... though since you popped up.... how silly is it to think this has to do with other earthquakes around the world. Like someone is messing with the puzzle pieces and they are popping and shifting all over.
I mean, it's easy for us west-coasters to laugh, but none of us live on the 84th floor of 111 West 57th.
I'm sure it was a rollicking ride at the top of some of those skyscrapers.
And especially seeing some of the pictures from Taiwan, with entire office buildings on their sides, I'll bet a lot of people understandably thought it was going to be the end of their world.
@futurebird I lived in CA for a decade and happily shrugged off multiple tremors there, but no joke this made me take a moment to consider if I should grab the cat and flee the building. CA has seismic safety codes! Stuff here is built out of bricks, spackle and still-live gas light lines.
@futurebird I live in a place that is in the middle of a tectonic plate - things made up of granite. Sure we don't have many mountains because time have grinded them down, but no earthquakes either...
Just saying: Sweden - its empty AF, join us.
(On a serious note: I hope you and yours are ok <3)
@futurebird I've been in earthquakes in Hawai'i, San Francisco, and Chicago. It's weird and unnerving no matter where. As the earth's plates shift and slide like a giant card reshuffled into a planetary deck. I took a class in geomorphology in college because of the section on plate tectonics, in a college career otherwise barely touched by STEM.
@futurebird Since then, I've seen some of the terrifying devastation an earthquake can cause. My house was in the zone of the Big One - Loma Prieta earthquake that took out HWY 980 and the Bay Bridge. A woman I worked with was the last car that stopped at the edge of the gap. Missed dying by literal inches. But the little ones don't scare me any more.
I experienced my first earthquake in California. I was in the office in San Francisco. The office was in a very old building on Van Ness, and filled with New Yorkers. (Swear to god, every New Yorker in SF must have worked there. /jk) Everybody screamed and dived for their desks. I couldn't even feel it. For a minute I felt a bit woozy or dizzy, but I thought it was just my low blood pressure. Then I realized they were all screaming at me to duck.
@futurebird I'm in Albany and I didn't feel it. I was either reading or futzing with CheckMK RRDs at the time. My mom was napping, tho, and it woke her up... and folks were posting about it on NextDoor like "why is my house shaking?!"