We had a pretty good earthquake last night

[abcdefz]

...this is the third one I've been in since I moved to Cali, and the second one I felt.

5.6, about six miles from where I live. The one I was in years ago, I was living in a tiny cottage, and it felt like I was rolling over big waves
on the ocean. The one last night was much more like lurching -- like some giant grabbed our building and shook it like a Christmas package.

So far all I've noticed is that one small sculpture I have fell over. No big deal.

Earthquakes are exciting until someone gets hurt.

[abcdefz]

Two cheeks and a couple of chins. (y)

[fucktopgirl]

I don't know if you heard of this, but the San Andreas fault will eventually make a big wave, tsunami , that will flood all the west coast; from British Colombia to California.

So they said....

[abcdefz]

I don't know if you heard of this, but the San Andreas fault will eventually make a big wave, tsunami , that will flood all the west coast; from British Colombia to California.

So they said....




And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this hotel will be standing
Until I pay my bill

[MC Moot]

When I was a billet in Japan, I was in Kyoto and we had a 6.1...it was awesome....it was like the building took a big inhale and then exhaled...there were a couple of electrical fires on the block and people out in the streets for hours,running to and fro.....if the level of panic woould have been stepped it might have looked like a scene from Godzilla...there were all these guy's in different colored jumpsuits/hardhats (Intergalactic style) directing traffic and resources...so damned organized and efficient....(y)

[abcdefz]

They also said I was hung...and they was right.



You mean "hanged."

[abcdefz]

No way I'm clicking that, dude.

[monkey]

i made a little joke about god hating california, and my california friends got mad. but first you get fires, then you get earthquakes... someone is trying to kill y'allz.

[abcdefz]

i made a little joke about god hating california, and my california friends got mad. but first you get fires, then you get earthquakes... someone is trying to kill y'allz.



Yeah. Nothing bad ever happens anywhere else.

[abcdefz]

Come on, I promise, no, I guarantee it will put a smile on your face.

Scout's honor.



Nope nope nope.

Besides, I've got Brahms' 4th cranked up right now. Enjoying the place before co-workers get in. (y)

[trailerprincess]

I experienced a very small one (an earthquake that is!) whilst in Japan too.

It was enough to wake me but my friend who had lived there for 15 years didn't even notice.

It was small enough to not be scary but enough to make me think that I had 'experienced' it to some degree.

[abcdefz]

They're pretty fun when they're not harmful, aren't they?

[trailerprincess]

TP will you click my link?

Um...

You know what I mean.


My mum told me never to click a boy's link.

[abcdefz]

Aww come on. Watch, I'll click it. See? That's is great, and damn am I smiling.



You know that they're doing a Young Frankenstein musical now? And if that comes off, Blazing Saddles is next.

Ugh.

[cookiepuss]

we felt it a little up here in Santa Rosa!!!! of course at the time I didn't know it was a quake. I was sitting up in bed reading and i felt a little dizzy. it felt like the bed was rocking a little...it was very subtle for us. So much so that I thought it was all in my head until I herd the news.

They are calling this the biggest since the Loma Prieta. but I don't see the comparison...Loma was 7.1 and this was 5.6. I know we've had other quakes in the 5 point range since then. maybe they mean the biggest on the same fault line since Loma?

[abcdefz]

Naw, I think it just means what it says: the biggest one since. Kind of like "most rainfall in a single day since..." It doesn't have to be
comparable to be "the biggest one since...."

Supposedly there's a chance of another in the next few days, about the same magnitude. The only damage seems to be some broken
glass here and there, a ruptured water main, stuff like that. No injuries reported that I know of.

[b i o n i c]

and THIS is the reason i will never live in california

i dunno, the thought of being swallowed up by the earth at any given moment might affect my sleeping patterns somewhat

[abcdefz]

You pretty much take it in stride unless there's damage. Seriously.

Plus, we don't get many tornadoes, so it's kind of a trade off.

[TurdBerglar]

new england doesn't get shit. beat that! blizzards are even extinct now!

[cookiepuss]

and THIS is the reason i will never live in california

i dunno, the thought of being swallowed up by the earth at any given moment might affect my sleeping patterns somewhat

oh geeez. that's an over reaction if i ever heard one. its really not that bad. I survived the 7.1 quake in 89 and to be honest on most days it never occurs to be that the "big one" is coming.

and actually I'm alll for a few more quakes to scare people like you away. we don't need anymore people moving here. I can say that cause I was born here.:p

[abcdefz]

I remember in elementary school, one of my best friends being horrified at the idea that I'd ever move to California. He was blown away
that anyone would want to move to a state where you knew that part of it was going to slide into the ocean one day.

I can't imagine living life like that -- forever scared of something which might not even happen in your lifetime.

[beastieangel01]

hahaha @ people thinking the ground will swallow you up

hahahaha

I agree that earthquakes can be fun when they are small and don't harm anyone. And usually they don't. Half the time I am asleep and it feels like the bed swayed a few times so I wake up a bit and roll over and fall right back to sleep.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by beastieangel01
Half the time I am asleep and it feels like the bed swayed a few times so I wake up a bit and roll over and fall right back to sleep.

That's usually what she says :(

[buddylee]

...this is the third one I've been in since I moved to Cali, and the second one I felt.

5.6, about six miles from where I live. The one I was in years ago, I was living in a tiny cottage, and it felt like I was rolling over big waves
on the ocean. The one last night was much more like lurching -- like some giant grabbed our building and shook it like a Christmas package.

So far all I've noticed is that one small sculpture I have fell over. No big deal.

Earthquakes are exciting until someone gets hurt.


this was a little jolt. not like back in 89 the whole city was jacked up bad.
Hell Downtown Los Gatos was in bad shape for a year or more.

all this one did was make me stop eating my taco and pick up my Dog.