Reply #10: I felt it and heard it!!! It scared the crap out of me [View All]

[Raksha]

because I was walking home from the bus stop and I could feel the shaking and hear kind of a rattling/crashing sound. It sounded almost like an explosion, but not quite. I'm in San Bernardino, and I only now found out where the epicenter was.

Crap! There goes an aftershock, just as I was typing this! Anyway, the quake I felt while I was walking home felt stronger than a 5.0. but I guess that's because I'm so close to the epicenter. What scared me is that I couldn't be sure what it was. I was pretty sure it was an earthquake, but not 100% sure. This is Southern Calfornia, after all--earthquakes are a fact of life here. For someone like me who lived through the Sylmar quake, a 5.0 earthquake in itself isn't scary. The scary factor is the always-unknown "just how bad is this going to get anyway?"

I just hope this last tremor was an aftershock...NOT a foreshock of something bigger and worse to come!!!