# 6.1 Earthquake this morning near Napa. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367 "2014-08-24T12:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/1 "2014-08-24T12:51:12Z")
Significant damage being reported as a strong earthquake hits northern California. > **[Earthquake: 6.0 quake strikes near Napa](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-61-quake-strikes-near-american-canyon-calif-ojffev-story.html)** > > A shallow magnitude 6.0 earthquake was reported Sunday morning three miles from American Canyon, Calif., according to the U.S. Any dopers affected? I didn’t feel anything up here near Placerville. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/2 "2014-08-24T13:11:37Z")
Still waiting to hear from family & friends. They may have slept through it… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/3 "2014-08-24T13:58:16Z")
I woke up briefly to some gentle, repeated rocking. In my mid-sleep haze I remember it lasted a few seconds. I’m in Sunnyvale. ETA: Sunnyvale is 40 miles south of San Francisco and 70 miles south of Napa. And Placerville is 100 miles NNE of Napa. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/4 "2014-08-24T14:07:30Z")
> [@](#): > > The USGS estimated, based on their locations, that 15,000 people experienced severe shaking, 106,000 people felt very strong shaking, 176,000 felt strong shaking, and 738,000 felt moderate shaking. > > “It was not like other quakes we have felt,” (downtown Napa resident Karen) Lynch told CNN. “This was a violent quake, jolting us to and fro.” The CNN article says it’s the strongest Bay Area quake since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck just before Game 3 of the World Series (San Francisco Giants vs. Oakland A’s - the ‘Bay Bridge Series’). > **[Strongest earthquake in 25 years for northern California’s Bay Area | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/24/us/california-earthquake/index.html)** > > The strongest earthquake in 25 years struck Northern California early Sunday, injuring more than 120 people. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/5 "2014-08-24T15:18:11Z")
Felt it enough in Sacramento to have an earthquake dream, but not wake up. No damage in my Dad’s neighborhood in Vallejo. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/6 "2014-08-24T15:28:21Z")
My wife’s cousins live in Napa. They’re alright but have some house damage. Still too soon to know how extensive it is. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/7 "2014-08-24T15:31:23Z")
Slept through it here in Santa Clara. ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/8 "2014-08-24T16:03:45Z")
Sonoma county, checking in. Woke us up but the kids slept thru it. No pictures askew or anything here. Looks like Napa got it pretty hard though - some buildings damaged and. A few fires. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/9 "2014-08-24T16:28:25Z")
> [@araminty](#): > > Slept through it here in Santa Clara. Ditto, here in San Francisco, 45 miles closer to the epicenter. The effects were apparently quite local to the area north of Vallejo, including Napa county. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/10 "2014-08-24T16:44:53Z")
I was awake (as usual) so I felt it in San Jose, but pretty faintly. It was definitely a roller rather than a jolter. None of the dogs woke up either. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/11 "2014-08-24T16:48:05Z")
**Suburban Plankton** and I mostly slept through it here in Sacramento. The cats were acting very weird, meowing loudly for no real reason I could detect. I got up opened the back door and went back to bed. Eventually they shut up. Looking back, that was around the time of the quake. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/12 "2014-08-24T16:56:10Z")
North San Jose. Woke me up, though I’ve been sleeping light due to a cold. Only just enough to get my bookshelves swaying and knickknacks rattling. [Here’s](http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/spcutler/aug24_quake.gif~original) what my seismometer captured. Peak acceleration was about 12 cm/s[sup]2[/sup]. Interesting to see the really weak shaking before the big jolt. I’m pretty sure there is something to the “animals sense quakes before humans” thing, though the effect is weak and unreliable. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/13 "2014-08-24T17:00:18Z")
Waiting to hear from family near Napa. Did not wake us up in Morgan Hill (South of San Jose). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/14 "2014-08-24T17:05:18Z")
Now I wish that I had wrote [in this topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=731817) what I originally had in it… Namely that I just had a dream about an earthquake happening (I live in Arizona) and that on more than one occasion, I’ve had dreams about things before they happened. It was my whole point behind starting that topic, the earthquake in the dream was very strong, although not huge/devastating. Still, it was bigger than average. So I woke up with earthquakes on my mind (since I had only ever been in one before) and wanted to talk about them a bit. I even had written down (in that topic OP) “So if an earthquake happens in the next few days, you heard it here first.” but then took it out of the OP because I didn’t want it to sound too weird (I’m not someone who believes in ESP or anything like that, for the record). **You can even SEE that I edited it to take that part out** (as the “edited by” shows) I kind of wish I had left it in, though…it would have been crazy today. I hope everyone is safe and that the damage is minimal. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/15 "2014-08-24T17:13:23Z")
6.1 is serious, but NoCal residents take it in stride. 6.0 + is classified as a “strong” earthquake. Loma Prieta (1989) was 6.9 and it was pretty devastating. Hope you Bay area residents are all safe and secure and any aftershocks are little and few. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/16 "2014-08-24T17:17:44Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Now I wish that I had wrote [in this topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=731817) what I originally had in it… Namely that I just had a dream about an earthquake happening (I live in Arizona) and that on more than one occasion, I’ve had dreams about things before they happened. > … Considering there are _several million_ earthquakes per year, that’s not really ESP stuff there. Of course, the majority of those are \< 2.0 and felt by very few people. But, just to be safe, **PLEASE** pick 6 random numbers between 1 and 60 and post them for me. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/17 "2014-08-24T17:22:47Z")
I never thought it was ESP stuff…I even said “I don’t believe in ESP stuff”, haha. I just thought it was a freaky coincidence. 😉 But sure, I’ll indulge: 8, 17, 19, 26, 44, 45 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/18 "2014-08-24T17:23:43Z")
Nothing here in Campbell. What’s the real story with broken wine bottles? Joke fodder or significant monetary losses? ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/19 "2014-08-24T17:27:43Z")
The hot springs around here(Carson City Nv ) were hotter. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367/20 "2014-08-24T17:30:17Z")
Felt like a good hard shock on the Peninsula–woke everyone up, set off car alarms all over the place. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-1-earthquake-this-morning-near-napa/696367.md?page=2)