A 4.5 magnitude quake hit Berkeley at 2:39 am. I’m about 30 miles away - (big shake here but no damage) - but it’s enough that it likely shook things up a lot in Berkeley & east bay. This magnitude is unlikely to cause serious damage or injury, but is enough to knock objects off shelves, etc. … and the epicenter was very close to the Berkeley campus.
I happen to be in Berkeley at the moment, two blocks from campus. No biggie. It did wake me up. It was over before I realized it was an earthquake. No object falling off the shelf. I first thought it was wind blowing over the tent. We’ve had a few stormy nights in a tent in the past. Then I woke up enough to realize I am not in a tent.
S1 & DIL live around 30 miles east of Berkeley. They slept through it.
I am scouring for the east coast snowstorm news to see if my house there is still standing. Can’t find any. Instead I keep running into Bay Area no-event earthquake. From that, am I right to guess the snow was no event, too?
It woke me up on the SF Peninsula. It was one of those “Hmm, was that an earthquake” things. Wasn’t really sure what woke me up until I got up and saw the news.
We were sitting in the airplane at Oakland, and the mechanic on the headphone asked, “Did you feel that?” The first officer hadn’t felt anything, though I thought I had felt a little shake, but nothing too substantial or alarming. Then we heard they were delaying airplanes from taking off because of a earthquake, so they could inspect the runway. We were glad to take off before a bigger one hit!
@Iglooo - no, the snowstorm is quite a storm here on the east coast, at least on Long Island where I am and in NYC! The snow is coming down hard and really swirling around, and branches are swaying back and forth. But unless your house is really an igloo (ha ha), it should be fine! The winds are strong here on Long Island, so some tree branches certainly will fall, and the roads are unsafe. All schools are closed around here, and so are almost all Town of Huntington services.
Woke us up in the North Bay. About a 10 second rattler. Thought initially it was thunder that had been predicted (unusual for here), but then realized it was a quake.
We used to live near Berkeley!!! oh wait, that was 30+ years ago. I remember being shaken awake a couple of times by mid-size tremblers. The old stucco house, bolted to the foundation, would squeak.
This was breaking news on The Today Show here in the east, so I immediately texted my daughter who lives in Berkeley. Never felt it. She’s so mad.
4.5? So maybe somewhere a dish fell off a shelf and broke?
Well it was fairly prolonged and scary shaking where I was, which is why I posted. Not just me, it generated a lot of discussion among neighbors on Nextdoor. Apparently the epicenter was quite deep, which is why it radiated out so far and may be why it was felt more strongly in outlying areas.
And I’ve been in the bay area more than 40 years. I usually don’t bat an eye.
You can joke about it, but being in the middle of it feels like being in a near miss on the freeway. Once the shaking starts, there’s no way to know how it will end up. Usually there’s no time to think about it, there is a jolt and then it’s over. But this one kept shaking.
Mr. Fang said he felt it in the South Bay, but I didn’t even wake up.
I knew it! I live about 60 miles east and woke up slightly in the middle of the night and was coherent enough to wonder if it was an earthquake, but forgot to check the next morning! Makes me feel better to know that it wasn’t just a dream and I’m not crazy, it actually happened.
Well I don’t think that it necessarily would have woken anybody up – as noted I was up already, in a room where ther is stuff to rattle around (like my cup on the table). Here’s a little primer on seismic waves - http://www.sms-tsunami-warning.com/pages/seismic-waves –
and here is an intensity map - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72948801#dyfi
and another one - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc72948801#map
DD who lives in Berkeley said she thinks all six in her house woke from the shaking. She said the adrenaline rush kept her from falling back asleep for about an hour.
Woke me up, but only enough that I noticed about a second or two of it after. Was it longer? I’m in the south bay/south peninsula. From where we were, it felt like a typical mag 4 quake (not that they are typical anymore… I’ve been hoping to “show” my kids what a quake feels like, but after 17 years, none of my three kids have experienced a quake that they recall. They are almost always sleeping or in a car during the event)
I think it’s a different experience when already awake, as at least in my location it started out milder and increased in intensity before stopping. Maybe that was the scary part
How people feel it even in the same general area can vary considerably depending on type of structure the person is in, the type of foundation the house has, and the type of ground it is built on.
^Woke H, visiting S and I up. S reported that his bed was rocking. H & I felt, heard the rumble, but no shaking bed. Our room is on a concrete slab; S, in a different wing of house, was not on slab, hence the different reactions.
My first response when realizing it was an earthquake was Uh Oh. Wait for it to stop. Then, when it stopped, prayed that the epicenter was our house—and hoped we hadn’t felt a far away, massive quake. Then, wonder if there will be aftershock(s). Then guiltily remember the earthquake supplies haven’t been update this year. And there are no shoes under the bed.
Took me awhile to get back to sleep…
Woke both dh and me up and we live about 30 miles away. Both Have lived in CA pretty much all of our lives. It did seem a bit long but it didn’t seem very intense. Dh just checked his iPad for details, really just to make sure it wasn’t a big one with significant impact somewhere, and we went back to sleep. Very happy it was ‘small’ with no damage.