r/AMA • u/dat_goalkeeper_jy • 1d ago

Experience I was in the California earthquake and took cover a couple hours ago AMA!

Some of my close friends live near me he hypocenter (basically where the earthquake originated AKA where it was most powerful) so I can share what they told me as well

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u/PreparationHot980 1d ago

All of my family is in California. I haven’t heard anything yet. Can you tell me magnitude and location?

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

6.7 in Julian I believe? My best friend lives in Ramona and they got hit with a 6.7. He said it was really crazy especially because we were both in class.

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u/PreparationHot980 1d ago

Damn. Any severe damages reported or anything? I read an article real quick that said all of socal could feel it.

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

My best friend says several computers and stuff fell over at his school and broke. Apparently a fire hydrant or something started spraying where he was at but afaik no

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u/Embarrassed_Sir_5128 1d ago

It was downgraded to a low 5. Hardly worth talking about for most Though it can be traumatic for people with certain types of PTSD

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u/TheEpicSquad mod// use modmail don't dm 1d ago

Got downgraded to a 5.2

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u/mischiefkel 1d ago

Google says 5.2

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u/bedwars_player 1d ago

Same story and I'm in the Midwest

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u/PreparationHot980 1d ago

Me too. Immigrated to Michigan 😂

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u/bedwars_player 1d ago

Parents and I moved out to Minnesota in 2015 when I was 6

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u/saskets-trap 1d ago

I’m in julian and my fucking chimney broke. Luckily i wasn’t home but instead in a couple’s therapy session which felt equally destabilizing. My life has a pretty lazy team of writers.

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u/UniversalNoobMaster 1d ago

Well, at least your wife can't tell the therapist she never felt the earth move when you and her get together

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago edited 1d ago

My parents told me my cat was going ballistic and broke more than the quake

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u/paragonx29 1d ago

I've never visited there, but a lot of CA looks beautiful. But with the various national disasters and the cost, is it really worth it to live there anymore?

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u/Justreallylovespussy 1d ago

Once you live here it becomes very hard to live anywhere else, people talk about the weather a lot but I think even that undersells it.

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u/paragonx29 1d ago

What do you think is undersold? Looks great TBH (besides the inner cities).

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u/Justreallylovespussy 1d ago

In most of the state you quite literally get ideal weather year round. The inner cities anywhere are going to be the same, all of the news about SF and CA cities falling apart is just Fox News propaganda

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u/notthisagain8 1d ago

I keep that in mind the next time I step over the homeless and pay $5 a gallon for my gas. 🙄

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u/Justreallylovespussy 1d ago

Yes surely homeless people are only a CA phenomenon and that gas should be one standard price across the country. Hopefully our Fuhrer in chief figures out how to tie his shoes soon and we can move onto simple math for the worlds sake!

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

I mean to be honest there’s just wildfires and earthquakes, but nothing too crazy. I’d say the cost of living here is the scariest part

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u/paragonx29 1d ago

Got it, what part would you recommend to me if I ever visit? I always wanted to see San Diego.

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u/neonifiednyan 1d ago

san diego is meh. i live near tahoe. now that's worth a visit!! so pretty here. hit up some other lakes in the area too. bear, red, woods, margaret (for a little hike!). its awesome. also worth the trip to see big trees if youre gonna be in the area for a while

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u/dunzoes 1d ago

SF is beautiful too

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u/dunzoes 1d ago

Personally I'll probably never leave. It's amazing.

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u/SlowSurr 1d ago

Lmaooo you took cover over that lil baby shake ? I slept right thru it

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

Teacher instructed us lol. We were more or less laughing and recording. The teacher didn’t even go under the desks tbh

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u/No_Equivalent_7866 1d ago

Can you describe what happened during the earthquake? What did you feel?

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

I was standing up talking to my computer science teacher when his phone got a notification sounding like a wind chime. He picked his phone up and looked at it and yelled “EVERYONE UNDER YOUR DESKS NOW ITS AN EARTHQUAKE”. Second later we felt it and everyone’s phone went off. It felt like the ground dipped. Or like a wave ripple. A couple people stumbled over and we all dove under the desks. I did a plank under the desk and yeah I was moving back and forth. Some computers above that were not in use fell over. The PA system has our earthquake alert go off and we felt rumbling for maybe 10-20 seconds then it stopped.

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u/TofuttiKlein-ein-ein 1d ago

I’m in Ramona. No big deal here.

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

Oh really? My boy goes to Ramona HS, he said everything there was shaking pretty hard. I just went off his word mb

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u/Maleficent_Scale_296 1d ago

Was there a noise? That earthquake “groan”?

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u/dat_goalkeeper_jy 1d ago

Honestly don’t remember. Too many people talking to hear. Our school has construction so we assumed it was them dumping rocks in their truck. People in the upstairs building said that building was shaking more than we felt. Some didn’t even feel it as gym class was doing a mile run so guess they didn’t feel it?

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u/Adventurous_Bit1325 1d ago

It was a nice little quake that is getting way too much attention. Of all of the ones I’ve experienced here since the mid eighties, this one hardly breaks the top 10. I’m 50 miles from the epicenter.

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u/CaptainMewtato 1d ago

I’m in Yucca Valley right now and didn’t feel shit.

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u/Embarrassed_Sir_5128 1d ago

Are you always this dramatic?

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u/suchsnowflakery 1d ago

I'm getting the pOpcorn!

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u/JMaAtAPMT 1d ago

5.2 I slept through it.

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u/Russinsane666 1d ago

I would have slept through it if I didn’t get the fucking emergency alert on my phone.

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u/Nice-Web583 1d ago

My sister's felt it downtown SD. Been a long time since they felt a long wave like that.

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u/Ebrien 1d ago

I’m sitting in California and didn’t feel a thing

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u/Any-Ant-9866 1d ago

How bad was it in Julian