Oct. 20th, 2011

starlady: the cover from Shaun Tan's The Arrival, showing an aquanaut in suburbia (i'm a stranger here myself)
4.0, ~one second long, less than one mile from where I'm sitting. If it had lasted any longer I'd have gotten under my desk. No damage. 

The epicenter was SE of the main Berkeley campus, under one of the dorms, right on the Hayward fault. Note to self: buy some flats of water and non-perishable food this weekend.
starlady: the cover from Shaun Tan's The Arrival, showing an aquanaut in suburbia (i'm a stranger here myself)
Currently classified as a 3.9, lasted longer, probably about two seconds. Epicenter less than half a mile from my house, again right on the fault (again on UC Berkeley property). 

At this point my hope is that I'm in my (very earthquake-survivable) house when the big one hits.