Whee! I felt it!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (227087)
Walnut Creek, California
May 30, 2025 3:14pm CST
No not that. The minor earthquake that hit just after noon today. I was at my desk. There was no "truck hit the building" jolt at the beginning of our usual 4.2 earthquakes. Just a slight rocking or swayng motion. The building did not creak. I guessed 3.0. They're saying it was 3.2, with the epicenter about 2 miles Northeast of me. Have you ever felt an earthquake? Photo (if I can find it) is of Eeyore atop my Acoustic Research turntable after a slightly larger quake a few years ago. He was not hurt.
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@wolfgirl569 (116830)
• Marion, Ohio
31 May
Glad Eeyore was ok. I have felt tremors here a few times
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@wolfgirl569 (116830)
• Marion, Ohio
31 May
@TheHorse They were allowing fracking in the southern part of the state a few years ago and we felt it up here. They stopped and then started again. There was a couple of reports earlier this year of minor ones again. I think they have stopped the fracking again.
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@TheHorse (227087)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 May
@wolfgirl569 What are your thoughts on fracking?
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@Ineeddentures (2355)
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30 May
No
I have never felt an earthquake although a girl did say she felt the earth move.......
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@TheHorse (227087)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 May
@Ineeddentures Eeyore is back on the bookshelf
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@DaddyEvil (149457)
• United States
30 May
Nope, I've never felt one and hope I never do. I have enough trouble staying on my feet without the earth moving.
I'm glad it was a relatively mild one.
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@RasmaSandra (85459)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 May
I few times when I lived in NYC I felt the floor move beneath me, Those were always minor tremors,
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@moffittjc (124469)
• Gainesville, Florida
30 May
The closest I've come to an earthquake is back when I used to go to Cape Canaveral and watch NASA launch Space Shuttles. The ground would shake like you wouldn't believe when those shuttles lifted off. You'd see the shuttle lift off, then a few seconds later the ground would start shaking, and then a few seconds after that you would hear the roar of the launch, followed by a sonic boom a few minutes later. It was pretty incredible.
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@snowy22315 (190411)
• United States
31 May
Glad Eyeore made it. We had that big East coast quake centered in this county in 2011 I think it was. That was pretty dramatic. I don't usually feel the smaller ones, but I don't think we have had anything larger than a 2 point something since then.
@FourWalls (75130)
• United States
31 May
Did you start singing Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move"? 
@LeaPea2417 (37901)
• Toccoa, Georgia
31 May
Oh goodness, I am glad you are okay, that it wasn't worse. I felt a 20 to 30 second tremor many years ago when I was visiting Montana.
@LindaOHio (189928)
• United States
31 May
Yes. I've been through two 5.0 quakes. The more recent one felt like someone came behind my chair and hit it with all their strength. Very strange. I'm glad Eeyore was not injured.
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@TheHorse (227087)
• Walnut Creek, California
22h
@LindaOHio I am glad he survived.
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@LindaOHio (189928)
• United States
1 Jun
@TheHorse I think I told you my husband was down in the salt mine when it happened. He saw and felt the wave go through the ceiling of the cut. I was panicked because I was topside working in the office. The door jamb was moving side to side. I thought my husband was in grave danger; but he was OK.
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