Earthquake

[timepiececlock]

I felt the one at 2 o'clockish today. I (being my lazy college student self was still in bed) sat up and asked my also-still-in-bed roommate

Shaka: Was that an earthquake?
Roomie: Yes.
Shaka: I haven't felt one of those in years. Cool.
Roomie: It's not cool.
Shaka: Yes it is! Little earthquakes are cool. Big ones are scary. This one was cool.

I think she would have thrown a pillow at me if she weren't so sleepy.

Comments

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

5.3, east of Riverside.I mean, it's not a six or anything, but still. It only felt little to you because you're in Irvine...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be a 4, though I have really nothing to reference it against except the knowledge that 6 is bad and 7 really really bad (based on childhood experience). It was going on to a while, though, and I had just considered getting out of bed in case it got worse when it stopped.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Is it on here (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/index.html) yet? I don't see it, but I may not be looking in the right place.

And I agree, little earthquakes are cool. Can't comment on the big ones, since I haven't felt any of those, but I just died of squee when this one (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/strongmotion/effects/shake/51128377/intensity.html) happened. (Okay, that was mostly because it happened on my birthday, but still.)

[mswyrr]

I was napping. My first groggy thought was for my monitor--is it going to fall and break or ooze or whatever LCDs do? And then it hit me -- there's a seven foot tall bookcase next to my bed. I went rigid, and the phony voice of our local news anchor reeled through my mind: To put a human face to the recent tremor, we go to Nancy out in ----- ------, where a self-confessed bibliophile was crushed to death this afternoon by her bookcase! Cause of death? Leather-bound Complete Works of Shakespeare to the head! Teeheheh!

He always seems so gleeful about the ironical deaths/pathetic human interest stories.

[mswyrr]

...have asked parents to secure bookcase to the wall.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Hee. My first reaction to the tsunami warning on Tuesday night was "cool!"... and then I was like "wait! not cool!" because I realised, hello, I am on the *Island*, which is one place that will get the *crap* beaten out of it if there's a tsunami.

[slacker-97.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just the case. The one week I'm not at work to enjoy the slight bit of chaos an earthquake can create (slight as it may have been). I'm glad it was as small as it was. From living here most of my life, I've been through some of the bigger ones and they are NOT cool. This one was ok though. It was kind the Earth was reminding us "Oh don't forget, we have earthquakes in California."