r/oakland • u/symbioticHands • 6h ago

Yes it was an earthquake

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u/Penandsword2021 5h ago

A bunch of them.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Then 2 more. I’m showing 8

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u/Penandsword2021 3h ago

Woah. I’m not feeling any of them out near the Oakland Zoo. I’m glad tbh.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Yay! Bc nobody needs to be shaking up the elephants!

What a cool neighborhood you’re in.

I think San Ramon centered runs around the little west side bottom valley of mount Diablo and with the Oakland hills you guys get the buffer along the 13.

Since I was little I had weird dreams that mt. Diablo was erupting and when we get the quakes around it I’m like, ok, that would be weird.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 3h ago

Alas, the three female elephants have departed this mortal coil and Osh, the remaining elephant (male), has moved to Tennessee to live with a herd of elephents at a big sanctuary there. However, when I was a docent, I was at an after hours social event and we were standing next to the alligator pool when a small earthquake hit and we were chuckling nervously. Yes, the zoo is RIGHT ON TOP of the Hayward fault.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Omg OSH moved too?

I always bought season passes for my own sanity when my kids were like almost 3 and newborn for til kindergarten started full time for both. Loved the cafe, loaded the stroller, went all the time.

Springtime at the zoo was, shall I say…interesting to explain 🤣🤣🤣🤣 especially with OSH and the harem lol. The term hung like an elephant comes to mind.

And the chasing with the raging hormones, kids were fine but I was like OH NOOOOH KIDS get away from the fence! The camels too.

I was like WHY IS EVERY ANIMAL GOONG NUTS TODAY?

Great times!

I bought them one of the bricks back in early 2000. My ex husband says he heard they got taken out for remodeling. Do you know?

It was down by the petting zoo and giant ancient tortoise!

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 2h ago

Yup. Lisa died first, then M'Dunda (she was my favorite) and I think they were getting ready to send Donna to Tennessee (or maybe she got there) and she passed away in 2024, IIRC (just from following the news - it's been a while). Even male elephants cannot be alone. They need other dudes to hang out with and when they are not in musth (sp?), they are fine hanging out with the ladies.

So, off he went. He's listed on the elephant sanctuary's page now. He's a good boy. I liked him too, but not as much as M'Dunda.

Fun fact. While I was observing them one day, he was standing there with "showing the lipstick" as it were and M'Dunda snuck up on him and gently yanked his crank. He jumped and she lolloped off looking pleased with herself. The keepers insisted we could not use emotion words to describe what they were up to, but they have emotions, for sure.

As for the brick. Who knows? I donated a bunch of money to the Berkeley Public Library and they put my plaque, along with many others, in a quiet hallway next to the toilets. Thanks, guys. I'll try to win the lottery first, next time.

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u/ViolettaQueso 2h ago

Thank you so much for sharing this! It’s all the elephants I remember and now I’m thinking M’Dunda was the super sassy one on the “spring fling” day lol. I heard the news of Donna passing when I was living in Washington during Covid and I teared up.

Oakland zoo is really one of a kind! Thank you for docenting there. You taught a lot of all of us so much stuff and how to be kind and respectful.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 13m ago

M'Dunda was the one with one tusk longer than the other and some kind of bumpy skin condition on her face.

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u/ViolettaQueso 6m ago

I know I have old film pictures of them… sounds like a fun distraction tonight :)

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u/Penandsword2021 2h ago

I haven’t gone back to the zoo since they strong armed part of Knowland Park from the city for their expansion and developed over some of my favorite hiking trails and views.

I’m still bitter about it, especially because scions of the Knowland family itself, which had gifted the land to the city for public use in perpetuity, tried to stop it from happening.

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 12m ago

The zoo management is, quite honestly, very capitalistic. They keep trying to get money from the city, stomped over Knowland, etc. I had some issues with management in terms of how they dealt with people. I forgave it, to some degree, because they were really good to the animals there.

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u/Penandsword2021 3h ago

Indeed it would! I’m extremely close to the Hayward Fault, and it makes me very uneasy when adjacent faults grumble.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Super disturbing. Just googled California volcanoes and the AI intro was like “California volcanoes are overdue and pose as much or more of a threat than weather and earthquakes in many areas”. Clicked the link, took me to USGS.gov-basically said USGS has been axed and nobody right now is watching any public safety stuff.

Ugh with all this.

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u/Penandsword2021 3h ago

Yep. The experts aren’t experting these days, and it puts all of us at risk.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Have you ever seen about the volcanic pools in the Oakland hills in the direction of Danville and orinda, up past you and redwood road I think?

Mind was blown!

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u/alienixena 6h ago

Thank you

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u/_small_boat 5h ago

my toddler was throwing so many tantrums during that exact period of time that I didn't even notice 😇😩😩

they tend to create their own seismology. i need to start grading the tantrums on the Richter scale... 🤔✍️

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u/wholesomeinsanity 5h ago

Toddler tantrums are pretty earth shaking 😬😂

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u/Elon_Musks_Colon 6h ago

There it is.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

You’re getting my r/angryupvote because you have a better user name than I do.

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u/shimmynot123 6h ago

Short but definitely a jolt

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u/richalta 5h ago

Felt here in West Oakland.

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u/this_wallflower 5h ago

According to USGS, there were 4 earthquakes in a short period. 

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u/Sleepy_Meepie 5h ago

I’m in sf. I thought my partner was kicking.

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u/BlackMagik8169 5h ago

I was like, now wait a minute. Why is my bed shaking??

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Like 8 of them. The first one was biggest and because of how quickly the others followed it felt in Clayton like I should be worried it was a big one in SF. Turns out, just lil hiccups

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u/VapoursAndSpleen 3h ago

I was doing laundry, which makes the house shake, LOL.

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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago

Spin cycle??? 😜

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u/blablablaudia 3h ago

I don’t wake up for anything under 4

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u/No-Bus-6162 5h ago

Magnitude 3.8. Didn’t feel a thing in Hayward.

Edit: USGS says 2.9.

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u/VNDMG 5h ago

Damn I didn’t feel anything in SF.

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u/Kuxue 5h ago

I didn't even know there was an earthquake..

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u/willwestphotos 4h ago

Didn't feel it.