Earthquake

By Anna
December 20th, 2006 @ 7:15 PM North Beach, San Francisco

Felt like a jolt here in North Beach. USGS report here. Epicenter, Berkeley. Neat! Got my adrenaline going.

12 Comments so far

  1. Ryan (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 7:27 pm

    It was fun! I normally live in SF but was visiting the girlfriend in berkeley (she is at work, so i get to surf the web). When i felt it i immediatly looked up where it was, cause it felt pretty big (although it only lasted for a few secons) and it was only about two miles from my girlfriends apartment.

    I love earthquakes, its feels like surfing a building. I was on the top floor, and it was shaking pretty good.

    Plus the more little ones we have release the pressure so things don’t go all 1906 on us (come on, planet earth, theres still 11 days left for you to hit that 100 year anniversary! you can do it!)

  2. joann Landers (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 7:32 pm

    Nothing in Willow Glen/San Jose

  3. jordan (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 7:44 pm

    Felt it here on Haight St. in SF. A very quick jolt but strong enough to shake my desk. When I realized the cat hadn’t jumped on it I knew there’d been a quake. More, more!

  4. tyler82 (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 8:18 pm

    I am in Sac right now, I thought I felt something (of course, living in CA you feel them almost everyday) but it wasn’t that major, obviously

  5. Karla (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 8:19 pm

    Here on Nob Hill my desk did a sway, but my boyfriend, who was standing, didn’t feel a thing.

  6. tyler82 (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 8:20 pm

    PS the 100 year anniversay of the ‘06 quake already happened earlier this year so come out of your cave lol :-)

  7. anna (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 8:39 pm

    April 18, 1906, 5:18 AM here

    October 1989 Loma Prieta, 5:04pm here

    I gotta say, Loma Prieta terrified me forever more- I used to “surf” the quakes but now I just am very relieved that there aren’t aftershocks

    This certainly isn’t earthquake weather.

  8. anna (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 8:53 pm

    Hey, this is cool - on the usgs site, you can post your experience of the earthquake and it’s added to a database of other reports. So for your zip, you can see the intensity ranking (assigned by the site after you answer the questionnaire). The Berkeley earthquake got a lot of user-submitted reports.

    http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/X51177042/ciim_stats_1.html

  9. mark (unregistered) on December 20th, 2006 @ 9:02 pm

    I felt it in Bernal Heights, a soft jolt and some vibration. By the time I entered my report at the “Did You Feel It?” site, 114 people had already reported!

  10. Gurpal Dosanjh (unregistered) on December 21st, 2006 @ 10:40 am

    There was an earthquake?? Dayum… i thought it was my neighbors going at it downstairs.

  11. Melanie (unregistered) on December 21st, 2006 @ 2:40 pm

    I live in South Berkeley and it felt like someone very large was picking up and shaking my house.

    It was fun but the cats didn’t like it!

    :)

  12. anna (unregistered) on December 22nd, 2006 @ 10:53 pm

    wow, another one!
    http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51177103.html


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