Scary.
The soccer team or a seismic event?
If it’s the latter … I don’t see any bigguns happening recently:
But you felt one?
What magnitude? When?
Yep. USGS says it was quite a ways south of here, 4.6 near Tres Pinos. But it was an abrupt jolt in downtown San Jose, amplified by our being in a skyscraper.
Ha! I thought I felt one!
I think I got to that website before the data did.
Hope everybody’s okay!
–Former San Diegan
BTDT
Lasted just long enough for me to consider if I should head out the door.
Random trivia: there used to be a pretty decent Los Gatos-area bluegrass band called Earthquake Country. Great name.
I always find these little jolts comforting. A nice reminder that we live on an active planet.
This one freaked out my cat a bit. But I’ve had bigger bumps from my neighbors slamming their doors.
I felt mild rocking.
I loudly said jesus christ and dove under my desk. Which must have looked comical, as I’m 66 and chubby.
I’m still on edge because we had a larger one a few months back, and I started running down the hall like an idiot before someone grabbed me and made me stand in a doorway. That one was much scarier, and the building swayed and rocked for a minute or two while I clung to the doorjamb and whimpered.
When I lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains my mailing address was Los Gatos and my kids went to Loma Prieta elementary school. To remind, Loma Prieta is the name of the October 1989 earthquake.
Those little bolts are also comforting because they relieve pressure along the fault lines. It’s when I haven’t felt any jolts in years, that’s when I’m more concerned because the pressure is building.
When you’re up several floors in a skyscraper, that can’t be much fun as the building whips back and forth.
I hope this helps — try to be reassured because we live and work in an area that has buildings and structures designed and built to absorb the shocks of most earthquakes. It’s when you’re in or near structures not designed that way that is more risky.
The new Bay Bridge, for example, will absorb shocks from a pretty big quake.
When I first moved to the Bay Area from the northeast, when I felt the first quakes it freaked me out. Now that I’ve been here for decades I’m more used to it.
There’s a trail to the Loma Prieta epicenter in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park. The spot itself isn’t all that exciting but it’s a pleasant hike through second and third-growth redwoods.
Didn’t feel it in Northern Fremont.
Fair amount of rattling in Santa Clara. My MyShake app didn’t alarm though… It seemed as big as the previous one (back in October?) when I did get a MyShake warning, just as the shaking was subsiding.
At what o’clock?
I was in Palo Alto and didn’t feel anything. There was one last week near Pacifica that I felt in Half Moon Bay.
Unfortunately that’s not really true in any meaningful way. To relieve the stress equivalent to a magnitude 7 quake, you’d need hundreds of magnitude 4 quakes.