<p>Thank god everything is OK. H was deathly worried about his headquarters and friends in San Jose.</p>
<p>I grew up next to a train in New York and thought everything rattling several times a day was normal. When I moved to LA I thought my first earthquake was a train. I usually notice them here in N. Cal, but I didn’t notice this one.</p>
<p>I think the threads merged…</p>
<p>yes, they seem to now be merged</p>
<p>I’m just curious what my DD thinks of all of this. She is an east coaster, and this is her first earthquake experience. Glad it was minorish, and no damage, but I’m sure she’ll have SOMETHING to say about it.</p>
<p>S checked in from Palo Alto via e-mail. Said he noticed the floor “sliding back and forth” (?) and the walls shaking in his room. No damage. Said it was stronger than anything he’d experienced in four years in SoCal, even though some of those tremors had awoken him from sleep. Some of the non-Californians were a little nonplussed, wondering if it was indeed a quake.</p>
<p>we now live on bedrock, I mean this house barely moves, our old place shock like a martini shaker</p>
<p>guess this one was longish</p>
<p>What a story, Oakland mom!</p>
<p>We felt it as long and rolling in the East Bay. That means it’s pretty far away. A sharp jolt means it’s close.</p>
<p>Funny story. My daughter lives closer to the epicenter and phoned us later. She was in a meeting when it happened and in the middle of saying something. So, she stopped talking, waited for the shaking to stop, then calmly finished her sentence. At which point someone else in the meeting turned to her and said: “You really are a California girl, aren’t you.”</p>
<p>DD checked in today. She was walking to a class when the quake occurred and didn’t feel a thing. She didn’t know it happened until someone else told her. So…for my east coaster…this was not a big deal. She said the university handled things well. There was no damage she heard of in her area except for some groceries falling off shelves in the grocery stores.</p>