Conquering Vertigo

Berkeley is shaking things up again

One of my favorite things to do after a mild earthquake is visit the usgs.gov site to answer the "Did you feel it?" questionaire. You can see the results of today's minor quake at:
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ca/STORE/X40193843/ciim_display.html

My office shimmied side-to-side for about 3 or 4 seconds, desk, floor, everything. Richard is home sick (pneumonia) and I jumped up to find him and ask: "Did you feel the earthquake?" He looked up slowly and said, "What earthquake? Who are you? You're nice..." So I left him and his bottle of codeine in peace and waited about 15 minutes before checking the quake web site sponsored by the US Geological Survey department.

Yep, there it was, the epicenter in Berkeley, which either means the Hayward Fault is breathing or the university students are protesting. Here's another data resource if you're interested:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40193843.html

If you've never been in one of these little quakes, they feel a bit as if a huge and heavy truck passed right by you, so heavy that the ground rumbles and shakes.
Except there is no truck.

Richard (sans codeine) is the king of realizing when we're experiencing the earth move, but the longer I live here, the more adept I seem to become at realizing what I'm feeling. So true, in so many ways.

posted by Woman In Love @ 4:12 PM