When a team moves its training camp from Texas to California, the team accepts all the things, good and bad, that go with being in California.

In the case of the Dallas Cowboys, the bad includes an earthquake, which struck on Tuesday.

It was a 5.8 on the Richter scale, and the Cowboys were on the fringes of the shaking at their camp in Oxnard.

Writes Tim McMahon of the Dallas Morning News:  “All the sudden, I had a sensation of the ground swaying a little bit.  I looked to my left to see if Todd Archer felt the same thing, and his eyes were about the size of dinner plates.  The trees and light poles rocked back and forth a bit, and then it was over.”

[Editor’s note:  I was living in Oakland in 1986, and was rudely awakened by a 5.6.  The experience was a key factor in my decision not to live in California after finishing college.  And to the Bay Area native who insisted way back when that “when it’s your time, it’s your time,” I’ll reiterate what I said in response.  “If you choose not to live where the earthquake is, then it’s not your time.”]