Great links and thank you to Bughunter and Twiddle
“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.
I’m in Sunnyvale. I didn’t feel it.
CNN is reporting that the castle has been evacuated.
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.
Hope the CA Dopers are okay!
Apparently, the town of Paso Robles in central California, 30 miles from the epicenter, has experienced building collapses and deaths:
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
Along with many, many bowels.
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.
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.
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.”
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)