Last night I felt the big quake. Very strange. I was sitting in our deskchair, typing at high speed. Suddenly I started making typos. At first I thought my hands had been afflicted with a mystery palsy. I stared at them. I felt a vague lack of equilibrium. I realized my chair appeared to be rolling gently from side to side. (Or was I suffering from vertigo?) Then I went into the dining room and saw the chandelier swaying side to side. (Was it a breeze? No.)
I felt worse ones in California. But this one had me real confused for about a minute.
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Last night I felt the big quake.
Well, after all these nubile years, it was about time.
... And congratulations, Belle.
:)
Posted by: yabonn | March 30, 2005 at 01:24 AM
On two occasions a major earthquake happened when I had a fever -- Coalinga 1982, Loma Prieta 1989 -- and I similarly mistook the symptoms.
Posted by: Anton Sherwood | March 30, 2005 at 03:28 AM
Which California ones were worse? Were you on top of the LA quake in, was it 1991? That was an 8.1, or am I remembering it right? I am awed by the Richter scale measurements of these recent Indonesian quakes.
I lived on top of the Hayward faultline until I was about 20. Okay, that's not entirely true; the trace was across the street from our house. Somehow the continual minor quakes were easier to recognize than the big one on the San Andreas (1989) was for me. The big quakes don't so much vibrate as jolt and rumble: it doesn't register as plausible that what you're feeling is coming from the earth.
Posted by: Jackmormon | March 30, 2005 at 12:05 PM
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Nick
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