Earthquake!
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Laura
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It was a 4.0. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc51207740.php
I was wondering when I'd get my first one here. I'm all excited that it's happened
The nice thing about earthquakes, as opposed to hurricanes, is that most of them are mild and they are over very very quickly.
I was wondering when I'd get my first one here. I'm all excited that it's happened
The nice thing about earthquakes, as opposed to hurricanes, is that most of them are mild and they are over very very quickly.
Laura
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One cat meowed, but she might have wanted water. The other one didn't do anything. Nothing fell down, the windows rattled a bit and I could feel the building sway slightly (which is good), but that was it.
Laura
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Yeah, I just emailed my parents in New Hampshire. I'd hate for my dad to be up late (he's an insomniac) and hear about it on the news and not know how I was doing. Or for them to read about it in the paper in the morning. Between the hippies and the earthquakes, they worry about me a lot out here
Even though I've been here for over 14 years.Absolutely nothing happened here, though, so no worries.
Terpsichorean Clod
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4.0? :yawn: :razz:
Congrats on inaugurating your new place! :applause:
Congrats on inaugurating your new place! :applause:
ChaChaMama
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When I moved out to California (having lived on the East Coast my whole life), my first earthquake was a 7.0. And I was in the shower when it happened!
I never got as relaxed about them as you seem to be, but I loved living in California! (I lived in the East Bay--Oakland, El Cerrito, Richmond).
I never got as relaxed about them as you seem to be, but I loved living in California! (I lived in the East Bay--Oakland, El Cerrito, Richmond).
Laura
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I think I'm relaxed because I've never experienced one strong enough to knock anything over.
Twilight_Elena
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London apparently knows not the meaning of earthquake. In Greece, we get the occasional one every now and then, so we're used to it. It's pretty silly to watch the Englishmen squirm because of 2.0 Richters.
Kassia
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Welcome to the West Coast.. That was a small earthquake, btw.. Sort of like a practice one!! Up here in Canada we get little ones all the time.. They happen about every 18 months and the epicenters are just off the coast of Vancouver Island...
I'd rather lots of little quakes than one gigantic one.. The one that damaged Olympia WA a few years back was a 6.2 and we sure felt it up here near Vancouver BC.
I'd rather lots of little quakes than one gigantic one.. The one that damaged Olympia WA a few years back was a 6.2 and we sure felt it up here near Vancouver BC.
Hmmm ... 2008 - 14 = 1994 ... yeah, you weren't here for the last BIG one. Being a native (in fact a 4th generation San Franciscan), I've been through a few, and I'm fairly relaxed because I haven't experienced severe damage myself ... so far the major problems have been relatively localized (not to dismiss the reality of death and destruction, just that they actually affect only a small portion of the population).