On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Doug wrote: > Nick wrote: > >> We have a clock that fell off our mantle, battery dropped out, so >> it's >> frozen at the time of the quake. >> >> Cindy, the dog and I were right by the front door... really wondering >> if it was going to stop before getting bigger, which was just how the >> big '89 quake, Loma Prieta, was for me... except it kept getting >> bigger. Lasted a long time here -- about 20 seconds, I guess. > > This was the most violent quake we've had since the '89 shaker and its > aftershocks, but I knew it wasn't as big as that one. I estimated > it at > 6.0 imediately after it hit, but I didn't realize how close it was.
I was in Cupertino, on stage rehearsing a play when it hit. The tech sitting against a wall at the back of the hall noticed it first. It was accompanied by a low thrumming sound that I am still convinced was a truck or other vehicle idling outside, but others heard it and thought it might have been the way our 50-year-old church building was responding to the quake. When Peggy finally got through to my cell phone, she put Ryan on -- he was seriously freaked by it. At 10 years old, this is his first big quake, and apparently, it was a scary one here at home. He claims that our 27-inch TV nearly fell over on him, which I find hard to believe, and Peggy wasn't in the room at the time, so who knows? Later, around 9:30 (an hour and a half after the quake) he was still nervously chatty about it, but as he drifted off to sleep around 10, he said that it was "really cool, but scary." Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
