Comments | sartorias: Owl-eyed

sartorias

Owl-eyed

Jun 10, 2016 06:48

I was JUST drifting off to sleep again last night when a quake struck. It was only a five, but fives can be precursors, and so I ripped out of bed to find out where it was, etc. Finally fell back to sleep at five for an hour, but that entire hour I was doing pre-writing, which is something that's been happening in, oh, about the last six months or ( Read more... )

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madrobins June 11 2016, 15:44:25 UTC

"Only a 5."

I have an unreasoning east-coast belief that you hire the Earth to stay still. It's one of its defining characteristics. This shaking at its own will thing seems unseemly, regardless of its numerical value.

Glad you're okay.

sartorias June 11 2016, 16:26:37 UTC

The Earth should indeed stay still. I often wish I could afford to move someplace where it would.

Read your episode of Whitehall--it's easily the best yet. I liked the first and third, but yours was even better.

madrobins June 11 2016, 16:36:03 UTC

Oh, thank you! Once I got past the weird writing process (weird to me--I tend to write and polish before I let anyone see what I'm doing, and this was share-share-share NOW) it was such fun. If you can't tell, I am definitely Team Catherine.

sartorias June 11 2016, 16:41:42 UTC

I love Team Catherine. She gets such short shrift in period writing--from the English, anyway. (I can't read Portuguese, so I've no idea how she shows up in their histories.)

Grammont does show her some sympathy, but . . .

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melita66 June 12 2016, 01:59:21 UTC

I'm in Highland (between the San Jacinto and San Andreas faults) and didn't feel it. My partner said he did feel it, but mildly enough that he wasn't sure it was an earthquake. I later saw on the shakemap (a record of how strong people thought it was, link below) that someone else in Highland reported that they didn't feel it.

Friends and colleagues about 6 miles away in Redlands did feel it.

What I think is laughable is that our house is considered "outside" an earthquake zone. Um, are you kidding me? I guess it's okay because it's not right on top of a known fault line.

Shakemap

sartorias June 12 2016, 03:18:52 UTC

Wow, that's interesting. But I understand what kind of ground you're on can affect how one feels it.