All serene. I was in an upstairs room that is supported on 4by4 posts. It sways a little in magnitude 4 quakes, while the main house, which is conventional wood frame, does not.
This time, the whole house shook for about 5 seconds. One picture fell off the wall.
About a thousand feet higher on the mountainside, by friend said windows cracked and one guy's truck rolled down the hill -- it's steep -- and over.
I was amused to see that Charles Johnson, who lives in southern California for pete's sake, described it as 'a major earthquake.'
There's some discrepancy whether Sunday's quake was 6.3 or 6.6, but either way, that's a lot smaller than 6.9.
The previous biggest quake we'd experienced here was around 4.5, so this one was about a thousand times bigger.
The mountain I live on is the biggest on Earth. (I'm not sure how they determine where one mountain ends and the next begins, but somehow they do.) 93% of it is underwater, but the 7% above water is a symmetrical pile two miles high and about 40 miles across.
It is awe-inspiring to think of how much effort it would take to nudge that enough to make a picture fall off the wall.
All serene. I was in an upstairs room that is supported on 4by4 posts. It sways a little in magnitude 4 quakes, while the main house, which is conventional wood frame, does not.
ReplyDeleteThis time, the whole house shook for about 5 seconds. One picture fell off the wall.
About a thousand feet higher on the mountainside, by friend said windows cracked and one guy's truck rolled down the hill -- it's steep -- and over.
I was amused to see that Charles Johnson, who lives in southern California for pete's sake, described it as 'a major earthquake.'
Harry:
ReplyDeleteWell, it was on the Big Island, after all. That's not exactly next door to you, is it?
The 1969 San Fernando quake, close-ish to where I lived, was, at 6.9, plenty darn big.
I'm about 50 miles from the epicenter.
ReplyDeleteThere's some discrepancy whether Sunday's quake was 6.3 or 6.6, but either way, that's a lot smaller than 6.9.
The previous biggest quake we'd experienced here was around 4.5, so this one was about a thousand times bigger.
The mountain I live on is the biggest on Earth. (I'm not sure how they determine where one mountain ends and the next begins, but somehow they do.) 93% of it is underwater, but the 7% above water is a symmetrical pile two miles high and about 40 miles across.
It is awe-inspiring to think of how much effort it would take to nudge that enough to make a picture fall off the wall.