See Previous Entry/Earthquake in Still Listening to Spirit
- April 4, 2014, 5:46 a.m.
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I finished the entry, then reviewed it after posting to find I hadn't said anything about the earthquake last night....
At 11:32p there was a rumble then a jolt. That was it. I have been watching the CNN and other newscasters/experts explain the different earthquakes and how they do damage, etc. But, of course, I can't remember the name of this type of earthquake.
However, it is one that can cause the land to go UP sometimes feet, or down, same thing. CNN guy was talking about how this kind of earthquake in California or Japan would destroy things because the earth just rises, usually, in one big jolt. Since most places build for the kind of earthquake that causes building to sway, buildings wouldn't survive the sudden elevation.
Anyway, so Now I kinda know the difference. Here in Our Town, we get a millisecond of rumbling sound and then a jolt. OR we get swaying with no noise from the earth.
I was so pumped with adrenalin, I was shaky for hours after and that certainly didn't help me to get to sleep at a reasonable time.
That's it, once again, Blessed Be!
Ginger Rogers ⋅ April 04, 2014
So scary!
noko ⋅ April 05, 2014
I did notice you hadn't mentioned an earthquake and admit to wondering that almost finishing the blouse might almost be as momentous as the movement of the earth's crust in your view. I try to be open minded...
I've seen evidence of those kind if earthquakes on protected natural lands in California. Scary indeed. I find them profoundly disturbing on a body level for quite some time afterwards.
Everything Good Rebecca ⋅ April 07, 2014
I've lived here in Southcentral Alaska or in Southern California most of my life, so I'm familiar with earthquakes. Most of those I've felt included that swaying you mention. The thing is, the one in 1965 (before I was born) here in Alaska permanently changed the geography so now I drive over an area called the Kenai Flats and it is just that--flat. Lower than it was before the quake, according to my dad who remembers it. I'm wondering if that was one like you mentioned with the earth moving down. I guess I'll have to so some reading. Glad you are all right!