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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.
same! there’s been a much faster response on lemmy and reddit than the USGS site.