My first BIG quake was the Tehachapi shaker of 1952. So I moved to Humboldt County in 1954 and have been Rock & Rollin ever since. The 6.9 Sunday night was… ummm. .interesting? The lights didn’t even flicker and no reports of power outages anywhere…
Strange how those effects bounce around. In ‘52, the Tehachapi quake literally shook me out of bed in San Diego, yet I didn’t even feel the Sylmar quake which was much closer. Much of the Northridge quake’s effects skipped over the Malibu Mountains, but trashed parts of Santa Monica.
Didn’t Eureka get a pretty significant impact from the biggie a couple of decades back? Knocked a bunch of Ferndale houses off their foundations as I recall.