Slept right through the earthquake (we're on the SF Penin), but our dog was going nuts about 4 AM. Lots of friends here felt it.
The 22 year old Abreau was incredible last night, too.
Posted on 08/24/2014 12:49:15 PM PDT by lee martell
I had been up late writing quarterly reports as part of my job. I was listening to Schubert's Trout Quintet for strings and piano, on replay. If I must write reports, I like doing so at night, where the quiet forces me to focus. I had finally gone to bed, fading off into Dreamland, when felt unplanned motion. The bed rumbled, rocked. The walls were trembling . Instantly, I knew this was an earthquake, and the first thought was #1, How long would it last? #2. Where are my shoes, pants, car keys and wallets? I have Parakeets and Zebra Finches, The Parakeets were shrieking, flapping, fussing and biting each other, but the Finches were more stoic. First though, I have to plan for my own safety. Then as suddenly as it began, the shaking stopped cold. The The Elephant Eared houseplants against the wall had stopped their swaying and their bouncing. The few large cups and books had already fallen to the floor. The electricity was still on. The radio was back on. From my perspective, this was not a bad quake, in that there is no obvious structural damage.
Nothing like the 4.8 quake felt in the 1980's while living in Berkelely. During one of the tremors, I gazed near the front door, and it looked as though, for a few seconds, the door and the surrounding wooden threshold had temporarily dissolved. I'm not kidding. For a few seconds, my view of the door was to see it as a soft, wavering taffylike mass. Something that could not be described as solid. Two seconds later, all the taffy-behavior stopped. Nothing at all like the quake in 1989, which I recall fully. Not nearly as devastating. Did anyone else in the Bay Area feel the quake?
You’re lucky...no tornadoes. :{)
Just an earthquake. Go back to sleep.
Slept right through the earthquake (we're on the SF Penin), but our dog was going nuts about 4 AM. Lots of friends here felt it.
The 22 year old Abreau was incredible last night, too.
I was in Fairfield during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. It was scary for sure.
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Ping.
Door frame was distorting?
Cool.
Scary, but cool.
Glad you’re ok.
I have a friend in Davis that I can’t get in touch with.
How far is Davis from the epicenter?
Why anyone would live on a fault line is beyond me. Let alone the state full of morons.
At least we have days notice for a hurricane. All battened down properly and anyone can survive with no damage.
Plus no state income tax, R governor etc.....
And even a gun mfgr (Kel-tec) made in FL, guaranteed for life. Don’t even know my little 380 is in my pocket.
That was who crossed my mind when I wrote the headline. Something close to “Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On by Jerry Lee Lewis” Another one would be “Tossin’ and Turnin’ by Bobby Lewis (no relation, I think).
Glad you are OK!
The Epicenter was in Napa, so Davis Ca. is about 45 miles away, I believe.
It woke me with what seemed like a strong north to south or vice versa shaking...or that could have been the direction I was trembling in....
No Damage. In San Anslemo CA just North of S.F.
May we heed these fairly...minor wake up calls
Well, sometimes it isn’t so readily apparent until later.
There’s a buried trace fault two miles west of my present location.
When we had that april earthquake in Plattesburgh a couple years back, it shook the trace fault here pretty good.
Weird.
But, NY isn’t “geologically active” as they say.
South Napa Fault...near the West Napa Fault
who knew there were faults THERE?
Another relevant song: “I Feel The Earth Move” by Carol King.
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