I grew up in San Jose....earthquakes were common occurrences.
When growing up, I would feel them. It was as if someone took a huge rolling pin and ran it under the house.
The San Andreas Fault is near the city off Hollister.
It was the earthquake of October of 1989 during the World Series that shook up a huge section of California. My father had just finished up a job in Hayward, gotten off the Bay Bridge, San Francisco to 280, when the earthquake hit. It took his calm and strength to keep in control of the steering wheel of his truck.
I turned on the TV when I got home from work from the costume shop in Rochester to CNN. There were fires in the area of the Marina. The epicenter of that strong earthquake was in the Santa Cruz Mountains to the South and West of San Jose. I was able to call my mother and ask her what condition things were in San Jose. She said there were some new structural cracks and everything on shelves were now on the floor.
Stay safe California DUers.