Bay Space Residents Report Feeling Shaking From Sierra Earthquake – CBS San Francisco
PLEASANTON (KPIX) – People in the Bay Area reported Thursday afternoon that they felt the 6.0 magnitude earthquake between Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada.
Everyone described it a bit differently. Some called it more of a rumble, others said it felt like waves, but those who felt it said it was enough to make their nerves rattle.
“Great potential for disaster here, right? You see all of these bottles. Those bottles are just there on the little shelves, ”said Eric Edgar, who runs the wine steward in downtown Pleasanton. He was working in the shop when the earthquake struck.
“Was trembling a lot, uplifting, and went on for a while,” he said. Eric’s first thought was the wine.
“I’ve been here for 22 years and we haven’t lost a bottle in an earthquake,” Edgar said.
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Everywhere in the Bay Area, from Concord to Hayward to Daly City, people posted videos of swinging lights and swaying chandeliers.
“I was in my room and suddenly everything was shaking and I have these little clouds on my ceiling and they were moving back and forth. My brother and sister came running out of their rooms. They say, ‘Did you feel it, did you feel it, did you feel it?’ “Said Emma Nelson, who lives in Dublin.
“It just felt like my office was shaking a lot. It was about the longest earthquake I’ve seen here in 20 years, so I thought it was pretty significant, ”said Dave McMorrow of Pleasanton.
CONTINUE READING: Magnitude 6 earthquake hits the eastern Sierra Nevada
According to the USGS, people could feel the tremors hundreds of miles from the epicenter, from Redding to Sacramento to Fresno and all the way to San Jose and San Francisco.
“The earthquake is the result of a normal fault. It is a fairly well understood and anticipated mechanism for an earthquake on the eastern border of the Sierra Nevada, ”said Austin Elliott of the US Geological Survey.
There were dozens of aftershocks on Thursday afternoon that lasted into the evening. USGS made an aftershock prediction and said there is a 6 percent chance an aftershock will be bigger than the first.
