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We get them every so often and sometimes my house shakes.

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Old 08-12-2024, 02:14 PM
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When I was a computer tech for Bank of New Zealand it could get a bit boring so it was always fun to be the first person to yell "Earthquake." when there was even a small one.

One day I was about to yell earthquake when my inner guardian angle said STFU and the next moment a very fat woman came storming into the office to complain. Phew, I didn't feel like getting beaten up by a 16 stone lesbian.
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Old 08-12-2024, 02:56 PM
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We had one the other night at 9pm which is weird, they usually strike early morning. 5.5 centered in Lamont up by Bakersfield. I was upstairs and felt it, Wife was on ground floor and didn't feel anything.

Lots of small quakes are better than one big one!
We felt that one while we were eating on some road side cafe on our boy's road trip. We just looked at each other wondering if that was real. It shook us a tiny bit and it went away
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That's isn't Highland Park but the heart of El Sererno still, my mother lives about 1.5 to 2 miles from there at most so she felt this one. Couple things fell off the shelves, no big deal but she said she sure felt it and thankfully the neighbor were really good and they stopped by to check up on her. Something about these old neighborhoods and just older folks in general. I use to drive out when we had the big ones just to check up on my parents and our neighbor, Rena. She was a widow, when she open the door, her face was pale. This was about 15 min after it shook.

I just had my right foot on the first rung on a ladder to check on a client's roof. It hit so hard that the ladder walked and fell. I lucked out if I would climbed that thing 3-5 second earlier, I would have to drive home in my dirty underwear.
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I didn't feel a thing down here behind the Orange Curtain.
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I didn't feel a thing down here behind the Orange Curtain.
It wasn't that big unlike the bigger ones we had on the past where it did some damage like Northridge or Whittier. The Northridge quake jolt us pretty good back. I can't believe it was over 30 years ago. Anything around 5.0 or below isn't really a real earthquake but a little butt shaker.
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Just now...building is still shaking. I'm on the 5th floor and it almost knocked me off the couch.
But did you spill your drink??
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I dunno how you guys live with that stuff. .
I have friends who say the same thing about volcanos.
Everyone has their deal.
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I dunno how you guys live with that stuff.
A lot better than living with horrible climate and bad food.

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