Earthquake!
I felt my first California earthquake this morning. Only took ten months.
I was sitting in the tub with Judah, letting the shower fall on us, when it felt like the whole tub moved as if the walls stretched - just for a minute. Then it was over. I thought about asking Joshua if he felt that, but thought someone next door just slammed the door really hard, or that Judah had fallen hard against the bath pillow we were leaning against, so I didn’t say anything.
Last night, I fell asleep in bed around 9:30 trying to comfort Killian, and when Joshua came to bed past 11, he said he felt an earthquake earlier in the evening. He said it felt like the building was swaying, like he was on a boat, and that it gave him a little sense of vertigo. He said came in to check on us, only to find all three of us passed right out.
Joshua and I are now wondering if we’ve felt earthquakes before without realizing it. For the amount of times Judah jumps off the furniture around here, I’m sure the guy below us thinks so.
Anyway, it’s kind of exciting. I feel like watching disaster movies today.
December 23rd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Yah, trippy huh? I’m sure we’ve felt small ones, but this was the first ones of merit. And all 3 have come from the same general spot these last 3 days. Ooooooooooooh spooky!
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Yeah, we moved from SoCal to Dallas just about 6 weeks before the Big One that rocked Cali in 88. In the previous 6 months there were a few decent sized ones that hit as well. (Sorry, I know I’m probably not helping here.)
I remember one of the mornings I was getting ready for school and my mom had KROQ on in the bathroom down the hall (back when they were still playing “real” cutting edge music, thank you). We heard the guy on the radio say something along the lines of, “Oh shit, man. No. No way. It’s the Big One, man. We’re all gonna die!” My mom and I couldn’t figure out what he was talking about. I came out of my room (this was aboout 5-10 seconds later, the time it took to travel from SF to Huntington Beach) and looked down the hall and, like a wave, I could see the ground between my room and the bathroom down the hall rippling. Like Josh, the vertigo kicks in and there’s really not much you can do. I sat in the doorframe of my room (just like they taught me at school) and waited it out.
I pray you guys stay safe. Worse comes to worse, you have a place to stay in Dallas.
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Kristen, I felt all three (we’re sitting right on the epicenter)! Dignan barked pretty hard at the one last night, so it is good to know he’ll take ‘em down, if needed!
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
And you probably haven’t “felt any without realizing it”. Usually it is pretty obvious what’s going on, and you’ll find yourself logging on to the USGS site immediately afterwards, or the Chron will report on it right away. These last 3 are the only ones I’ve felt since you moved here, and before that, probably not for a year prior.
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Justin, are you talking about the one in 1989 that hit SF? The only other ‘recent’ big one I know about was the one in L.A. a few years after the SF one…
December 24th, 2006 at 9:24 am
haha. you are hilarious.
December 24th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
jilly, that sounds right. we moved in the summer of 88 and i remember that it hit soon after we got here.
my bad.