# Earthquake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194 "2013-05-24T03:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/1 "2013-05-24T03:51:50Z")
Just felt one in Sacramento?!?!?! Don’t see anything on USGS … anybody else feel it? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/2 "2013-05-24T03:58:33Z")
[5.7 north of Greenville](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc71996906#summary) any dopers up in Plumas County? ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/3 "2013-05-24T03:58:38Z")
We felt it…sitting on the couch watching the Sharks game, it was strong enough to shake the furniture… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/4 "2013-05-24T03:59:37Z")
We felt it in Natomas. I grew up in the Bay Area, but haven’t felt an earthquake since we moved from there in '84. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/5 "2013-05-24T05:40:15Z")
My first thought on feeling a quake here was The Big One in the Bay Area. Glad to learn it was in the mountains, and doesn’t seem to have done much damage. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/6 "2013-05-24T06:36:28Z")
The wife and I felt it. She started getting dizzy and I was confused as to why my computer chair was moving. It was her first earthquake (she’s not from around here). ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/7 "2013-05-25T04:47:26Z")
I thought about the Bay Area, too. But I’ve never felt a Bay Area earthquake here in Sac before. ---
**Author:** ![IaMoDiNaRy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@IaMoDiNaRy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IaMoDiNaRy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/8 "2013-05-25T18:41:47Z")
Nope, didn’t feel a thing. I’m further south in the Lodi area. I saw reports on the news that some folks in Stockton claimed to feel it, though. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/9 "2013-05-25T20:21:55Z")
I felt it in Berkeley, one brief rumble. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthquake/659194/10 "2013-05-25T23:50:39Z")
My apartment building shakes every time any of the tenants downstairs inhales or exhales. So I might have felt it and never realized it. (Modesto.) > [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I thought about the Bay Area, too. But I’ve never felt a Bay Area earthquake here in Sac before. OTOH, I felt the [Loma Prieta Quake (1989)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake) all the way down near Paso Robles, where I was living at the time.