How often do you feel tremors or the ground move?
If you are planning to move here the answer is, ALL the time. Buildings are falling down right now, agh someone just got eatten by the earth again right next to me!!! I can see the cracks pulling in the ocean…help we are falling in…help…help…hel…
If you are not planning to move here the answer is, we feel the earth move under our feet whenever there is an earthquack.
Oh you wanted more specifics, I would say about once a year I get to feel one. But I do sleep on a waterbed so an earthquake at nite has to be over a 4.5 before I even notice it.
Lewis Black, The White Album.
When there is an earthquack—DUCK!!!
[sub]Ow. Sorry.[/sub]
To answer your question, I lived out there for eight years, and during that time I felt maybe two or three tremors a year, most of them mild. Stronger tremors about once a year, as Deb2world said.
Riots, fires and mudslides (thank you, Jimmy Buffett) and shakin’ to knock your socks off. Except you won’t need any socks. We don’t get up out of bed for anything less than a 6.5 on the Richter scale. Then we run out and catch a few gnarly waves in the pool.
So. Cal. rocks!
Well, I for one felt the earth move about 10:30ish last night. 
The tremors were slightly before and slightly after that?
Shouldn’t there be a TMI warning in this thread? :eek:
- I meant to spell it that way :)*
or maybe it is just that my computer keyboard has been taken over by a huge earthquake and making me do typos.
“If you are planning to move here the answer is, ALL the time. Buildings are falling down right now, agh someone just got eatten by the earth again right next to me!!! I can see the cracks pulling in the ocean…help we are falling in…help…help…hel…”
deb2world, why don’t you want me to move to LA?
Not that I was planning to move to LA.
What I just gave you is LA humor. We always joke that after a beautiful rose parade, the Easterners just flock here.
Hey I have lots of friends who aren’t Cali natives 
I found some neato links for you:
Real time Earthquake Map(CA)
Recent Earthquakes in US Note that there is an earthquake marked in Kansas at the time of this posting that you can click on!
So. Cal. Shakemap (This one may actually help answer your question!)
Well, if you visit just after a big quake, you can feel the ground shake continuously for DAYS!
I’ll never forget, trying to sleep on the floor of my mom’s bedroom after Northridge, feeling the floor shaking ALL FREAKING NIGHT…
According to that map, there have been 6 earthquakes within 2 miles, or less, of me in the past week.
How many have I felt?
None.
When was the last time I felt an earthquake here?
In all fairness, I did move out of the state in 1975 and didn’t return to LA until 19 months ago.
There have been quakes here since I’ve been back that other people have felt. I don’t know what my problem is, but unless it does some pretty serious damage, I just don’t feel them.
Maybe it comes from growing up with them. I don’t know. 
I don’t remember the last earthquake I felt. Rilchiam started a thread about it, and I posted to it. The last one (okay, the only one) that got me out of bed was the Northridge quake about 10 or 11 years ago. The second overpass east of me fell down. (Good thing when I decided to hop on the motorcycle for a ride in the dark, I went west!)
I feel them every so often. The two that stand out in my memory are one in 1994, not long after Northridge, during which I was at a Creation convention, and everyone started screaming. Except for the stunt people on stage, who calmly (at least, to observers) carried on with their demonstration. I heard they were commended afterwards by the convention organizers, for not triggering what would have been an increased panic, had they reacted. The other was in, I think, 2000. The vertical blinds on our windows swung wildly, and, as in the other incident, most of our action figures fell down. Most, though, are just a low rumble that doesn’t dislodge anything.
And I feel obligated to restate what Cecil said years ago, when asked the question that never fails to set my teeth on edge: “When will California fall into the sea?”
Much as some people would like it to happen, it ain’t gonna.
(Johnny, you got on your motorcycle after Northridge? You mean, after the quake, to check out the damage? Jeez, I’m glad you did go west!)
Rilchiam: I had a girlfriend in Santa Monica, so I rode the bike over to see her. It was like riding in the desert when I was a teenager. No lights except my headlight and the stars.
I moved to the LA area back in late July of '02. I’ve felt two tremors since then. Both were in the 3/4 range.
The epicenter of the last one was only a mile away from my place so things got a good shake, but it lasted less than a second. I was in the kitchen, preparing some food. shrug
Holy cow, Rilchiam. I was there too!
My mom was by the loading doors, or whatever those giant metal doors were – they started banging REALLY LOUDLY. I was sitting down, and just stayed put until it stopped.
The fun was watching how freaked out the out-of-towners got, while I was only mildly rattled. After two months of those, it didn’t bother me much!