Althouse: Earthquake.

August 24, 2014

Earthquake.

Did you feel it?

20 comments:

SteveR said...: No, but the sky came tumbling down, a tumbling down.; 8/24/14, 10:16 AM
steve uhr said...: Not in MN but was woken by a damaging woodpecker.; 8/24/14, 10:18 AM
Ben Calvin said...: Lots of damage in Napa but only shaking in SF.; 8/24/14, 10:33 AM
Peter Stevens said...: Yes. It woke me up, but there wasn't any damage where I live (Mountain View).; 8/24/14, 10:49 AM
MathMom said...: My sister felt it but nothing falling off shelves. Her friend in Vallejo had things flying off shelves and a crack in the chimney.; 8/24/14, 11:08 AM
YoungHegelian said...: ....and a crack in the chimney.

Jeezo-peep, how'd he have the time to write all those comments here & still end up in your friend's chimney?!; 8/24/14, 11:12 AM
Original Mike said...: "Not in MN but was woken by a damaging woodpecker."

We woke up the same way this morning. A pair of woodpeckers are trying to disassemble my next-door-neighbor's house.; 8/24/14, 11:35 AM
retail lawyer said...: Woke me up at 3:21 in Redwood City, 25 miles south of San Francisco. Very suspenseful as you wonder if it will get worse or diminish. Then you wonder where the epicenter was, knowing its no big deal if it was close - or LA is obliterated if it was in LA. I didn't check. I comforted the dog and went back to sleep.; 8/24/14, 11:46 AM
buwaya said...: Was awake in San Francisco.
Felt very mild.
No damage.; 8/24/14, 11:55 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Not in MN but was woken by a damaging woodpecker."

I was woken by a squirrel running across the roof. You know how loud that sounds when the house is quiet and you're in a room directly under the roof, with no attic space above you?

For years, I thought it must be a man up there, running around. How did he get there? What was he doing?; 8/24/14, 12:26 PM
CWJ said...: No, but I'm in Budapest at the moment.; 8/24/14, 12:26 PM
CWJ said...: Althouse, no squirrel but the hotel elevator is doing its best to stand-in for same.

We used to have Fox Squirrels scamper across our roof. I know what you mean. The 2 pounders could really put out some noise.; 8/24/14, 12:31 PM
Unknown said...: Relatives in Florida: You feel that?
Me 60 miles from Napa: Nope. Nothin'; 8/24/14, 1:30 PM
MathMom said...: YoungHegalian -

:o)

Maybe he lives in that chimney?; 8/24/14, 1:59 PM
JohnG said...: Same experience as 'retail lawyer' above; I'm also in Redwood City. I wasn't here for the '89 quake, so this was by far the biggest shake I've ever experienced.; 8/24/14, 2:03 PM
Anthony said...: I'm about 45 miles due south; it didn't even wake up the dog, much less the humans in the house. But my Facebook feed blew up - people were awakened as far south as San José.; 8/24/14, 5:51 PM
FullMoon said...: Felt it. Too lazy to get out of bed to see if hanging lamp was swinging, which is usual way of confirmation.
Couple of years ago, local TV station asked for snapshots of damage to be emailed to station. Took a couple of hours for them to realize people were staging damage to try and one up the other guy.A lot of teen age girls bedrooms, which always look earthquaked anyway.; 8/24/14, 6:04 PM
Michael said...: I was in a high rise on the Peninsula during the Loma Linda quake. Boy howie.; 8/24/14, 6:10 PM
The Godfather said...: Look guys, California is destined to be an island (again), it's just a question of when.

Wisconsin is waiting for the glacier to return. It's just a question of when.

Florida will be a shallow sea (again), it's just a question of when.

North Carolina is waiting for the boom times when people start smoking cigarettes again. It's just a question of when.; 8/24/14, 9:22 PM
Ken Mitchell said...: Yup. I was playing World of Warcraft (what else does a 64-year-old married man do at 3:20 AM?) and felt a little shake, north and south. Lasted about 2 seconds, but since there are no earthquake faults close to Sacramento, CA, I knew it was a bigger shaker somewhere nearby.

I stayed up long enough for the USGS earthquake page to show it, and then went to bed.

In California, earthquake insurance is a government monopoly, and the California Earthquake Authority has been running a LOT of radio advertising for it. Since anything big enough to cause damage here in Sacramento will devastate San Francisco, I've held off buying it. But I hope the folks in Napa had decided to buy it.; 8/24/14, 11:11 PM