I HATE when I'm woken up at 4am by an earthquake.

[tjwash]

And a piddly little 4.0 to boot.

[Misunderestimator]

1. Darn, did I miss my first earthquake?

[tjwash]

2. It was epicentered a little east of El Cajon, near Jamul.

nt

[Misunderestimator]

3. Well, that's not too far...

maybe 100 miles or so. Maybe next time.

[Texasgal]

9. Are you in Calli now?

CONGRATS TO YOU!!! :)

[Misunderestimator]

10. Yes, I've been here for a week now.

Thanks! :hi:

[livetohike]

4. My dogs growled about 3 seconds before it!

Then the front door rattled. That's it, but it did wake me up, or at least the dogs woke me up.

[sexybomber]

5. Wow!

Smart dogs.

[livetohike]

6. They are only two years old and it is the first earthquake

we have felt since we moved out here. I always heard that animals are sensitive to it.....

[sexybomber]

12. Yeah, something about ultra low frequency waves...

I think they precede an earthquake by a little bit, but then again, I really have no idea, though.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Consider yourself lucky

I got thrown out of bed at 4:45 by a 5.8 sucker that was nearly right under my home. Sloshed water out of the fish tank, scared the crap out of everyone.

[tjwash]

8. Oh yeah, Japan gets them quite frequently.

We have only had about 3 real good shakers in the last 10 years here. The worst one was the one that collapsed the freeway overpass and apartments in Los Angeles back in the mid-nineties.

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Northridge. I'll never forget that one, nor

Landers/Big Bear, nor Whittier Narrows, nor Hector Mine (my last before leaving CA), nor Sylmar. The Sylmar quake was on my mother's 30th birthday. February 9, 1971.

God those big ones are terrifying. But if the little rattlers, like today's, come when everyone's awake, they're not too bad.

I'm glad it was a little one, even though it woke you up.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Northridge-- exactly one year before Kobe

And Japanese TV was making all sorts of comparisons in the aftermath of Kobe. Part of a freeway collapsed in Northridge; a whole quarter mile section of elevated expressway in Kobe fell on its side. I keep thinking of that every time I take the elevated expressways in Tokyo

:scared:

[Mutley]

11. heh

4.0 may seem like nothing to you but i live in maryland and we had a 2.something a few months ago. it was a really big deal for awhile since we don't get earthquakes around here.

[bertha katzenengel]

14. hey from another Marylander

:hi: