Maybe I should have said tremor. I’d say we get one a month on average. The one yesterday was a bit stronger than usual. No worries, no big deal.
In high school I lived in Quito, Ecuador for a year. Lots of tremors there too. I’m quite used to the ground shaking from time to time. It’s just like part of the weather. Seems like those of you from places where the earth stays still picture major devastation when you think of earthquakes.
As bad as this may sound…I would like to experience and earthquake some time in my life. I would prefer a small tremor. heh
Isn’t 1st September Disaster Prevention Day? Perhaps Mother Nature was simply cooperating to lend realism and a sense of urgency to the drills? 😉
we in california have got to the point where we rate them after they pass. after “the big one” in October 1989 (7.0) all have been just little peckers. I don’t want to go through that shit again, I thought it was the end of the world and the after shocks scared everyone shitless.
So much depends on where you are relative to the epicenter and the type of “slip”. Once I was quite literally thrown from my bed from a quake very nearly directly under me (w/in a mile of the epicenter) that was in the Richter-5 range — this felt like a wrecking ball hit the side of the house — one BANG and it was over. Another (the ’89, sakuradamon mentions) I was about 90+ miles from its epicenter and it felt like being on a roller coaster for about a minute and a half (enough time, that my wife called me at my office to tell me that our fish tank was sloshing — and we talked while it was still rolling by). Fun times 😉
beach babes……. beach babes……..
Hmmm… maybe I should make it pay-per-view.