antwondotcom ([info]antwondotcom) wrote,
@ 2007-10-31 11:42:00
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shakin'
I love the seemingly universal sort of response the locals have to earthquakes like the one last night in the South Bay. "Hey, it's an earthquake!" bemusement; five minutes of mildly adrenaline-infused chit-chat about previous earthquake experiences; blithe returning to whatever one was doing previously because eh, it wasn't The Big One, so meh, whatever. It's oh-so-deliciously jaded!

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[info]idunno3
2007-10-31 08:34 pm UTC (link)
We had an earthquake last night?

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[info]mazeyminda
2007-10-31 08:42 pm UTC (link)
Of course it is! We like *being* jaded, too.

My superviser, in the New Jersey office, actually called me this morning to ask if I had felt the South Bay earthquake. People from non-earthquake territory really have little concept of what the numbers on the Richtor scale translates to in terms of how much shaking there is.

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[info]recursive
2007-10-31 09:37 pm UTC (link)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php gives some perspective

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