Something woke me up. I immediately rolled over and went back to sleep. Upon waking up for real 10 minutes ago, I opened earthquake.usgs.gov and saw a 4.4 quake in Whittier struck right about the time I woke up.

between that and the bear that snored in my ear I had a bit of trouble staying asleep.

directly in front of the french doors going out to the patio.

They were shaking pretty good. I thought someone was trying to break in.

Scared the shyt out of me.

it seemed bad but then stopped suddenly. Like this thread!

It felt like a large trash truck driving by. Quick, with a slitght jiggle. I checked the clock. 4:04am.

Whenever one hits my first reaction is to brace and concentrate on the noise and motion and try to see how strong it is and how great the danger. When it passes, the next thought is to worry about how far away was the epicenter. The farther away it was, the worse it was for those who were close. So a light one to me might have just devastated San Diego.

So, when I got up later, I immediately checked the news. The first reports were much lower. Low 3’s.

My first thought was that someone broke into the house or someone was out in our back yard destroying our new fence materials. I listened for a few minutes and realized there was no more noise, so I went back to sleep. I didn’t realize it was an earthquake until I read it online this morning. We live in Downey, about 5 miles from the epicenter.

Can’t wait to tell the grandchildren about it.

AngelsRallyMom lives in PR right on the border of SFS/PR & Downey. She felt it!

wish I had stayed up the extra half hour just to be awake for it.

It jolted me awake out of a dream that, of course, had been about an earthquake for about 5 seconds, but by the time I was totally conscious, it was over. I lay there for a second thinking “did that just happen or was it a dream?” Rolled over, grabbed my laptop off my nightstand, and checked USGS, said “huh, how about that,” and went back to sleep.

Idea: the Angel prospects at Rancho C. are starting up