October 30, 2007
 

We had a 5.6 magnitude earthquake here tonight... my first one in CA. Instead of just the rigid shaking I expected, the walls completely shifted and swayed back and forth... that was the freakiest part.

Luckily everything breakable on my shelves is stuck down with earthquake/museum putty, but a few framed LPs on the wall were victims. Oddly, since I hadn't locked my front door after bringing in groceries, it worked its way open also.

[Update]: According to the local news, it was the largest quake to hit the Calaveras fault since the 1984 Morgan Hill earthquake.

A Personal post by kim at 09:59 PM | Comments (2)
 
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yeah, that pretty much sucked. i was in the shower.

Posted by: nik at October 31, 2007 12:48 AM

we got 2 calls shortly afterwards since people seemed to think it was the Hayward fault at first... but we barely felft it.. the cubbord door that was open shook a little bit. Museum putty... gonna have to get some of that.

Posted by: Riodutchie at October 31, 2007 01:12 PM