Ooo - wiggly!

[melchar]

The earthquake started with a very sharp jolt, lots of wiggles and shakes for about 20 seconds and then was dying down just as it hit KGO [they were doing the 8pm news].

It knocked over half a shelf of books, a couple mugs [that didn't break] and tilted pictures. No obvious damage.

But I'd -just- finished a half hour Boss fight in SMT Digital Devil Saga and was running to a save point. The earthquake had me going - 'Aaah - power don't fail me now!'. [yay! no power failure]

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[kaichi-satake.livejournal.com]

(^o^) I remember the first quake I felt. I was on the 2nd floor of the Barnes & Noble on Glendale Ave, in downtown Glendale. That store has a 2-story glass front, which kind of leans in an odd way toward the sidewalk. When the quake hit, all the books danced on the shelves and it was hard to keep standing on that wobbly 2nd floor. The whole time, I was fascinated, thinking "How cool!" My only concern was that the big glass wall might shatter and hurt somebody, but it didn't. I heard a woman on the other side of the shelves screaming "I want to go back to Kentucky!" And that was just a tiny shake! ;P

The funny thing is that Carson was walking on the street, about a block away, at the time, and he didn't even feel the quake, at all. I was never afraid of the ones I felt, certainly not in the way that seeing a tornado tail flick out of a green-grey cloud makes me afraid. I might feel differently about quakes, had I ever been through a big one, though.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

[nods] Earthquakes are spooky because they are unexpected and can be damaging, but IMO a tornado or hurricane is SO much more frightening just because they are so much more destructive.

I've been through rather a lot of quakes in the 'larger' range [up to about 6.0], but 'missed out' on larger ones. [knocks wood] I hope I can maintain that record. ^_^

[crymsongoddess.livejournal.com]

Woo! No power failure indeed!!

I was in my office. It was fun. It started off sounding like someone was running across our ceiling!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

It was a very abrupt *thump* here, followed by lots of wiggling [as I was going 'Gah, need a save point!']

Glad you 'made it through' okay, too!

[boojumbunn.livejournal.com]

It knocked over a couple of mugs? Oh no, now you need a boojum house! *giggle* This was ShadowCatt-X's very first earthquake that she was awake for. The first words out of her mouth were "Was that an Earthquake? Was that an Earthquake?" When I confirmed that is was she went "Woo hoo!!" Thought a moment, then bounced out of her chair with a cry of "My horses!"

*giggle* The horses were ok.
Boojum the brown bunny

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Glad all the horses are safe [and I assume the rest of the stuff, too]. We tried to call and got busy signals [and then heard on the radio that cell phone lines were slammed], but figured you'd be OK. But you guys were closer to the epicenter than we were.

[vrghr.livejournal.com]

Quakes can definitely get the blood pumping! Sounds like all came through Okay - glad to hear that!

[nobarking.livejournal.com]

Not even EARTHQUAKES trump gaming! <3

Now see, if they could schedule earthquakes, they'd have tons of folks from tectonically-stable-and-boring Toronto flooding down to experience them.