[Zeppo]

My only experience with an earthquake was a dozen years ago in a Tokyo hotel, when the room was jolted by a short, sharp shock.

I’m sure that this one was much more unsettling to those who felt it. My business partner in New Jersey called me when it hit, asking me to check online what had just happened, and she was clearly unnerved by it.

[pfflier]

I lived in tornado country and hurricane country for years. I also lived where there are blizzards.

Now I live in earthquake country. There is something particularly unsettling about the solid earth giving way under your feet. I'll take bad weather anytime.