<p>Its only 3.8 scale, but it did scared me a little…</p>
<p>The 2PM hit was a 4.0 scale, but I was in SF and did not even feel it.</p>
<p>Earthequake insurance anyone?</p>
<p>My kid is in grad school at Berkeley and felt both quakes yesterday, as they were centered right where her school is. She is from the East Coast and so these were her first earthquakes.</p>
<p>Welcome to the Bay Area, Daughter of Soozie! My daughter was performing in a choir concert when the second one occurred. I guess they paused for a moment and then started up again. (I wasn’t there, was at a play rehearsal a bit farther away and didn’t feel a thing.)</p>
<p>We were at the SF symphony last night hearing the Verdi Requiem. The earthquake shook our seats and the clear plastic baffles above the stage. It was of very short durations, and the performers didn’t miss a beat. It occurred during the Kyrie Elaison. I was sorry that it didn’t hit about 10 minutes later, during the Dies Irae. You know, where the earth and heavens will tremble…?</p>
<p>Isn’t t his kind of like “Sun rises at dawn”?</p>
<p>No, small earthquakes are common, but we don’t feel them all that often. According to this morning’s paper, these felt stronger than they actually were because of where they were located underground.</p>
<p>If you didn’t feel it why’d it scare you? Or are you saying you felt it but not the aftershock or vice-versa?</p>
<p>A 4.8 hit near San Antonio yesterday. Quakes are very rare there.</p>
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There were two quakes, one at around 2pm & one late in the evening. She’s saying she only felt the 2nd one. The 2nd one felt bigger to me anyway - it lasted longer. I wasn’t even sure at first that the first one was a quake. (I live about 25 miles from the epicenter, so whatever I felt would have been more mild than what Berkeley residents would have felt).</p>
<p>In any case, though, I don’t think it merits the !!! in the title. No reports of significant damage or any injuries. Just a little bit of a shake.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks - that’s what I guessed it must have been.</p>
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I thought this was a joke at first - something to do with someone’s GPA.</p>
<p>I spend too much time on CC :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom…ha ha ha ha…now that’s funny!</p>
<p>Was that 4.0 weighted or unweighted? :D</p>
<p>My house is weighted down alright. :)</p>
<p>3.8? We call that a tremor. I’ve not met someone who doesn’t have earthquake insurance.</p>
<p>DS was leaving for SF when the first one hit, and the plane was about to land when the second hit. He was disappointed. Kids.</p>
<p>My daughter was disappointed last year when an earthquake hit San Fran (think it was last year) and she was home on break.</p>
<p>She in her third year at SFCM and now calls herself a true Califonia…she was excited…glad she got to feel a little one…here’s hoping that’s all she gets to experience.</p>
<p>She said her friends thought it was pretty strange to have an earthquake drill that morning and then experience a real one that afternoon.</p>
<p>starbright, everyone you know has quake insurance? I’ve always heard the common wisdom to be that since it is such a high deductible & limited coverage & premiums are very expensive, that it is better to take standard precautions (anchoring to foundation, reinforcing chimney, plywood shearwalls, etc) and save your money for repair costs…I’m just surprised to hear that…</p>
<p>Earthquake insurance is very expensive, and the deductibles are incredibly high. That being said, if you live in California anywhere near a fault line, standard precautions are not going to help you at all. You are not talking about repairing, you are talking about rebuilding! I agree with Starbright, the people who can afford earthquake insurance buy it, and the people who cannot are probably not saving enough money to rebuild their homes.</p>
<p>Everywhere in California is near <em>enough</em> to a fault line! </p>
<p>When I say “standard precautions,” I mean specifically in terms of seismic safety - and those methods make a MAJOR difference in what happens in an earthquake. If the earthquake is a 9-pointer, though, not so much. </p>
<p>I agree that, these days, (and given human nature…and construction costs, say, in the Bay Area) most people are probably not maintaining a sufficient earthquake nest egg.</p>