Felt it in Hayward. Mild shaking, but it lasted longer than most quakes. The cat was spooked.
TBH, I’m a little pissed that the MyShake app didn’t give a heads up or have info on this earthquake immediately afterwards. I had to google it to find the USGS entry. Considering the app warned us about a distant quake last week that turned out to be nothing, and also send out the annual test alert early at like 3:30am, the signal to noise for these alerts is currently pretty terrible.
Also can I say thank you for making this post! One of the (very) few things I miss about the /r/bayarea subreddit was the slew of posts asking if anyone felt an earthquake. More often than not, I could confirm that the mild shaking was an earthquake much faster this way than by waiting for the USGS earthquake database or a government alert.
I have MyShake but I also have an app simply called “Earthquake” that pops up pretty fast with what the magnitude is. It doesn’t give any pre-alerts or anything, but I like it anyway because it showed up within 30 seconds of the quake (I’m in Sunnyvale for reference) and when I tapped on the notification, it told me it was a 4.0 based in Millbrae and provided a map.
About five seconds after it stopped, my dog started barking. A bit late, sweetie! My 9 year old near me on the couch felt it, but my 7 year old in her room didn’t. But it’s possible she was just oblivious.
Felt it in Hayward. Mild shaking, but it lasted longer than most quakes. The cat was spooked.
TBH, I’m a little pissed that the MyShake app didn’t give a heads up or have info on this earthquake immediately afterwards. I had to google it to find the USGS entry. Considering the app warned us about a distant quake last week that turned out to be nothing, and also send out the annual test alert early at like 3:30am, the signal to noise for these alerts is currently pretty terrible.
Also can I say thank you for making this post! One of the (very) few things I miss about the /r/bayarea subreddit was the slew of posts asking if anyone felt an earthquake. More often than not, I could confirm that the mild shaking was an earthquake much faster this way than by waiting for the USGS earthquake database or a government alert.
IIRC the MyShake alerts will only pop up for a 4.5 or higher.
Thanks for commenting on the post! I also miss having a regional community to chat with about local news, weather, and other things.
same! there’s been a much faster response on lemmy and reddit than the USGS site.
I have MyShake but I also have an app simply called “Earthquake” that pops up pretty fast with what the magnitude is. It doesn’t give any pre-alerts or anything, but I like it anyway because it showed up within 30 seconds of the quake (I’m in Sunnyvale for reference) and when I tapped on the notification, it told me it was a 4.0 based in Millbrae and provided a map.
About five seconds after it stopped, my dog started barking. A bit late, sweetie! My 9 year old near me on the couch felt it, but my 7 year old in her room didn’t. But it’s possible she was just oblivious.