For the 2nd time in 5 days...
Jun. 16th, 2005 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenaya...an earthquake has gotten me out of bed. Sunday's woke me up from a sound sleep, but it was a rolly one, I could definitely feel the wave motion. Today, I had woken up and was pondering what needed to be done when the china windchime I have hanging from a window crank started to tinkle. I have it hanging there for that reason as those little precursor waves (which I forget what they're called) will cause just enough movement to get me a 'wake up' tinkle. Then, came a lot of shimmying. Think of sautéing mushrooms in a skillet, and how you pick up the pan and shimmy them back and forth to keep them from sticking. That's how it felt.
The closest I was to a mild/moderate earthquake was a 4.7 that was only a few miles away. I was on the 2nd floor of the hospital at work. You ever pick up a box of raisenettes and give it a shake to see if any are left? You give it a good all around shake to bounce that puppy loose from sticking to the sides. That's how I felt, just like that raisenette. I had to hold onto a bed railing to stay on my feet.
Then I always go turn on the tv to watch the newspeople get all excited and make fools of themselves. They want to do "THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!" and they run over to Cal Tech for the details of the coming apocalypse. And the cal tech people so obviously just want to give them all a nanny whack for asking the stoopidest questions and being quasi-hysterical. It's always a good show. *g*
Now, what was I going to do today?
Edited for this addition: Those early waves are called P waves or Primary waves and are sound waves. They travel faster than the secondary waves. So, I suppose a bit of a gap between the two would mean that the observer is some distance from the epicenter. Huh.
The closest I was to a mild/moderate earthquake was a 4.7 that was only a few miles away. I was on the 2nd floor of the hospital at work. You ever pick up a box of raisenettes and give it a shake to see if any are left? You give it a good all around shake to bounce that puppy loose from sticking to the sides. That's how I felt, just like that raisenette. I had to hold onto a bed railing to stay on my feet.
Then I always go turn on the tv to watch the newspeople get all excited and make fools of themselves. They want to do "THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!" and they run over to Cal Tech for the details of the coming apocalypse. And the cal tech people so obviously just want to give them all a nanny whack for asking the stoopidest questions and being quasi-hysterical. It's always a good show. *g*
Now, what was I going to do today?
Edited for this addition: Those early waves are called P waves or Primary waves and are sound waves. They travel faster than the secondary waves. So, I suppose a bit of a gap between the two would mean that the observer is some distance from the epicenter. Huh.
