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12-22-2003, 01:33 PM
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Anyone felt the earthquake? I am across the street from San Francisco City Hall and felt it, saw my blinds swaying back and forth. I was thinking I had way too much eggnog....but it was true. Confirmed it on USGS website as well.
Apparently, the quake happened a few miles from the Hearst Castle. |
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12-22-2003, 01:46 PM
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I felt it, ... I worked @ KLA-Tencor in Milpitas, CA and we felt the earthquake - swaying back and forth lasted about 30+ seconds, fortunately no shaking strong enough to knock things off the cabinets!
KGO Radio in San Francisco also felt this quake!
FYI: From the USGS website
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A strong earthquake occurred at 19:15:56 (UTC) on Monday, December 22, 2003. The magnitude 6.5 event has been located in CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 8 km ( 5 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)
Distances 11 km (6 miles) NE (49°) from San Simeon, CA
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Definitely the ultimate sub!!!
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12-22-2003, 02:14 PM
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Drudge is practically in hysterics over it, the guy has some kind of earthquake fetish... yet he lives in Florida.
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12-22-2003, 02:32 PM
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I only heard about it by reading the AP wire. Even though the report said it could be felt in downtown Los Angeles (where I work) as a "gentle, swaying motion" I felt nothing.
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12-22-2003, 03:04 PM
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Anyone who went to Cal Poly knows how close this was to Diablo Grande nuclear power plant, which is potentially scary, but apparently, unaffected.
I work about 150 miles +- from the epicenter, and didnt feel anything. Musta been moving around too much in my office.... 
I am sure it was felt here in town though, just not by me.
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12-22-2003, 03:07 PM
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My wife is in San Bernadino and around Lake Arrowhead and didn't feel anything there either.
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12-22-2003, 04:18 PM
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I work in Oakland and unknowingly felt it; I was sitting donw and wondered why I was swaying back and forth for awhile--thought I was getting dizzy!  I believe there was another, smaller quake last week in the Bay Area as well.
Not much to get worked up about--considering the horrific SF quake in 1989, today's was pretty minor.
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12-22-2003, 04:42 PM
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Thoughts and prayers to those who may have been affected. I live in West L.A. and didn't feel anything. But I lived through the 94 Northridge quake, and the 89 S.F. quake (grew up in NorCal) so I'm an "old hand" at these things...not that I wanted to be one...
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Not much to get worked up about--considering the horrific SF quake in 1989, today's was pretty minor.
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Well it's nothing major for those not near it, but 6.5 is pretty devastating to anyone within 50 miles radius of the epicenter. The Northridge one measured 6.8 and was devastating. I don't remember if the '89 quake surpassed 7. |
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12-22-2003, 04:51 PM
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I don't remember if the '89 quake surpassed 7.
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It didn't! From USGS Link #4 ...
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... October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (P.d.t.), a magnitude 6.9 (moment magnitude; surface-wave magnitude, 7.1) earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions.
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