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I remember my first quake. I had just moved to the Inland Empire in '99 and watched "LA Story." I took particular note to the restaurant scene when a quake hit, and no one was phased. Tables were moving around and people just kept eating. when it was over, two guys contemplated whether it was a 3.0 or a 3.4. A few weeks later, at about 4 am, the bed started to move. I thought it was the cat playing, so I yelled at him to stop. Then it really rocked. For a good 10 minutes. I went out to the living room, where I watched my 1924 chandelier swing like a pendulum. My roommates were scared to death. Because I had watched LA Story, I thought it was the norm. I just told my roommates to go back to bed. Later, I learned that it was a 7.0 with the epicenter about an hours drive in Joshua Tree. So it was a pretty big one. No wonder everyone was scared. I had been on call in the hospital the next night when everyone was talking about it. I figured it was pretty big news and didn't want my mom, on the east coast, to worry. So after I nonchalantly left her a message about the quake, I finished with, "Yeah Mom, that was the most action my bed had seen in a long time." My colleagues were appalled that I'd say that to my mom.

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Anyone else in the San Fernando Valley feel it?



Honey, I wasn't sure if that was even a quake. It was very minor. :)
Were you around for the Northridge earthquake? Thankfully, none of my loved ones were hurt. Half a year prior, my parents almost bought a limestone estate, instead of the English manor that they ended up buying. The limestone was flattened, which means that my parents, grandmother and myself (I was in college back then and living w/ them) would have perished in that quake. Their actual home remained standing, but it was trashed as were most of our possessions. They rebuilt it over the following two years making it even more earthquake proof, since they were apparently and unknowingly practically over the fault line.

My parents had gone through a huge earthquake like that in Peru in 1970, when my older brother was still a baby. My father (a physician) saw a lot of gruesome stuff at that one, and he was also delivering babies at Northridge earthquake immediately after the Northridge quake struck. He's an Ob/Gyn, and many ladies were freaked out after the earthquake and went into labor!

I don't mind the baby quakes at all, but I want to avoid another "big one" for as long as possible, if you know what I mean. B|

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Honey, I wasn't sure if that was even a quake. It was very minor. :)
Were you around for the Northridge earthquake? Thankfully, none of my loved ones were hurt. Half a year prior, my parents almost bought a limestone estate, instead of the English manor that they ended up buying. The limestone was flattened, which means that my parents, grandmother and myself (I was in college back then and living w/ them) would have perished in that quake. Their actual home remained standing, but it was trashed as were most of our possessions. They rebuilt it over the following two years making it even more earthquake proof, since they were apparently and unknowingly practically over the fault line.

My parents had gone through a huge earthquake like that in Peru in 1970, when my older brother was still a baby. My father (a physician) saw a lot of gruesome stuff at that one, and he was also delivering babies at Northridge earthquake immediately after the Northridge quake struck. He's an Ob/Gyn, and many ladies were freaked out after the earthquake and went into labor!

I don't mind the baby quakes at all, but I want to avoid another "big one" for as long as possible, if you know what I mean. B|


Yes, I experienced the Northridge quake. I hope to never feel that pain again. I remember all of it.

This was a baby one ..but I felt it because it was so close.

The roll was kinda cool. B|
Be yourself!
MooOOooOoo

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I thought that title policies in CA disclosed whether you are on a fault line. I've seen it once, anyway. That would be a nasty surprise!



The fault line in the Northridge earthquake was UNKNOWN, until the Northridge earthquake. Also, my parent's home back then was quite close to the epicenter, but it was not directly over the fault line.

Hey Lisa~
Let's get together next weekend for the Country Saloon thing...don't forget! Yeehaw!!! ;)

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I thought that title policies in CA disclosed whether you are on a fault line. I've seen it once, anyway. That would be a nasty surprise!



The fault line in the Northridge earthquake was UNKNOWN, until the Northridge earthquake. Also, my parent's home back then was quite close to the epicenter, but it was not directly over the fault line.

Hey Lisa~
Let's get together next weekend for the Country Saloon thing...don't forget! Yeehaw!!! ;)


I shall teach how you to line dance ;)
I didn't forget. :)And the two-step.
Be yourself!
MooOOooOoo

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I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around


God, I hate that song...
My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
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I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you're around


God, I hate that song...



You love Carole King and you know it. :P:D
Be yourself!
MooOOooOoo

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