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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly shit that was some earthquake
San Francisco. Rattled widows. Neatly toppled furniture and the television. Im still jumpy.

livetohike
(23,689 posts)Hopefully they will be much less intense.
NBachers
(18,899 posts)But I ran to the United States geological survey site to report it. Im in San Francisco; it was right across the bay near Berkeley.
https://www.kron4.com/news/sizable-earthquake-jolts-east-bay-monday-morning/amp/
RandySF
(77,372 posts)diane in sf
(4,192 posts)RandySF
(77,372 posts)NBachers
(18,899 posts)Grokenstein
(6,143 posts)Wonder if the USGS is still functioning? Yes!!
M 4.3 - 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
democrank
(11,790 posts)Take good care~
diane in sf
(4,192 posts)reporting in Crocket that live on a hillside felt it less even tho theyre 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 wasnt 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)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.
surfered
(9,304 posts)Jacson6
(1,540 posts)3Hotdogs
(14,568 posts)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.....
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,550 posts)RVN VET71
(3,026 posts)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)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.
Duncanpup
(15,147 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,250 posts)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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