Yes, I felt a tremor go through my home and that woke me up as well and so also others in the household. My clock showed 2.45am (but it is a couple of mins fast).

We live in Menlo Park and felt the earthquake. It woke me up.

My cousin in FL said it snowed there and they don’t have any snowplows to clear the roads, so guess no matter what part of the country you’re in, it’s always something. :)

Time
2018-01-04 10:39:37 (UTC)
Location
37.861°N 122.242°W
Depth
13.0 km

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I was dead asleep but it woke me up. Wonder how long it actually lasted. If this is merely a 4-ish, then imagine a 7 or 8 earthquake, which won't merely be "twice" as big. Isn't the Richter scale logarithmic, so that each "point" is 10 times as powerful as the next lower number?

It awakened us as well. My husband actually looked around the house because he felt that the noise was inside the house. He checked his phone and found news websites already mentioning the earthquake less than 15 minutes after we were awakened.

Dang, I missed it! But my daughter felt it, thought it was a dream, scared her. Supposedly lasted 5-10 seconds according to the LA Times.

Hopefully no trees, historic or iconic structures were damaged

I was sitting here typing a comment for the tax thread and felt the small jolts for 2 or 3 seconds. Unmistakably an earthquake, but not long enough to react. Switched on KCBS and they reported it within 2 minutes, airing phone calls from the east bay. Hard to believe "the big one" was almost 30 years ago. I guess @Barron Park dad was not around for that -- alarming to get dead-air across the entire AM radio band.

I felt it. It was probably closer to ten seconds than five.

Actually, it was the noise that woke me up, and then the shaking...I was lying in bed and opening my eyes, thinking that I was too tired to go duck and cover, and it wasn't really that bad. Then it stopped!

I wonder what retail stores raised the prices of Earthquake Kits today?

Musical,

I remember that same feeling when we turned on KCBS and heard nothing after Loma Prieta in '89. We were at work trying to figure out how bad it was--that was all that we needed to know that that had been a *big* one.

Last night--I slept through the whole thing.