small earthquake in Milpitas CA just now

[lapfog_1]

felt like about a 4.0 or so from this vantage point... decent movement but nothing fell down.

[Lovie777]

1. California have constant very small movements...........

melting of the South and North does not help nor the destruction of rain forests, drilling neither.

[Blues Heron]

3. How does the destruction of the rain forest affect plate tectonics?

[senseandsensibility]

2. I felt it

Didn't know where it was centered, but it felt short and sharp here.

[JohnSJ]

4. I thought it was in hollester

[icymist]

5. 4.5 earthquake 2km N of Tres Pinos, CA on the USGS site

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=nc73866925&extent=-62.26792,-263.67188&extent=83.40004,73.82813

[hunter]

6. That was a pretty good one.

I measure them by my dogs. They noticed that one.

[usonian]

7. That's pretty close to San Juan Bautista, on the San Andreas fault.

Mission San Juan Bautista is definitely worth visiting, because the effect of the steady plate slippage is visible on the grounds.

It's also where some fantastic scenes from Vertigo were filmed. Notably the bell tower.

I don't know how often earthquakes happen there. People say that the steady slippage relives stress along the fault line.

Obviously, not all of it.

Open to fact-checking.