oh, the landlord had a drill, ZOOMA ZOOMA ZOOMA

[rone]

A series of earthquakes, some in the 5's, just occurred near Parkfield.  Parkfield is where a bunch of scientists are "drilling a hole deep into the San Andreas Fault" in order to study seismic activity.  I sure hope they got their money's worth... assuming they didn't trigger the quakes with their drilling.  YIPES!

Comments

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

Hey - that was downright rude of that jerk.
FYI - the protocol is to ride the quake like you're on a pitching boat, then speculate to your companions about the magnitude of the temblor. I was doing that during the 7.0 Loma Prieta quake for the first several seconds ... until the big wave hit. Felt like a train hit the building.

But, in fairness to non-natives, it's easy to be nervous about perceived perils one doesn't understand. A few years ago a tornado narrowly missed me (I was in the Chicago area), but the twilight-dark sky at noon, the sirens, the warnings scared the bejesus out of me. I also rode out a huge, day-long thunderstorm in a rickety house built on stilts in Galveston, terrified and unable to escape the booming and lightening, wind and rain. I would make puddles in a hurricane! Give me mild temps and dry, shakey ground any day!

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I rode out two hurricanes in a nice house made of cement.

I'd rather have wind then the ground turn to water any day

[pennyhill.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEE. Riding out hurricanes. Brave you. Cement house, good. Glass windows bad.

And as for ground turning to water ... yeah, seismically induced liquifaction dampens one's spirit. A bit of an architectural let-down too.
Bwahahaha