# Earthquake

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 18, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821 "2009-05-18T04:19:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821/21 "2009-05-19T22:55:28Z")

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Preliminarily being called a 4.1 aftershock to the previous quake.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821/22 "2009-05-19T23:31:06Z")

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I felt it! I’m just outside the city about 10 miles southeast. A few ladies in our office got freaked out a bit.

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821/23 "2009-05-19T23:47:02Z")

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> [@kasuo](#):
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> I was in Garden Grove at the time. I didn’t feel it though I saw stuff around me shake a bit.

Was Lou Dog inside the van?

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**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821/24 "2009-05-20T02:23:36Z")

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It’s amazing the difference between a 4.7 and a 4.1.

The first one was all “Lemme through here, geddada my way, dammit!” and today’s aftershock was “Ahem, excuse me, I’ll be through here and out of the way as quickly as I can.”

Polite earthquakes. Gotta love 'em.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/496821/25 "2009-05-20T04:27:28Z")

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As a native NYCer, I barely notice.

I was on the 13th floor of a building in Downtown LA, and I just went about my business assuming that a train had gone by.

😃

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