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5.9 is mild by California standards but you folks are not as prepared as we are. Your buildings are probably more vulnerable. I believe brick construction is still popular in your area. Our construction standards and retrofit requirements help us better deal with earthquakes.
Living in (regular) earthquake country is why I use Hercules guitar wall-hangers.
Yeah. After the last two major earthquakes in the north and the south, all the highway flyovers were retrofitted or reconstructed to survive greater stress. Every now and then I'm in awe at how "hardened" the structures look.
The memory of our double-decker highways "pancaking" and crushing several commuters in the lower deck is still horribly vivid.
Look after yourself. Don't stop under bridges or structures.
It'll be interesting to see the USGS details after they've completed their analysis.
I felt it up here in NY State while I was working... luckily didn't have a router in my hand. I was thinking "damn did that just happen? I must be going crazy".. turned on the radio and sure enough.
This is the first earthquake I've ever experienced. It was powerful and quite noisy even in Pittsburgh--170 miles from the epicenter. I had trouble standing and had to steady a shaking TV to keep it from falling. There's some damage up here.
This changes things, because now i realize, its a possible scenario for this area. Before today, i thought it wasnt a consideration, unless i moved to the west coast. But now it will be in the back of my mind that things could crumble around me at any time.
Yeah, I woke up to the earthquake, as well. I woke up because the bed was shaking, and then I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't on account of sex.
Earthquakes are terrifying especially when they go on a long time and that noise from deeo down below the earth is unreal, it rattles the bones.
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ORIGINAL: KMMI77 I've heard the ones that go up and down are worse than the ones that go side to side.
The last big one we had in Granada did both. First the walls rippled from side to side, then the noise changed and the ripples went from top to bottom. We didnt get much sleep that night !
Hope everyone is recovering the shock and no-one got hurt.
Actually there is a significant difference between East and West Coast U.S. earth quakes. On the West Coast, we have many active fault lines. When we have quakes, the energy dissipates quickly. Also the rock in our plates are hotter, so energy is somewhat dampened. We could have a 5.9 and not feel a thing just miles from the center.
The East Coast U.S. is different in that it has pretty much just one big plate. They have a lot of fault lines, but are very old and rigid. The rock in there plates is colder versus the West, so the energy is transmitted more efficiently. When a quake hits the East, the large, solid plate transfers the energy much farther. That’s why it was felt so far away.
In the late '80s-early-'90s I lived half the time in Palo Alto, down the peninsula from San Francisco. One Sunday afternoon my girlfriend and I were dozing in bed. A sharp shock awakened us as the Hayward fault let go with a 5.9. The Hayward fault runs across the Bay and into the Palo Alto area.
Seconds later we were standing in the doorway, momentarily debating which to do first, move to the safety of the outdoors, or put on our clothes.
I was at my bar last night talking with friends and there as an earthquake. Someone said hey I just got a text message that says there was just a 2.3 a minute ago. Oh really? wow, hey want a beer? No discussion.
I hardly notice the small ones if at all. Typical bay area. However my uncle in Arlington Virgina really noticed the one yesterday morning. As it was said a few posts up, be careful the buildings on the East coast are not made for bigger quakes.
Around 1990 I was driving from Santa Barbara where I lived at the time to Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino. Part of the route was along a two lane road through the Joshua Tree National Park where they made all the cheap western movies of the '30s through the '50s. You would recognize the rock formations where all those movie gunfights happened.
Isolated by the car's suspension I was unaware of the earthquake until I glanced up at the flank of the mountains and saw several house-sized boulders rolling down the slopes.
I turned on the car radio and happened to hit a Los Angeles rock 'n roll oldies station. The announcer said, "Yeah, the quake broke a water main which flooded I-5 close to the junction with I-10. The highway guys say they will start getting it repaired as soon as they can clear out all the surfers."
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I woke up because the bed was shaking, and then I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't on account of sex. 
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