Earthquake in San Francisco tonight

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:22pm

We just had an 4.4 earthquake at 8:08 PDT. No damage but it came in two waves. Just part of the excitment of living in San Francisco. BART is shut down for routine checks but it seems to be over.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40187964.html

Updated On: 8/3/06 at 11:22 PM

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:41pm

Oh my God, I hope everyone is OK. I live in Florida, I could never imagine the ground moving beneath me. I'll take a hurricane anyday!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:43pm

cheeze? Cheeze?

CHEEZE??

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:43pm

Wow. All we ever get in the midwest are tornadoes and power outages.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:45pm

No damage but you could really feel this one. It's just nature's reminder that we live in an earthquake zone.

[jarretSF]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:46pm

It wasn't a bad one, but I wonder if it affected an of the shows. We have Chorus Line opening tonight, Rent is playing, Piazza's second night, Spelling Bee and Love Janis as well as all the smaller house, I wonder if aything had to stop and check the set pieces or anything.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:18am

First off - the north bay had the quake - SF just felt it. It was 42 miles away. I live in a 30 story building across the street from the Orpheum, and we barely moved. Lol. Everything is fine Rath honey!

Updated On: 8/3/06 at 12:18 AM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:19am

*relaxes*

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:19am

They come in sets often.

When I lived in California I remember it shking my bed in the night and sleeping, I thought the cat had jumped up on the bed. Until I remembered we didn't have a cat.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:31am

and thats one of the reasons I'm glad i no longer live in California.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:31am

I didn't notice at all.

I was nekkid.

(In the shower!)

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:33am

I live in the city in Noe Valley and we really felt it here. Someone also posted on the main board that it was felt at the Curran. Most earthquakes are outside of the city but the city is impacted. The 1989 quake that brought down the freeway in Oakland and buildings in the Marina was in Loma Prieta.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:30am

It kinda makes me sad I never experienced an earthquake.
Makes me think I never got the full experience of living near San Francisco.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:20am

sigh, I remember those.......common as the fog, sometimes they are more than just a bump........

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:21am

I swear, Elphaba, everytime I see your avatar he has a cigarette in his mouth! Haven't you told him it's bad for his lungs?

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:29am

he has steel lungs........I just seem to get him to stop.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:29am

We had a cute little one when I lived in Pacific Heights...it was in 2001, and I was working late at my office on Montgomery on the 27th floor...it was no more than a 4.5, but there was this HUGE black bodybuilder/muscle god-type who worked with me who started SHRIEKING like a beaten child and ran into the stairwell.

It was hysterical.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:31am

I wish I had a video of that.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 9:51am

in about maybe 1997 when I was still living up there in the Castro I was at work (I work from home) sitting at my computer and suddenly the table started bouncing up and down as did I and the chair I was on......(it was one of the more active quakes) I sat there holding the table (all I thought is please don't wreck my computer) and it was over.......felt just like a Disneyland ride.
I grew-up in the Bay Area, so quakes don't get to me.

I guess I sleep through them if at night, as according to my partner we had a bigger one here in PS right after we moved here.....he said he could barely make it down the hallway without falling from the motion (he tends to embelish a lot) as he was coming to get me....and found me sleeping.....lol.

It's ike Tornados in the Midwest and Hurricanes in the East......they just are.

Jaily, I would have had to console that poor muscle-God.......poor thing just wanted his Daddy ;oP

and I am not minimizing anyones feelings on quakes....I still get terrified when in Michigan, and those grey-green stormclouds appear that could signify horrid storms and possible tornados, as I am not used to those. Just saying when you are used to them, they aren't that big a deal.......which may be a bad thing when the Big One finally happens....who knows.

My partner thinks I'm crazy to store bottled water for a quake.......

Updated On: 8/3/06 at 09:51 AM

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:04am

I do too. It was BEYOND priceless.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:07am

I swear we had an earthquake here (Vegas) a few months ago. I shook. The TV shook. The pile of DVDs fell.

Ivan didn't believe me.

Where'd you live at in the Castro?

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:14am

I feel so cheated, living in Pittsburgh. We don't have hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, anything...it's really depressing!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:17am

were you drinking fiction? (kidding)

55 Hancock St....a wonderful place that the back faced a hill, and was solid windows in the back....you never knew you were in a city......loved that place.

But, our mortgage here is half of the rent was there, and we have a much larger place with lawns, pool etc......

Updated On: 8/3/06 at 10:17 AM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:23am

I loved the houses near the Castro. I had a friend that lived in one on.. I can't remember the street name. He didn't live too far from the steps that went the hill. I forget the name of those too.

No, I wasn't drinking.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:26am

well this wasn't one of the Victorians.....was modern, and rather ugly from the outside. We had the second floor, but inside, windows gale, cathedral ceilings, really a rare find in SF.......you could have as large an Xmas tree as you wanted. The kitchen was small....bet I loved the place. When the fog rools in, it rolls on both sides of Hancock but never down the street itself...sigh.
I loved leaving the house, walking to Castro, getting my lunch at the Chinese place for $2.50 and bringing it home.
Sometimes I think we left too soon.......