Well, it was up in Ojai, a ways from here. Also, the narrow valley I live in was created by a fault (dorment for a few million years) so things got pretty crushed up. The ground is shattered rotten granite, which doesn't propagate earthquake waves very well.

At the rather serious Sylmar earthquake, one family in there just grabbed some stuff and headed back to the Midwest, I think it was Cleveland. They figured they'd just send for their stuff. They settled into a motel - and then Cleveland had its first earthquake in a great many years. It was very mild (by California standards), but disturbed a lot of people there - and they knew who to blame for bringing it.