(12-11-2022, 01:45 AM)Finspiracy Wrote:(12-10-2022, 09:04 PM)Ninurta Wrote: the missus came rushing into the room all agitated asking "what is that?". I opened one eye and said "relax. It's just an earthquake"
Relax?
You know, a comment like that is really not too comforting. I think you have nerves made of steel.
It was just a little earthquake, magnitude 5.2, not like anything you see in the movies destroying Los Angeles. It didn't even shake anything off the shelves, just rattled some stuff around a little bit, made the chandelier in the living room sway, and made a crack run up the drywall above the fireplace. Not a biggie or anything. It was the rumbling sound I think that really spooked her. We have them here occasionally, mostly tiny - I think the biggest one in this area was 3.2, and no one that was not indoors even noticed it. These mountains around me are 300 million years old - you'd think they would have settled down by now.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake