Bay Area residents feel shaken by Sierra earthquake – CBS San Francisco

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Pleasanton, Quebec – People in the Bay Area reported Thursday afternoon that they felt the 6.0-magnitude earthquake centered between Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

Everyone described it a little differently. Some described it as more of a rumble, others said it felt like waves but everyone else felt it was enough to get their nerves on their nerves.

“High potential for disaster here, right? You see all these bottles.” Eric Edgar, who runs a wine hostel in downtown Pleasanton, said, “These bottles are on the little shelves there.” He was working in the shop when the earthquake hit.

“It was shivering a lot and piling up and going on for quite some time,” he said. Eric’s first thought was wine.

“I’ve been here for 22 years and we haven’t lost our bottle yet because of the earthquake,” Edgar said.

Read more: Aftershocks expected for days after a magnitude 6 earthquake shakes the Eastern Sierra

Across the Bay Area, from Concord to Hayward to Daly City, people have posted videos of swinging lamps and swinging chandeliers.

“I was in my room and suddenly everything was shaking and I had these little clouds on my ceiling and they were moving back and forth. My brother and sister came running out of their rooms,” said Emma Nelson, who lives in Dublin.

“I felt like my desk was shaking a little bit. This was the longest earthquake I’ve felt since I’ve lived here for 20 years, so I thought it was very important,” said Dave McMorrow, a Pleasanton resident.

READ MORE: Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes eastern Sierra Nevada

The USGS says that people hundreds of miles from the epicenter can feel the shaking, from Redding to Sacramento to Fresno and to San Jose and San Francisco.

“The earthquake is the result of common error. It is a well-understood and predictable mechanism for an earthquake on the eastern border of the Sierra Nevada Mountains,” said Austin Elliott of the USGS.

Dozens of aftershocks occurred on Thursday afternoon and continued into the evening. The US Geological Survey compiled the aftershock forecast and said there was a 6 percent chance that the aftershock was larger than the initial quake.

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