Last night, at 8:04pm, we had an earthquake.
This was my first real earthquake since we moved to Cali 7 years ago. Actually, come to think of it, it was 7 years ago this month. Maybe this was an anniversary present…
We had no damage. Some around the area had minor damage. But, I don’t think that there are any major problems.
It scared the shit out of me though. K was at work and I was here with Macy & the cats. When it started, I froze and ran to the wrong spot in the house. I need to brush up on my earthquake skills and my earthquake preparedness. My co-worker sent me the link to QuakeKare. I will have to check it out properly. They even have pet kits!
S0, after I got my brain around what had happened and after I was finally able to speak to K, we decided it was best to notify all the east-coasters in our life that we were okay. We fully expected to have our big honkin earthquake all over the news in the morning and we didn’t want to start getting calls at 5am! So I sent out this email:
K and I wanted to let everyone know that we are all okay here. Not sure who has heard what…but we just had an earthquake centered only a couple of miles away from our home.
It was the biggest one we have felt here since we moved in 2000 and definitely gave me a fright…and still has Macy panting and pacing around the place. It was like riding a wave – no kidding!
But all is okay and as far as I can see, we have no damage. Only our picture frames are askew…Luckily for us…hopefully the same for others….sounds that way so far…
Here is the link for the USGS site with the information on it:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40204628.html
A moderate earthquake occurred at 8:04:54 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
The magnitude 5.6 event occurred 8 km (5 miles) NNE of Alum Rock, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).It has been about 20 years since a quake of this size occurred on the Calaveras Fault (where this happened)…
All our love,
A&K
Come to find out, it wasn’t even in the news outside of the bay area! Go figure. Apparently, news doesn’t rate if there aren’t any deaths or atrocities.
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babystep // November 1, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I have lived here my whole life and have been through big ones and little ones…still not used to them though! Something about the earth shaking under your feet, something you take for granted will be solid, just really throws me. Poor Sutter (my puppy) went a little bonkers too (his first earthquake). My husband on the other hand was jumping up and down afterwards complaining that the earthquake was too short and too mild!!!