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[antonye]

Just sitting in a conference at work and the building shook slightly - turns out that it was my first earthquake

Not too bad, 3.4 on the scale so only a little one and the room just swayed slightly.

The office is in Orinda, just across the bay from San Francisco, so we really were right at the centre:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Q...c40183688.html

[Loz]

Antony, that sounds intense. Did the Earth move for you?

[antonye]

Yeah baby!

[andyb]

You been on someone........er something? I know how that San francisco life style gets under your skin.......

[Loz]

Originally posted by andyb
You been on someone........er something? I know how that San francisco life style gets under your skin.......

And you know how cos ...

[andyb]

Originally posted by Loz

And you know how cos ...

ive been there............(picture Balloo the bear getting that rythm at the ruins)

[Loz]

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

[andyb]

Originally posted by Loz


Truth is always stranger than fiction.

Dont you agree then?

[Jools]

Your job sounds like mine was around 1999-2000, flying to San Francisco every 4-6 weeks for either a one or two week stint.

I never used to stay in San Fran itself, I used to go south down 101 to the Palo Alto area. One night I was woken up at about 3am by a low rumbling sound and various bits shaking. I was so knackered that I didn't really wake up fully and thought that it was a goods train rumbling past (Tip: If you're going to stay in the Hyatt in Palo Alto, always ask for a garden side room because there's a CALTRAIN track just the other side of the car park on the other side).

Then I realised that trains don't run through the night on this track, and it's a passenger line not a goods line, and I WAS on the garden side of the hotel. I'd experienced my first earthquake.

Sure enough the next morning's breakfast time TV had it on the news as a 5.7 quake, but the epicentre was around 60 miles south of Palo Alto down past Gilroy. Makes you realise the power these things have when the earth moves for you from 60 miles away.