July 20, 2007
Did You Feel The Earthquake?
No, you didn't dream it! There was a 4.2 temblor this morning at around 4:42 a.m., centered two miles east of Oakland on the dreaded Hayward Fault. It knocked out power in Oakland (poor PG&E, it's been a busy week), and broke the windows of the Safeway on Shattuck and Rose in Berkeley, and at a doughnut shop on College and Ashby (but with no interruption in donut service, they added) -- but in SF, we didn't notice anything other than some shaking, and in San Jose, they didn't feel anything at all.
There's a YouTube clip of Jell-o artist Liz Hickok's Telegraph Hill earthquake above. (Friend of SFist, and we know her sister too!)
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My husband thought it was the cats trying to break down the bedroom door. (One of them is really fat.)
It was an unmistakable earthquake here in Oakland. Rather frightening, luckily nothing toppled over at my place.
I don't remember feeling it, but I woke up right at that time....so I guess I must have felt it in my sleep.
I woke up, bolted out of bed, and ran for the door. Then, without glasses and in the middle of the night I just stood there questioning my sanity. Nothing was swaying or knocked over and my cat was just staring at me with a wtf expression. I thought I had just made it up until I received saw SFist this morning.
I hate to say it, but that little Jell-o Coit tower looks like a stubby little penis when it flops around like that.
None of the Brits at work even woke up for it! For many, it was their first earthquake and they slept right through it. Me, being a seasoned earthquake enthusiast (and Northridge participant), my body woke me up a few seconds before the earthquake and I enjoyed all 20 seconds of it!
Apparently it broke a window at a donut shop. Quote of the day comes from U.S. Geological Survey spokeswoman Leslie Gordon, who said “It didn’t interrupt donut production.”
I was wide awake in the middle of the night and felt it right away (I thought it was a fat guy doing aerobics in the upstairs apartment, except we don't have any really fat guys upstairs). Then the rolling went on for at least 5 seconds. I've been living in S.F. for ~15 years and this was the first really jarring one I remember. Freaky!
It woke me up for sure in Oakland. It knocked over and broke a glass candle holder by my bed and a bottle of schnapps in the kitchen so between the shaking, glass breaking, and my cats freaking out, I was really shaken up.
So the morning news folks seemed REALLY dissapointed that no one was hurt in a 4.2 shaker! Come on! It's NOT the big one! We LIVE in quake country - and need the little ones to let off the pressure so we don't have another 7.1!
Is that video from a display at Good Vibrations?
Out in the E Bay Hills: It woke us up, the house creaked, a dog barked in the night-time.
Well, the big one is going to be 1000X more powerful. Think about it.
I was here in SF for the 1989 quake which was a giant one in magnitude compared to this and the 5.1 in 2002 was also more strongly felt.
I was fast asleep having hopeful dreams about the Astronaut who wore one pair of disposable diapers driving all the way from Houston to Fla. without stopping, when the room shook and rattled. Very enjoyable way to wake up and no, the astronaut didn't change her diaper this time either.
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