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Originally Posted by wrxkidid
I felt it.
I dunno what weird connection I have with earthquakes, but I think they are cool. I now they are super dangerous and deadly but I think the little ones are fun.
Maybe it has something to do with being born during the 1989 quake in San Francisco?
I was born up here in Reno, but still was during it...
Video by the USGS http://youtube.com/watch?v=6GfHkRNnZDE 7.1 at the epicenter. |
Quit making me feel old. I was just turning off my PC (after playing
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0, awesome!) to go downstairs and turn in the World Series game when the Loma Prieta quake hit.
I remember there being a quick jolt, then a hard rolling that just kept getting stronger and stronger. I had felt earthquakes before, but this one was so much
longer than the rest, it was scary. Usually, the quake is over before you even notice it... but the '89 one was long enough to take action while it was happening. I went to a door jam for cover (climbing under a card table with a 200 lb computer on it seemed like a bad idea). My sister and her friend came running up the stairs (why, I have no idea), and the bookshelf at the top of the stairs was throwing paperbacks down on them.
After the quake we went over to the neighbors house and watched the news... every time there was an aftershock, the news reporters would get all wide-eyed and say "we're having an aftershock!" then like 2 seconds later we'd feel it. Then watch the water in their pool slosh all over the backyard.
