Bay Area Earthquake! magnitude 4.2

[bikerz]

BZ, I know what you mean. It's not just the suddeness for me. It's the fact that each shake is different and so fleeting. It always felt surreal -- except for the damage left over.

I know - my first thought is never "Oh, it's an earthquake" - I always run through several totally outlandish scenarios ("moving truck landed on roof? Car drove into side of house?") before I realize what's going on, even after 25 years in California.

[aka_kim]

Didn't feel anything here in Concord.

Years ago while living in Pasadena I was about 2 miles from the epicenter of a similarly-sized quake. I was in the shower at the time, and was sure it was the Big One, with a lot of things falling over but nothing breaking. Almost nothing was reported on the TV though, and I got to work (which was about 15 miles from the quake) to find almost no one else had felt it. So my Big One was a non-event to the rest of the world. It's really surprising though, just how violent the shaking can be when you're close to the epicenter. Hopefully when the Big One does hit I will not be naked and blind, though

Glad you made it through OK, Z.

[BikeMomma]

Wwwwhhhhaaaaaaaa! I didn't feel it either....but I'm a bit too far away to feel ones that "small."

BZ, your experience sounds cool. Frightening too, of course, but I'm like Badger and admire earthquakes, so it's a grand day when I feel one. How cool that you were so close to the epicenter! Hope there wasn't anything sentimental broken (unless you were especially attached to the vinegar ) or building damage.

~BikeMomma

[bikerz]

BikeMomma, I knew you'd be bummed to miss it!

[Trek420]

But, yes - the tile floor where the vinegars spilled is nice and clean! I'm getting the notion that I ought to clean the rest of the floor with vinegar too!

Maybe not with the gourmet "50 year old balsamic aged in Tuscan Oak Barrels" stuff though.

[Deanna]

My husbands an EQ nut, so these pages are bookmarked on our computers. I didn't feel it way up here, but apparently some folks did:

http://tinyurl.com/yun49n

My poor husband seems to miss them too, I've felt that last three or four small ones up here and he didn't -- once he was even in the shower down the hall and he thought I was making it up. Some folks are just more sensitive to the shaking I guess.

[spazzdog]

It was a "wake-up" shake for me... the bed felt like back in the college days after too much tequila.

No breakage, just a very freaked out cattle dog. Man! He hates it when the earth moves.

spazz

[Mr. Bloom]

Veronica, you should have stayed in Maine!

[kjay]

Darn! Felt nothing here in Foster City. :-(

[winddance]

I felt it, but I don't live very far from bikerz. It wasn't the usual rumbly-shake that I normally feel, but instead it was very sudden and harsh. I don't even think the cats heard it coming, because while orange kitty was sitting straight up, my Siamese was passed out asleep.

CNN said the quake lasted for 50 seconds, but I swear it's the shortest I've ever felt. I thought someone had rear-ended my bed.

The crack in the corner of my living room is now all the way up the wall, but I couldn't find anything else that was disturbed (except for my poor cats, who were twitchy the rest of the day.)