That was a weird one…felt like an explosion! I don’t think it was very big at all, unless it was centered somewhere very far away from here, but it was definitely startling!
Redwolf
On 2003-01-30 14:38, Redwolf wrote:
That was a weird one…felt like an explosion! I don’t think it was very big at all, unless it was centered somewhere very far away from here, but it was definitely startling!Redwolf
hasn’t hit germany yet…
…quite a snow storm, though.
LOL…if it had hit Germany, I’d REALLY be worried! 
Redwolf
On 2003-01-30 14:38, Redwolf wrote:
That was a weird one…felt like an explosion! I don’t think it was very big at all, unless it was centered somewhere very far away from here, but it was definitely startling!Redwolf
Probably small and close, Redwolf. I didn’t feel anything here at work in Milpitas. Nothing in the online news about it yet, either.
DCrom
On 2003-01-30 14:38, Redwolf wrote:
That was a weird one…felt like an explosion! I don’t think it was very big at all, unless it was centered somewhere very far away from here, but it was definitely startling!Redwolf
Maybe one or both of these?
http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/data/quake/plan.xerox_map.html
(times are GMT; subtract 8 hours for PST)
03/01/30 19:32:32 37.10N 122.04W 9.2 2.8Md B* 8 km ESE of Boulder Creek, CA
03/01/30 19:37:52 37.09N 122.04W 7.8 2.0Md B* 8 km ESE of Boulder Creek, CA
Yup…the first one probably generated the jolt I felt. USGS is now listing it as near Ben Lomond, which is only about 4 miles from us, so very small and very close.
Redwolf
I spent summers as a kid at my grandparents’ place in Boulder Creek, but don’t remember many earthquakes in that neck of the woods. Didn’t feel it here in downtown SF, at any rate.
(edited to remove the quote; I use those far too often)
[ This Message was edited by: gogo on 2003-01-30 15:09 ]
Oh, we get a fair number of small ones…mostly generated over the hill in Hollister. We had a 5 here last spring, which gave our German exchange student a bit of a thrill (well, maybe that’s not exactly the word she would have used, but…). Our last really big one, of course, was Loma Prieta in 1989, which pretty much leveled downtown Santa Cruz…that one was centered here in the mountains near Nisene Marks State Park.
This one was odd because I really thought it was an explosion at first…loud noise and a very sudden jolt. Usually you can barely feel one that small.
Redwolf
[ This Message was edited by: Redwolf on 2003-01-30 15:16 ]
I must have slept thru it. I work nights, sleep days.
We were studying plate tectonics in Geology today. 
ps. what you felt was the pacific plate smacking the n. american plate.
[ This Message was edited by: TelegramSam on 2003-01-30 17:40 ]
Darn…I was hoping that (although I live in Florida) the quake was the result of the upcoming release of the new Lunasa CD (just thinking that maybe someone had a early copy and had popped it in the cd player and turned it on…
oh well…one can hope.
Eric
On 2003-01-30 17:38, TelegramSam wrote:
We were studying plate tectonics in Geology today. >ps. what you felt was the pacific plate smacking the n. american plate.
[ This Message was edited by: TelegramSam on 2003-01-30 17:40 ]
Actually, it’s more the Pacific Plate rubbing against the North American Plate. One is moving North, the other is moving South, and they’re kind of sliding past each other. They “catch” on one another and get stuck…the earthquake is the sudden release of pressure.
Redwolf
I know smartass, I’m just too lazy to type it out in detail.
Yeh, those that hit like a truck are wierd. I was in the bay area from '87 to 2000 and went through the 1989 quake in downtown Oakland about a mile from the Cypress Structure. It is also strange when you hear it before you feel it! Play a little whistle or beter yet, buy an new one to calm your nerves.