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Yikes! Was it big? I always worry about Mr. DG's family in LG.
OK, so USGS says 4.1 magnitude sort of near Milpitas. Whew!
Yeah, so it's right by were my grandma lives, so I'm sure she felt it really well. It's also about 10/15 minutes away from me, so we were swaying a bit, lol.
I'm just glad it wasn't a huge one!
I have only felt a couple earthquakes ever, and nothing big. I wish i could feel a good one!
my hubs and I are always tempted to move to SF until we look at the housing pricing and remember earthquakes...I've never been in a real natural disaster, and it totally freaks me out
I hope everyone is OK!
Yeah, it sounds like everyone is fine here according to the news. It was a pretty small earthquake and it was super fast.
EEK!
We are going to CA in Feb (never been there before) & are really looking forward to San Francisco!
I have only felt one earthquake before, we just don't get them in OK, it was like a year ago & was so FREAKY.. it happened around 7 am on a Sunday & we were laying in bed & the bed just ROLLED. It was such a WILD feeling! It wasn't very big but you could definately feel it...
I hope there are none when we are there in FEB!
I'm glad everyone is ok there!!
It seemed to be pretty widespread, although not that large on the Richter Scale. I felt it up in SF which is ~30 miles or so from Milpitas.
Also, to anyone moving or visiting here, earthquakes aren't very scary! I've lived here my entire life, but earthquakes happen so rarely and even more rarely cause damage, that they're really nothing to worry about.
Personally I think something like a tornado or a hurricane is MUCH scarier, especially since in some areas they happen every year like clockwork!
I'm glad everyone is okay & there wasn't major damage!
@nexus: I fully agree!! Tornadoes scare the living daylights out of me. We just don't have them here... my FI's city (and future home) has a tornado cause damage annually!
I live on the West coast of Canada & we've been preparing for "the big one" since I was a kid. The last time I felt a good sized earthquake was about 10 years ago... all the books on our 5 floor to ceiling book shelves hit the floor. lol thats all I remember- picking up hundreds of books. They really aren't that common (although there are minor ones every day, we just can't feel it!)
We have tornados all the time! Most of the time they are tiny & way up in the sky. Never even touch. But yes, scary as crap when they lower & touch & capable of moving in crazy directions very fast.
@Recessionista LOL, I think every West Coast city is constantly being told to wait for "the big one"!
@nexus: Oh I know! It's lost all meaning to me. I'm prepared. I've accepted it. I just don't like waiting lol. I am really losing faith in the "big one" & I'm hoping its just all hype :S
Did you have earthquake kits & earthquake drills in school? My school had one every month. At the end of the school year we'd get our earthquake survival kits back & I'd eat all the sesame snaps lol.
Edit: that last part sounds soooo geeky!
Now that I'm in GA there have been tornadic storm warnings here! 3 or 4 so far! As a gal from Northern CA, it's funny to think that while we were having earthquake drills in grade-school, kids here were having tornado drills?!
@ Miss Bravo - yep.. tornado drills were a common occurance when I was in school. Depending on the school, we would either go to the basement, or huddle out in the hallways, on our knees, face to the floor, arms & hands over our heads. Like a fetal position on our knees, covering our heads.. Lots of fun.
Eek! I felt it too! (In Sunnyvale). It was my first west coast earthquake since I moved to Cali in September, and it totally freaked me out. FI and I ran for a doorway... but by the time we got there the quake was already over.
Everyone at asked me if I felt it. I was so in a daze I didn't feel a thing. I'm in downtown SF, FWIW.
my dad felt it in santa clara but i didn't up where i'm at . the newscasters on ktvu called it "light." hahaha.
I know I'm late, but just saw this. Yes, I felt it.
Some people at my work felt it, but I missed out. I'm usually not awake enough in the morning to notice such things ;) I keep telling myself that it's time to get an emergency kit together. I am scared to death of earthquakes, but the benefits of living in SF far outweigh my fears.
Didn't feel it in Berkeley at all! I heard about it on the news 5 mins later. Always relieved when there's a minor earthquake... I hope it helps "take the pressure" off of the big one a bit! Sounds like there wasn't really much (if any at all) damage anywhere so it was a good thing :)
I've felt an earth quake before. Was slightly scary, considering I'm from Northwest Indiana and those things just don't happen very often there lol I was sleeping and I woke up when I felt my bed rattling. I shared a room with my sister at the time, and I asked her if she felt that (I thought I was going nuts!) and she was only half awake and didn't know what I was talking about. I fell back asleep only to wake up and see on the internets that there really had been one! I'm well versed in tornado drills though :p Never actually had a tornado where I lived (at least not while I was there lol), but I'm terrified of them.
Glad this earthquake wasn't big and that everyone is ok!
FI is working near San Jose and felt the two back-to-back earthquakes. He felt his building shake yesterday too but I didn't see anything online about a third earthquake in the area. Scary stuff though.
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Did anyone else in the Bay Area feel the earthquake a few minutes ago?