okay, just felt my second earthquake ever!

[fleabert]

little shaker, nothing big. It's weird how your house can shake and you think 'was that an earthquake?'

what the hell else shakes your whole house?!?!?!??! The mind just tries to dismiss it immediately, weird.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I remember one of the first earthquakes I was in

(San Francisco 1969 or so), my cats all started running around the house all crazy, and I was thinking "how in the hell are these little animals making the building shake like this." It's weird what goes through your mind.

[LaurenG]

6. roflmao at the thought of kitties being the first thought

:rofl: I would have thought the same thing. lol

[fleabert]

14. the first one I felt, in sacramento, made me think of Giants.

honestly, my first thought is that a giant was shaking my house. How silly is that? :-)

[uppityperson]

20. My first I thought a moose on the porch, Fairbanks

it was just over the hill but it felt like a moose on the porch. The last one (WA 2002) I thought the 100 lb dog was scratching himself while leaning on my computer chair.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Hey, felt it over here too...Inner East Bay

ANSS says Moraga, East Bay Hills.

edit: just checked, initial assessment is 3.7 mag

[fleabert]

4. just saw that there were three in a row. little ones

2.7 2.1 and 3.7

the 3.7 was the first.

fun fun fun! We are way overdue for a larger one, how are you on preparedness? I need to get a bit more done, but not too bad off.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Half baked, naturally.

We have some supplies in out buildings. If the shed collapses the kits should still be accessible after a little digging, and we can burn the shed for heat. We have caches in the house and garage too but not fully prepared disaster kits. Oh, and we have earthquake insurance in case the big one hits.

Moraga means it's probably a Hayward fault hiccup. Hiccups are good on that fault line!

[fleabert]

11. excellent to hear...I only just started looking into it, as we moved here

about three months ago. I need to check the insurance again, they said I was covered for it, but I am not convinced. Need to get the full policy and see. I know I need to secure some furniture and get some staples, but the majority of the house is well fortified. the oddest (it seems) suggestion I have seen is a plastic bag tied to the underside of the bed with a pair of shoes, cash, flashlight, and a bottled water inside! I guess it makes sense, but still seems extreme.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Wow, and you guys actually FELT those??

We must be in a state of perpetual shake up here, because I generally don't feel quakes unless they're over 5.0.

[fleabert]

12. I am sensitive, having only felt one other in my life!

I know there have been many many more since I moved here, but haven't felt any of them until today.

Called the dh at work and asked him if he felt something, I wasn't sure I had, and he said 'I told them there was an earthquake!' Apparently it was being debated at work. Most thought a bunch of big trucks had driven by.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Here it depends whether it was shallow and how many seconds it lasts.

We feel any over about 3.2 as a rule, but they aren't much at that strength. Over 4 things start to happen like hairline cracks in the walls and stuff moving on the walls.

[fleabert]

18. this one says a depth of 8m- is that shallow or deep?

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51169283.html

that was for the 3.7

[Blue_In_AK]

21. m as in meters or m as in miles?

If it's meters, that's very shallow.

Oh, sorry, I didn't check the link. Miles - yes, that's pretty deep.

[fleabert]

27. thought so, didn't know what was considered shallow for an earthquake...

i find it all quite fascinating. I want my bf's husband to come and survey the area I live, he's a hydrogeologist- I think he'd find it very interesting!

[Blue_In_AK]

23. My house shifts so much

just with the weather that it's hard to tell if the cracks are from earthquakes or just freezing and thawing. We get these gaps between the ceiling and the top of the walls in the winter, and then in the summer they close right up. I'm actually glad my house is "loose," because I think it holds up better during quakes, kind of like a willow bending in the wind. :)

[Gormy Cuss]

8. did you fill out a report?

I always try to do it for a shock bigger than 3.5 .

[fleabert]

9. yup. I hit the one linked on craigslist, is there another? nt

[Gormy Cuss]

15. I go to it from the ANSS site

Right after I confirm it was a quake and not a truck.
Speaking of ANSS, there are now a cluster of micros from the past hour up in Sonoma it looks like -- probably at Geyserville.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc51169283.php

[fleabert]

17. okay, same link-

I was surprised to see that a few in Sacramento felt it too! wow.

from the looks of it, there is quite a bit of shaking going on lately, goes in almost a straight line up thru todays- I don't know enough about it all, but I guess the thinking is that lots of little ones allows the built up tension to release without much danger, right?

[malmapus]

3. Haha I remember my first one

San Francisco 2002ish. I was taking a Microsoft Windows 2000 class and the school started to shake. Everyone else was evacuating but our instructor kept on teaching. LOL I didn't know whether to go or stay and continue the lab hahaha.

[Taverner]

10. You must be here in East Bay

I felt it too

[fleabert]

13. Pacifica!

I am like a cat, very sensitive.

[MissB]

19. I got so used to them in high school

that I'd be up and in the doorway before I was awake. (I lived in Anchorage at the time).

[Blue_In_AK]

24. I don't jump into the doorway anymore...

...but there's always that moment of hesitation when I wonder if I SHOULD.

[MissB]

35. I never really became accustomed to them.

But I only lived up there for three years (last three years of high school at Dimond).

I'm kinda glad we don't get that many of them in Oregon. :D

[Blue_In_AK]

37. My oldest daughter went to Dimond

and graduated in 1990. When were you there?

[momophile]

22. my first one was in France...

I woke up in the middle of the night thinking that a train was coming thru the house, but I couldn't figure out how a train was near when there were no tracks. I was so scared. I layed there awake most of the night shaking and thinking that if there was a real disaster I wouldn't really understand because my French is/was so lousy. And who would tell my parents if I was hurt, and that my parents didn't know any French.

You are right - the mind does wierd things in moments like those.

(on a side note, I should have felt the big San Fran one in, what?, '89, but I musta been kissing my boyfriend and thinking that the kiss was making the earth move! I was in Sacramento at the time.)

[radwriter0555]

26. ROFLMAO. See my post #25. I just moved from Southern California.

lol!

[radwriter0555]

25. I DO NOT MISS earthquakes! For the first time since 1983 I can hang

a picture over my bed, and not stick down every single decorative object in my home with quake stick. I don't have to quake strap the teevees and appliances!!!!

I can place an object on a shelf and KNOW it will still be there the next time I go look for it!

Pictures stay straight! I can leave shampoo bottles open in the bathroom!

I can leave the LID UP ON THE TOILET!

I don't grab the car door and look around to see if the lightpoles are swaying whenever the car comes to a stop sign!

When I hear a roar, it IS a plane!

I no longer have a pair of earthquake shoes under my bed, nor do I have an earthquake survival backpack complete with whistle, mask, gloves, flashlight, etc.

NO MORE EQ GAS SHUT OFF VALVES!


France rocks or better yet, it DOESN'T ROCK!

[BikeWriter]

28. I am so glad you're safe, Dear!

:hug:

[fleabert]

30. snug as a bug in a rug!

just a little rattle, sweets!

creepy feeling, but very interesting!

[BikeWriter]

32. Here's hoping that's the worst one you ever feel!

:pals:

[fleabert]

33. hell ya, that is seconded by the millions who live here, but...

the likelihood is great that it won't be. The reality is that we will probably have a major one by 2032

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/seismology/wg02/

[NV Whino]

29. 2.5 in Moraga

Hi, Fleabert. :hi:

[fleabert]

31. howdy!

three separate ones I think, 3.7 and down. I felt the 3.7 one.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Gah!

Good thing it was like 90 miles away. I was on the roof. :scared:

[Dem2theMax]

36. Hey, get it right. It's called 'house surfing.' LOL!

Long time California native here. I feel the little ones too. Hyper sensitive to shakes and noise.
Last two quakes we had here (that could be felt) I actually heard them a good 10 to 15 seconds before the house actually started to shake. There was a roaring, rushing sound, sort of like a train coming at you. Really strange. :crazy:

[fleabert]

38. it is extremely odd, I grew up in tornado alley,

spent many an afternoon after school huddled in the laundry room with a blanket over my head, holding the dog while the sirens went off, and this is so much weirder. Just an odd feeling to have everything be normal one second then, five seconds later, your brain is trying to process what just happened.

[Dem2theMax]

40. I would NEVER, never, never live in an area where there are

tornado's or hurricanes. I don't want to know it's coming! I prefer the surprise of the earthquake.
I know, I'm crazy. LOL. 49 years of earthquakes and only one has freaked me out in all that time.

[Renew Deal]

39. Lightning near the house will do it.

I have felt a couple. Onetime I thought someone was literally shaking my chair. It was the ground.