Earthquake!!!!!!!

[Kano]

So, I did a google, got this site:
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-37.html
and it's showing TWENTY FIVE wee bitty shakes since the "biggun" last evening.

Seems your area has a case of the hiccups!

Karen in Boise

[Duck on Wheels]

dumb q but you can hear an equake?

c

Not a dumb q coming from outside of equake-country, but the answer is definitely "Yes!" When the earth moves, it makes noise. When megatons of rock are breaking and shifting against one another and the shockwaves go billowing outwards through what we otherwise think of as solid matter, yes, it makes noise. The ones I've experienced sounded, and felt, like a heavily loaded but short freight train, or an 18-wheeler, rumbling by.

5.6 is considered moderate, but "moderate" starts in the mid-3's and the scale is logarithmic, so 5.6 is getting up there in the vicinity of "big".

[maillotpois]

Maybe it flattened the climb out a little bit.

Ooh - we can only hope. That'll make DMD a piece of cake!!!

[jobob]

Relatively speaking

[sgtiger]

I don't miss earthquakes a bit, no I don't! I have childhood memories of dishes crashing and a hanging plant swinging wildly over a fellow classmate.

I'm glad everyone is okay.

~Sg

[velogirl]

okay, I've been here almost 10 years and this is only the 4th quake I've felt but it was definitely the biggest. I was sitting on the couch with bf in mtn view and it was his first. we just looked at each other and simultaneously said "earthquake." we both stood up, hugged, and then he ran out of the house (silly boy) to see what had been damaged.

this was definitely more a roller than a shaker in my experience. and we definitely heard it. it seemed very long to me (compared to my other experiences) -- 10 seconds or so.

I was kinda giddy all night. he couldn't sleep. I'm glad everyone's okay.

[Brandi]

I am a 3rd generation californian so in some ways i am used to earthquakes but they still scare me. My husband loves them caus ehe says for just a few moments it's not he's fault (no pun intended).

[Running Mommy]

Glad to hear you are all ok..

I remember feeling them all the time when I lived in Windsor. The Geysers are nearby, and they throw off mini quakes all the time. I used to do daycare, and when the chillin's were napping I would turn the tv down real low and try to nap a bit myself on the couch. Often I would hear a "tink, tink tink" and look up to see the wood blinds swaying a bit on the windows behind me.
very eerie.

And yeah, I was in Loma Prieta. I lived in an apt. at the time and I remember going to the doorway, and when I looked out the entire building was swaying back and forth. Scariest thing I'd ever seen!

[snapdragen]

Just had another! Wheeeeee....it felt like someone bumped my chair.

Magnitude 3.7
Date-Time Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 22:54:24 UTC
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 03:54:24 PM at epicenter

Location 37.434°N, 121.780°W
Depth 7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Region SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA

[Trek420]

Ok, cut that out. This is just not funny. On the 6th floor Oakland, did not feel it.

[Jo-n-NY]

wow...I cannot believe I heard nothing about this on our news here.

~ JoAnn

[snapdragen]

Ok, cut that out. This is just not funny. On the 6th floor Oakland, did not feel it.

This last one was too small trek - it felt like someone gave my chair a hard bump. No rolling, no shaking, just a bump.

[KnottedYet]

Trek, how 'bout you get away from that Hayward fault for a while?

[Trek420]

Trek, how 'bout you get away from that Hayward fault for a while?

Sure....I'll worry about the doggeeeee the but sure.