# Earthquake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679 "2002-08-13T13:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/1 "2002-08-13T13:33:40Z")
If you could call it that. Only a 2.3, but it was just about 2 miles from where I live north of Culver City. It woke me up, but I’d quite forgotten about it until the news mentioned it. There was another quake out in San Bernardino County, but I didn’t feel that one. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/2 "2002-08-13T13:53:44Z")
Good morning. You didn’t say what time you felt it, but I’m guessing it’s [this earthquake](http://www.scecdc.scec.org:3128/recenteqs/Quakes/ci09808901.html). The San Berdoo event should be on [this map](http://www.scecdc.scec.org/recenteqs/Maps/Los_Angeles.html#top). ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/3 "2002-08-13T13:56:46Z")
Ah, ignore my post in the other thread. I think “we” had a 4-point-something a couple of weeks ago when I was in Antwerp, which was surprising. I sort of sat up, thought 'is this an earthquake? Nah, I’m not in California. . ." and continued my day. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/4 "2002-08-13T16:13:58Z")
I couldn’t reach your first link. The San Bernadino quake was about 0300. I don’t know what time the quake near Culver City was, as I didn’t bother to check the time. (I dropped off to sleep again almost immediately.) Since I woke up so easily I think the CC quake must have been later, but I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/5 "2002-08-13T16:29:40Z")
**Moderator’s Notes:** > [@](#): > > Ah, ignore my post in the other thread. An easy task now that that thread is no longer extant. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/6 "2002-08-13T16:53:39Z")
on a tangent: we had a pretty big one (for up here in northern NY), 5 point something in late april… That was pretty strange. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/123679/7 "2002-08-13T17:49:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **It woke me up, but I’d quite forgotten about it until the news mentioned it.** > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **I dropped off to sleep again almost immediately.** See, I was going to comment on how hard it is to relate to Left-Coasters having this blasé attitude towards such powerful forces of nature… …until Mrs. Tygr reminded me that I slept through a [hurricane](http://www.weatherwatchers.org/fran/). …and Tygr Mom reminded me that I, too, had slept through an [earthquake](http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqpapers/00000017.htm). [sub](“Yes,” I replied. “But I was five months away from being born - I didn’t have much control over my choice of locale.”)[/sub]