I'm no geologist, but having moved there shortly after the Northridge quake of 1994, I learned that yes, it's possible to feel a very weak quake (and yours there wasn't terribly deep, so that may make it more perceptible,) if you're on just the right type of foundation (soil, I presume) at the time. It's also possible that someone closer to the epicenter would not feel it, even though you did, because they're on a different soil or foundation or whatever.
The weirdest experience I had with a quake in LA was one morning when I was in a friend's apartment with about 9 other people. I and three others sat around the dining table, two were in the kitchen, and the other 4 or 5 were in the living room, maybe 10 feet away from where I was. All of us in the dining room/kitchen felt a small shudder and sway in the room, and the lamp over the dining table swang a little. Those in the living room felt nothing.
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Date: 2007-01-29 10:37 pm (UTC)The weirdest experience I had with a quake in LA was one morning when I was in a friend's apartment with about 9 other people. I and three others sat around the dining table, two were in the kitchen, and the other 4 or 5 were in the living room, maybe 10 feet away from where I was. All of us in the dining room/kitchen felt a small shudder and sway in the room, and the lamp over the dining table swang a little. Those in the living room felt nothing.