I didn’t know about this until my fiancé called a few minutes after it happened.
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has struck Central California and it was felt from Santa Ana to Sacramento, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
[via Associated Press Wire]
He called to report from work in Mountain View that the building shook, but here in Santa Clara nothing perceptible occurred. Odd.
Are you sure you didn’t feel anything? I defnitely felt the quake, and I’m only a few miles from you. Sometimes if you don’t know what one feels like it’s hard to judge: I’ve made the mistake before of attributing the strange vertiginous senstation to my own head rather than to the earth.
Exciting, though!
I missed it too. And people felt it up here. I almost always do feel them.