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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[hrj.livejournal.com]

Whereas I didn't feel any jolt -- just a subtly growing creaking/shaking with a second pulse of that just as it was dying down. (I was amused to have that last observation validated by other people describing a secondary "pulse" right at the end.) I have the advantage of not being on landfill (just barely -- the filled area is the west side of the railroad tracks, which is only about 4 blocks away).

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

I felt the last "pulse" before the end, too. It was what made me wonder if I should get out of bed and do something more active about my situation ;-)

I know my neighbors' upstairs had something fall -- I heard it go over.

Of course, all the folks at work who lived nearer the epicenter had much more energetic stories to tell today.