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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[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*