Quakes are fun!
So, this time, I was in Redwood City having a birthday dinner for my mom. The food was great, everyone was in a good mood. Suddenly, we felt a little rolling. Oh, it's a car...no it's a quake. The usual feeling from a small quake. You just usually feel it for a bit, and then it passes. This one kept going, and going. This was the energizer bunny of quakes. Not particularly powerful or fear inspiring, but long. It turns out the ripples where we were actually lasted for over 1 minute! I know...just not that long, but after you get used to feeling maybe 10-15 seconds of a quake, anything over about 20 seconds feels like a decade.
Then, we found out that its epicenter was pretty close to my home. Minor gulp...wondered if we lost some glassware. Here's the odd part. Several things fell down, nothing broke. I had a small glass trophy that fell off a mantle...on to a board sitting on a pillow. A vase fell from 6.5' in the air onto my hardwood floor, and the floor is fine, and the vase is fine. Another crystal vase fell down on top of my kitchen counter, about 2' drop. It fell on another glass...nothing broke. My lava lamp was found in several different areas, with the tip top on one side of my bed, and the bottle on the other side of my bed. Again, no breaking. CDs flew across my office room, but no damage. Somehow, each item seemed to have it's fall broken by something else, and no damage was to be seen. I'm a happy girl. Then again, they said another quake in the next 7 days is very likely, and it's a reasonable probability that it will be of some size. I guess we may just not put some of those glass items back on their higher shelves, and museum tack sounds like a better idea than it used to.
Then, we found out that its epicenter was pretty close to my home. Minor gulp...wondered if we lost some glassware. Here's the odd part. Several things fell down, nothing broke. I had a small glass trophy that fell off a mantle...on to a board sitting on a pillow. A vase fell from 6.5' in the air onto my hardwood floor, and the floor is fine, and the vase is fine. Another crystal vase fell down on top of my kitchen counter, about 2' drop. It fell on another glass...nothing broke. My lava lamp was found in several different areas, with the tip top on one side of my bed, and the bottle on the other side of my bed. Again, no breaking. CDs flew across my office room, but no damage. Somehow, each item seemed to have it's fall broken by something else, and no damage was to be seen. I'm a happy girl. Then again, they said another quake in the next 7 days is very likely, and it's a reasonable probability that it will be of some size. I guess we may just not put some of those glass items back on their higher shelves, and museum tack sounds like a better idea than it used to.