Whole lotta shakin'

[owlmoose]

Oh, like I could resist that subject line when we just had two noticeable earthquakes less than six hours apart. Supposedly they were about the same magnitude, 4.0 and 3.8 respectively, but the second was much scarier to me, probably because it lasted a lot longer, maybe a whole 10-15 seconds. (That may not sound long, but in earthquake terms, that's awhile. The 1989 quake was 30 seconds, and it felt like an eternity.) They were also in about the same place, along the Hayward fault in the East Bay; the news is calling the second one an aftershock. No real damage anywhere, just a little nerve-wracking.

In other news, iPhone 4S! The sharp screen is pretty sweet, although I'm not sure how I feel about the edge ridges. I liked the curvier feel of my 3GS. Also, I would prefer if TweetDeck did not crash all the time, thanks. That might be an iOS 5 problem, because it got a bit crashy on my old phone, too, after I upgraded it. Let's hope that gets resolved soon.

Comments

[zen_monk]

I think the last time I felt an earthquake down south here was when I was.... 14? Teenager years? Sometime in the 00's. Just a couple of seconds, shaking the chair I was in. (Rollercoaster!)

And hey! iPhone 4S! Did you play around with Siri?

[owlmoose]

No Siri experiments yet, although T has played with it some. I expect I'll try it out eventually.

[auronlu]

*jumps up and down on my bed*

Why doesn't it ever do that heeeeere?

(I say, having had three perfectly adequate quakes in the 6-7 range within the last year and a half.)

Seriously, I know it's not quite so fun when it keeps going and going. One of the Mexicali quakes actually scared me, and I don't think it was that long. (It was just...odd. Very very waterbeddish, that one.)

[owlmoose]

I don't think we've had anything bigger than a 5 or 6 in the Bay Area since the Loma Priata, actually, which means we're probably due. Scientists have been nervously eying the Hayward Fault for awhile now; let's hope all these smallish quakes are releasing pressure rather than building up to something bigger!