My first earthquake... awesome!

[Anita]

As a native of Los Angeles and having experienced every earthquake since the Sylmar, a 4.5 would merely stir my martini.

[RickOKC]

I have been in a 4.8 quake
2 Floods
4 hurricanes
and
2 tornadoes.

YIKES, you're a magnet for natural disasters! Where did you find the tornadoes? I've been in Ok for most of my 40+ years and have only had what I consider to be 1 close call. I've still never actually seen one.

ROFL... I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

Hee heee! I wish I could claim credit for the "disaster photo." That started hitting email the day after and I thought it was hilarious!

You are lucky you weren't driving. I've been through a bunch of 4+ quakes while in the car and they are no fun at all - you don't even notice them.

That's what a co-worker said. He was driving at the time and didn't notice either!

x2!!
Having lived in LA for 15 yrs...been thru quite a few. Was driving on the freeway when the "Whittier Narrows" quake hit in 1987 (I think)...thought my tape deck was skipping a bit and I also recall the car kind of zigging back and forth a bit, I thought it was just the grooves in the cement throwing me....got to work..OH, that's what that was! Then the '94 Northridge "big" quake....431 am...whole house was rocking & rollin'....so what did I do?...I started holding the wall unit so it wouldn't tip over...until first hubby said "Get AWAY from the wall unit"!!

Sounds like what we always do here. "Tornado?!? Let's go outside and look!" (Instead of running for shelter. ) Not like I'm telling you something new since you lived in TX.

Come to New Zealand we get earthquakes all the time XD As you may have seen on say the International news Our Christchurch has been getting hit hard with them lately!. Ive been in id say over 50 at least. Must admit have woke up to one before realised it was small and feel back asleep while it was just finishing .

LOL! That's also what we do here (during tornado warnings.) You get used to it so it's no big deal. I just got to a point where I never thought I'd ever experience an earthquake so I was happy to finally see what it was like. They are SO uncommon here and when they do happen they are so tiny that NOBODY notices.

As a native of Los Angeles and having experienced every earthquake since the Sylmar, a 4.5 would merely stir my martini.

Ha ha... we use dust devils here - stirred, not shaken.

[Ldub]

I got jolted out of bed in the wee hours, back around 1985 on the Big Island.

It was quite an experience, since I was from MN & was only familiar with blizzards, flooding & tornadoes.

IIRC, it was 6+, & I remember thinking that I was going to die at the whims of a rather large 6 x 24" glue lam ceiling beam.

[PK]

I got jolted out of bed in the wee hours, back around 1985 on the Big Island.

It was quite an experience, since I was from MN & was only familiar with blizzards, flooding & tornadoes.

IIRC, it was 6+, & I remember thinking that I was going to die at the whims of a rather large 6 x 24" glue lam ceiling beam.

Didn't know you were down in Aussie in '85 Dub.

I coulda taken a day off school to meet up with ya.


PK

[Ldub]

Didn't know you were down in Aussie in '85 Dub.

I coulda taken a day off school to meet up with ya.


PK

L0L Mr K...

It was the Big Island of the Hawaiian variety...

[vt_maverick]

Didn't know you were down in Aussie in '85 Dub.

I coulda taken a day off school to meet up with ya.


PK

L0L Mr K...

It was the Big Island of the Hawaiian variety...

(In my best Crocodile Dundee voice) "That's not an island, THIS is an island."

[handeeman]

As a native of Los Angeles and having experienced every earthquake since the Sylmar, a 4.5 would merely stir my martini.

Now that would be my kinda earthquake.....if only I knew how to make a martini. "Shaken not stirred"
Growing up in Oklahoma I got quite used to the earthquakes....it was the tornados that scared me. One hit my home town once when I was a kid and they said it did hundreds of dollars in damage.