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Why would the Bush USGA downplay the reading?
What are they trying to hide?
I was just west of downtown near Lafayette Park on the 9th floor, bldg. shook and rolled for quite a long time, but at lunch on the street all seemed normal.
De nada.
I felt it in Silver Lake/Los Feliz, it was strong enough for me to decide to get in a doorway with my son. I was in San Francisco during the 7.0 Loma Prieta earthquake in '89, so I'm a bit of an earthquake snob. Unless things are really shaking I generally don't even notice, but this one caught my attention. Perhaps it was because it didn't feel like a rolling earthquake, it was a jolt.
It seems that people are getting on here to scoff at those who have been shaken up by this earthquake, or those who think this might be news. What a strange thing to do. Even if all this earthquake does is serve as a drill and remind people to get ready for a "real" earthquake, that still has value. When the Big One hits California, it will impact the whole country. California is somewhere between the 7th and 10th largest economy in the world, right behind Italy. Our Federal tax dollars come out of California, and help build roads and schools in poor rural states that love to denigrate our state. It is in the best interest of everyone for California to take this little warning seriously.
I was sitting on the floor of a Highland cottage in Scotland when the bay outside the window was the epicentre for a 1.3.
I appreciate this is a tiddler - even by european standards - but I felt and heard every bit of it.
I was convinced the chimney was going to fall in.
I do not envy you guys proximity to the San Andreas faultline. I will not come over to the US - that way, you're guaranteed that the big one (destined to hit the minute I land on US soil) will never come....