Posted on 09/12/2022 12:25:31 AM PDT by thecodont
1989 quake. My brother and I were home, in downstairs area. We still had rabbit ear antenna for some of the house. It was the 2nd game of the World Series, a few minutes after 5pm. I noticed the antenna start to move. We moved to under the door jam. We felt the beginning of the quake, and then the wave that brought down freeways and bridges came through. I had my hands holding onto the door jam. The house came out of my hands. We went outside and it looked as if the world had jumped up and down, dust in the atmosphere. I will also never forget the look on AL Michael’s face. He was in the booth at the ballpark.
Re: 2.9...growing up south of San Francisco, even a 4.0 was not disturbing. It was fun to lie on the ground (away from any structures, and experience the 4.0 and less.
PS. I loved to tweak the liberal wackos when they would try to discuss earthquakes. I would explain that a good deal of oil and natural gas was released from deep down in the Earth, and easier for us to harvest it.
We moved to under the door jam.
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Hope you didn’t get any of that sticky stuff on you.
(couldn’t help myself.....It’s door jamb)
I never saw the movie 🎥
What was happening with that letter?
(Hope you didn’t get any of that sticky stuff on you.)
Well, at least they were preserved.
Otherwise, they could have been toast.
With no bread 🍞.
If it could be PREceded by a big one, wouldn’t we have already had the big one?
“…any earthquake would get my attention”
Do humid days get your attention? Do rainstorms get your attention? Do lightning flashes and thunder claps get your attention? Yawn.
a 2.9 quake doesn’t “shake” - it vibrates almost imperceptibly.
Texas has been rattling a bit...
But that’s not making the news...
Google, Facebook, & Twitter before Berkeley.
After you been in a few big ones it doesn’t take much to rattle the nerves.
I was in the Northridge quake in a building that came down I spook and any of them now.
That is a PRIMARY safe place when caught in an earthquake.
Northridge was really bad. Glad you made it out OK.
Thanks it was a brown alert morning.
Or not. Lots of areas have small earthquakes often enough that the pressure necessary for a big one never accumulates.
People live in lots of places that’s even stupider.
Like San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, built on the doorstep of the (active) Ilopango volcano.
Which is like having a neighbor with a pit bull. It might not bite you for a thousand years, but eventually you know it will, and when it does it’ll tear your face off. It’s just matter of time, because that’s what volcanoes (and pit bulls) do.
Ditto for Naples, with a Metropolitan population of over 3 million.
My family lived in Pozzuoli for three years when I was a “tween.” Dad was stationed there to support NATO.
I didn’t find out until I was a young adult what a powder keg the place was. Beautiful, but quite risky.
Maybe God will transpose those digits next time and get rid of a major boil on America’s behind.
LOL! Good ones.
The 1906 SF earthquake was a 7.9—and they just rebuilt it from the ashes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake
The cities survive—the people who happen to be there can be in a lot of hurt, though.
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