A town that was built under the leve lof the Sacramento River got a wake up call from Mother Nature when a moderate, but highly noticeable earthquake shook it, up right after stores opened. At 9:30 this morning, phones began signaling to expect earthquake shaking from Sacramento County through the East Bay.
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Residents of Isleton, a small town with 800 residents about 60 miles northeast of Oakland, were struck hardest. Reports for Isleton, which sits below a levee on the Sacramento River, originally identified the quake as a magnitude 5.7, but it was quickly revised down to a 4.1, according to the United States Geological Survey.
"The whole shelves go like side to side and behind me there were some bottles that I just kind of heard them falling. We didn't know what was going on," Carbagal said. "This one didn't seem strong to me at all," said Julianne Rile, who experienced the both big Napa and Tahoe quakes. She spoke of today’s quake saying. "It was more rolling, that's what I felt. Other people might say something different.
His best advice: Put every earthquake alert available on your devices to assure alerts get to you as soon as possible. Perhaps the most important question for Isleton was how did the levees perform?
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