# Did you just feel that? --July, 2010 LA edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911 "2010-07-07T23:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/21 "2010-07-08T02:56:12Z")
We felt it here in San Diego. I was on the toilet. Not the most dignified place to be if the Big One hits. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/22 "2010-07-08T03:22:51Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Merged duplicate threads. I can only assume **silenus** needed those two extra minutes to crawl through the rubble to get to the computer. 😉 > > Seriously – glad y’all are okay, a big earthquake is scary as hell. Man, **twicks** , you’re getting good at [merging earthquake threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=568254)! 🙂 [sub]I wonder who’ll handle the volcano threads?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/23 "2010-07-08T04:03:17Z")
Daisy, one of our kittens, started yowling outside the living room window for no apparent reason about 5 seconds before the quake hit. Perceptive little thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/24 "2010-07-08T04:18:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Daisy, one of our kittens, started yowling outside the living room window for no apparent reason about 5 seconds before the quake hit. Perceptive little thing. Enough warning to be afraid, but not enough to do anything about it. Yep. They’re playing with us. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/25 "2010-07-08T06:54:08Z")
San Fernando Valley. I was in my car, at a red light. I thought the car behind me must have bumped me, but I looked and it was too far back. The very mild rolling/bumping sensation continued, the light turned green and I forgot about it. Then a DJ on the radio said “Well, that was a 5.9,” as it was then estimated. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/26 "2010-07-08T07:04:45Z")
Carson here. I was walking a shopping cart around Ralph’s market in Torrance and did not feel it, and apparently no one else in the store did as I was unaware of it until I listened to KNX on the way home, about 30 minutes after the quake. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/27 "2010-07-08T07:49:34Z")
I’m pretty sure I just felt an aftershock just now. The house shook once where in the day it was two strong shakes going very quickly. I’m in the coast in SD. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/28 "2010-07-09T23:48:19Z")
Felt it in Imperial Co. I felt it about 7 seconds before the cats did, and the cats have finally gotten ‘used’ to the tremors, and come out from hiding within a few minutes now. I have often wondered how the ‘depth’ of the quake affects how wide the area of effect is, because it’s clear that some earthquakes are felt much more widely than others, despite being ‘smaller’. So…I wonder if depth has anything to do with it. And I have no clue, but if anyone else has an idea and wants to share it’d be interesting 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/29 "2010-07-10T00:03:43Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > We felt it here in San Diego. > > I was on the toilet. Not the most dignified place to be if the Big One hits. It’s got to be better than shitting your pants when the Big One hits. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/30 "2010-07-10T03:52:31Z")
Beat me to it, **Rysto** , I was thinking a toilet might be a very convenient place to be. Not in California, but I was in LA in '94. Been there, done that. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911/31 "2010-07-10T04:09:14Z")
Aw c’mon. This is the SDM-F’n-B, and no one has linked the obvious [Carol King classic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHuxpa4h48)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-just-feel-that-july-2010-la-edition/545911.md?page=1)