October 31, 2007
Where Was SFist During the Great Quake of '07
Readers responded with light speed and razor-sharp accuracy (more or less) when it came to detailing last night's devastating -- body-wash-plummeting-to-the-earth devastating! -- 5.6 quake. We will all look back on October 30, asking ourselves, where were we when the great 5.6 quake of '07 hit?
Well, after sending out the we-hope-you're-still-alive-and-kicking call to the SFist team at large, they responded. Here are a few of the shattering moments in the lives of some of your favorite SFisters, including Cedric's encounter with a slow-food movement hero in the form of a Michael Mina waiter.
-- Dan Johnson: "[I]t happened when I was on MUNI. Duh. The M-line would
cover up anything less than a 7.0"
-- Christopher Rogers: "I felt it VERY seriously in Oceanview, near SFSU. Of course, I'm on the second floor of a wood building. Biggest quake I've felt since
'89." However, he goes on to say, "two people I talked to in San Rafael (Terra Linda and Marinwood), both said essentially 'what's the big deal? Didn't feel anything.'"
-- Emily Cox: "Could totally feel it in Palo Alto... good times."
-- Julie Feinstein Adams: "...in a prenatal infant CPR/first-aid class at Alta bates in
Berkeley...all the big preggie mommies were happy to be in a hospital, just in case."
-- Leanne Maxwell: "We didn't feel it here in the TenderNob."
-- Rain Jokinen: "I'm on Nob Hill and I DEFINITELY felt it. In fact, I think I just had a nervous breakdown because of it."
-- Spencer Williams: "I was naked, scared as shit, in my apartment in San Jose. I saw the floor rolling."
-- Deborah N.: "We were shake-shake-shakin' in the Sunnyside. It actually really spiced up our viewing of In the Land of Women. Oh, that Adam Brody..."
-- Jon Shurkin: "I heard it before I felt it... It did seem long but I swear I've felt worse. I did, however, spend a few seconds trying to decide if I should throw myself under the coffee table just in case."
-- Cedric Westphal: "I was having dinner at Michael Mina on union sq, we felt it very clearly, and the waiter was unflappable. We asked him: is it an earthquake, or are you jumping up and down. He was like, earthquake, shmearthquake. The underlying message: let's not let a silly earthquake distract us from eating. Earthquakes happen all the time, but dinner at MM is a once in a lifetime experience. We did think of going under the table for a second, but it would have been against the decorum."
-- Brock Keeling: "Didn't feel it."
-- Matt Baume: [Busy acting as a soothing cup of chamomile tea to San Francisco and the Bay Area.]
...and just where were you?
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I thought it was the cat vomiting again, just a kind of "thwucka thwucka thwucka thwucka" sound. However, my wife insisted it was a quake, and we looked it up on the web, and there it was!
Strongest one I've felt since this one, which was a 5.0...I was with my wife at CPMC on Califoria St.
If someone in the Tendernob didn't feel it, I'd attribute that to good retrofitting more than anything else. My 100-year old apartment building up on California creaked and rattled pretty good.
I was eating fish and chips at Durty Nelly's and it began twistin' my body from side 2 side... for about 10 seconds
I was at the opening game for the Warriors over in Oakland. A bunch of us sitting in section 213 felt it, and the camera man sitting on a hanging platform above us looked freaked out, spinning around. There was no announcement of the quake by Oracle Arena staff, and the game continued on without pause!
We were walking around the Haight, watching under cover cops bust homeless kids and whatnot. But, we didn't feel it at all. I don't know why... maybe it was my rubber soled shoes but, we didn't feel a thing. Dang it!
Yeah, I'm the Tendernob resident who didn't feel it. Yes, I am relieved to know we live in a very solid building. It's an Edwardian from around 1912 -- they must have had 1906 strong in their minds.
Size, shape and materials of a building, and what floor your apartment/flat is on, seem to make quite a difference.
Today I heard some people in the East Bay talking about how they were outside when it happened. They didn't feel it, but they saw parked cars bouncing around.
Didn't feel a thing, but I was on a moving BART that had just gotten past the whole corpse thing. They delayed us and we all started laughing about how they told us there'd been an earthquake as we were trapped underground.
I was in bellydance class at the YMCA. We looked at each other and said, "Wow, that was some heavy duty shimmy!"
Trying to have a nice sushi dinner while the ground started swaying..
Blog Post about it
I was dusting my Barbie collection.
Fortunately, the bookshelves I display them in are bolted to the walls. Each Barbie is museum waxed to the shelves, so all of them behaved.
Hey if you're interested here are some damage
Pics People Uploaded To NBC11.
Watch for the poor little scared cat hiding in a paper bag!
John
There was just another aftershock...
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html
It only lasted a couple of seconds.
It was a 3.7