(When I visited SF & LA in '79 I was like "Oh, God, puleeeze, No earthquakes!". ) There weren't.
We here get all "wooaah !" understandibly!
April '24 felt like 3 short upwards jolts.
4-ish. Seems like I totally missed the 5.8 in 2011.
The "wildest" one bc of my area, and my reaction was in '85. Sleeping late, and dreaming I was in an elevator descending when it started to rock back, and forth. I woke up as I sat up yelling "Earthquake!".
I looked around nothing was amiss, there was a fading vibration, and a sound fading away from the building.
But it wasn't so unusual for us bc of how we were situated.
Our family apt building was partly perched 8 stories above the next eastward Ave, and buildings on a steep hill. Regular in the ground on our (westward) Ave side, where we faced in the back was the hill; w a massive balcony jutting out, that connected basement areas, stairs to our Avenue, and a concrete, and boulders structure holding the rest of the building up on the hill.
It acted like a sound amplifier! A basketball being boinced on the sidewalk could sound like shots, motorcycles were really loud, and small trucks would rumble with occasional vibrations traveling all the way upward to us.
I went back to sleep. When I woke up about 3 hours later, I turned on my rock station. I'd already forgotten about it. They were playing "Shake, Rattle, and Roll". It didn't "ping" me at all!
Finally, the DJ said, "did you feel that earthquake this morning?".
....Whaaaaa.... ?!!
How did I, who'd never been in one know it was one - in my sleep ?!
The actual sound that faded away wasn't really loud but thinking about it at some point later it felt vast (relatively) like the waves expanding from a stone tossed in a pond.
So it was something! A 4-ish and north of us.
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