2000
And now a decent after shock
