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Oeditpus Rex

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22. We missed it by that much

Reply to malaise (Reply #20)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 10:09 PM

Oct 2025

Loma Prieta quake (17 October 1989, 5:04 p.m.); first reported as a 7.1, then downgraded to 7.0 and finally to 6.9.

We were about 30 miles from the epicenter. Now we're right around six.

I do not want to do that again. But, if I live long enough, the Hayward Fault (East SF Bay) quake that's been predicted for about the last 25 years will be significantly worse. It could happen 10 seconds or 10 years from now, but it'll happen.

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Just experienced my first earthquake ever. [View all] sinkingfeeling Oct 2025 OP

Get accustomed to them malaise Oct 2025 #1

I've been through a lot of little shakers & was on the edge of a big one, but never with howler monkeys! Hekate Oct 2025 #2

Many folks don't swim on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica because of sea currents as a result malaise Oct 2025 #4

. truddy777 Oct 2025 #3

I lived in California hen I was a kid, 4-6 yrs MiniMe Oct 2025 #5

I managed to sleep through the only PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2025 #6

Good choice. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2025 #12

It was an aftershock of the Northridge earthquake in 1994. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2025 #24

One of the reasons I left California Javaman Oct 2025 #7

My sister lived in Northridge at the time and it really did do a lot of damage in her neighborhood. flying_wahini Oct 2025 #27

I was working on a movie in el segundo ata drive in thaterin theater Javaman Oct 2025 #28

4.3 isn't so bad. Grumpy Old Guy Oct 2025 #8

We haven't had many at all this year malaise Oct 2025 #13

Our nearest fault line is only about five miles away. Grumpy Old Guy Oct 2025 #21

Building codes are different - that helps! moonscape Oct 2025 #29

welcome to the club. AllaN01Bear Oct 2025 #9

They're amazingly primal haryn Oct 2025 #10

I felt one in 1980 in Phila of all places. BigmanPigman Oct 2025 #11

We've felt a couple in central Vermont... GiqueCee Oct 2025 #14

Keep this handy malaise Oct 2025 #15

Thanks so much. sinkingfeeling Oct 2025 #18

You've had several small ones today malaise Oct 2025 #19

Was in a 7.0 montanacowboy Oct 2025 #16

Holy Shit malaise Oct 2025 #20

We missed it by that much Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #22

We haven't had a big one in 120 years malaise Oct 2025 #25

I've been through so many I can judge the Demobrat Oct 2025 #17

We had quake pools Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #23

Living in the PNW from the early 1980's mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #26