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5.6 Hallow's Eve Earthquake, CA (Calaveras Fault. East bay)

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A moderate earthquake occurred at 8:04:54 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.

It wasn't the Hayward fault, but on the same side of the bay and the next one over. Right outside San Jose, in East Foothills.
shampton

22 responses // 5.6 Hallow's Eve Earthquake, CA (Calaveras Fault. East bay)

  • i sure felt it...sat down in my living room and waited. it started out subtle, then grew. i just sat on the living room floor (2nd level) and braced myself in case it got stronger and glass started to break. anybody closer to the epicenter?
    shampton
  • joshuaheller
  • same here in Glen Park - I was up and ready to go outside from the 2nd floor... I'm thinking maybe it was the Great Pumpkin...
    klenga
  • That was awesome. A pretty long quake too. I'm here in Oakland.
    hollyg
  • Extremely strong in the Marina! Wowzzers!!
    Dolce
  • My fave part of the USGS site
    is the "wisdom of crowds" earthquake reporting. What's crazy is how many people do it -- 300+ reports already, just 30 minutes or so after the quake.
    sloan
  • Aftershocks
    continue even now. Yeah, I was one of those reports.
    dcsmitty
  • I immediately got my laptop and went to the site, clicked on the white square, and kept refreshing until the magnitude came in... impressive response time for the USGS site with the flood of traffic... was watching the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin special - it took a earthquake, but now I'm apparently among the 70% of Current viewers who watch TV with a laptop open...
    klenga
  • My roommate just got here from Philadelphia. You should see his face. Inner Richmond definitely felt it. My friend in San Jose is scare Sh**less.
    critter
  • I felt it in SF. The longer it went, the bigger I'm sure my eyes got. I first noticed the rumbling sound. Then the vibration. Then the tangible movement of the chair I was sitting in. Then the rattling of the things around me. Then it faded away the same way it arrived. Whew! I don't feel any of the aftershocks. My heart got racing for a minute there.
    cwhite
  • definitely felt the quake in the city! freaked me out. rattling lasted about 8 seconds
    chaos11
  • "Calaveras" means "skulls" in spanish.

    How fitting that the quake would occur on that fault, one day before halloween!

    spooooooooooky!
    adreyess
  • I can look forward to these when i move out to Cali
    Ice_cream_Man
  • It rocked the floor, walls and tables at our SF dinner venue for at least 3 minutes... actually the smoothest, rolling undulations I've experienced yet in a Bay Area earthquake.

    So smooth, in fact, my dinner company "wanted more action".
    joannaearl
  • I didn't feel a thing. I was eating dinner with my Dad on Van Ness and Pacific. All was nice and smooth.

    The benefits of bedrock and not landfill make a big difference.
    nordby7
  • I never was that bothered when I experienced them before, but that one was scary. It felt much bigger and lasted much longer. My whole kitchen was shaking. Must get one of those earthquake kits together
    SusanB
  • Before the recent wildfires they worded things this way and expect more......./////////////////////
    ...the predictive linguistics team at www.halfpasthuman.com talked more about what was coming after August of this year in the way of Diaspora - the dispersing/moving/forced migration of humans. While much of the language shift describes a global coastal event, the 'flavor' of Diaspora was specifically seen as different for a while in this temporal region:

    "What is very unusual about this growing [diaspora] is that the 'active participant' links within the array of emotional values previous instance, but rather [winds]. Further, the [winds] are supported by aspect/attribute sets describing [scrubbing clean (by/via) intense pressures]. Again, the inclination may be to assume that this [diaspora] is driven by [hurricanes], but if so, it will be [winds] rather than [storm surge] which will do the most damage, and is shown as initiating the [dispersion of peoples]. Again, this is [north American] geographic sub sets within the primary support aspect/attributes, and though the place name information is not meaningful, the descriptors all seem to add up in a general sense to a place [recognized/known (for) availing (a) life of leisure. Further descriptors go to the idea of [human caused lakes] as a local place marker. However, in many senses, it does not appear to matter just where the predicted point of most origination is placed, as the area described as damaged is very large. It is from the large [destruction/sweeping away] that the [diaspora] gets its origins. Also we note that this is an [evacuation] which evolves into a more or less permanent relocation of some numbers of people. There are supporting descriptor sets for the [diaspora] which include directly held, and cross linked references to the [dark night of the soul in the woods huddled wet around campfires, conditions miserable] as discussed in previous ALTA reports. Given the long lead time on the [dark night...] prediction it would seem that the causative events are likely on the large side, emotionally speaking and will manifest, as we have seen in the past, as a 'cascading' series of interconnected actions/reactions which sum up to a [large mess]."

    Yep, the LA fires mess has been wind-driven, and I guess when you start moving a million people around, that's diaspora for you. But, it's not over yet, and there's more to come. So, I watch the Southeast Desert develop and wonder if that's where the water aspect of Diaspora comes from. Seems to make sense, so we just have to watch and see what pops up over the winter there.
    twodee
  • I felt it in Glen Park. My bed started shaking yet strangely I was kind of indifferent to it. Since moving to California this would be the third Earthquake I've experienced and the first steady five-second plus rumbler.
    rmaisel
  • Definitely felt it over here in Milpitas. Eek.
    justher
  • I was playing a really old computer game about Japanese demons. For a second I illogically thought the quake was part of the game. I was really caught up.

    This one didn't feel like "rolling" or "swaying" for me. But it, once again, felt distinctly like something had fallen upstairs. I stood in the doorway until my legs stopped trembling (those actually might have been aftershocks--I couldn't tell).
    jennatar
  • i'm definitely making a disaster prep kit!
    http://www.72hours.org/

    Do's and Don'ts:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/earthqu...

    there's also a USGS earthquake PDf for the bay area here:
    http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/
    shampton
  • dcsmitty

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