I heard about it on the news much later, and thinking back, I do recall the windows rattling just a tiny bit around the right time. But it's several hundred miles from here (San Jose) to up near the Oregon border where the quake happened; and it happened about 30 miles offshore, I believe.

Not that I don't appreciate the potential seriousness of any quake of that magnitude, especially underwater, but its effects at this distance were almost subliminal. That's historically a hot spot for quakes, being, I believe, the junction of three tectonic plates. I remember being impressed as a kid by the devastation wrought on the north coast by an offshore quake around 1960. Hearing that an earthquake was offshore does not reassure me, having seen what tsunamis can do.