Earthquake!
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Those of you still in Southern California have probably just felt one of our trademark earthquakes. The SCEC already has what they're calling "Version #B" of an earthquake data sheet online. This particular bastard was magnitude 5.6, centered about twenty miles southwest of Palm Springs. For those of you born and raised here, it was just another "hmm the ground is shaking"-style event. Most of us from Southern California don't even consider anything under magnitude 3.5 or so to be worth fretting over. A 5.6 is enough to pique one's interest, though. I'd bet that those of you not from the area were justifiably freaked out as, when you get to the heart of the matter, the goddamn earth was quaking. That shit ain't right.

My own bedroom is on the second floor. The house started shaking, I waited a second to see if I was going to die, then just sort of shrugged and continued about my business. I lived through the Northridge quake in 1994. I think I'm a bit jaded.

Aleph Solo, Jun 12 2005, 09:16 AM
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