# Earthquake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766 "2003-02-22T12:19:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/1 "2003-02-22T12:19:20Z")
Everything’s stopped rattling. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/2 "2003-02-22T12:20:43Z")
Nothing else to say, really: just wanted to be the first to post! Before **Johnny L.A.** , who always seems to beat me to the punch! ---
**Author:** ![Doggeez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Doggeez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggeez)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/3 "2003-02-22T12:30:39Z")
I felt it. My overhead lamp is still swinging to and fro… ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/4 "2003-02-22T12:57:17Z")
The earth moved…(too bad I was alone)… Seriously, though, 5.2 - 4 miles north of Big Bear…not too shabby. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/5 "2003-02-22T14:59:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Nothing else to say, really: just wanted to be the first to post! Before **Johnny L.A.** , who always seems to beat me to the punch! There was an earthquake? I guess I slept through it. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/6 "2003-02-22T15:11:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*There was an earthquake? I guess I slept through it. \*\* I woke up just at the time it apparently hit but didn’t realize anything abnormal had occurred until I saw a news report. I must have felt it just enough to be woken by it, but not enough so as to realize at that moment what had happened. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/7 "2003-02-22T15:29:07Z")
5.2? Pshaw! We don’t even wake up for those leetle quivers. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/8 "2003-02-22T16:28:46Z")
5.4 - 3 mi north of Big Bear. Didn’t even wake me up here in the San Fernando Valley. [Latest Earthquake Maps](http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/9 "2003-02-22T16:50:13Z")
Well I was awake and at my computer. It’s where I always seem to be when something happens. Anyway I did’t feel it. Of course, it might be because that I’m in San Francisco. You guys are so lucky, you even had aftershocks! It’s been 9 months since the Bay Area had a shaker. [sigh] ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/10 "2003-02-22T17:12:33Z")
Slept right through it. Hubby felt it, though, and apparently said something to me. I was completely out and didn’t hear, or reply. So–what is with all these earthquakes happening in the wee hours of morning? With one very big exception (the Loma Prieta quake of '89), it seems they all hit in the 2-5am window. In fact, if I were to do some mental figuring…it’s a 5-1 ratio of early AM quakes to daylight hours quakes. Wonder if there’s anything to that. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/11 "2003-02-22T18:50:24Z")
I happened to be awake (had to pee–sorry, TMI, I know). So, while I was sitting there, rocking and rolling along, all I could think about was _what if this was a stronger quake… I coulda died on the toilet…_ ---
**Author:** ![Cleanup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Cleanup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleanup)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/12 "2003-02-22T18:53:50Z")
I live in Sudbury, where supposedly a meteorrite tens of miles in diameter hit the earth, and thus resulting in the massive amount of nickel and copper… So there’s constantly people blasting in the mines, and I always feel little tremors here and there. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/13 "2003-02-22T21:59:19Z")
How come I’m always in the Bay Area when there are earthquakes in SoCal? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/14 "2003-02-23T03:34:36Z")
The rattling windows woke me up. The movment of the world kept me up. Hawaii had quakes too but that doesn’t mean I like them. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/156766/15 "2003-02-23T06:35:58Z")
_YAWN_ I didn’t feel a thing, here in Van Nuys. But at 4:19 AM, that’s pretty typical.