A True "Shaky" Californian
After living in the Bay Area for the past 7 months, I can finally say that I'm a true California girl. At 8:40pm PST tonight, I felt my first earthquake. The news reported that it was a 4.3 on the Richter scale, but as this Midwestern girl will tell you, it felt a lot stronger than that. I saw my entire apartment sway from side to side for about 15 seconds, and some of my belongings even shifted. Now I know why there are no skyscrapers out here.
So after living through this "light" earthquake, I think that I'm ready to move back to Chicago. Even though there's snow there and it's cold for about 9 months out of the year, the ground is flat and it never moves. Not even a slight tremor of any kind. I might need to analyze the tradeoffs between sunshine and snow, but Chicago has the edge at the moment.
posted by jodyann at 12:49 AM
3 Comments:
i dont think i can live in a state where the earth moves on a fairly regular basis.
id take the snow and cold over sunshine and earthquakes any day...
6:50 AM
scary~! i hope it didn't shake you up too much. how about i send you some chicago dirt so maybe you'll feel more at home?
1:03 AM
Earthquakes are scary. I was in junior high during the Northridge earthquake, which registered 6.7 on the Richter scale. I ran outside (stupid) and seriously thought that the world was ending. But everything below that is nothing to me now. The last earthquake I felt was about 5 or 6 years ago, probably not unlike the one you felt, in Berkeley.
5:34 PM
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