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RandySF

(77,372 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:59 AM 6 hrs ago

Holy shit that was some earthquake

San Francisco. Rattled widows. Neatly toppled furniture and the television. I’m still jumpy.

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Holy shit that was some earthquake (Original Post) RandySF 6 hrs ago OP
Glad you are okay. Brace yourself for the aftershocks. livetohike 5 hrs ago #1
Yup - woke me right the hell up and got me out of bed! 5 to 6 seconds of heavy shaking. No damage, NBachers 5 hrs ago #2
I thought it was about to "the one". RandySF 5 hrs ago #3
What neighborhood are you in? My friend on 12th and Folsom said it was strong. diane in sf 5 hrs ago #7
Nob Hill/Union Square area. RandySF 4 hrs ago #9
Yeah, it was a real heart-beater. NBachers 2 hrs ago #18
Got a really solid rattle down here by the airport. Grokenstein 5 hrs ago #4
Glad to hear you're okay. democrank 5 hrs ago #5
Rattlely and crunchy up here in Vallejo. Scary, but not too dramatic. House and contents are fine. People diane in sf 5 hrs ago #6
Glad you're okay! HeartsCanHope 5 hrs ago #8
Yikes! surfered 4 hrs ago #10
I didn't feel a thing down here in San Luis Obispo. n/t Jacson6 4 hrs ago #11
Fuck, not the television. 3Hotdogs 3 hrs ago #12
Nicely done. You made me smile. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 3 hrs ago #13
The Old Baby-Raper controls the tectonic plates RVN VET71 3 hrs ago #14
I experienced Loma Prieta earthquake in 89 Bernardo de La Paz 3 hrs ago #15
Glad you are safe. Duncanpup 3 hrs ago #16
I grew up in San Jose....earthquakes were common occurrences. ProudMNDemocrat 3 hrs ago #17
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livetohike

(23,689 posts)
1. Glad you are okay. Brace yourself for the aftershocks.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:22 AM
5 hrs ago

Hopefully they will be much less intense.

NBachers

(18,899 posts)
2. Yup - woke me right the hell up and got me out of bed! 5 to 6 seconds of heavy shaking. No damage,
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:29 AM
5 hrs ago

But I ran to the United States geological survey site to report it. I’m in San Francisco; it was right across the bay near Berkeley.
https://www.kron4.com/news/sizable-earthquake-jolts-east-bay-monday-morning/amp/

diane in sf

(4,192 posts)
6. Rattlely and crunchy up here in Vallejo. Scary, but not too dramatic. House and contents are fine. People
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:58 AM
5 hrs ago

reporting in Crocket that live on a hillside felt it less even tho they’re closer. This neighborhood is made up of filled wetlands. The houses are from the 30s and 40s and well built. My house is bolted to its slab, tho that wasn’t mandatory back then. All the brick chimneys cracked or fell down in the 2014 Napa quake, but no badly damaged homes.

HeartsCanHope

(1,323 posts)
8. Glad you're okay!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:07 AM
5 hrs ago

I lived in Israel for a year and we had a very small earthquake. The thing that scared me was the room actually undulated!
I grabbed my son and got to a doorway, and then the quake was over. Nothing broken in the house, just scary. Again, glad you made it through relatively okay.

3Hotdogs

(14,568 posts)
12. Fuck, not the television.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:20 AM
3 hrs ago

Anything but the television in our house.

or the computer. anything but the computer and the telev.

Oh. the iPhone. anything but the computer and the iPhone and the television ... maybe the refrigerator..

Anything but the tv, the iPhone, the.....

RVN VET71

(3,026 posts)
14. The Old Baby-Raper controls the tectonic plates
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:47 AM
3 hrs ago

and farted in the direction of California. He's angry at San Fran because, despite his personal hobby of having sex with children, he regards it as a modern-day Sodom and Gemorrah, a stain on American "kill the homeless" morality.


AND WHERE THE HELL ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES DONALD THE SYPHILITIC NAZI PROMISED US?

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,550 posts)
15. I experienced Loma Prieta earthquake in 89
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:51 AM
3 hrs ago

Magnitude 6.9.

I was in Silicon Valley 45 km (30 miles) from the epicenter. Office shook for 30 seconds in the main shock. I shouted "I'm getting under my desk" and office mate took the cue and did the same. Lamp fell off filing cabinet. It would have been difficult to walk in the main shake.

Our house 15 km (10 miles) from epicenter had a crack in the wall, and a bookcase fell over damaging a door. It was built in an area over a solid mass of bedrock.

About 3 km (2 miles) away, in sandy/silty area, ten people perished. In SF 75 km (50 mi) from epicenter, in a sandy silty area, more people died. In total 63 people died.

Shi{f}t happens.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,250 posts)
17. I grew up in San Jose....earthquakes were common occurrences.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:09 AM
3 hrs ago

When growing up, I would feel them. It was as if someone took a huge rolling pin and ran it under the house.

The San Andreas Fault is near the city off Hollister.

It was the earthquake of October of 1989 during the World Series that shook up a huge section of California. My father had just finished up a job in Hayward, gotten off the Bay Bridge, San Francisco to 280, when the earthquake hit. It took his calm and strength to keep in control of the steering wheel of his truck.

I turned on the TV when I got home from work from the costume shop in Rochester to CNN. There were fires in the area of the Marina. The epicenter of that strong earthquake was in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the South and West of San Jose. I was able to call my mother and ask her what condition things were in San Jose. She said there were some new structural cracks and everything on shelves were now on the floor.

Stay safe California DUers.

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