EARTHQUAKE!

[webbie]

Well, I felt my first earthquake early this morning!

3.6 measured - about 3 miles from where we are staying (Oakland, CA).....

I was impressed.

We were instantly awakened - it was not a rolling or swaying, but like a crack or a shot. We are in a one story, so didn't get the same back and forth that many would.

It lasted well less than a second....felt like a truck hit the side of the house! Just BANG and that was it. Sharp sound.

My daughter tells me each one is different. This was quick and violent.

I am impressed that buildings out here can stand up to these...and, of course, much stronger ones!

 

[pen]

wow, that's something! Not sure how I feel about experiencing one, or the lack there of.

Glad everything is ok!

pen

 

[firefighterjake]

I was thinking about trying to split wood vertically instead of horizontally the other day . . . I think this is sign that I should keep splitting the wood horizontally.

 

[BrotherBart]

A tad scary ain't it? That 5.8 here this year got my attention real fast.

 

[webbie]

I wasn't scared before it was so quick and we somewhat expect them here. But I was impressed.

It's not just a little background thing.....it's major! This one, as I said, was more like a crack or a shot. Not anything like the movies....just instant POW.

 

[nate379]

Must be a light sleeper if a 3.6 woke you up!

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/recenteqs/

 

[Badfish740]

If Fossil gets wind of this one...

Anyone who tries to make it into "Ash Can II" will be immediately digitally vaporized.

 

[fossil]

Right on the ragged edge. Please keep the politics and social commentary in the Ash Can where it belongs, and out of The Inglenook where it doesn't. Rick

 

[GAMMA RAY]

I can't help but think of the game that we used to play in parochial school with the nuns....
Button, Button....who's got the button?
Fossil has the button.... :coolsmirk:

 

[fossil]

...Fossil has the button.... :coolsmirk:

And he's not afraid to use it. >:-(

ETA: Matter of fact, I think I just might clean this thread up a bit.

There...that's better.

 

[begreen]

They are all different. It depends on the depth of the quake and the soil you are on. Our first experience was a 5.2 about a mile from our house. And it was window rattling loud. I thought a plane had crashed and fully expected to see the flash of an explosion about a second later. Instead, we started shaking for about 30 seconds. The second one a few years later was much different, stronger and longer. No explosion, but there was this steady rumble like you had a freight train on a bumpy track passing the house.

 

[fossil]

I was born & raised pretty much right there...born in Oakland, grew up in the East Bay Area. I have an aunt who still lives in Berkeley. Haven't heard from her, so it must have been relatively mild. Lived up and down in Northern/Southern California for more than half my life. Felt a bunch of quakes...first one as a little kid (~4 or 5). As BeGreen said, they all seem to be unique in some way. But always a bit unsettling & scary until you get a sense of it ending. Rick

 

[nate379]

I must be immune to them, haven't felt on in a good 4-5 years. The last couple decent ones we had either I was sleeping or working outside.