Hey, you could make a lot of money being an earthquake predicting machine!Maybe you could post here when you sense one coming so we can all be prepared!
We didn't feel it over here but it sounds like it wasn't too big so that's not surprising.
By the way, I was going to post earlier that I heard recently that instead of standing in a doorway, you are supposed to sit against an inside wall, like in a hallway or an inside room. I always thought standing in a doorway seemed kind of scary since it seems like you would too exposed to flying glass or something. I remember in high school when we would have earthquake drills and we would all have to go under those little tiny desks. I can't say that I felt very protected. I'm not even a very big person and I couldn't fit under there. I guess you could get your head sort of protected but what about the rest of your body? Meanwhile the teachers got to hide under those nice, big sturdy desks. Is it just me or did anyone else ever think about that during earthquake drills at school?
Hey, you could make a lot of money being an earthquake predicting machine!
We didn't feel it over here but it sounds like it wasn't too big so that's not surprising.
By the way, I was going to post earlier that I heard recently that instead of standing in a doorway, you are supposed to sit against an inside wall, like in a hallway or an inside room. I always thought standing in a doorway seemed kind of scary since it seems like you would too exposed to flying glass or something. I remember in high school when we would have earthquake drills and we would all have to go under those little tiny desks. I can't say that I felt very protected. I'm not even a very big person and I couldn't fit under there. I guess you could get your head sort of protected but what about the rest of your body? Meanwhile the teachers got to hide under those nice, big sturdy desks. Is it just me or did anyone else ever think about that during earthquake drills at school?
You know how you hear of certain cities in California all the time but if you never go there you have no clue if they are east, west, north or south of where you are? So I looked at the map on one of the news channel's sites and it looks as is if it is almost closer to Oxnard than it is to where I am, which doesn't sound accurate! In any case, if it was that far away and I felt it as much as I did at a 4.4 or 4.3 or whatever it was, I definitely would not want to feel a stronger one coming from that area. It was not the horrible, violent jolting of the Northridge quake of 1994, but it was more of the rocking, swaying kind of thing.
Oh no! Another one? I didn't even hear about it in the news, but then I had to work late today and then run around so guess I didn't actually get to hear the news. I feel your pain. I absolutely hate them too. The ground is NOT supposed to move!
I have to admit - when I heard the quake was centered sort of near Westlake Village, I had to think about where in the heck Westlake Village is!
Yes, I remember the 'drop drills' very well (I think you and Budgie and I are all kind of in the same general age range, give or take a few years, so I think it was something they did a lot when we were kids). We would be in the middle of school work, not thinking about earthquakes, and all of a sudden our teachers would very calmly say, 'Drop.' And we would all have to make a nosedive under the flimsy desks. But let's face it - when a really scary quake is happening and you can tell early on it is bad, there is a natural instinct, I think, to want to get outside - even if there are flying daggers of glass coming at you. I think it is a built-in fear of the building crumbling on top of you. I KNOW my building would collapse if we had a bad quake closer to this specific area. The structure seems so weak and shaky that everyone in the building can feel it if one tenant slams their door! So I cannot say for sure that I would be thinking reasonably and calmly enough to leap under a table or sit down against a wall. I would probably do what I did during Northridge, which was run like a madwoman in my bare feet towards the front door, telling myself, 'Stay calm...stay calm...stay calm...' I doubt I would even have the wherewithal to grab my purse or cell phone or anything.
But nope, we didn't feel anything. 
My parents said they felt a pretty good shake.We felt it here like a small sharp jolt, and then it was over.
You all should go fill out the earthquake survey on the usgs site. I always do that after each one I feel. I guess it is kind of like therapy and gives me purpose.
I agree, they are not fun because you never know how long it will last. If I knew ahead of time it was going to be small, then I wouldn't worry.
The funny thing is, all that time growing up with the earthquake drills I never once felt a real one until I was in 10th grade. And that was the only one until I got married. At least in the area I grew up they are definately more common now than they were then.
I'm a whole 7 years younger than PinkBudgie! Okay, just had to get that straight. Anyway....
Plus, this quake happened on - yet again - a "previously unknown fault." See, all the faults we know about, we are told to be aware of and concerned with, but it is probably the "unknown faults" that will get us in the end!
We always had quake drills in elementary and junior high but once I reached high school we didn't do them anymore. I'm not sure if the schools around here do them at all.
The principal used to come over the intercom and say "disaster drill!" and we all had to go under our desk, hold one part of our desk with one had and put our other hand over our heads and stay that way until the principal said again "disaster drill over" and then we had to line up at the door and walk to the parking lot in a single file line. It was boring. And we NEVER had an earthquake during school time. The Northridge one was at night (I was like 6 or 7?) and there were no aftershocks when I was at school.
Didn't feel a thing, but according to the USGS it was centered probably 100 miles away from me - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/ci10406593.php - maybe you're much closer?
