I've already experienced two or three of these in my life... They're fun! Heheh....

 

and for some reason they occur in a span of about five years... the last one occured five years ago!!

 

Thanks for the wishes boys and girls

As an update, we did have a very small quake this morning, just enough to make the bed shake and wake me up ........

 

I've felt quite a few doozies: Sylmar, offshore Santa Monica, Whittier Narrows, Sierra Madre, Landers-Big Bear, Northridge, Hector Mine (Yucca Valley), Big Bear. Each has a story. In the February Big Bear quake, a wide screen TV flew off a shelf on the wall, over a stairwell, and landed face down across the main room of the cabin where we were staying. We turned it on and it worked! In the Northridge quake, 4:30 AM, some 2x6s came out of the garage rafters and did a hat dance on the hood and trunk of my 93 Prelude. My next door neighbor's chimney collapsed and destroyed two brand new Cadillacs (no plates) in the driveway. The power went off throughout the city and I went outside and marveled at the stars -- you could see the Milky Way. It the Whittier quake I was driving in Pasadena and thought I had four blowouts. I almost ran over a motorcycle cop who laid his bike down in front of me. In the hector Mine quake, 2 AM, we were in Yucca Valley for a star party with astronomers. We were at a dog-OK motel and everybody from out of town ran outside in terror. In the Sierra Madre quake, things flew off the wall of our house and hit me in the head. In the offshore Santa Monica quake, we were watching the Rose bowl with a bunch of people at our place and several of our frog terrariums collapsed. Everybody was running around the house chasing frogs. Then there was the Sylmar quake. I was living on the beach in Marina del Rey. A plate glass window broke on top of me in bed. I ran outside and you could see who was sleeping with whom.

 

We have only had a couple of largish quakes since we have been here. One of which I was sitting the car at a set of traffic lights and thought that the engine timing had suddenly gone off since the car was shaking from side to side, then I noticed that the street signs all round me were shaking and you could hear the cables twanging in the air.

The other one we were sitting at home watching TV, behind the TV was a window (we were on the 5th floor by the way) and during the quake you could see the building next to us coming into view and then going out of view through the window ..... that was pretty scary.

Neither did any damage to our stuff though

 

Earthquakes CAN be very scary I know from livin in Cali Good luck Jamesy!

 

I thought it was just you James

 

Not even I can register my s on the richter scale .....

 

Sounds like you tried James! Need to eat more !