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Dec. 22nd, 2003 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockoh my.
there was an earthquake today.
i slept through it.
here's my moment of silence for the 3 dead.
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some how it always amazes me to think about living in a place where they don't prepare for earthquakes. i got a profound sense of that when i visited washington d.c. i looked around and thought "how come all these old buildings haven't fallen down yet? none of them are reinforced or anything." that's just how i think, even though i know that there is no need in places like that. i could move to a state that's never had a single earthquake in it's existence, and i'd still be bolting my bookshelves to the wall. it's automatic.
there was an earthquake today.
i slept through it.
here's my moment of silence for the 3 dead.
...
...
...
...
...
some how it always amazes me to think about living in a place where they don't prepare for earthquakes. i got a profound sense of that when i visited washington d.c. i looked around and thought "how come all these old buildings haven't fallen down yet? none of them are reinforced or anything." that's just how i think, even though i know that there is no need in places like that. i could move to a state that's never had a single earthquake in it's existence, and i'd still be bolting my bookshelves to the wall. it's automatic.
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Date: 2003-12-22 03:08 pm (UTC)that's just how i think, even though i know that there is no need in places like that. i could move to a state that's never had a single earthquake in it's existence, and i'd still be bolting my bookshelves to the wall. it's automatic.
That's great advice. I kept my small earthquake (car) kit when I moved from LA to Seattle a few years ago, but I never did get around to restocking the bigger one with food, water, etc., or bolting the shelves to the wall. I should do that.
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Date: 2003-12-22 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-12-23 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-23 02:45 am (UTC)Also, timing is an issue. This was pretty brief; though I didn't feel it myself. The 1989 quake was about 15 seconds long --long enough for me, at 5 years, to notice the shaking, realize that it if I was on the row of monkey bars over there instead of the rocket-shaped bar contraption I was currently on, that it would be much more fun and I should really take advantage of the shaking; long enough for me to step from my bars, walk about 6 feet, climb up onto the row of monkey bars, and hang with my feet swinging for about 2 seconds before it stopped. I of course was disappointed that it stopped just when I got to the fun bars. Then, of course, there was much confusion and calling home of everyone's parents parents and worrying and loud adults and so forth.
I'm glad I don't live in Japan-- the quakes there in the last 10 years have been particularly horrific. Interestingly enough, in the last major quake there was research collected over the course of a year or so about the damage that was done, and they found that there were 7 buildings in the downtown area (of Tokyo, I think, maybe, or some other city that was at the epicenter) that had minimal damage. Then the researchers foudn out that all those buildings were designed by the same architect. Interesting, huh? I bet she/he got a
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Date: 2003-12-23 09:39 am (UTC)You're right -- we do have earthquakes here, but they're not as frequent as the ones in California. The last major one was 3 years ago:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/seattlequake010228_potter.html
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Date: 2003-12-23 11:41 am (UTC)