Today in Whole Lot of Shaking

[thebitterguy]

Okay, so, yeah, it was a small earthquake, but it was still fun, right? At least in this office, where we got to go "hey, do you feel that

Comments

[nihilistic_kid]

What's a millimeter?

[thebitterguy]

A thousandth of a metre.

[doccross]

Here in Sacramento, we should get a few millimeters of snow in about 30 years. Feel free to laugh at us then.

[elizalavelle]

I'm in the public sector... none of us got to go home either. I didn't even feel the earthquake and since they only seem to happen here every 10 years or so I've got a long wait 'til the next one :S

[athelind]

As a Californian who actually stayed awake in geology, I know that a 5.5 on a nice, solid cratonic place like you've got back East transfers a lot more energy over a much wider radius than it does on the broken, fragmented multi-car-pile-up of tectonic plates we've got here.

The phrase "rings like a bell" has been used.

And, hell, a 5.5 makes us sit up and take notice even out here.

[kores_rabbit]

I'll laugh at the panic over a few bricks falling over all I want, buddy! When you survive freeways collapsing, get back to me.

Thankfully, I don't live in California anymore. I slog through the crap snow just like the rest of you.