quake report

[firecat]

At 8:04 PM I was sitting in an Una Mas restaurant in Redwood City with jwermont, waiting for our food.

firecat [*thinking*]: "jwermont is tapping her foot really hard."
jwermont [*thinking I'm tapping my foot*]: "Either you're very impatient for your food or we're having an earthquake."
firecat [*watching the wall ripple*]: "We're having an earthquake."
Other people in the restaurant: [*Looking up alertly like a bunch of meerkats*]

I tried to use my cell phone to send a text message so I would remember the time, but the message failed multiple times. That worried me—where I was, the quake wasn't so strong, but it lasted a long time, and I didn't know but maybe it was on the Hayward fault.

So when we got home we went to the computer and looked up the quake on usgs.gov. Fortunately it turned out not to be too serious.

Overall not nearly as exciting as the Loma Prieta quake (I was in a swimming pool in Cupertino at the time). Thank goodness.

Comments

[demonspawnmom.livejournal.com]

Glad you're ok! I haven't been able to get to the news, what's the damage?

[firecat]

Damage is pretty minimal, thankfully. Here is a news article about it.

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

LOL. Here's an excerpt from that article:

"The top three floors of the library remained closed today as staffers worked to reshelf hundreds of thousands of research books and academic theses hurled to the floor by Tuesday's moderate earthquake.

Maybe some god or goddess doesn't think much of academia?

"Library page Frances Marin had one word for the scene that greeted her when she arrived this morning for her book-shelving job: 'Yikes!'"

And I'll bet that's not exactly what she said. :)

[firecat]

"These are not research books and academic theses to be tossed aside lightly. They should be thrown with great force."

(Apologies to Dorothy Parker.)

Parker wrote of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged:

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.