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[serene]

Okay, in general, I'm not scared of earthquakes, but after feeling the second one today (just now), I'm looking at this basement apartment with a bit more critical eye.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Do you know how reinforced your sheer wall is? And the main house is bolted to the foundation? (That was just a little one, 2.9. Those will often come after a slightly bigger one.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Don't know, and don't even know what a sheer wall is. :-) I'm not worried. We've definitely got incentive to beef up our survival kit, but there's no one I'd rather be trapped in a building with for a week than someotherguy, so we're good. (Though he points out cleverly that if one of us has to *die* in an earthquake and we get to pick who we do it with, we pick George W.)

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

It freaked me out. More than usual, for some reason. I really saw the room shake.

[sogwife.livejournal.com]

earthquake? what earthquake?

If you get freaked by a quake, girlness, head for the floor next to an outside wall. The foundation won't fall on you, and will hold anything that tries to fall on you up. I was more freaked by being in a 2nd floor apartment during asmall quake in San Diego. I was sure the floor was going to fall out from under me. :p

Seriously, though, I didn't notice or hear anything today about a quake.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

I was at work in my "cave" yesterday and I felt it and something big also fell upstairs at the same time so it made a big noise and I felt it shake under my feet. It was a little freaky because this is the first one in this place where I have about 6 floors of 100 year old building above me. It has been reinforced, I can see the steel X beams in the the room outside my office but still . . .

Even though the old Studio was an unreinforced masonry building, I felt much safer. The first floor had brick walls but the 2nd (and final) floor was all wood.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's a deathtrap (the old studio), but I know what you mean about feeling safer anyway.