Earthquake!

[stockstradr]

For those of you living down in “safe” San Diego wondering if us folk in the Bay Area are feeling like a martini, “well shaken, not stirred”…

YES, it was spooky. This was my first semi-major earthquake.

My wife and I live ten minutes drive from Alum Rock (epicenter) and heard our entire house start shaking at 8 PM. The shaking came on VERY fast, no gradual build up. It was short and intense. We ran the hell out of the house and found our neighbors also running into the street. Everyone was shaken enough to stay outside for a good twenty minutes, “just to be sure.”

However, it wasn’t bad enough to knock things off our shelves, but items certainly were rocking back and forth enough we expected to hear things hit the floor.

I came back inside the house and immediately ordered three earthquake alarms, which multiple web sites reviewed as being the best for the money:

http://www.earthquakestore.com/earthquake-alarms.php

Everyone’s worst nightmare is a bad quake hitting you middle of your nightly sleep. At least with an earthquake sensor alarm, you stand a chance.

[SD Realtor]

Hang in there stocks –

You will get used to them the longer you live here. Nocal and Socal both share the same earthquake risk. I lived right near Sylmar during the big boy in 1971 I think it was and have been through many big and small since then. They are scary, especially when you are not used to them.

They definitely leave an impression on you.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Hang in there stocks –

You will get used to them the longer you live here. Nocal and Socal both share the same earthquake risk. I lived right near Sylmar during the big boy in 1971 I think it was and have been through many big and small since then. They are scary, especially when you are not used to them.

They definitely leave an impression on you.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

Hang in there stocks –

You will get used to them the longer you live here. Nocal and Socal both share the same earthquake risk. I lived right near Sylmar during the big boy in 1971 I think it was and have been through many big and small since then. They are scary, especially when you are not used to them.

They definitely leave an impression on you.

SD Realtor

[raptorduck]

Considering I live in San Jose, I felt it pretty good. It shook for about 10 seconds and the chandeliers swayed back and forth for over 5 minutes from momentum. We all flew under a door frame and then skirted outside to find most of our neighbors doing the same. Once it stopped, we got on the USGS web site and added to their data collection.

I was here when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit and all its aftershocks and, consequently, am much more jumpy with quakes than I was before that.

p.s. I must confess and apologize to the state of Texas for wishing mother nature would leave California alone for a while and go there. I did not mean that (well the Texas part). I am still not over UTexas’ coach paying off AP voters to jump over Cal in the Rose Bowl voting a few years back.

[raptorduck]

Considering I live in San Jose, I felt it pretty good. It shook for about 10 seconds and the chandeliers swayed back and forth for over 5 minutes from momentum. We all flew under a door frame and then skirted outside to find most of our neighbors doing the same. Once it stopped, we got on the USGS web site and added to their data collection.

I was here when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit and all its aftershocks and, consequently, am much more jumpy with quakes than I was before that.

p.s. I must confess and apologize to the state of Texas for wishing mother nature would leave California alone for a while and go there. I did not mean that (well the Texas part). I am still not over UTexas’ coach paying off AP voters to jump over Cal in the Rose Bowl voting a few years back.

[raptorduck]

Considering I live in San Jose, I felt it pretty good. It shook for about 10 seconds and the chandeliers swayed back and forth for over 5 minutes from momentum. We all flew under a door frame and then skirted outside to find most of our neighbors doing the same. Once it stopped, we got on the USGS web site and added to their data collection.

I was here when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit and all its aftershocks and, consequently, am much more jumpy with quakes than I was before that.

p.s. I must confess and apologize to the state of Texas for wishing mother nature would leave California alone for a while and go there. I did not mean that (well the Texas part). I am still not over UTexas’ coach paying off AP voters to jump over Cal in the Rose Bowl voting a few years back.

[yooklid]

I am in the bottom unit of a 3 unit building in the Marina in San Francisco (Liquefaction zone). My entire building rolled as if it was on ball bearings. It might have been my imagination, but I swear I could see the building twisting.

I was under a door frame before I knew it.

[yooklid]

I am in the bottom unit of a 3 unit building in the Marina in San Francisco (Liquefaction zone). My entire building rolled as if it was on ball bearings. It might have been my imagination, but I swear I could see the building twisting.

I was under a door frame before I knew it.

[yooklid]

I am in the bottom unit of a 3 unit building in the Marina in San Francisco (Liquefaction zone). My entire building rolled as if it was on ball bearings. It might have been my imagination, but I swear I could see the building twisting.

I was under a door frame before I knew it.

[sdduuuude]

I was in in Palo Alto in 1989.
Anything less than 7 is a yawner.

Seriously, though, the one thing I’ve noticed about earthquakes is that 99.9% of everthing is completely unaffected, and the .01% is what the news spens 99% of its airtime showing you.

Not sure what an earthquake alarm is going to do for you. Even the long ones only last 30 seconds. By the time it is over, you will barely be coherent. Best to just open your eyes, say “wow, an earthquake,” and go back to sleep.

[sdduuuude]

I was in in Palo Alto in 1989.
Anything less than 7 is a yawner.

Seriously, though, the one thing I’ve noticed about earthquakes is that 99.9% of everthing is completely unaffected, and the .01% is what the news spens 99% of its airtime showing you.

Not sure what an earthquake alarm is going to do for you. Even the long ones only last 30 seconds. By the time it is over, you will barely be coherent. Best to just open your eyes, say “wow, an earthquake,” and go back to sleep.

[sdduuuude]

I was in in Palo Alto in 1989.
Anything less than 7 is a yawner.

Seriously, though, the one thing I’ve noticed about earthquakes is that 99.9% of everthing is completely unaffected, and the .01% is what the news spens 99% of its airtime showing you.

Not sure what an earthquake alarm is going to do for you. Even the long ones only last 30 seconds. By the time it is over, you will barely be coherent. Best to just open your eyes, say “wow, an earthquake,” and go back to sleep.

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