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Earthquake!!! (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2023 OP
Oh, no! StarryNite Oct 2023 #1
Where? bamagal62 Oct 2023 #2
San Francisco brooklynite Oct 2023 #4
Are you sure?!? SoFlaBro Oct 2023 #3
I would personally find it difficult to mistake an earthquake Maru Kitteh Oct 2023 #19
M3.9 near Millibrae, CA VMA131Marine Oct 2023 #5
SF?? Demovictory9 Oct 2023 #6
USGS says 3.9 James48 Oct 2023 #7
USGS says 3.9 and not far from San Fran proper. Igel Oct 2023 #8
Felt nothing in HMB musette_sf Oct 2023 #9
I'm a similar distance away from the epicenter and also felt nothing. RockRaven Oct 2023 #13
Here in San Jose, a rattle of things, but not too bad JohnSJ Oct 2023 #10
I was in Oakland on Wednesday for a delivery! imanamerican63 Oct 2023 #11
I don't even feel them if they are under 5.5 BigmanPigman Oct 2023 #12
Randy, you could provide just a bit more detail here.... DemocraticPatriot Oct 2023 #14
Everybody is ok RandySF Oct 2023 #15
4.0? That's like a big truck driving by... Wounded Bear Oct 2023 #16
Well it like something big slammed into our building. RandySF Oct 2023 #17
It was right under terminal 2 at SFO. usonian Oct 2023 #18
That whole airport is built on fill Fiendish Thingy Oct 2023 #20

Maru Kitteh

(30,840 posts)
19. I would personally find it difficult to mistake an earthquake
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 12:00 AM
Oct 2023

for anything else. Video doesn't really capture what it looks like and it's very difficult to describe what it feels like (at least for me) but I'll give it a go.

It starts with just a general, disconcerting "hair-going-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck" feeling. Sometimes you can hear it coming? The last one I was in was out in the wilderness and it was more like a vibration too low to actually hear but felt from inside. I don't know if it's because of vibrations inside your eye or because some things you think of as solid become liquid in an earthquake but when you look around you, it's like you're looking across a dark tarmac on a hot day. Everything looks like it's rippling. Walls, trees, people. Nothing looks solid.
When I ran out of the cabin in my underwear, I was acutely aware of the fact that my feet didn't feel like they were landing like I expected them to. Everything just felt weird. I've only been in two earthquakes, but they didn't feel anything like anything else I've ever felt.

Igel

(37,159 posts)
8. USGS says 3.9 and not far from San Fran proper.
Fri Oct 27, 2023, 09:53 PM
Oct 2023

Millbrae.

I lived in LA. Wife and I had van packed and car on trailer and around 3 a.m. I woke up and immediately checked my watch (this was '90s) and started counting. A jolt had gone through the apt. It woke her up, too.

When the surface wave went through I told her, "Don't worry, 3.7 [ or whatever ], located a few miles away in Santa Monica Bay. Didn't know there was fault there, but it's no biggy. Go back to sleep."

KNX in the morning said I was off by a point or two and a few miles, and nobody knew there was fault line there. You adapt.

Russian proverb: Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas. Updated for me: "Hang out with astrophysicist grad students at UCLA, walk away an ubernerd." I mean, these were students that when the nice lady from Caltech came on the tv during commercial breaks corrected her and were more often right than wrong.

Note that I was seriously *not* calibrated for the Northridge quake, at 7.4, and just sat there and wondered if my studio apt. would collapse on the cars parked underneath.

BigmanPigman

(54,146 posts)
12. I don't even feel them if they are under 5.5
Fri Oct 27, 2023, 10:05 PM
Oct 2023

I have experienced many in San Diego and I usually feel them if over 5.5

 

DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
14. Randy, you could provide just a bit more detail here....
Fri Oct 27, 2023, 11:32 PM
Oct 2023

Did you pass out ?


Hope all is ok...

Fiendish Thingy

(21,063 posts)
20. That whole airport is built on fill
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 12:50 AM
Oct 2023

Wouldn’t take much to trigger liquefaction in the soil.

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