If you live in another state/country, it sounds horrendous. If you're in California, you don't know they even happened unless you're at the epi-center. And most of the folks there get dizzy for a minute, see the tassle on the lamp swinging, and wonder what that was about briefly before they go back to watching tv/reading their book/napping.
My brother's fiancee was with him here in SF when it happened. I asked her if she felt it and she said "Nope". Didn't even know it happened until they saw it on the news themselves.
But all the hype on the news, you'd think it was a disaster of the proportion of the Iran quake a few days later. Now that's and earthquake.
Earthquakes in California are just a ploy to scare away people from moving here.
Now watch the "big one" come and swallow me whole! ; )
The big one in Taiwan happened during my first year of college, and I made a few rather panicky phone calls home. Living in Taiwan is a lot like CA, earthquake-wise (Pacific Rim?), so it gets kind of blase. Oh look, shaking. Huh, ok. Although after the big one, my mom has started taping down all the display porcelain and stuff so it won't fall off!
The one earthquake that actually sticks out in my head as memorable was when I was a kid back in the '70's. We were living in Orange County. It happened at night. I remember my mom crying because her dishes were falling in the kitchen and breaking.
It must have been the nice china, the family china, 'cause I don't think she'd cry about stuff from the Pottery Shack.
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Earthquakes in California
Sun, Dec. 28th, 2003 08:46 pm (UTC)My brother's fiancee was with him here in SF when it happened. I asked her if she felt it and she said "Nope". Didn't even know it happened until they saw it on the news themselves.
But all the hype on the news, you'd think it was a disaster of the proportion of the Iran quake a few days later. Now that's and earthquake.
Earthquakes in California are just a ploy to scare away people from moving here.
Now watch the "big one" come and swallow me whole! ; )
Re: Earthquakes in California
Sun, Dec. 28th, 2003 10:17 pm (UTC)The big one in Taiwan happened during my first year of college, and I made a few rather panicky phone calls home. Living in Taiwan is a lot like CA, earthquake-wise (Pacific Rim?), so it gets kind of blase. Oh look, shaking. Huh, ok. Although after the big one, my mom has started taping down all the display porcelain and stuff so it won't fall off!
Re: Earthquakes in California
Sun, Dec. 28th, 2003 10:45 pm (UTC)It must have been the nice china, the family china, 'cause I don't think she'd cry about stuff from the Pottery Shack.