# Anyone else feel the earthquake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 22, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501 "2003-12-22T19:25:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deadeyesdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@deadeyesdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deadeyesdad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/21 "2003-12-22T20:15:37Z")
Great links and thank you to Bughunter and Twiddle ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/22 "2003-12-22T20:16:49Z")
“The site is only a few miles from San Simeon, William Randolph Hearst’s castle. Calls to the castle did not immediately go through.” —_Yow!_ I hope Marion’s ghost was looking after things. ---
**Author:** ![wnorthr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wnorthr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wnorthr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/23 "2003-12-22T20:28:10Z")
I’m in Sunnyvale. I didn’t feel it. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/24 "2003-12-22T20:37:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*“The site is only a few miles from San Simeon, William Randolph Hearst’s castle. Calls to the castle did not immediately go through.” > > —_Yow!_ I hope Marion’s ghost was looking after things. \*\* CNN is reporting that the castle has been evacuated. ---
**Author:** ![sengle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@sengle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sengle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/25 "2003-12-22T21:02:44Z")
My cow-orkers and I in Palo Alto felt it. It was a nice gentle back and forth under the wheels of our chairs, and we heard the blinds rattling in the windows. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/26 "2003-12-22T21:32:03Z")
Hope the CA Dopers are okay! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/27 "2003-12-22T22:25:17Z")
Apparently, the town of Paso Robles in central California, 30 miles from the epicenter, has experienced building collapses and deaths: [Story](http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/12/22/ca.earthquake/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Curate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Curate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curate)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/28 "2003-12-22T22:27:17Z")
Felt it in Hanford for about a minute. About two inches of water sloshed out of the swimming pool, the trees all swayed in unison and the decorations fell off the fireplace. A radio report said that there are possibly some people trapped in a collapsed building in Paso Robles. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/29 "2003-12-22T23:15:43Z")
Apparently Paso Robles was fairly hard hit in the old part of town where there are pre-earthquake code buildings. Three reported killed as of 2:00 PM PST. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/30 "2003-12-22T23:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wnorthr \* > \*\*I’m in Sunnyvale. I didn’t feel it. \*\* Weird. I work in Mountain View, and my whole office was swaying. Door, desk, computers, my chair was rolling around on the plastic mat. I asked my bobblehead dolls if they could feel it and they replied in the affirmative. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/31 "2003-12-23T00:15:39Z")
Van Nuys, the center of the SF valley checking in… I didn’t exactly feel it, tho I did notice the window blinds shaking rather oddly. I was mattress dancing with my partner (:D) and wasn’t really paying attention, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/32 "2003-12-23T00:16:23Z")
Oh man… I lived in Paso Robles in 1981 when I did afternoons at KPRL. Quaint, friendly little town. Last town to deserve something like this. The pictures coming out of there are reminiscent of the Northridge Quake of 1994. I hope all my friends up there are ok. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/33 "2003-12-23T01:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JavaMaven1 \* > \*\*CNN is reporting that the castle has been evacuated. \*\* Along with many, many bowels. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/34 "2003-12-23T03:50:19Z")
I live in Fremont (very roughly 35 miles south of San Francisco). I didn’t feel a thing, and was therefore quite suprised to see the report on the quake at around 11:30 AM. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/35 "2003-12-23T08:46:38Z")
I’ve been watching the news all day on all different channels and I never realized there were so many ways to mispronounce “Paso Robles”. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/36 "2003-12-23T13:18:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KGS \* > \*\*I’ve been watching the news all day on all different channels and I never realized there were so many ways to mispronounce “Paso Robles”. \*\* You should have heard what they did to “Tehachapi” in 1952. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/37 "2003-12-23T16:09:08Z")
Was on the road – in Lancaster – when it shook. But I was in a parked car, and it felt like a semi was going by – for a long time. I felt a little “seasick.” ---
**Author:** ![Obsidian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501/38 "2003-12-23T19:34:05Z")
This was my first earthquake! (Well, that I could feel. There was a little one people felt a few months ago, but alas I was in my car driving) I was down in Los Gatos, felt the swaying roll. I thought I was passing out, then I realized the room actually was moving. When I first came out here prior to moving, I was sitting in my hotel and there was a faint rumbling sound, followed by the windows rattling (This was in Redwood City). I looked up at my friend, who’s a local, and asked, “Was that an earthquake?” She looks at me for a minute and replies, “No, that was just the Union Pacific.” The real earthquake turned out to be nothing like what I imagined. It was a disconcerting feeling. My boss’s precariously balanced extra whiteboard fell down off his desk and knocked some crap over. I talked to a friend who lives downtown off Market and he didn’t feel it, but the lady at the gas station at Geary & Arguello told me all the change was rattling in her register, which was for some reason funny to me. And of course, I got a phone call from my mother, my father, my sister, two friends from school, and my 91 year old grandfather, because no one back east seems to understand what big a state California is. (“Deadly Quake rocks Central California”-- and the space between Central Jersey and Northern Jersey is about 15 miles) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-the-earthquake/220501.md?page=1)