I thought it was a cat-quake, too. Until I realized that we'd locked them in the mudroom for the night (with their favorite toy . . . the dog :-)!

A local writer in our paper calls it "Daylight Shifting Time" since it doesn't 'save' anything.
My first thought when I heard about your quake this morning was hoping you and kitties were all OK. Glad to hear it was just a wake up call for you (kind of like at a hotel when I forget to check the alarm and it goes off before the crack of dawn).

Bobquake - you do make me chuckle!!!

I shocked myself with this quake..I didn't jump out of bed like a maniac searching for a door frame..does this mean after over 25 years of living in So Cal I am finally getting used to quakes??

As I used to call one that size: A Roll Over and Go Back to Sleep Shaker.

Oh, the jiggling & shaking, glasses rattling in the cupboard...then I just sit down, and it all ends ;)
Srsly, my 15 lb monster kitty can make the whole house shake if she jumps off the bar. I'm waiting for New Madrid to let loose, that'll be a gas.

"The fake 4 a.m." hee hee!!! I say that, too! I'm glad you and the kitties are ok.

Glad you and kitties are all okay. What a wake-up call!

Well, actually it does save something, apart from the sanity of residents of the frozen Northeast. Having the daylight coincide as much as possible with the hours most people are at work or school or on their way there saves a lot of money and energy. I know it's a pain, but it's true.

Of course, if you already get up ridiculously early as Laurie does, you can refrain from shifting and still be on an approximately normal schedule.

(For some reason, despite having lived for 30+ years with a man who never gets up before 9 am if he can help it and still gets way more work done than I do, somewhere in the back of my mind I still associate early rising with moral virtue. This does not make any sense, since, as my husband proves, you can get just as much done from 9 am to 1 am as from 6 am to 10 pm. Nonetheless it is rooted deep in my Yankee Puritan brain.)

Word of the day - "liquefaction." Was at the beach one day with a bunch of seismic engineers and they eagerly went to the surf line and demonstrated the principles of liquefaction where the sand gets all water-soaked and squiggly under your feet.

Also creepy: The realization that I am psychic. I woke from a dead sleep moments before the quake, thought to myself "I think we're about to have an earthquake," and not 5 seconds later the room started shaking. (I'm in the San Gabriel Valley which is a bit closer to the epicenter than you are, so in reality a little pre-shake probably woke me and my subconscious was with it enough to register what was happening....but at the time, in the half-asleep state of pseudo 4 am, it really seemed like I'd had a prescient moment. Super creepy.)

I'm with you .... daylight savings time is at the bottom of this. Glad to find another DST hater!

Last night I had to pick up a few things for my daughter's school lunch. The mother and daughter in line ahead of me were buying a lot of canned and boxed goods. I thought it looked like earthquake supplies. Then we had an earthquake? Hmmm...maybe I am a psychic friend.

Quake-up calls are more effective than wake-up calls from the front desk. I never sleep through falling out of bed. The racing heart and confused fear always get me up and ready for the day, too.

A 4.4 at 4:04?? That is.... awesome.

As a geologist in a former life, I am proud, and sorry, that you know the word liquefaction.

And in conclusion, the kale soup recipe that you recommend is FREAKING AWESOME. My 2 year old lapped it up and asked for more. Thank you so much!!

I don't think an earthquake of 4.4 would wake me up. Well, the rolling kind wouldn't. A jolt type might. I think that's what you get as a native....

Do your cats hide before an earthquake? Mine did. It kind of freaked me out that she knew it was coming.

Glad you're ok!

Stupid daylight savings. UGH.

Hate it.

I wish it would stay DST all year. I like it to stay lighter later.

I was living in LA during Northridge. Why do quakes always seem to strike at 4 am? Talk about rude awakenings. Here's hoping this one wasn't a prelude to anything else. I remember a couple weeks before Northridge, though, sitting in a movie with my son and feeling a hard jolt; and then talking with friends about how it felt like "earthquake weather." Something just didn't feel right. As it turned out, it wasn't....

And that liquefaction is awful, isn't it? We had to empty out the yellow-tagged apartment of a friend on a liquefaction area, and the aftershocks were a whole lot scarier there than in my home that happened to be built on bedrock.

Ah, the memories. Now I just live where we get blizzards, the occasional tornado, and hurricanes otherwise known as Nor'easters. I think I prefer earthquakes!

not your fault, just your FAULT

What a funny little post this morning! Past few days have been bummers for me so it made me smile. Well, the earthquake wasn't funny but the bobquake probably would have been. :)

So glad you're ok!!

Freaky weather and whats with all the earthquakes? It rained in Boston from Friday night until sometime Monday night without letting up. I love a weekend day of rain just to lay low but this was scarey. It was the best feeling driving home from work last night in sunlight. Thank-you DST!