Oh yeah, daughter texted and said she’d never felt a ”real” one in CA but sure felt and heard this one (in Manhattan.) She got an alert half an hour later 🙃

Oh my gosh, I just saw that on the news! I hope everyone is okay!

No thanks, tornadoes are enough for me. I lived in California as a child and remember earthquake drills in school. I don't remember actually living through one. The only one I remember was in Carson City, Nevada, as an adult, in an elevator at the DMV.

Speaking of earthquakes, two of my former exchange students are in Tawain and were during the recent quake. One lives there but thankfully was on the opposite side of where it happened. The other was visiting from Japan and was evacuated from the quake area.

I thought my wife was running around upstairs. But then realized the dishes were shaking more than that, and that the whole house was shaking.

Family lives in Lebanon which is the epicenter, or close depending on who’s reporting. Some stuff fell in her house. She’s gotten a bunch of aftershocks, but they must be very local. Here’s one picture she sent:

This is the 2nd one I've felt. The other one was decades ago when we were 1 town over...DH ran down to check the furnace as it sounded like something went awry with it with the loud rumbling and shaking. This time I knew better.

Welcome to our world here in CA!

Exactly!! Living on the West Coast, we receive multiple earthquakes on a daily basis but most of them are too small to realize or feel. And I've lived through several major ones relatively unscathed.

The last couple of days, the gravel driveways and parking area of my small condo complex are being resurfaced. The roller they use to compress the gravel after grading produces earthquake-like vibrations throughout the house and my body!! Everything shakes and the noise is deafening!!

No one is trying to one-up California, folks! It’s unusual here so it’s newsworthy. Just as an inch of snow would be newsworthy in Miami, FL but not so much in Miami, OH. A bomb on Sunset Strip versus the Gaza Strip.

My DD felt it in lower Manhattan.

They all freak me out. Depending on the type of quake and location, a 4.8 can be pretty unnerving. Our last strong one was a 7.1 in July 2019. I felt it but not nearly as much as the 6.4 we had the day before.

As a transplanted Californian now near Philly, I'd rate that one as a mild foot massage.

Yes, we had it! I was reading in my usual spot on the sofa, when the whole apartment shook. Crazy!. At first, I thought that the people downstairs must be having construction done. The epicenter was about 30 miles away, and I can't imagine what those people felt. My DD1 felt it in NYC too. I have opera tickets tonight, and I hope that the train people finish checking all the bridges before I need to leave.

There was an earthquake here about 40 years ago, in the middle of the night. Our dog got up a few minutes before and was pacing around. We heard a very loud boom, like an explosion, but no shaking. I went to check on my baby daughter, who slept through the whole thing. She still is a good sleeper!

I felt our apartment vibrating and thought it was an exceptionally loud truck outside. There is a ballfield two blocks away that you can see from our window. I looked out and saw kids continuing their game, so figured I was the only one bothered by whatever it was. My phone then announced there'd been an earthquake. Our cats didn't seem to notice and my husband, in the other room, was totally oblivious. But that's not unusual.

Jupidupi - What I found odd was I didn’t feel it outside at all. When the house was shaking, I went out to see if it was the house or the area, and didn’t feel it out there. My dog was lying on the deck at the time and didn’t seem to notice anythjng.

It was barely noticeable here. A passing truck makes more vibrations but then we were on the fringe.

chloebud, The 7.1 in July 2019 sloshed a lot of water out of our pool, and Kevin took video of that, as it took the water a while to calm down. Once I was on a floating raft in the pool during an earthquake (a small one), and it caused slight waves/ripples in the water, which I noticed immediately, but Kevin didn't know what they were.

We were at a restaurant in Palm Springs for the 6.4 quake the day before, and I did not feel that one because I was walking back from the restroom at the time, but Kevin was sitting in a booth and felt it pretty strongly. I felt the 7.1 the next day much more than Kevin did, I think.

You can see from this video of the 7.1 quake that the shaking lasts 10 seconds:

Skip to 1:33, if you do not need the makeup tips.

Sometimes the shaking pauses slightly and then picks up again, which is scarier, and so the total shaking could have been 30 seconds. They sometimes start with little foreshocks and then get bigger.

Poor girl. That had to be scary.

Lived in California all my life. Loma Prieta in '89 was indeed scary. The noise, the shaking. the back and forth movement of the house. The aftershocks went for several days as I recall. Then all the false reports on the media terrifying everyone. It was tragic that 63 people did die in that quake. But the early reports vastly sensationalized the event creating needless panic.

I'm glad this was small. Even so, I've heard that some old structures could have suffered serious damage. IDK what portion of structures in California predate the mandatory 'earthquake-proofing'.

DH and I felt a 3.2 while vacationing in a home on Big Island of Hawaii. There was a sound like a boiler exploding and a rattling of kitchen goods, then nothing. Two couples playing bridge on a lanai nearby didn't budge from their game.

The New Madrid Fault south of the tip of Illinois is overdue. In 1811-12 strong movement changed the course of rivers and killed a lot of people in what was then a sparsely populated area. A similar 7 to 8 strength quake today would kill millions. What, me worry?

Lars, I remember that makeup video. I also recall the pic you once posted of your pool sloshing. I’m not sure why I felt the 6.4 more than the 7.1. We were at home watching a Dodger game for the 7.1. The spectators in the stadium’s nosebleed sections were feeling it, for sure.

The scariest one for me was the Sylmar quake in 1971. It was our first noticeable one after moving to CA from Michigan. I was a kid and completely frozen in fear.

" But the early reports vastly sensationalized the event creating needless panic. "

Funny, I was here and didn't have that impression at all. Damage was widespread, serious and in many locations, fatal. The media trying to deal with the immediate aftermath of any major event struggle to identify and grasp everything involved. Loma Prieta was difficult because of how large an area was affected.

Buildings and structures fell causing deaths from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. 70 miles apart. Bay Bridge closed and a freeway collapsed nearby, Hwy 17 covered with dirt from a landslide, power out almost everywhere. Gridlock everywhere as people tried to get home in the dark. For me in Silicon Valley, on the 10th floor of a dark building, trying to get out was a challenge. Getting home took hours instead of minutes.

Millions of people were shocked and inconvenienced in different degrees for weeks but fortunately not that many died. It was no more sensational then than it is to think about now. Which is a lot. I think your comment is callous and wrong.

“" But the early reports vastly sensationalized the event creating needless panic. "”

Before the internet was in every home? How much needless panic was caused by newspapers, radio and TV media coverage back in 1989? I remember the damage and loss of life.

"The scariest one for me was the Sylmar quake in 1971."

That one got my attention too, perhaps a bit less than Loma Prieta. It was scary because it struck in early morning when many were still asleep. It created an unforgettable wake-up shock I still remember well. I was in college and living in Westwood. Fortunately not too immediately close to the epicenter but not that far away either. As I recall, the shaking lasted a good while. I think classes were closed for a few days so that the masonry buildings could be inspected.

I did something that day that in hindsight is funny to me. The aftershocks were a bit unnerving. A friend and I agreed we needed to get away so we decided on a road trip to someplace where we'd be safe from earthquakes. We went to San Francisco! I remember we stayed in a motel among what at the time were many motels on Lombard near the Presidio. In hindsight, there we were, sheltering from earthquakes within spitting distance of the San Andreas fault. Duh!

I'm in south central PA. Didn't feel anything. I did feel the one in 2011 I believe it was. I thought I was having a sudden and severe vertigo attack lol. The whole house just swayed. That's enough for me! I can officially say I felt an earthquake and will be glad to never feel one again. It's a great relief that there was no loss of life from the NJ quake (at least I don't think there was?)

I too was here in SJ in 1989 and didn't hear any sensationalized reports creating needless panic. We must watch/listen to different stations. 🙃

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=1989_Earthquake_Reporting:_A_Critique

“It was scary because it struck in early morning when many were still asleep.”

Exactly! I was actually wide awake with discomfort from a bad case of poison oak. We lived in Sierra Madre, and my grandparents were visiting from Nebraska. I well remember my groggy grandfather coming down the hallway with ”Did you people just feel the house move?” It was his first quake, too. For days I couldn’t sleep without a light and radio on.

Pretty funny about sheltering in San Francisco!

I once heard someone say philosophically that the daily job of common media, historically and conventionally newspapers and TV news, is to write the first draft of history. Every day that goes by, more is known and understood and the history drafts get revised. I think that captures the phenomenon your link shows. Especially with major events, little is known in the few moments and hours, and even in the following days, that the journalists have in the immediate aftermath to try to piece together the state of play and what happened.

wildchild, on any topic, it isn't hard to find a range of opinions. Not uncharacteristically, your view is extreme and one that I've never heard anyone express. I'll chalk it up as being not a widely held view.

I lived in San Diego county for 13 years, and off the top of my head, would say that I felt 5 earthquakes, maybe 6, of any notable strength - the first was when living on a hill overlooking Mission Bay; as I stood in the kitchen I felt a wave pass under my feet. Next one, 1983, I only remember the roaring sound, I think it woke me (or the shaking did.) The rest I can't say exactly when - sometime between 1986-1992 - one woke me with a jolt, like someone had kicked the bed (I think that is the one that left minor cracks in the ceiling); another I felt mild shaking several minutes after the people on the 5pm news felt it. A couple had epicenters pretty far away - Pasadena or in that region, IIRC. None were particularly scary, though (at my location).

The link is posted for the intellectually curious. I know that some are going to pounce on every comment I make just because they have a weird need. Others are too dumb to see past the curtains. That's OK. Carry on. I don't debate with closed minds, talk to brick walls and fences. Have fun.

" Others are too dumb to see past the curtains. .... I don't debate with closed minds, "

Good thing I wasn't holding a cup of anything liquid when I saw this. Look in the mirror, dear, this describes you more than you would ever want to admit. And not me at all.

“I lived in San Diego county for 13 years…”

raee, I’m guessing you were gone from there for one I’m remembering. It was Easter Sunday 2010, and there was a 7.2 centered in Baja. We were at my inlaws home in Bradbury (just east of Pasadena) and really felt it. I can imagine what it felt like in SD County!