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Those were a few scary moments. It felt like someone was lifting my bed and slamming it on the floor over and over. In reality it was only several seconds where I live, but it felt like much longer. I have family in Napa... they lost power and still don't have it, but they are safe.

Good to hear from you ems!

I'm glad you and your family are safe.

I live about 50 miles to the east of Napa. Slept through the whole ordeal (dang it, I do enjoy a little earthquake now and then).

I have to say that my dog Ernie did act a bit odd before the quake yesterday.

(Not a worthwhile observation, he's a bit odd every day.)

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Hoping no one hereabouts was injured or badly frightened.

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Sonoma State is fine. My daughter is a senior there but lives at home with us in Santa Rosa. I think Darwin hall (science building) is closed this year for earthquake retrofitting, just a coincidence.

I hear that people in and around the town of Sonoma had some things fall off shelves and broken windows. but most of Sonoma County went unscathed. I was worried about my husband's work at a winery near the junction of hwys 121 and 12, but all is well there. Winery workers in Napa are fortunate it was at night as a barrel room is not a place to be in an earthquake.

The earthquake knocked some apples off our tree which was great because we couldn't reach them. ;o)

ems wrote:Those were a few scary moments. It felt like someone was lifting my bed and slamming it on the floor over and over. In reality it was only several seconds where I live, but it felt like much longer. I have family in Napa... they lost power and still don't have it, but they are safe.

I swear I heard that noise and felt those vibrations for 5 to 10 minutes but I know intellectually that isn't so. Human perceptions can be so flawed!

Listening to the various Santa Cruz disaster stories and others, I realized how important the ground your house/apt is built on. For example: river valley sedimentation accumulations, landslide prone hillsides, alluvial plains and filled in wetlands can be very deadly due to the earthquake shock waves amplifying thru relatively non-compacted soil.

For example, I was in SC downtown when the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake happened. I was in an old brick building attached to a coffee roasting company. I was sitting on the rear deck/patio having a cup of coffee when the quake hit - I could see the slow amplitude waves coming across the the big parking lot like ocean waves to the shore. I leaped over the patio railing just as the brick building behind me collapsed (killing two people). Half of the other buildings downtown were destroyed and quite a few of the rest were significantly damaged. Unbeknownst to me, my 14 year old son, who was shopping downtown at the then Gottchalk's dept store, dived under a dress rack when the shaking started (I don't know what he was thinking). Debris rained all around him as the building started to fall apart. That building injured many people and my son escaped thru shattered the main display window into main street only to have the building across from him totally collapse and cascade into the street.

On the other hand, my house up on the sandstone bluffs sustained one cracked picture window plus the fireplace needed to be repaired... that was it. Many other houses in the alluvial plains of downtown either collapsed or burned down. Mayhem doesn't even begin to describe those days.

As my husband went to work yesterday we learned there was a lot of damage to the interior of houses for people who live in Sonoma--everything falling out of cabinets, windows breaking, etc.

There was a photo on the front page of the Santa Rosa paper showing broken wine tanks at Sebastiani Winery with thousands of gallons of wine lost. I felt lucky that wasn't my husband's winery until I found out that his winery was storing wine at Sebastiani, and that was their wine.

It was bad, but I keep thinking it could have been much worse during the daytime. I feel grateful that there were few serious injuries. Buildings can be fixed, things replaced. People were mostly safe.

Janknitz wrote:It was bad, but I keep thinking it could have been much worse during the daytime. I feel grateful that there were few serious injuries. Buildings can be fixed, things replaced. People were mostly safe.

Many after shocks... but fortunately we haven't felt them; just heard about them on the news. It could have been much worse... I'm grateful.

Sir NoddinOff wrote:... I was in an old brick building attached to a coffee roasting company. I was sitting on the rear deck/patio having a cup of coffee when the quake hit - I could see the slow amplitude waves coming across the the big parking lot like ocean waves to the shore. I leaped over the patio railing just as the brick building behind me collapsed (killing two people).

... Unbeknownst to me, my 14 year old son, who was shopping downtown at the then Gottchalk's dept store, dived under a dress rack when the shaking started (I don't know what he was thinking). Debris rained all around him as the building started to fall apart. That building injured many people and my son escaped thru shattered the main display window into main street only to have the building across from him totally collapse and cascade into the street...

Whoa, quite a story. Glad it worked out for you.

I have believed for a long time that if possible, do get out of a building during a seismic event. (Depending on what's outside, of course)

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msla wrote:In '59 I was 25 miles away from the Yellowstone quake. I was in the bath tub and the quake set up a rather large wave.

I live about 50 miles from Jellystone (as the crow flies) and about 80 mi. by highways.
There's been lots of seismic activity there these last few years, but nobody (locally) is really concerned.
If the "super volcano" ever blows again (in my lifetime), I'll have a ring-side seat.


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