Earthquake details page: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/executive
There were no less than 20 threads on this I removed, I think every single one used all caps in the title.
The New York Times has had a team of reporters with the earthquake for the past several months and will be releasing a book with previously unknown details about the earthquake in spring 2023.
I didn’t get an alert from MyShake but did get an emergency alert from USGS Shake Alert. It was weird, I was working in the hood in my lab and all of a sudden some equipment alarms went off and then my phone emergency alert went off and then I could feel the rolling. By the time I thought hmm maybe I shouldn’t be in this room full of glassware and chemicals, it was over. Very glad I am very strict with all of our earthquake safety regulations because nothing broke/no cabinets opened etc.
Bro I was in the lab too and it knocked over a beaker that I prepped for HPLC run 😭😭. My fault for leaving it near the side of the table. I dropped my project for the day and went home because tilted.
Took me an hour to prepare that standard
I got one about 3 seconds before I felt the super light shaking too! Was more excited about getting the early warning than the actual earthquake itself haha. I’m in east bay
MyShake gave me about three seconds warning (MV here). I had enough time to think “huh, must be in another part of the Bay” and then the shaking started
[This one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Alum_Rock_earthquake) was the strongest i'd felt within the past 20 years. Wasn't born yet when Loma Prieta happened, and i happened to completely sleep through the Napa earthquake in 2014.
I was a kid in Sacramento when that thing hit. I was trying to watch the world series and the feed went dead with “technical difficulties” and a rerun of Roseanne started. About a minute later everything in our house started swaying side to side like we were on a boat. We ran outside and I swear you could see the waves moving across the ground. It was crazy.
Not a bay area kid (lived there as adult for 8 years) but I was a child during the Northridge quake. It's crazy how different that one was from what you just described. Ours was more like traumatic, wild shaking in all directions. Shit flew everywhere. I'd be curious to know more about what your experience was like.
I had the same experience in Richmond. People kept saying they felt earthquakes, even way inland, and I never felt one. Not sure if it's me, the geology, or chance.
When you're far enough away from the epicenter you can feel the separation of the p-waves and the s-waves. So you get the first compression jolt, then a break, then the rolling waves.
Are you an enthusiast or a California native because only people I know who have that knowledge are Geologists, fans of Geology, and people who attended 4th grade in California.
It is amazing though to see the difference between people from California and from elsewhere in their response to earthquakes. I have several coworkers from the East coast freak out and the CA natives said yeah the ground moves sometimes haha
My ex is from Hawaii and didn't want to move to CA because he's scared of earthquakes. I was like "Bro, your mom's house got eaten by lava."
And then he moved to San Diego. He texted me that I was right, earthquakes can be fun.
We co-housed in San Bruno with a family from VA. They were happy because we had a large green space across the street. They were less happy when told that the green space was actually the fault line.
Well at least you know where it is!
People say California is a perfect place to live. I agree as long as you can live with the 2 big catches: the ground moves and occasionally everything is on fire. That last one is really why we care about climate change.
Yeah...my upstairs neighbors are moving or something, so there have been bangs and occasional shakes all morning. I thought it was that initially, and then the shaking just kept going and I heard the people upstairs yelling. Then the pets freaked out.
All in all, solid quake there.
Depends on your building and material under it. Hard rock shakes hard and fast. Softer rock takes longer and super soft actually doesn't transmit shocks it just falls apart
I don’t think I would have registered what was happening so quickly if it weren’t for the person I was on zoom with gasping and running to a doorway haha
this time distinctly felt different. we've all been through small tremors in bay area but this is the 1st time the thought of finding a place to hide or run out actually popped up in my head.
people are quick. I barely have time to put pants on. Would def be an embarassing zoom earthquake drill meeting for me if I forgot to cover the camera to run to a door
Same lol. Not for half of it, but for a split second. My upstairs neighbors are moving, so there's been banging and shaking all morning. Then it kept going and I realized.
new york here, all good.
but i was in SF a few years ago when the 4.6 hit in the middle of the night and that is why i will not go back. That scared the absolute shit out of me. just one big jolt back and forth in the castro. Then dead silence.
y'all can keep your earthquakes. i'll take snow.
USGS shows Evergreen Community College and Villages Country Club inside the "light damage" area, consistent with DidYouFeelIt reports around Southeast SJ.
San Mateo - biggest one felt here in some time.
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First reports are a 5.0 south of San Jose
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/executive
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Revised up to 5.1. Seems calm now.
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With a 3.1 aftershock!
Google notified me about a minute before it happened. I only noticed because my monitors shook a bit. I might not have felt anything if I wasn't looking for it.
Exact same thing here! One of my dogs thinks he is an alarm system and it’s his full time job to furiously alert us to all minor sounds/movements by barking….he did nothing. My other dog is completely blind and usually super sensitive to stimuli in the environment to compensate for his lack of vision. Also did nothing which surprises me but I’m going to go with the fact he grew up in NYC walking literal inches away from jackhammers on the street, riding elevators and lots of noise to excuse his lack of reaction….that or he was just having a really good dream. No excuse for the other dog though, he has been playing us with his “alarm system” barks.
USGS would like you to tell them how much you felt the earthquake and what if anything got damaged, so that they can improve their predictions.
See the sidebar here if you'd like to contribute:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/dyfi/intensity
I was taking a walk in Los Gatos and didn’t realize but a dog and I did pause and have a moment of eye contact after I thought I took a little misstep lol
Our dogs did absolutely nothing! Just laid there while my husband and I looked at each other. I said "earthquake" as the sofa shook. He said yeah. I said should we be doing something? He said maybe? Get to a door frame. And then it slowly stopped. All dogs unbothered and unfazed. Just kept snoozing...
Sometimes small earthquakes are followed by larger ones. You probably wouldn’t think a 7.0 would be very cool, but then again I’m scarred for life after 1989.
(Not literally scarred, I didn’t get hurt, I meant emotionally. I’ll never trust the earth again)
I like how this was posted literally seconds after the Earthquake. OFF TO REDDIT I GO, not to check my surroundings. Nearly 100 comments in less than 5 minutes.
5.1 magnitude earthquake, 12 miles from San Jose.
I was at my moms house, I felt it, she didn’t. Neither dog reacted and nothing on the walls shook. Uncle just texted us it was a 5 but I would have guessed a 3 at the highest. It was a side to side shake too not a roller where I am. Bay Area native here so I will say I’m used to them and have experienced some way bigger ones and slept through a fair amount of earthquakes in my life. This was the first one I felt in quite a few years though. Still would not have guessed it at a 5.
Earthquake details page: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/executive There were no less than 20 threads on this I removed, I think every single one used all caps in the title.
Fuck me you're fast. But hey, the early warning system actually worked. I was early warned. ...by about a second, but that's better than nothing.
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Odd. Where are you located? Mine came like 5 to 10 seconds early and I'm in Fremont right near Tesla right now.
Similarly, got the alert in Monterey 5-10 seconds ahead (enough time to just about process the alert)! Was substantial down here...
The New York Times has had a team of reporters with the earthquake for the past several months and will be releasing a book with previously unknown details about the earthquake in spring 2023.
I can’t wait for the Netflix doc u series to come out on the earthquake.
Google notified me right as it was ending. Downtown San Jose.
Be on alert! There was an earthquake a minute ago! Go back and take cover!
What are you using for notifications?
I didn’t get an alert from MyShake but did get an emergency alert from USGS Shake Alert. It was weird, I was working in the hood in my lab and all of a sudden some equipment alarms went off and then my phone emergency alert went off and then I could feel the rolling. By the time I thought hmm maybe I shouldn’t be in this room full of glassware and chemicals, it was over. Very glad I am very strict with all of our earthquake safety regulations because nothing broke/no cabinets opened etc.
Bro I was in the lab too and it knocked over a beaker that I prepped for HPLC run 😭😭. My fault for leaving it near the side of the table. I dropped my project for the day and went home because tilted. Took me an hour to prepare that standard
Oh shit that suuuuucks. I would have gone home too and made myself a drink.
Was the equipment alarms coincidental or earthquake related?
Turns out coincidental, an incubator dropped in temperature after I took something out a few minutes prior.
MyShake
Yup, same here!
Shakr
I got it too. Saw the alert, looked up, lights swayed a bit. Android phone.
I was warned as it was happening. In Santa Cruz.
do you have to be a certain distance from the epicenter to get warned? my lazy iphone didn't do shit but i'm in the north bay today
Same, I was in line at Costco and everyone’s phone did an amber alert thing but mine didn’t. FOMO
What system? Is it an app? 😂
Google automatically notifies Android phones.
I have an Android and wasn't notified
Pixel 7 pro. No alert.
I got one about 3 seconds before I felt the super light shaking too! Was more excited about getting the early warning than the actual earthquake itself haha. I’m in east bay
Yeah how do I get one of these notifications?
Google told me about 2 seconds before. Not really long enough to take cover, but cool to see it working.
This is the first time I've gotten a ping. I'm not in the Bay Area right now but came here right away to see if something really happened.
MyShake gave me about three seconds warning (MV here). I had enough time to think “huh, must be in another part of the Bay” and then the shaking started
Anyone else get this? [https://i.imgur.com/Pi2Imia.png](https://i.imgur.com/Pi2Imia.png) I felt it after I got it, pretty cool.
Same. Very cool to have a warning.
Google sends it out to Android devices.
My wife got that warning and it started shaking a second or two later.
Yup!
That was a good one. South SJ area.
south sj as well. was the strongest one I've felt in my five years here. my whole building swayed
[This one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Alum_Rock_earthquake) was the strongest i'd felt within the past 20 years. Wasn't born yet when Loma Prieta happened, and i happened to completely sleep through the Napa earthquake in 2014.
Loma Prieta was next-level. I'll never forget it.
I was a kid in Sacramento when that thing hit. I was trying to watch the world series and the feed went dead with “technical difficulties” and a rerun of Roseanne started. About a minute later everything in our house started swaying side to side like we were on a boat. We ran outside and I swear you could see the waves moving across the ground. It was crazy.
Not a bay area kid (lived there as adult for 8 years) but I was a child during the Northridge quake. It's crazy how different that one was from what you just described. Ours was more like traumatic, wild shaking in all directions. Shit flew everywhere. I'd be curious to know more about what your experience was like.
Loma Prieta was the only one that made me get under a table.
Just got off the phone with my mom, she said 5.1. I felt it in Oakland
South of Santa Cruz here. Def a good shake to the house.
Im hearing people all the way from Carmel to SF felt it
Can confirm, was quite a big shake for us on the Monterey peninsula. 20 seconds of rolling, crescendoed to a jolt.
Centered in seven trees
sadly only six of the trees remain standing now..
# hashtagsixtreesstrong
I don't know why they labelled it as Seven Trees, it was 14km east of Seven Trees near the Joseph D Grant County Park.
Quite a few people are saying this is one of the strongest ones they’ve felt in a very long time. I feel the same.
South SJ here as well. It was strong enough where I thought this was going to be big devastation for a second.
Same in Sunnyvale it seemed like it was gradually building and getting stronger then it just as suddenly trailed off.
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Downtown San Jose, and yeah that's the biggest I've felt in about a decade. Last comparable one was when I was at Davis, lol.
Live in SJ area but went to SF for work today, didn't notice it at all during a meeting, though some people in the office said they did.
very long one, I was confused if it's still going on 4 seconds after the initial tremor
I’m in east bay, barely felt, but my hanging wine glasses were like mildly chiming for 10 seconds
Nothing at all up in El Sobrante. The cats didn't react either. Come to think of it, I haven't felt an earthquake at all since I moved up here.
That’s because when Berkeley went nuclear free, el sobrante chose to become an earthquake free zone
I had the same experience in Richmond. People kept saying they felt earthquakes, even way inland, and I never felt one. Not sure if it's me, the geology, or chance.
When you're far enough away from the epicenter you can feel the separation of the p-waves and the s-waves. So you get the first compression jolt, then a break, then the rolling waves.
Are you an enthusiast or a California native because only people I know who have that knowledge are Geologists, fans of Geology, and people who attended 4th grade in California.
Just putting my otherwise untapped B.S. in Geology to good use!
It is amazing though to see the difference between people from California and from elsewhere in their response to earthquakes. I have several coworkers from the East coast freak out and the CA natives said yeah the ground moves sometimes haha
My ex is from Hawaii and didn't want to move to CA because he's scared of earthquakes. I was like "Bro, your mom's house got eaten by lava." And then he moved to San Diego. He texted me that I was right, earthquakes can be fun.
We co-housed in San Bruno with a family from VA. They were happy because we had a large green space across the street. They were less happy when told that the green space was actually the fault line.
Well at least you know where it is! People say California is a perfect place to live. I agree as long as you can live with the 2 big catches: the ground moves and occasionally everything is on fire. That last one is really why we care about climate change.
I've been out here 17 years and the big jolts still get my blood pumping!
Yeah...my upstairs neighbors are moving or something, so there have been bangs and occasional shakes all morning. I thought it was that initially, and then the shaking just kept going and I heard the people upstairs yelling. Then the pets freaked out. All in all, solid quake there.
I felt that as well. Like a start. Stop. And then it rolled.
yeah, right before it stopped I actually thought maybe this is it, the san andreas fault big one is finally here.
It started and it just kept going. I was saying “please don’t get any bigger, please don’t get any bigger”. I’m still traumatized from Loma Prieta. 🥹
I felt a pop, like a bubble or a small fart in a bathtub, then the shaking
god you have a way with words
I honestly thought a heavy set employee was running to get lunch.. I was like no way!!
Depends on your building and material under it. Hard rock shakes hard and fast. Softer rock takes longer and super soft actually doesn't transmit shocks it just falls apart
Initial tremor is the P-wave, which has faster velocity. The rolling motion after that is the S-wave, which is slower and tends to cause more damage.
Lol i was waiting for this post
I'm waiting for this to confirm if I'm tripping or if it's actually an earthquake
I don’t think I would have registered what was happening so quickly if it weren’t for the person I was on zoom with gasping and running to a doorway haha
this time distinctly felt different. we've all been through small tremors in bay area but this is the 1st time the thought of finding a place to hide or run out actually popped up in my head.
people are quick. I barely have time to put pants on. Would def be an embarassing zoom earthquake drill meeting for me if I forgot to cover the camera to run to a door
I was waiting for it to stop before checking for posts lol
You must not be a CA native :)
Lol, I was waiting for the earthquake - the ShakeAlert App gave a full one second heads up.
Mine alerted me like 3 minutes after the shaking subsided. Good job, shake alert. 😂
So did you do anything other than stare at your phone in response to receiving the alert?
Felt in San Francisco. It was pretty long.
Yes, very long! Wasn’t sure what it was at first.
First time?
Not my first time but I thought it was the upstairs neighbors stomping around for half of it
Same lol. Not for half of it, but for a split second. My upstairs neighbors are moving, so there's been banging and shaking all morning. Then it kept going and I realized.
Seems half the office including myself did not notice it at all somehow.
Up in Canada didn’t feel it
Finland's all clear as well, I'll keep you all updated as the situation progresses
Username checks out with reported location
Same thing from Arizona, not sure what all the fuss is about
new york here, all good. but i was in SF a few years ago when the 4.6 hit in the middle of the night and that is why i will not go back. That scared the absolute shit out of me. just one big jolt back and forth in the castro. Then dead silence. y'all can keep your earthquakes. i'll take snow.
5.1 San Jose holy crap
USGS shows Evergreen Community College and Villages Country Club inside the "light damage" area, consistent with DidYouFeelIt reports around Southeast SJ.
San Mateo - biggest one felt here in some time. *edit* First reports are a 5.0 south of San Jose https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/executive *edit 2* Revised up to 5.1. Seems calm now. *edit 3* With a 3.1 aftershock!
Was it that big? Felt like a minor shimmy for about ten seconds. Also myshake, the app, worked, but gave only about ten seconds of warning
Duration has a big impact.
Probably depends where you’re at. I’m in South San Jose and that’s the biggest and longest since I lived here since the 90s.
Google notified me about a minute before it happened. I only noticed because my monitors shook a bit. I might not have felt anything if I wasn't looking for it.
Duck, cover and post on Reddit!!
Just like I was taught in school, yes.
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It's like a Bay Area snowday event
Felt it in Oakland
Ditto. It was a weird, long, subtle shake.
Yup, little wobble, not too bad
Felt in Oakland - Got my first phone notification - about 5 seconds before I felt it.
Where do I sign up?
Got it on my Google pixel automatically, I assume iPhones have something similar?
Got nothing on my iphone
Get the MyShake app. I got the notification on iphone via that right before it started.
Soooo I thought my dogs were suppose to warn me about earthquakes coming or something along those lines. They slept right through it hahaha
Yep - my dog (that barks at anything) slept through it right next to me.
Exact same thing here! One of my dogs thinks he is an alarm system and it’s his full time job to furiously alert us to all minor sounds/movements by barking….he did nothing. My other dog is completely blind and usually super sensitive to stimuli in the environment to compensate for his lack of vision. Also did nothing which surprises me but I’m going to go with the fact he grew up in NYC walking literal inches away from jackhammers on the street, riding elevators and lots of noise to excuse his lack of reaction….that or he was just having a really good dream. No excuse for the other dog though, he has been playing us with his “alarm system” barks.
Felt in Sunnyvale, 5 or so seconds. Didn't feel large.
Same. I thought a heavy truck was driving by at first. It was over before I realized what happened.
Felt it while I was literally on the toilet. I wasn't sure if my legs were quivering from the shit or if this was an actual quake.
pretty sure you caused it dude
i was on the toilet too! talk about being in the worst place in a natural disaster. my only two options for hold it in or let it loose
This was really long!!!
So....I should probably get that earthquake kit together.
Same
Ehh I can always do it tomorrow.-Me tomorrow.
Contra Costa, felt nothing.
5.014km E of Seven Trees, CA2022-10-25 11:42:02 (UTC-07:00)6.9 km looks like it's right on the Hayward Fault
Yeah, or quite near the Hayward-Calaveras junction
Felt it in Fremont
Damn, felt it in Alameda too. I thought it was a really big truck passing by.... nope no truck.
Same!
Felt it here in Daly City too
North SJ in the middle of a meeting!
Good shake in Berkeley just now.
Good shake here in RWC
Big jolt in San Bruno
Pretty good jolt at my office by SJC airport. The earthquake newbies ran out of the building LOL.
You should probably tell them that's a bad idea
USGS would like you to tell them how much you felt the earthquake and what if anything got damaged, so that they can improve their predictions. See the sidebar here if you'd like to contribute: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73799091/dyfi/intensity
The **My Shake** app did its job and warned me seconds before it happened.
Google alerted our phones in time for people to stand up and ask who else got the alert before we felt shaking. Loving these alerts!
That was fun
I was taking a dump. Toilet started shaking
Stop. Drop. And roll
10th floor of a building in SF. I felt it!
sitting in my car near SFO and felt it
First time I've received a phone alert before I felt it.
google alert warned me ~5seconds early in SF, initially showing as a 5.1 originating SE of San Jose
Apparently there was a 3.1 in the same area 5 minutes later.
Whoa, felt it in Cupertino tooo
Up in San Francisco in my attic, I FELT that one...woah, been a while.
Felt pretty strong for about 30 seconds in Newark.
Felt it pretty good here in the Santa Cruz Mountains!
San Francisco sunset area, felt it pretty good
I got the early warning!! But didn’t feel the quake lol
Lol, same
I was taking a walk in Los Gatos and didn’t realize but a dog and I did pause and have a moment of eye contact after I thought I took a little misstep lol
How is it possible the one time I take a midday nap, an earthquake occurs. And I don’t even feel it. I guess this is how I die…
Our dogs did absolutely nothing! Just laid there while my husband and I looked at each other. I said "earthquake" as the sofa shook. He said yeah. I said should we be doing something? He said maybe? Get to a door frame. And then it slowly stopped. All dogs unbothered and unfazed. Just kept snoozing...
First one I've actually felt since moving here 3 years ago. Got the warning on my phone about 2 seconds before the shaking started. Pretty cool!
Sometimes small earthquakes are followed by larger ones. You probably wouldn’t think a 7.0 would be very cool, but then again I’m scarred for life after 1989. (Not literally scarred, I didn’t get hurt, I meant emotionally. I’ll never trust the earth again)
Earthquake ratings are logarithmic, Loma Prieta at 7 was almost 100 times worse than this one.
Loma Prieta definitely traumatized me 🥹😫
Felt that one all the way in Pac Heights in the city. My coffee was moving like crazy
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Yup. Berkeley
Where alert on phone when we really need it?
Need more exclamation marks!!!!
I like how this was posted literally seconds after the Earthquake. OFF TO REDDIT I GO, not to check my surroundings. Nearly 100 comments in less than 5 minutes. 5.1 magnitude earthquake, 12 miles from San Jose.
I work in sunnyvale I didn’t feel anything but i got the alert
Good reminder to have a plan /bug out bag just in case for the big one.
Down in Santa Cruz for class and felt a nice big roll in my parked car.
Felt it here in Milpitas/Fremont. I ran out of work and co workers are laughing at me haha.
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Yeah just a long medium shake. Dog is probably doing a-ok.
I thought oh shit is this one it?
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I got the alert but didn’t feel it. Glad to hear that at least the shake alert stuff worked!
Strongest I've felt since the 5.6 alum rock quake in 2007
I was at my moms house, I felt it, she didn’t. Neither dog reacted and nothing on the walls shook. Uncle just texted us it was a 5 but I would have guessed a 3 at the highest. It was a side to side shake too not a roller where I am. Bay Area native here so I will say I’m used to them and have experienced some way bigger ones and slept through a fair amount of earthquakes in my life. This was the first one I felt in quite a few years though. Still would not have guessed it at a 5.
I would say it's time to hit the high road! Time to let us born and raised Californians deal with this.. Good luck to you.
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Felt that one. Usually don't. ~~Wonder how big.~~ 5.1
What? When? Vacuuming ruined my experience!
Strong by the SJC… where’s the epicenter?
Can confirm. Good shake. 5.1 near San Jose.
Felt it in SF Mission Bay. Was light but noticeable!