This is the fifth (and by far the biggest) that I’ve felt since moving here in July. I was in a night class in downtown Oakland and it took a few seconds to even register what was happening. The BART goes under the building, so normally the room kind of “shudders” every ten minutes or so in the evening. It was like the BART, but just kept on getting wavier and more vigorous.
Exciting, but I’m not keen on having anything bigger than this anytime soon.
Fremont here. This is the biggest, longest one I’ve felt in 11 years here. We were in the kitchen, when the china cabinet started rattling. It must have gone on for ten seconds - long enough for us to think “this is an earthquake” instead of “that was an earthquake.”
Like idiots we stood there in the kitchen, and didn’t move. Maybe next time we’ll figure to get outside or under a table.
KCBS got a call from someone in Fresno who said he didn’t feel it, but his chandelier started swinging.
The only damage I’ve heard of was someone in Pleasanton who said his floor cracked. Out there? I have my doubts. “Great, a way to get the insurance to fix this floor!”
I was visiting a house from an ad to sublet a room there for a couple months. Shortly after I walk in, the house starts shaking. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a quake substantial enough to feel, so it took a few seconds to register what was going on. It was big enough to really notice, but not big enough for me to do anything but stand around like an idiot saying “golly gee, an earthquake!”
Oh yeah, and I got the room. An omen? Nonetheless, I have a place to live now, sweet!
Supplement from Yahoo News. A water pipe broke in a condo, spraying water in a garage, and the BevMo in Milpitas lost some wine bottles. The epicenter was near Chuck Reed’s house, and some pictures fell off his walls. No injuries at all.
Wish it were a little one to relieve the stress on the Hayward Fault.
Well, I didn’t think the blizzard of 77’ was any fun either. But when it snows for the first time here every winter I enjoy going out and making snowmen.
I don’t think it’s just you. We had a very long dry spell (like a decade) in the south bay after LP, where before that it seemed like we’d get a couple of 5.x quakes a year.
East side of the Santa Cruz mountains here (Gilroy address) and we felt it pretty good. I was just deciding maybe we should actually take cover or something when it finally stopped. KCBS is saying it lasted about 20 seconds. That’s a long earthquake.
KCBS is also reporting that this is the largest we’ve had since Loma Prieta and was on the Calaveras fault near it’s intersection with the Hayward fault, so I don’t think it will provide much relief for the Hayward.
Still rather have earthquakes than tornadoes and hurricanes!
-jean
My (visiting) mom was in the house, so she felt it (mildly; she thought I had come home and slammed the front door), but I was on the road so I didn’t notice a thing.
My wife is in Texas so she’ll be bummed that she missed the biggest we’ve had here since Loma Prieta (which I remember but she wasn’t around for).
Felt is here (twin peaks, San Francisco). I was chatting online when it happened. Shook the house pretty good for about 10 seconds. Nothing broken.
One of my brothers just moved to San Francisco last month or so and said that he was at a Macaroni Grill and that people got a little panicky. It’s his first since we moved from Southern CA when he was just a baby so he thought it was actually kind of cool.
That’s what I thought, too. I grew up in Sunnyvale, and I remember having to get under tables at home or desks at school at least a couple of times a year, before the Loma Prieta quake (and not just for drills!). After that – well, after the aftershocks, at least – we had hardly any the rest of the time I lived there (until 1996).
Didn’t feel a thing here. 
Earthquakes are in my past, not my future.
Another ‘me too’ here. I realized that this is the first measurable (by me) quake we had since we’ve been in this house - 9.5 years. Before LP we used to have practice quakes of 3 - 5 magnitude a coupla times a year at least.
We’re on the west side of SJ, Cambrian/Campbell area (about 14 miles from the epicenter) and it was pretty strong for us. I was cooking dinner when it started and I simultaneously moved the full saucepan to the back burner, turned off the (gas) stove and scuttled (there’s just no other word for it) out of the kitchen and into a doorway toute suite. I was a little bit scared by it I have to admit.
Santa Cruz, East side - felt it pretty good. It helped with what I had going on.
I felt it in Occidental. It felt like somebody had kicked my chair as I was having dinner at the Union Hotel.
It seem quite apparent that Og don’t like your state.
San Jose here, southish near 87 and Auto Mall. Felt it pretty good at our location–I was playing WoW when the house started to roll and a few minor things fell off the shelves. I admit it went on long enough that I was starting to get Loma Prieta flashbacks (I was at work in Sunnyvale during that one, and this one felt similar if not as strong).
No damage here, and the cats seem to have gotten over it fairly fast.
The most annoying part was having to miss the beginning of “House” to listen to the moronic news anchor interviewing vapid twentysomethings about “what they felt.”
“It was real shaky…” (Okay, those weren’t their exact words, but they might as well have been.)
Here’s the Shake Map showing where it was felt.
Every Californian should have this site bookmarked.
Rico, former Southern Californian
Damn! There it is again.
This was very low on intensity, but it seems to be rolling on forever.