enough already, I can take a hint

[starlady]

We just had a rather dramatic (short, intense wave-like motion) earthquake here in Berkeley--it felt about an M3 by us, which makes sense given that it was apparently a shallow 3.6 at the epicenter, with a 2.3 aftershock. Yes, Hayward fault, we know you're there, please don't feel like you need to remind us of that fact. (Except, of course, small earthquakes relieve the tension that accumulates to cause big earthquakes, but not enough to actually avert the latter.)

Which of course would not be notable at all except that today there were earthquakes felt in all four time zones of the continental U.S. It may well be paranoia (it is paranoia, but the sensible kind), but I've had a particularly bad feeling about earthquakes in the past week or so (the dream yesterday didn't help). I hope that was a pre-echo of today, but I tend to doubt it.

Earthquake kit, ahoy.


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[merin-chan.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I didn't realize there were earthquakes all over the country. We felt the Virginia one in the Toronto area, just enough to make the doors swing on their hinges. I never did feel a single earthquake in Japan, but move to Ontario and there's already been an earthquake and a tornado in the first month! Craziness.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I think I felt both. I was actually down in Redwood City for a sleep study, but I'm pretty sure the bed I was on transmitted the tremors more clearly than my bed at home, because I twice felt things that seemed an awful lot like earthquakes.