I lived in Palm Springs during the Landers quake...quite a ride, that one.
I live in Beaumont...and we did have quite a ride for both the Big Bear and later the Landers. Two in one day was waaaay more than I needed. I watched my house be twisted like a giant with a shoe box. Stuff flew everywhere. What was really fun was following a crack in the ground go across ten acres of property...across the paved road and into an empty field across the street. The crack was about 1" wide.