Wow! We just had a sizable tremor! N Bay, San Francisco.

[TomInTib]

Damn, that was the first one I have ever experienced.

Damn.

We just had a call from SF and it happened there, too.

[feminazi]

1. i'm in san jose and i felt it

*

[Duer 157099]

2. Ditto up in Santa Rosa - I'm guessing 4+

[Duer 157099]

3. 4.7 prelim

Magnitude 4.7 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 8:08:12 PM (PDT)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 3:08:12 (UTC)
Distance from Glen Ellen, CA - 5 km (3 miles) W (268 degrees)
Rohnert Park, CA - 9 km (6 miles) E (79 degrees)
Cotati, CA - 11 km (7 miles) ENE (69 degrees)
Santa Rosa, CA - 14 km (9 miles) SE (133 degrees)
San Francisco City Hall, CA - 67 km (42 miles) NNW (347 degrees)
Coordinates 38 deg. 21.8 min. N (38.363N), 122 deg. 35.4 min. W (122.589W)
Depth 9.1 km (5.7 miles)
Location Quality Good
Location Quality Parameters Nst=250, Nph=250, Dmin=2 km, Rmss=0.15 sec, Erho=0.2 km, Erzz=0.4 km, Gp=36 degrees
Event ID# nc40187964
Additional Information 2-degree map
Topo map centered at earthquake (This link takes you offsite).

[Webster Green]

4. We felt it in West Sonoma County...

Nice ride!

[marmar]

5. As much as I love the Bay Area...

and I love it more than any other region of these United States, fear of the BIG ONE keeps me from going west.

[Selatius]

6. Watch, in 30 years California will be struck by the "Big One"

If Republicans are in power when it hits, California is screwed like Louisiana and Mississippi were screwed, except Republicans would be even more gleeful as they watch the "left coast" burn and crumble.

[Redstone]

16. But they won't like losing Lockheed/Martin!

Redstone

[Gman]

7. Revised (?) 4.4...

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 4.4 (Light)
# Date-Time Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 03:08:12 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
# Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 8:08:12 PM
= local time at epicenter
Location 38.363°N, 122.589°W
Depth 9.1 km (5.7 miles)
Region NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
# Distances 5 km (3 miles) W (268°) from Glen Ellen, CA
# 9 km (6 miles) E (79°) from Rohnert Park, CA
# 11 km (7 miles) ENE (69°) from Cotati, CA
# 14 km (9 miles) SE (133°) from Santa Rosa, CA
# 67 km (42 miles) NNW (347°) from San Francisco City Hall, CA
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles)
Parameters Nst=250, Nph=250, Dmin=2 km, Rmss=0.15 sec, Gp= 36°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=3
# Source California Integrated Seismic Net
# USGS/ Caltech/ CGS/ UCB/ UCSD/ UNR
Event ID nc40187964

* This is a computer-generated message -- this event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/nc40187964.php

[Cleita]

8. Hey guys. Keep safe. Make sure you have a lot of batteries

and other things you can light like candles.

[Autumn Colors]

10. Light candles???

I didn't think you were supposed to light matches or lighters or anything like that after a big earthquake because if a natural gas pipe is damaged, the entire street will go up.

[Cleita]

13. Candles are safer than lamps with oil.

Once the earthquakes die down and you start running out of batteries on your flashlights and lamps, candles are handy to have until the P.G & E. get electricity going again. I have a bunch of flashlight types of lamps that I keep for electric outtages and they work for earthquakes too. I also have candles when there are no more batteries working. Worked really good for me in the last earthquake we had a few years back.

[DistressedAmerican]

17. They do have those flashlights that you shake to charge up.

Not sure how well they work, But, it always seemed a practicle thing for an emergency kit. I think they have similar hand cranked deals with bulit in radios as well. Good combo.

[Dead_Parrot]

31. The cranked radio+lights are well worth getting

Don't cost too much, and if there's a "big one" you'll have light and access to information for as long as it takes.

[originalpckelly]

14. Plus, candles have a tendency to fall off during earthquakes...

and cause fires. EEEK!!!

[originalpckelly]

19. You can see where the fault line is on the google maps sat view:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.3632+-122.5893

[Cleita]

22. By the time you get around to the candles you are holding

them in your hand and the earthquakes are nodding off towards morning. What I wonder is why do most earthquakes happen after dark?

[LeftCoast]

9. Wheeeee! That was fun.

I like the small ones. :)

[TomInTib]

20. I almost wish it would happen again.

Next time, I will know what the heck is happening.

[LeftCoast]

25. Well, if you stick around the Bay Area for long...

I'm sure there will be more. :)

I grew up in SoCal, so I'm quite used to them. There's only been one earthquake that scared me. The Landers / Big Bear quake in 1992 was incredibly powerful. Shook the snot out of my apartment. The pool sloshed out about a foot or so of water. My fishtank lost about 4 inches or so of water, but thankfully didn't fall over. Then a few hours later we had the huge aftershock. Only reason more people don't know about that quake was that, thankfully it was centered pretty far from major habitation. My town, Riverside (blech) was one of the closest large cities.

[niyad]

56. I remember the landers quake--woke to the first one, thought I had been

dreaming, turned on the tv--nothing. called the dispatch desk to ask if we had had an earthquake, went back to sleep. woke just before the second one and thought about friends getting married that day, thinking "if You didn't want them to get married, wouldn't a simple NO have been sufficient"?

listening to all the talk of a potential "big one" realized that my emergency stock contained less than half a case of wine!!! forunately, since it was SoCal, was able to rectify that small oversight immediately.

have felt a number of tremors and quakes in my years, including a couple in colorado (many people don't realize there is a fault line running under cheyenne mountain)

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. We had one years ago in Indiana

It felt like just a single pulse in the ground. You could definitely feel it, but it lasted only for a brief moment.

Be careful all my NCal DU friends!!!

[dhill926]

34. I remember that...

we were living in Wilbur (no jokes please...). Felt like a car hit the house.

[laststeamtrain]

12. KGO is taking calls from people in Sonoma County

http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp

[Duer 157099]

29. I'll tune them in -- I had 960 THE QUAKE on -- not one word

so I switched to 1350 a Santa Rosa station -- again, not ONE word!

So, I came to DU. Plenty of words :)

[Redstone]

15. Your first one? How long you been living there? I've felt three or four

in California, and that was only when I was traveling there on business.

Redstone

[TomInTib]

23. They don't happen here, Redstone.

We are North across the Bay on solid rock.

Our house is over 100 years old and has only one quake crack.

[schrodingers_cat]

43. So glad you got to feel one, Tom!!!....I live 1/2 block from a major fault

was born and raised in California, though, so I've felt many. I've got to say that this one was a pretty good one - have you checked the ABAG site? Here's the reading on my nearby seismogram....

http://quake.usgs.gov/waveforms/helicorder/CPI_VDZ_NC_--_00_22221212.html


I was doing a reasonable impersonation of the dog across the street, wagging it's whole body, right when the earthquake hit, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the china cabinet was rattling and the floors creaking and the walls popping. I was completely baffled until my hubby started laughing his head off!


(P.S....that yacht joke smells as bad as a seal's belch - no offense ;) )

[TomInTib]

49. That yacht thing was no joke.

Went for an earthquake readiness seminar - www.getready94920.org - and that was the general concensus.

Only in Tiburon.

[NV Whino]

18. Damn. Missed it.

I thought it was the cats running through the house.

Napa Valley.

[davidinalameda]

21. I felt it

this is the first one I've felt in years!

the kitties were completely unfazed by it

[TomInTib]

24. Our animals were completely non-plussed.

But then one of them is a Golden Retriever who doesn't get excited about much and one is a psycho-killer Tuxedo cat who was probably thinking about all the prey the quake would flush and is probably, therefore, greatly disappointed.

[EFerrari]

26. My cats are all still watching the perimeter. n/t

[TomInTib]

30. That made me laugh right out loud.

That was quite an experience for this Texas boy.

We have this GetReady94920 thing going on in Tiburon.

Consists mainly of "Get on the yacht and onto the Bay".

[EFerrari]

33. Lol!

:rofl:

[davidinalameda]

48. both of my cats are tuxedos

the only thing they hunt are bugs

[EFerrari]

51. Tuxedos have their own way of managing.

And they are excellent managers.

lol

[BuddhaGirl]

27. I felt it in Mill Valley

rattled my kitchen windows pretty badly!

[TomInTib]

36. That reminds me..

we should all get together one of these beautiful days.

[BuddhaGirl]

58. Absolutely!

That would be great :-)

[MzNov]

28. Wow. Congratulations. An earthquake virgin.

hope you're OK and not too shaken up.

My cats don't even lift an eyelid anymore, but in the '89 quake they hid in one bedroom for 2 weeks! I had to feed them on my ironing board they were so freaked. I lived in the east bay then.

:bounce:

[TomInTib]

32. Funny, I was just going to make a post reading..

"I lost my virginity tonight".

The cats on the ironing board is a great mental image.

[lonestarnot]

35. Damn is everyone ok?

[EFerrari]

37. Looks like it. Damn! That was really unsettling.. n/t

[lonestarnot]

40. No wonder I am so fucking grouchy tonight.

[EFerrari]

46. The Earth is shaking off the sign.

I can't blame her.

[lonestarnot]

47. Neither do I.

[TomInTib]

38. Oh yeah, but this Gulf Coast native is mighty impressed.

It was a great experience for me.

That momentary realization that the Planet had just shuddered.

[lonestarnot]

41. I've never experienced one yet. Don't know that I care to do so. I will

live it through your experience.

[gristy]

39. hmmm. Missed it. I think I was driving

:(

[lonestarnot]

42. Stay out from under the bridge, don't care which one, the troll could get

you.

[Swamp Rat]

44. I hope y'all will be OK!

I'm from New Orleans and I experienced a 5.5 earthquake in Salt Lake City a little over 20 yrs ago - scared the SHIT outta me... more than a hurricane! :scared:

[zulchzulu]

45. Make sure to have a Quake Pack ready

I used to live in SF and made it through a few tremors...some mushy, some sharp, some rolling... Make sure you have a pack ready just in case...

From a Canadian site:

First aid kit and instruction booklet.

Shelter- a plastic tarp, a small tent, emergency ("space") blankets, or even some large garbage bags.

Water- at least four litres of water per person, per day, in tight-lidded non-breakable containers. That's at least 12 litres per person for a three-day supply.

Keep a supply of water purification tablets in your emergency kit. Water also can be made safe to drink by using four drops of liquid household bleach in 41/2 litres of clear water or 10 drops in 41/2 litres of cloudy water. Replace stored tap water at least every six months.

If the water is still running, fill a bathtub and other containers. Remember, there's water available too in a hot water tank and toilet reservoir.

Food- keep a suply of non-perishable food handy, such as canned and dehydrated food, dried fruit and canned juices. Rotate periodically to keem them fresh. Remember a manual can opener.

Flashlight and spare batteries. Keep the flashlight near your bed. Batteries should be separate in your kit.

Battery AM/FM radio and spare batteries, stored seperately in waterproof bags.

Essential medication and supplies for infants, elderly persons and those with special needs. Keep at least a one-week supply in your emergency kit. Include copies of prescriptions for your medicine and glasses.

Personal toiletry items- toilet tissue, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.

Class ABC fire extinguisher. Keep it in a handy location in your home, after testing according to directions.

Wrench (crescent or pipe) to turn off natural gas. Keep it in a handy place or in your emergency kit.

Shoes- heavy enough to protect from broken glass and other debris. Keep them handy, wherever you are.


Other items you may wish to include:

gloves, outdoor/winter clothing

waterproof matches and candles- but don't use them if there are gas leaks or spilled flammable liquids

money, including coins (25 cents) for telephones, because banks and credit cards may not be usable

a sleeping bag for each member of your family

garbage bags

a portable toilet

rope, heavy tape

a crowbar or prybar

a gasoline generator and a rated extension cord

earthquake buddies for children (eg: stuffed animal, doll game)

evacuation pack for each person (see below)

vehicle pack for each vehicle (see below)

office pack (see below)

Evacuation pack

The items in this list are in addition to the supplies in your home emergency kit. They should be kept in a separate pack (eg., in a tote bag) which each person would take individually if you have to evacuate.

Remember packs for small children, the elderly, the handicapped in your home. The evacuation pack should be stored in a secure place with your other emergency supplies.

food- dehydrated, dried fruit, high-energy bars, etc- enough for 72 hours

first aid kit and booklets

survival manual

flashlight and batteries

money, including coins

photographs of your family, friends

gloves and other warm clothing


http://www.pep.bc.ca/hazard_preparedness/prepare_now/prepare.html

[TomInTib]

52. Thank you for sending that.

I plan on travelling light if the situation ever arises.

[Union Label]

50. If you think that was big

Wait until you go through a big one, you haven't seen anything yet.:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

53. Thanks SO much for your good wishes, Union Label and

enjoy your stay at DU.

:hi:

[Union Label]

55. What did I say something wrong?

Are you mad at me for some reason? I just pointed out that 4.5 is NOT a very big quake, I don't even wake up unless they're at least a 5.0.

[TomInTib]

54. I didn't see it as "big" - just fun

I have experienced almost every other naturally cataclysmic event'

Blizzard, hurricanes, tornado, sandstorms, waterspouts, monsoons, landslide, avalanche, seen lightening strike two people on different occasions, B-52 runs - but I have never felt the Earth shudder all by Her OwnSelf.

[lonestarnot]

57. Why haven't I heard one word about this on any fucking MSM news? Not

one peep.

[oc2002]

59. god help you if its a big one, because FEMA sure wont.

your screwed if its a big disaster. your on your own.