Earthquake?

[thistlechaser]

SF Bay folks: Did we just have a good sized quake? It's not showing up on any of the usual sites, but our building just had a really nice shake.

ETA: Woo, we did! Massive. 6.5! http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40148755.html

ETA, 2: No worries, that's not too close to here at all. We felt a lot of shaking for maybe a full minute, but nothing fell and no one got hurt around here. Earthquakes always make my stomach queezy. Odd that. Like I'm dizzy or something. So cool! Wish it had been a little closer, but not too much closer!

Woo us! Yay California!

ETA, 3: It was more than 120 miles south of us, so wow was it strong that we felt it way up here! Poor people down there must have been scared. But still: woo! We seem to get about one earthquake for every year I live here. So exciting! Eee!

Comments

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Wah, I didn't feel it! My mom called a little while ago, though; she lives in Monterey, which is a heck of a lot closer to San Simeon than here, and she was rockin' and rollin'. Nobody hurt, though, at least in her office.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Our office building is on rollers (seriously!) which while making us feel earthquakes more, supposedly will also keep the building from falling down if we're ever hit hard here.

Out of the ones I've felt, this one lasted the longest *by far*. The other ones were a shake and a jolt or just a jolt, but this one shook for a *long* time. If it was less than 60 seconds of shaking, I'd be really surprised.

Way cool! Sorry you didn't get to feel it.

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

o_O I was shocked too that it was so far away...it was pretty strong ( i live in Santa Clara )

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I hope no one was hurt. ._. I checked out a couple news articles, and they're kinda vague, so I don't know much about what happened.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Luckily it happened out in the middle of nowhere. Nearly literally nowhere -- it wasn't even farm country! Just land no one uses for anything. 3-4 "structures" fell down, and a couple people were hurt when wine barrels rolled onto them (hee?). But other than that, nothing! Amazing. If this had hit LA or SF, there would have been millions of dollars in damage, and likely deaths...

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I have no clue...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I figured it had to have been close to us.

( i live in Santa Clara )

And hello, neighbor! I live in Sunnyvale!

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

I thought it was in San Fransisco or something~

:D *waves out of window* hi :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Nope, way down south, central California. Far far away!

[morinotokei.livejournal.com]

So cool! Wish it had been a little closer, but not too much closer!

~thwaps you~

I'm glad you're okay though. It all sounds very scary to me (the east coast person).

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

~thwaps you~

Eek! Heehee. Earthquakes are really exciting, so long as they're not deadly.

(the east coast person).

I moved from the east coast (NY) and my family still lives there. I tease them all the time that the east coast gets more earthquakes big enough to feel than California does! (Which is true. I only feel about one a year, but they get more than one!) Funny, huh?

Thanks!

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

I'm on a freakin' earthquake mailing list, and my eyes just glazed right over the 'central california' part. Heh!

Earthquakes are weird. Sometimes they're intense and short, and sometimes they're prolonged but less intense and do less damage (actually I think that the original earthquake scale was in reference to how much damage it did, but I could be remembering wrong), and sometimes even weak ones will be felt over a large radius. I just hope that's it for a while. *hugs* Good to know your job isn't likely to crush you literally.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

(actually I think that the original earthquake scale was in reference to how much damage it did, but I could be remembering wrong),

I believe you're right, but I'm not 100% certain.

Good to know your job isn't likely to crush you literally.

I giggled out loud at that!

Thanks!