Semi-Daily Journal

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40147039.html

So some gnarly magnitude 3 P waves in the Alamo Burbclave got your attention? That is so bogus dude. Like, you still haven't felt an earthquake. I've been in a 6.5, and with 65 dead, that was a mere blip compared to what we're going to get hit with.

I don't know which I find harder to believe, that a long-term California resident has never felt an earthquake, or that someone actually felt a magnitude 3.

I remember a day when our company was negotiating a new contract with our biggest international customer. A magnitude 5 hit - enough to rattle windows and knock cans off shelves in grocery stores - but our guests, being Japanese, didn't think it was anything out of the ordinary.

Neat. I live over the hills, in Berkeley. I read it was a 3.1...didn't feel it, though. I hope to experience one someday (with all the caveats about not wishing collapsing concrete horror or fiery death upon anyone, of course).

You mean I've been avoiding California out of fear of the Big One all these years and all you get is a measly 3.0? Even in the UK, the world's safest place (no hurricanes, essentially no tornados, no volcanos, minimal earthquakes, no dangerous animals) we had a 4.8 this time last year. Though I have to say it did feel like the world was going to end.

This is obviously God's retribution to Californians for electing a women groping Nazi govenor.

Note the key word felt. Brad slept though a bigger earthquake in Boston once (or so he claims)