We got a nice rolling motion here in my third-floor office in the San Fernando Valley. Like, fer shure! 
Hope everyone’s OK!
I was in San Francisco, still in bed. (Hey, I was at work until 1 AM last night). I felt a little bit of shaking, but just thought it was a truck driving by or something.
I was asleep, and a phone call failed to wake me up, so an earthquake 180 miles south wouldn’t either, though I also have a (Doper) friend in Oakland who felt it.
Yep, sure felt it here in Morgan Hill. Was definatly a roller.
Hope it is not a sign of things to come…
Funny, I’m in Woodland Hills, and didn’t feel a thing (but then again, I wasn’t in a 3rd floor office, either. :D).
Didn’t feel a thing in Santa Barbara.
Haj
Are you guys reporting your experience to the USGS?
I don’t know how helpful it is, but they seem to actively encourage people to report, even if you didn’t feel anything.
I did, and going back and looking at the zip code maps has been very interesting. It’s also fun to refresh the quake map every once in a while and see the pattern of aftershocks graphically displayed.
Y’know, you can always tell the longtime Californians, can’t you?
“Ah, yes, this tremor was just a touch on the nerves, sort of a soothing, rocking, nothing like the angular energy of vintage 1971. Give it a chance to breathe, and we’ll see how the aftershocks give it a nice long finish…”
As distinguished from the recent transplants, like from Chicago: “AAAAAAAAAA! EARTHQUAAAAAAAAAAKE!”
(We get the same thing up here in Seattle. :))
I was thinking the same thing when I was reading this thread this afternoon. People are posting “I hope everyone’s OK” and “Oh no, what’s next?”, and I’m sitting there thinking “It was only a 5.9 quake. What’s everybody getting all worked up about?”
I’m not trying to belittle anyone who might have been worried or concerned; I understand that any earthquake is a serious thing and that even the tiniest one can be fatal if you happen to be in the wrong spot. But growing up in California does give one a certain sense of “eh, whatever” concerning earthquakes.
Note that these sentiments come from a man who has spent 37 years living in Sacramento and who has never actually felt an earthquake himself (not a lot of rumbling in the Great Central Valley).
As I was typing my last post, Rhiannon8404 came into the room and asked what I was posting about. I explained that people had posted earlier expressing concern about the earthquake. Rhiannon, who grew up in San Jose about a stone’s throw from the San Andreas fault, replied “What!?! It was only like a 6.0!”
Nothing in Malibu either, and I’m from Mississippi…so if the earth was moving, I probably would have noticed.
Nuthin’.
It may be good for science. Parkfield has had mag 6 quakes in 1857, 1881, 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966. Scientists have been awaiting this since 1985.
Huntington Beach checking in. We’re about 235 miles from Parkfield and even though there were reports that people in Santa Ana (about 12-15 miles from here) felt it, I didn’t feel a thing.
Felt rolling for about thirty seconds here in Kings county. My secretary and I spent the last twenty seconds of it looking through the window at the 94-year-old building next door to see if it was going to collapse. Still there and the stuck door works better now.
::grumblegrumble how would i know what an earthquake feels like i’m just a chick from missouri grumble why did i bother to show care and concern for my fellow dopers grumblegrumble:: 
Lieu ain’t kidding.
I felt it!
OK, just kidding. I’m actually in Dallas. What I thought was an earthquate turned out to be one of those cars with the really loud bass …
Yep. That’s Californians.
“Oooh! An earthquake! Let’s go stand next to a window and see if buildings start collapsing!”
:rolleyes:
'course, here in Minnesota we get people who drown because they ride their snowmobiles across the lakes before they’re fully frozen…