earthquake
i felt my first earthquake tonight...
i was sitting on my bed, watching tv, when i heard a rumble that started at the stairs outside my door and traveled through my living room to my bedroom where it shook the bed. then it stopped. probably max 3 seconds. but it definitely wasn't normal.
at first i thought that it was just my neighbors - all night they have been running up and down the stairs that lead to the rooftop deck above my apartment and when you run heavily on the stairs (or are heavy) it makes a lot of noise and shakes the living room a bit. but it was the fact that i heard the noise travel and the vibration - just an odd feeling. and when i saw on the news a few minutes later that there was an aftershock to an earthquake earlier in the day, it make me think, "where was i when that one happened??". just an odd thing to happen.
there's always a first time for everything.
i felt my first earthquake tonight...
i was sitting on my bed, watching tv, when i heard a rumble that started at the stairs outside my door and traveled through my living room to my bedroom where it shook the bed. then it stopped. probably max 3 seconds. but it definitely wasn't normal.
at first i thought that it was just my neighbors - all night they have been running up and down the stairs that lead to the rooftop deck above my apartment and when you run heavily on the stairs (or are heavy) it makes a lot of noise and shakes the living room a bit. but it was the fact that i heard the noise travel and the vibration - just an odd feeling. and when i saw on the news a few minutes later that there was an aftershock to an earthquake earlier in the day, it make me think, "where was i when that one happened??". just an odd thing to happen.
there's always a first time for everything.
posted by meghan at 9:52 PM
2 Comments:
how odd that that's your first one! last year i was at eric & jon's apartment in lincoln square. i was up late watching adult swim or reading or something (i was heavy into 'the baroque cycle' at that point) after they had both gone to bed when i felt what seemed like a really big heavy truck roll by and shake the floor. but it was a weird kind of shake and after it happened it occured to me that big trucks weren't allowed on their street and it was totally silent when it happened. later we found out a small earthquake had happened along that weird missouri-illinois fault line (of end-of-days style colonial earthquake fame). it was super trippy.
then, just last week when i was in california, eric and i drove up the coast to san francisco from los angeles. we stopped about halfway for the night in cambria (really close to san simeon) and there was an earthquake that night. 4-point-something. it was pretty crazy. all rolling and weird. the thing was, eric and i were both totally calm about it, like - oh hey. guess that was an earthquake. woo! our california experience is complete! but it wasn't a big deal. meanwhile, we hear the people next door wake up and start freaking out wondering what was going on.
i've been in california for over 2 years and every time before this i've been out of the state whenever there is a reported earthquake. i thought i felt one last year but it turned out to be a huge truck driving by the stage i was working at.
that whole cambria/san simeon/san luis obisbo area is earthquake prone - they had a huge one there about a year and a half ago that flattened the town it was centered in - they also have a bunch up in fresno (east of san francisco). when i filmed up there for the bullriding show, the family's whose house we were in showed us all the cracks in their walls from all the earthquakes - i don't think i could live in a place like that!
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