Didn’t feel anything in the Bay. Do we have PSers in Fresno or Bakersfield?
That sounds so scary @Weeivy73..I’m glad you and your family are okay!Glad to hear there were no pricescoper injuries or incidents. Having lived through the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, it always triggers a few scary memories!
My ex husband and I were sitting on a Cafe on the big on moment. It was a multi story concrete block style modern building and we heard this huge rumble coming and it just shoved us off our seats, plates of food and hot cups OD coffee went flying, we dived under the table and then once it had finally stopped we raced out and ran to our car. We had 3 children at school that afternoon and our youngest had just started his first day a week earlier!
Sitting in traffic on the way to school and there were some pretty major aftershocks and it is the weirdest feeling, like your on a waterbed in your car, but the waterbed is a raging whitewater rapid!
I'm praying that there are no more major aftershocks in California and that everything will settle down and noone will be injured xx
Oh Nala! Take care hun!Well we just had another one! We are ok! It’s a 6.9
keep sturdy walking shoes/ bootsWe felt the one this evening much more than yesterday. It lasted about a minute and the water in our pool was surging back and forth from end to end with huge amounts sloshing over the sides. Our chandeliers were swinging about like crazy. Fortunately it doesn't seem like we had any damage, although it's dark now outside, so will have to do a better inspection in the morning.
Ridgecrest, the epicenter of the quake, is in the high Mojave Desert about 75 miles East of Bakersfield. The 75 miles includes about 40 miles of a 6,000 ft high mountain range. The fact the quake had enough power to move that mountain range and still get to us amazes me, we are insignificant compared to this.
We just got another small after shock, those poor people in Ridgecrest must be going thru hell.
An aftershock would be preferable to the big one. But no one knows if the last one was the real deal or the foreshock. We usually take quakes lightly in So Cal. My hubby is a Ca baby and is usually chill. Last night really freaked him out tho. I heard the first 36 hours are the most active ones so I’m just laying low.My brother lives in San Diego and he said eek! but he's fine.. Crazy times, I read that the area will have probably another aftershock in the 6 range.