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Witness location : Wasco (USA) (6 km N from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 15 min

Make sure your kids know what to do in case of an earthquake! It started out as a soft rumble but quickly went to OMG grab the kids!!!!

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (26 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

Just sitting on the porch with my old dog Paw, who's all I got, when the whole house came crumbling down

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (26 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

Crazy

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (27 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 24 min

Rolling of the room. Then nothing. Waves in the pool continued for several minutes

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (27 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

Crazy

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (27 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 42 min

Low rumble followed by sharp jolt .. One picture fell over on a entertainment center ..

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (29 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

It shook hard enough to knock me down and lift my cat and then knock him down. My house shook very hard.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (29 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Minor shaking of the building.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (30 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Strong shaking very short duration

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (31 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 9 min

The earthquake hit and my coworkers and I felt about 4 or 5 rolls of the ground and heard everything shaking.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (33 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

I am in a mobile home and my entire house shook about four seconds

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (33 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 8 min

Thought the dogs were banging on my chair. Then realized there weren't in here. Then seen the chains to the ceiling fans swaying.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (34 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

I was sitting at my sewing machine. I felt a rolling under me. It didn't feel like a usual earthquake because the earth under me was rolling instead of a jerk which I am used to. A few items on the table fell off and rolled, overhead fans and lights swinging. I got in a doorway.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (35 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 10 min

Just a quick jolt

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (37 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 12 min

I was outside trimming my palms and it felt like someone hit the block wall between my property and the street with there car or truck

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (37 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 352 min

Heard a boom noise, then the building I was in shook for a few seconds. I was on the 2nd floor.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (39 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 8 min

It cracked our front window and shook the house. The couch I was sitting on moved several inches.

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (42 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

I knew by the way it felt that we must be almost on top of it. I was in bed and my bed went almost straight up and down and it sounded like my door was going to blow open!

Witness location : Bakersfield (USA) (46 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 4 min

Ceiling fans and chairs shook

Witness location : Arvin (USA) (62 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 3 min

Felt my chair move and saw my computer screen boucing a little...

Witness location : Corcoran (USA) (64 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 33 min

Heard rumbling like a truck was coming down the street , the the windows started rattling.

Witness location : Porterville (USA) (65 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 66 min

It felt like rumbling. At first we thought it was someone going down the stairs outside and then it got a lot harder.