# Was that an earthquake?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 31, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680 "2001-10-31T07:59:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/1 "2001-10-31T07:59:04Z")
If it was, **Johnny LA** will have posted 20 seconds before me. If my post is alone when it goes up, it wasn’t an earthquake.
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### Author:  [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/2 "2001-10-31T08:01:26Z")
THAT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE!!!
I am in San Diego and I felt it.
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### Author:  [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/3 "2001-10-31T08:05:44Z")
How bad?
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/4 "2001-10-31T08:09:44Z")
Dang! I’ll turn on the news and find where the epicenter was.
**Johnny L.A.** must not be online at all.
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### Author:  [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/5 "2001-10-31T08:10:26Z")
It just rattled the windows a little. If the ceiling
doesn’t cave in, it is not a bad quake.
It IS the first one I have felt in years.
I have earthquake insurance. And I get a low rate because I am in the zone rated to have the lowest chance for earthquakes.Not that I believe them…
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### Author:  [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/6 "2001-10-31T08:11:37Z")
\< techchick thanks the gods that she lives in Colorado where very few earthquakes hit \>
You are brave people I say, brave.
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### Author:  [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/7 "2001-10-31T08:15:13Z")
An occasional ground shift is nothing!
I could’t live with tornados. year after year after year.
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### Author:  [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/8 "2001-10-31T08:34:45Z")
Where the heck are you? I’m in the Valley, didn’t feel a thing. But, Sunday morning we had a little quake about 9ish. More of a “boom” then the windows rattled a bit with a little shake. Not much to even get riled up about.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/9 "2001-10-31T08:39:13Z")
**Java** , I’m in the SF valley, too. I felt the Sunday one, all right. This was almost subliminal, and I might not have recognized it if I’d been unused to such things, but I did.
Still haven’t heard a thing on TV or radio. Again, I wonder where the epicenter was if it registered in San Diego.
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### Author:  [@IMWOMANHERE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMWOMANHERE)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/10 "2001-10-31T08:45:14Z")
I’m inland in San Diego…near Lemon Grove.
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### Author:  [@BigRedCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRedCat)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/11 "2001-10-31T10:34:50Z")
yeah I felt it too…the couch was shakin’!! I am in San Diego…I figure it was around a 3.2 or so…
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### Author:  [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/12 "2001-10-31T12:36:59Z")
According to [Yahoo News](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/abc/20011031/ts/quake011031_1.html) , what you felt there was a 5.1 magnitude quake centered out in Palm Springs.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/13 "2001-10-31T12:38:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> **Johnny L.A.** must not be online at all.
Heh. I was sound asleep. Didn’t feel a thing. The news just now said that there was a 5.1 quake centred in Anza (did she mean Anza Borega? I’m not familiar with that area.) south of Palm Springs.
**BigRedCat** and **IMWOMANHERE** : I’ll have to call my sister later. She’s in San Diego. Oh – What do you get if you eat a toaster waffle at the beach? Sandy Eggo! 😃
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### Author:  [@sandpiper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandpiper)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/14 "2001-10-31T12:49:19Z")
You guys are making me VERY homesick. (Only a native Californian can feel nostalgic over earthquakes, right?)
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### Author:  [@Turlough](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turlough)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/15 "2001-10-31T15:26:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by sandpiper \*
> \*\*You guys are making me VERY homesick. (Only a native Californian can feel nostalgic over earthquakes, right?) \*\*
Hey their making me homesick too, but I’m from New Zealand :). Ah Wellington city of quakes how I wish I was there right now 🙂
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/16 "2001-10-31T17:41:07Z")
I won’t tell you what went through my mind when that damn thing jolted me awake.
I live about a mile from a military base in San Diego, so my first thought was NOT an earthquake
All you non-earthquake people will probably chuckle to know that in order to get back to sleep, I had to convince myself that it WAS just an earthquake and not some tragic accident or attack.
Earthquake? No problem. Bring it on.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/17 "2001-10-31T18:43:56Z")
What? Earthquake? When? Where? DAMMIT! ☹
I finally move to California, to a place where earthquakes aren’t nearly as frequent (San Diego), and we actually get one, and I’m too busy having se… er, I mean, sleeping to notice! (Well, I _did_ feel the earth move, but I attibuted that to something else… 😉 )
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Grimace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimace)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/18 "2001-10-31T19:46:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by sandpiper \*
> \*\*You guys are making me VERY homesick. (Only a native Californian can feel nostalgic over earthquakes, right?) \*\*
Whew, I’m glad i’m not the only one that feels like that. Moved out to the midwest from the San Berdo area back in '85, and darnit, I miss the earthquakes and smog!
seriously, the dang smog pretty much killed pollen in the air, and I NEVER had sinus problems until I moved out here and to all this “fresh air”! BAH!
And i’ll take a earthquake over these darned tornadoes anyday. But then again I was raised in that enviroment, and everyone out here is just the opposite.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/19 "2001-10-31T20:09:19Z")
We were on vacation in LA (Hollywood) and completely missed it. We were awake and just didn’t notice a thing. I’m a bit disappointed - when else is this English girl going to get a chance to experience a real live earthquake? Aw.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-that-an-earthquake/90680/20 "2001-10-31T20:10:59Z")
I am, of course, talking about the Sunday one.
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