I was on Mount Baldy on the bike for the first one, too. Didn't feel anything. Second one I was home and felt a little shaking.

In 1971 I was very near the epicenter of that quake. My bed was sliding around the room and I thought the house was coming down, but it didn't. Our block walls fell down, got a 2 inch crack in the garage floor, closet doors would swing open after that. My dad was shaving and it tossed him around. He grabbed the toilet seat and ripped it off of the toilet. All the usual stuff, dishes on the floor, refrigerator tipped over, etc. I think there were around 60 deaths, fewer than in the fires last year.

For the 1994 quake I was living in the mountains with my then wife, about 70 miles from the epicenter. Shook pretty bad but no damage there. Tried to go to work but the freeway had collapsed as did the shop where I worked. I think the damage in the area was in the billions.