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I was 10 years old, home alone after school. Started out just like any other quake and about 10 - 15 seconds into it it sowed abit and shifted gears. You could see the waves traveling through the ground just like swells in the ocean. Trees were swaying side to side ang the plywood exterior of my dads house flapped like a birds wings I jumped I into thre Back of
a pickup truck. Road it down the Driveway . as a ten year old kid I thought it was pretty cool!!

Oh, wow!!! What a great description!! Plywood exterior flapping like birds' wings! My friend (she passed away in 2000) was just a kid, too, and had the same attitude that it was "kinda fun" for her and her little brother, while her parents were resigned to just throwing their hands up and letting the kids enjoy what the parents, who were home at the time (teachers) were sure would be their last minutes!

So the earthquake was the force making the pickup truck go down the driveway, I presume. Just, wow! And I thought the Northridge quake was bad!

For the record, I live less than half a mile away from the Chino Hills EQ epicenter, and that was supposedly a 5.8 or somesuch, though it didn't feel like it at all, it just felt like a solid WHACK and that was it, no big deal, whereas the one last night, the 5.1 in La Habra/Brea, felt A LOT BIGGER and lasted a whole lot longer. Still pretty mild as far as earthquakes go, however.

Thanks for sharing that story! I'll bet it takes a hell of an earthquake to scare you now! {^)