# Did you feel the Quake So Cal Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557 "2004-06-15T22:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/1 "2004-06-15T22:46:55Z")
A light earthquake occurred at 3:29:25 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 15, 2004. The magnitude 4.7 event occurred 11 km (7 miles) SW of Edwards AFB, CA. The hypocentral depth is 25 km (16 miles). [link](http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14065544.htm) It still amazes me how scared I get when I feel the earth shaking. I’ve lived in California almost all my life and have been through some of the big ones, yet I still get freaked out. Hope that was the extent of this small one. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/2 "2004-06-15T22:49:54Z")
Yes, indeedy. I’m in San Diego, out on Point Loma, and we got a good rattling. Nothing damaged here, though. I work in an old building that shakes when the UPS truck goes by, though, so I’m kind of used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/3 "2004-06-15T22:54:39Z")
I was sitting here at my computer when it hit. What it felt like for me was a single short sharp back and forth movement; quite brief. Local TV here in San Diego is talking about two separate reports of epicenters and magnitude readings, one being what **dreamer** reported, the other being a 5.1 centered in the Pacific Ocean west of Rosarito, Mexico. Haven’t seen/heard enough yet to understand why there are these two separate reports. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/4 "2004-06-15T23:01:26Z")
[USGS confirms the 5.1 offshore of Rosarito](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/at00000169.htm) ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/5 "2004-06-15T23:03:17Z")
Yeah, now they are saying it was 60 miles west of Rosarito/Tiajuana. They are evacuating the rides at Sea World. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/6 "2004-06-15T23:13:41Z")
I think I would freak out if I felt an earthquake. I much prefer our hurricanes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/7 "2004-06-15T23:20:18Z")
Yep, minor shaker here in San Diego. Only lasted a second or so. JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/8 "2004-06-15T23:22:02Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I think I would freak out if I felt an earthquake. I much prefer our hurricanes. 😃 I quite prefer earthquakes, actually. No warning, the’re done by the time you realize they’re happening, and most often, no-one is seriously hurt. Hurricanes, you know they’re coming for hours if not days, they last for many hours, and almost invariably cause significant property damage. But, obviously, YMMV. JOhn. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/9 "2004-06-15T23:24:21Z")
Ayup, felt it. And now no one will shut up about it. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/10 "2004-06-15T23:25:27Z")
And by that, I of course mean that they are disrupting the “work environment” around here. Not that you are all jerks for talking about it. (can I quit digging now?) Their chatter is forcing me to surf instead of work. Yeah, that’s it! 😛 ---
**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:** [June 15, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/11 "2004-06-15T23:29:50Z")
There were, apparently, two earthquakes, almost one right after the other. One was felt in the San Diego/Mexican Border area, the other was felt, as per the OP around the high desert area NE of Los Angeles. I felt a slight swaying as I sat at my desk on the third floor. It’s the second one I’ve felt here since we moved into the new building, which is built on huge rollers. This earthquake and the Cambria earthquake last December both translated into long, slow, rolling motions that made me feel slightly dizzy. I’m one of the few people I know who was in the Bay Area for the Loma Prieta quake and in SoCal for the Northridge quake. The Northridge quake is the only one I’ve been in that really, truly scared me since I was a little kid. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/12 "2004-06-15T23:44:33Z")
[This USGS list of recent 2.5 or higher earthquakes around the world](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html) is showing only the one offshore of Mexico at the top and nothing else in or near California today. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/13 "2004-06-16T00:00:54Z")
Apparently the earlier report of an earthquake in the high desert was a false alarm triggered by the real event. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/14 "2004-06-16T00:07:02Z")
Man. Didn’t even feel it. But they kinda gotta rattle me good before I do. I’m at the top of a 6 story building right by some train tracks, and every time a line of tanker cars go by, I have to stand up to make sure it’s a train and not a tremblor shaking my chair. This building has some kind of resonance. But small shakers don’t get much notice here. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/15 "2004-06-16T00:49:39Z")
I’m in Pasadena and didn’t feel it at all; I didn’t even know about it until I saw this thread. I was on my feet organizing a lab at the time, which could explain it. My experience is that one is much more likely to feel a quake when sitting or lying down. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/16 "2004-06-16T01:03:12Z")
Local TV is reporting a 3.6 aftershock occurred at 5:43 PM local time; the USGS page I linked to in my last post is showing it. I didn’t feel that one at all. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/17 "2004-06-16T01:31:00Z")
Didn’t feel it at all up in Santa Barbara. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/18 "2004-06-16T01:42:32Z")
Felt it here in Irvine. I guessed it was a fiver, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/19 "2004-06-16T01:54:08Z")
> [@Jeffwc](#): > > Local TV is reporting a 3.6 aftershock occurred at 5:43 PM local time; the USGS page I linked to in my last post is showing it. I didn’t feel that one at all. This may sound a bit weird, but I felt it here in Las Vegas. I felt it at the time Jeffwc quotes, I was getting up to go home to watch the Pistons game. I paused to see if anyone else was going to comment but since the room was full of whiny kids I think everyone else missed it. The 5:43 shake was slight, I thought I was fainting. Love the quakes!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557/20 "2004-06-16T02:31:47Z")
So I’m not crazy? I thought I felt a little wobbling, but it was very subtle. I’m way down on the border, an hour from Arizona and 2 hours from San Diego, so that baby had decent range. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-feel-the-quake-so-cal-dopers/250557.md?page=2)