# 9/29 Earthquake

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 29, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749 "2004-09-29T23:02:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![deadeyesdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@deadeyesdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deadeyesdad)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749/1 "2004-09-29T23:02:59Z")

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California resident for 33.5 years. This is the first quake that I have felt and knew it was an earthquake when it was happening. It appears to be centered about 30 miles ese from me and early indications are a magnatude 5.5 on the Richter(sp) scale

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**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749/2 "2004-09-29T23:34:45Z")

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I felt it, and it felt a bit stronger than yesterday’s to me. In fact, the last four earthquakes I’ve felt have all come while I was here at work. My building is on rollers, and is therefore very sensitive to the motion of earthquakes, so I have a higher probability of feeling them when I’m here.

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749/3 "2004-09-29T23:35:11Z")

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**deadeyesdad** , are you talking about the one east of Bakersfield at about 4:00 p.m. PST? I couldn’t quite interpret your location.

Dang! That’s a lot of quakes in two days in California.

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**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-29-earthquake/266749/4 "2004-09-29T23:39:16Z")

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I felt it up here in Fresno. It felt about the same as the Parkfield quake yesterday.