Comments | abooth: Shake, rattle and roll

abooth

Shake, rattle and roll

Aug 17, 2006 10:30

Well, just shake, really. But this morning I felt an earthquake for the first time. I was half-awake, half-asleep (after having had a weird dream in which I'd turned up at a restaurant a week early and was annoyed to find no-one else there) and it woke me fully up.

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backrowbass August 18 2006, 02:35:55 UTC

You felt a 2.9? I've never felt anything so puny. It takes a 4 or so to get my attention!

berkeleyfarm August 18 2006, 03:42:30 UTC

B, did you see where the epicenter was? It was the Orinda side of Tilden Park, e.g. a couple miles away from him.

It was a bouncer instead of a gentle shaker. I was up but it would have wakened me as well. (The Maggie was QUITE annoyed by it.)

abooth August 18 2006, 17:48:41 UTC

What berkeleyfarm said. I've never felt any at all before, so I'm very earthquake-insensitive, but definately felt this one.

berkeleyfarm August 19 2006, 04:35:31 UTC

There have been gentle shakers during your time of residence here, although I don't recall if you were in Blighty for some of them. In C house you would have felt them (wood frame houses do wobble a bit), but I think your flat is probably constructed very differently and more up to modern commercial code.

My first one (when I moved to SF) was a shaker, although it shook for a while. I woke up, panicked, then realized my crockery wasn't breaking and went back to sleep.

A friend of mine who lives off T'graph near the Oakland line said that she was up and heard the ground rumble.

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