[Texaggie79]

E-day? When everyone rolled on exstacy?

[skeeter]

I felt it in Sunnyvale. Never moved so fast in my life, and haven't moved that fast since.

[sasquatch]

I live about a mile from the epicenter

Beat me by two. The redwoods dumped about 2 inches of needles;
fun except for the chimney and wood pile.

[Severa]

I was WAYYY far away just southeast of Louisville, KY and I remember it because I was watching the World Series and wondering what the hell just happened to the signal when it went out. Hell of a shock to someone not used to earthquakes to see the pictures that later came out of the stricken area.

[Cultural Jihad]

The sky earlier on that day looked yellow, as if bruised. I also remember the mass-migration of the whole financial district out to the West. No one wanted to get caught downtown at night.

[TMD]

Just over the hill in Campbell, I was taking a nap (preggers at the time) when it hit. I remember standing in the doorway watching all the kitchen cupboards fly open and things flying out- very disorienting and surreal. After a couple of big aftershocks, I took a chair and sat in the middle of the back lawn 'til my husband got home. My parents live in Los Gatos and were in Italy at the time. They heard on the news there was an earthquake in Los Gatos and were extremely worried. Their house was the only one on the street that didn't lose a chimney. Lots of broken glass and their massive pool table moved about 6 inches.

The aftershocks were the worst. It probably took a year before I quit jumping at every little noise.

[dogbowl]

'Bay Arean'... this Inlander loves and uses that term!

The trees shimmied and the pool sloshed. If the 'Battle of the Bay' provoked it, maybe this year's LA/SF world series will yield a bigger one?

[null and void]

I watched the main corridor at work twist and writhe. It was a bit exciting.

[B Knotts]

I lived in San Luis Obispo at the time. Yes, we felt it all the way down there. It caused a hairline crack in the floor of the building where I worked!

I thought it was a local earthquake, naturally, and shrugged it off. It wasn't until I after I had rushed home to watch the World Series that I found out what had actually happened.

[B Knotts]

I did get up close and personal to the Humboldt County quakes in 1992. The first one especially was quite a ride!

[GoreIsLove]

13 years since the quake, and they just started fixing the bay bridge a few months ago.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The "Bigger One" was in 1906 (if you take into consideration the devastation from the resulting fire. My family hasn't lived there since -- except for attending school in Bezerkely. When are you getting out?

[Pahuanui]

I was in Monterey, and in the weight room for at a tennis club that was located on the 2nd floor of a two story building.

With all that extra weight up top, that building swayed like a drunken sailor. I've never seen so many people run so fast to get out of one place. Once outside, the pool was about 1/4 empty with waves still sloshing around. Weird.

[gracie1]

We felt it all the way down here in Fresno. I was pulling into the driveway back from the store when my husband came out and said "Did you feel that! We just had an earthquake!" I said "Did the windows rattle? If not, it wasn't an earthquake." We argued on this a few minutes when my dad called from Illinois to ask if we were all right, he saw the whole thing while watching the world series. I still laugh about, a California girl has to be told by someone 2000 miles away when there's an earthquake!