Seismic Excitement

[hrj]

Several small quakes today. I've come to enjoy going immediately to the Did You Feel It? earthquake reporting site, not only to validate my observation, but to put in my own data. I seem to have missed the 11:24 am Orinda quake, probably due to being in a car heading off to a restaurant for lunch, but the 11:34 am quake happened after we'd been seated. It was of the "did a semi truck just run into the building?" variety. We all looked around, exclaimed, "Hey, earthquake!" then went back to perusing the menu. The third one was about ten minutes ago. Just a tiny little 2.9, but the epicenter was in Berkeley, so it was rather noticeable.

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[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

Funny! I thought a truck had hit our trailer until I rememeberd you can't really maneuver a truck that close to our trailer anymore. (Because like mushrooms in the rain, other trailers have sprung up around us!)

heh! glad you answered that mystery.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

I, too, like the shake maps. The "Did you feel it" reports are very interesting when we get one up here -- Rescue/Cameron Park/Shingle Springs apparently has the right kind of strata/something that we get shook a little harder than the communities around us.

[gunnora.livejournal.com]

Intermittently I find myself wanting to move to San Diego, but I am terrified of the idea of earthquakes.

Nevermind that I live in rural Texas, where dealing with mountain lions, coyotes, skunks, scorprions, black widow spiders, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins is A Way of Life. They are known (if terribly annoying or adrenaline-inducing, depending on size, ferocity, and whether it just bit me) while earthquakes are unknown to me.

Our "Did You Feel it?" analog is we can tell when the cows begin to calve because we get howling coyotes in the backyard hollering right under the window, waiting for their chance at some veal if they're lucky. i.e., not at all the same.

I love the climate in California in several places, but I wonder if the unknowns would make a move possible?

(And, of course, at this point I'd do almost anything to move out of Texas so my international friends will quit blaming me for Our Fearless Leader).

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Intermittently I find myself wanting to move to San Diego, but I am terrified of the idea of earthquakes.

Nevermind that I live in rural Texas, where dealing with mountain lions, coyotes, skunks, scorprions, black widow spiders, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins is A Way of Life.


Of course, we have mountain lions, coyotes, skunks, scorpions, black widow spiders, and rattlesnakes in California too (so you'd feel right at home). In the Bay Area we regularly (if not, in fact, commonly) get mountain lions accidentally wandering into urban areas. When I grew up in San Diego, my Dad brought me home a road-kill coyote from only a few miles away from our house. There was at least one skunk that visited the cat food on the patio there, and the neighbors once caught a rattlesnake in their dog pen. One place I lived in Davis, I'd find black widows spinning webs across the doorway about every other day in the summer (and once surprised one in the sleeve of a shirt I was putting on).

But we do encourage out-of-staters to be afraid of earthquakes. They're horrible and nasty ... not like those friendly little tornados, hurricanes, and blizzards that other states get. *grin*