"Do the shake body // come and call about it"

[jemz]

Hey Bay Area peeps.

Hope everyone is not too shaken. (unintentional pun. I swear!).

Anyways, Info on the earthquake that just happened. I was on the phone with Tony and he was in Berkeley and felt it about 5 seconds after I said, "oh hey, earthquake!"

Epicenter is about 7 miles from where I normally live and I am about 20 miles away in a coffee shop.

It's funny how only 5 people ran out the doors and the rest of us just looked up and closed our laptops in case the glass walls were going to come down. Then, afterwards, it was back to normal and people ordered coffee.

You know you live in earthquake country for too long when you can go back to sipping a latte after a 5.6 earthquake.

Comments

[snowym.livejournal.com]

You're lucky you had a natural disaster that you could ignore XD;... here in Missouri, we get so many freaking tornadoes. And there's really not any tiny tornadoes-- once the winds turn into tornadoes, they DEMAND ATTENTION ^^;.

I hate being shoved into closets, damn you tornadoes! *fights back with rainbows*

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

hahah. It's not that we could ignore it. It's more like..."Hmm. Nothing is broken and nothing fell on top of people. Everyone and everything within line of sight is okay. Good. *turns on laptop to immediately look for information* *sips latte*"

Tornadoes require more attention since you can sort of see when they form and when they touch down on the ground to be more destructive.

California just gets the fires and earthquakes.

[snowym.livejournal.com]

You Californians sound like a laid-back, coffee addicted group of people XD.

Maybe I could be less scared of a tornado, if I had a latte in hand... I work at a coffee shop, so I know how to make lattes, but I hate coffee... so I guess I would be more tortured if I had a latte, I suppose ^^;. Is there no answer for me o.o???

[helzfyah.livejournal.com]

wow - glad everything's ok. This makes me think of the earthquake only the meteorologists, this random old lady who called the radio station, and I felt (mommy still thinks it was some odd hallucination... or something).

♥

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I'm glad everything is okay as well.

I mean, we live on the San Andreas fault along with a few other smaller faults. It's not like one this size happens every year (unlike tornadoes and hurricanes) but it comes with the territory.

If it was over 6.0, then I would probably be more worried about infrastructure damages and so forth but since the 89 earthquake, the bay area is a bit more prepared for another big one.

Wow. Only you and an older lady? If people were moving around and it was a tiny tremor, they may not have felt it.

[damiri.livejournal.com]

I shared your post with my mother. She was highly amused at the image of the 5 people (obviously visitors) running for the door in a panic while the locals calmly shut down their computers and continued sipping their lattes!

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

:D

I told a few friends and they were all amused as well.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I'm glad everyone is okay as well! *snuggles*

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Oh man, your subject line. *dies* Glad everything is okay, though!

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought of that line from Pinky right after it happened. :D

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Before I moved to earthquake land, I also would have freaked and ran for the door. But now I know how you feel.

I mean, what SHOULD you do? There isn't really anything. Especially when it's fairly small like that... nothing even shifts. You glance around and then go on with your day.

Even after the really big earthquakes here, unless your house or houses near yours fall down, most people just get on with whatever they are doing.

Sipping coffee and surfing the internet sounds about right. ;)

Glad you're okay though. :)

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

Yup. Nothing was broken or damaged within line of sight. Once I found out where the epicenter of that particular quake was, I called my family since we all live in that area. Reassurances all around and we keep going.

I'd take an earthquake over a fire storm ANY DAY.

I think 2007 wants to end in a BANG in California.


*snuggles*

[ironicdawn.livejournal.com]

O________________________o;;;;;; I remember the last time England had an earthquake a few buildings crumbled...but then England is an old country and can't deal with too much trauma...XD;;

I was taught the first thing one should do is jump under a table in the event of an earthquake...

It's weird how one is calm about things that to everyone else is like WTF but becos it's kinda normal to you life just keeps going! It's like Ldn!

But I'm glad you're safe anyway!!! ^.^;

[thunder]

a;sldkl;askd;a I can't believe JE obsession has gotten to the point that the mind automatically relates it to even natural disasters.

Glad you're okay. ♥