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DearWife wrote:Today as I was sitting down waiting to get picked up at the state building downtown, I felt a couple of tiny shakes that were about 5 minutes apart from each other. But this was a little after 11:00am. I thought it was from the building as structures that high tend to cause slight vibrations.

When I get home, my sister in law text me to see if I can find some information in the news paper about my other sister in law. But instead I find this article below:

3.0 earthquake strikes east of San Jose?

"Bay City News Service
Posted: 02/23/2010 12:48:50 PM PST
Updated: 02/23/2010 12:48:51 PM PST

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 struck in Santa Clara County shortly after noon today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred at 12:03 p.m. and had a depth of about 4 miles.

The quake was centered 10 miles east of the Seven Trees area, 11 miles north a depth of about 4 miles.

The quake was centered 10 miles east of the Seven Trees area, 11 miles north of Morgan Hill and 13 miles east-southeast of San Jose City Hall, according to the USGS. "

Usually it would say San Francisco Bay Area if it's near the Alum Rock area so it kind of slipped by me when looking for the quake on the USGS:
Magnitude 3.0 - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

But this quake was at 12:03 pm.

I'd also like to mention that real early Sunday morning at around 4:30am we were awakened by a horrible noise. At first, I thought we were being attacked. The noise repeated in the same manner about 6 times according to my husband...PaPow...PaPow...PaPow. He said it sounded like someone was at the end of the block shooting a shotgun in the air. Whatever it was, it didn't sound like a cherry bomb and it surely didn't sound like anything we heard from what was being shot from everyone's guns in the neighborhood on New Years. I wasn't about to get up from bed to go look out the window on that one.

Now we have had people in the neighborhood shooting off huge coliseum fireworks but with those you'd see a flash of color come through the window which we didn't see.

About a week before I heard another explosion in the evening and that didn't sound like any cherry bomb I've seen or heard either. I did see a plum of smoke arise about a block down a minute after that one though.

If anyone else heard this noise in the SF bay are please let me know. I've heard of earthquake booms before but I have not clue if that was the case that morning or what.

Don't you just hate one that wake up up right out of a dead sleep.

In our old house maybe about two years ago or so we had a 4.8 or so magnitude quake and it was one that literally took the bed my husband and I were sleeping on and bounced it up and down, kind of like being in the "Exorcist" moving. I am not kidding. I was the wildest thing to wake up to. I was right around mid-night or just thereafter and my son said he had been laying on his floor of his room watching TV when he started to feel the vibration and by the time he was able to get to his door and yell "earthquake" we were bouncing. My husband jumped up, I sat straight up and just hung on. My poor mini-schnauzer Mandi was vibrating just as bad after the quake. She kept me awake until around 3:30am. I think both of us were waiting for the next one to come which it never did.

That has been the largest direct one I have been through since I have been here in CA which will be 9 years this July. After that one we had the rolling one that was in Chino which is about 50 miles to the west/east of where were were at the time in Newhall. The worst thing about that one was that I was sick as could be. I had had an epidural and the doctor mistakenly hit my spinal cord causing an intentional spinal leak which gave a the mother of all migraines. As I was laying in bed, I was awake and I saw the blinds start to sway and I thought, this is it, I have lost my mind. Only to follow with my son again shouting "earthquake, earthquake". It was a really wierd sensation. Kind of like being on a boat as best I could describe.

I have only had those two types of experiences either the rolling or the up and down. Sometimes from what I have heard, you get the up and down and side to side ones. Geez...I wish they came in a one size fits all type of event, this way you would know what to expect, but that is why I guess they tell you to get under something and hang on.

Do you know anyone that is on a local police department or fire department where you live? The reason I ask is that sometimes they get those calls and they have more info than other people. My son usually knows what is going on well before anyone else due to his work with LACoFD. He has even been quoted in news reports before but he had to email them and tell them not to use his name. He does some work for one of the fire captains of the department and he will be going to the fire academy in the fall of this year.

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My worst wake up call was 1994 Northridge quake. It picked everything up and then slammed it back down then shock from side to side. That is the worst one I've been in. Hopfully I won't experience that type again.

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I will never forget that quake either. Watching Al Michaels start to broadcast game 3 when he says the famous words "We are having an earthquake here". Then they get knocked off the air. Rest of the evening here in LA was continues quake coverage.

Mike T wrote:My worst wake up call was 1994 Northridge quake. It picked everything up and then slammed it back down then shock from side to side. That is the worst one I've been in. Hopfully I won't experience that type again.

Mike you werent my sherriff neighbor on Corbin back then were you?

Mike T wrote:I will never forget that quake either. Watching Al Michaels start to broadcast game 3 when he says the famous words "We are having an earthquake here". Then they get knocked off the air. Rest of the evening here in LA was continues quake coverage.

Yeah I remember that too, but not only the Al Michaels statement but because I was living in NJ and I was on the phone with my best friend who lived in Walnut Creek. I literally experience the sound of the earthquake, hearing all the creaks, moans, snaps, pops, and my friend screaming, and we never lost the phone line. I was in disbelief. So was she. Knowing that no one would probably be able to get through I told her I would call her mom who lived near where I did in NJ and told her. She couldn't believe that we went through the quake on the phone either. It was truly wild.