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M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA
- sedatk 1y agoThis was the strongest earthquake I felt since I moved to Bay Area ten years ago. Luckily, it was quite short. Woke me and all my friends in the SF and vicinity up though.
- subharmonicon 1y agoSecond strongest I remember in my 16 years here, with the 2014 Napa Quake being notably more shaking.
- ghaff 1y agoI was in SF on a trip at the time and I got woken only by a few friends texting me to check that I was OK.
- SllX 1y agoI usually don’t wake up to these but this one jolted me awake. I wish I had slept through this one though.
- huevosabio 1y agoSame. Been 12 years in SF and this was the strongest. We were awake as well so we felt the whole thing. I think I saw the walls move. Luckily it was short.
- rbanffy 1y agoContrast that with my experience in Ireland - 10 years and I heard thunder only twice, and saw a lightning strike only once. We sometimes get alerts due to some tropical storm that made its way up here, and the most we need to do is to collect our garbage bins and avoid biking because of the gusts.
- marcosscriven 1y agoI’d say the same about East Anglia in UK, but in early ‘90s there was a tremor strong enough to notice. It was particularly strange then because you had to wait for the news on TV or radio to mention it. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/25/uknews https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/25/uknews
- idiotsecant 1y agoThere's no thunder in Ireland? Why?
- bombcar 1y agoObviously thunder is caused by snakes, and St Patrick removed those. (Coming from the Midwest where thunderstorms are so common as to just be assumed every rainstorm is one, it must be weird …)
- padjo 1y agoThere is thunder in Ireland, it’s just rarer than in much of the US. I’d imagine it’s due to the prevailing weather patterns.
- xeromal 1y agoI'm from Georgia where summer thunderstorms are extremely common and we had ones that were so explosive that candles would vibrate off the fireplace mantle. I moved to SoCal and i'm always amused when a small storm comes by once a year and people freak out. I miss those storms man. Nothing like sitting on the porch and watching them roll through
- kstrauser 1y agoAs we called it in Missouri: good sleeping weather. I can nap through a tornado, j tell you.
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- fallinghawks 1y agoI've lived in California all my life and was in San Mateo during Loma Prieta. How close you are to the epicenter has a strong effect on what you experience (it's undoubtedly more complicated than that but distance is a big factor). Last night's was 14.8 miles away from me and although I woke up, I didn't hear earthquaky sounds and shaking was moderate. Thought my partner had just flopped over in bed harder than usual. By contrast, a few years ago we had a 3.1 centered about 1.5 miles away that really made me fear it was a big one. The house jumped and stuff swayed, and I was just thinking I'd better get next to the bookcase when it stopped.
- bradgessler 1y agoI was 3 miles from the epicenter. By far the strongest I’ve felt since I moved here 15 years ago. Hard to imagine what a 6+ would be like on the Hayward fault.
- haunter 1y ago/r/bayarea thread already has hundreds of comments https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1nnia94/earthquake/ https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1nnia94/earthquake...
- sidcool 1y agoSeems like a minor earthquake. Does it deserve top of HN?
- BoredPositron 1y agoIt's gone sooner if you don't interact with the thread...
- tgsovlerkhgsel 1y agoIsn't this the opposite of how it works? My understanding there is some algorithm that severely downranks threads that get a lot of comments in relation to the upvote count.
- perching_aix 1y agoIs HN's content recommendation algorithm public?
- skylerwiernik 1y agoNot public, but some of the factors are listed here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (q2)
- rbanffy 1y agoI would assume someone new to CA would find it concerning. It's fun to think about it - some Japanese people would move to CA just because of the more stable geology.
- bamboozled 1y agoWhy would Japanese people move to CA for the more stable geology ?
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- smcleod 1y ago4.6 is really small, what's the actual news here? Was it strangely shallow or something?
- BoorishBears 1y agoI was awake and it was definitely stonger than any I've experienced in my 3 years in SF I'm pretty sure this is the closest epicenter to SF I've seen too (at least one that was noticeable)
- brian-armstrong 1y agoMany of us on this website live in the bay area. The earthquake woke us up with a stern jolt and now you're witnessing a shared moment in the community as we try to drift back to sleep.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoI was in a hot tub with friends! We wall went to Portola Music Festival and we were having a nice connective low key evening when this big shake surprised us!
- jl6 1y agoPeak California, right here sir.
- SequoiaHope 1y agoWhat’s maybe peak California about it is that everyone in the hot tub was trans, and aside from me everyone had come to California as a refuge because they couldn’t be themselves in other states. California is one of the few states where we have a chance to live our lives on peace and relative safety.
- wateralien 1y agoI was in a self-driving cab while live-tweeting a founder therapy circle on my way to my rooftop co-living space for a seed round pitch for my biohacking startup!
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- tripplyons 1y agoI would take this time to set up earthquake alerts on your phone using an app like MyShake if you live in an area where earthquakes happen.