That was a hell of a shaker

[wryter2000]

OMG, 12:22. I was sitting in my house in Oakland, and there was a bang. Before I could think "earthquake" it was followed by another really loud bang, and everything shook for, maybe, 2 seconds. If it had gone on any longer, I would have been under the table.

I went to the USGS site, and all I could find was 2.9 in Southern California. No 2.9 would shake like that, even if the quake was near here. Anyone hear of a closer quake?

[NullTuples]

1. 3.5 in San Leandro at 12:22

A minor earthquake occurred at 12:22:26 PM (PDT) on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
The magnitude 3.5 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) N of San Leandro, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 6 km ( 4 miles).

https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/nc73632531.html

[vanlassie]

3. That could make someone notice in Oakland!

[wryter2000]

6. Sure got my attention

[wryter2000]

4. That's it

I'm really close to San Leandro. In fact, some folks call our neighborhood Oakleandro. 3.5 sounds about right.

[blm]

17. Must have been a jolter

A quick one. A 3.5 Jolter would be so much scarier than a 4.0 rolling wave quake.

[wryter2000]

18. It was a jolt all right

We had a tiny rolling one one day. I felt it go through the house. According to the map, there’s a faulty right in my front yard. I thought maybe I had my own, personal quake.

[SheltieLover]

2. Stay safe, Wryter & All!

[wryter2000]

5. Thanks

The worst quake I've lived through was Loma Prieta, and I was never in any danger. I guess if I'd been standing next to my boss's book shelf, which toppled over, I would have been hurt.

[at140]

7. Earthquakes scare me more than hurricanes, wild fires and being on Titanic

coz earthquakes come without any warning.

[wryter2000]

10. I lived through the Oakland hills fire

I'll take the quake any day over that. And you might get a warning about a tornado, but you can't exactly move your house out of the way.

A huge quake can be horribly destructive, but the smaller ones are usually fine if you live in a place where building codes take quakes into account.

[at140]

13. I can get in my car and drive away with warnings of approaching forest fires

and tornadoes can be handled by taking refuge in a shelter or just drive away.
Earthquake? You can get buried in rubble along with the car without any warning.

[wryter2000]

14. Rubble only happens in big quakes

One moderate quake caused a brick fireplace to collapse, and I think, maybe one person was killed. You are safer in an earthquake than you are on the freeway.

I've lived through at least a dozen quakes like the one today, and I've lived through dozens more tiny ones. They are not dangerous.

[at140]

16. Agreed, Richter scale has meaning! nt

[MFM008]

11. The Nisqually

Basin quake in 2001 at 6.8 here in WA was terrifying.😳🤯😶

[wryter2000]

15. Yeah, that's a bad one

And the big one in Alaska that caused the tidal wave war horrible, too.

[Binkie The Clown]

8. I'll never forget my two biggest quakes.

the 6.6 Sylmar San Fernando Valley quake (1971) and the 6.7 Northridge quake. (1994)

I was living right below the damn and was evacuated in 1971. In 1994 I was living in Oregon but visiting a friend in Northridge.

[Hortensis]

12. Hey, we were there for both of those and remember

the dam evacuation. Serious business for you for sure.

I still feel regret from 1994's tho. I was down in town instead of at home and excited to watch the waves of earth movement pass along a long block of condo buildings, rolling up and down, up and down down the block. Until I learned that my next-door neighbor had a balcony view from her living room of the Verdugo Mountains in front of us rolling with each wave passing through.

I never got to see a whole mountain range roll.

And here in GA for sure hope it never happens! Our CA neighborhood of old bungalows had withstood 80 and more years of quakes, and contents were behind doors, bolted to the walls or stuck down with earthquake putty, so earthquake excitements weren't inside. I shudder to imagine what a smaller quake would do here in the east.

[Binkie The Clown]

19. I'll never forget watching the sidewalk roll during an aftershock in 1971.

It was like watching a wave come in at the ocean, except it wasn't water, it was a concrete sidewalk!

[Hortensis]

20. Yes, that's an awesome experience! A whole different picture

from shaking underfoot.

I was helping set up a seismic performance evaluation business in the late '80s for an engineer friend, and another, different experience was seeing a big fault map at an LA County government office. It looked like crackle glaze -- hundreds or thousands of faults everywhere. We always thought of our home as such and such distance from famous faults. Yes, but...! Who knows? Wryter's part today may sorta been "personalized."

[MLAA]

9. I spending the night in Beverly Hills because I needed to go to Spain's Embassy

to get a work visa. I stayed up late reading and had just turned off the lights around 1 or 2am when I heard a loud sound and the room shook. I was pretty startled. I’m sure it wasn’t a significant earthquake but it was very memorable to me. A year or two later I lived in San Fran for a year but never experienced a quake there.