(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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