Teensy little quake

[hrj]

The last several quakes I've felt have been centered very locally, so I was guessing that this one was maybe around a 3 -- just enough to make the bookshelves creak slightly. But evidently it was a 5-something down in the South Bay. The anecdotal commentary so far suggests the local effects were really variable. Perhaps some odd propagation patterns?

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[patsmor.livejournal.com]

I'll be interested to get into my office tomorrow -- a friend who lives about 1 mile from the office and about 4 miles from me in almost straight line to our campus had much jolting and rocking and things falling off her shelves. Since we have lots of open bookshelves and no rules about objects on top of cabinets, etc., I'm wondering if anything will have fallen off.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention that Shingle Springs/Rescue/El Dorado Hills feels almost all these things because of an extension/branch of the fault line that runs right through the area. Sure enough, faint, but they got it!