San Antonio College evacuated several campus buildings and even canceled classes after the shaking 'out of an abundance of caution.'
At least three reports from San Antonio were filed as of 4:20 p.m., joining at least three from Austin. One report came from Pleasanton, in Northern California.
San Antonio College sent out a text and phone alert at 4:06: “Please avoid the Chance Academic Center and Moody Learning Center and Scobbe Planetarium until further notice.”At the Moody Learning Center, campus personnel on the fifth floor felt the shaking, and somebody on the seventh floor said they saw furniture moving due to the quake, according to Ken Slavin, SAC’s director of marketing and strategic communications.
Bryan Nguyen, a computer science major at SAC was waiting for his class to start at the Student Advocacy Center when someone entered the building and told him everyone had to evacuate.
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