++ [ originally posted by swag
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Earthquakes normally are a pretty regular occurrence around here -- though it has been a long while since I felt one (uh oh).
The biggest being the 7.1 here in Oct of 1989. I had just moved to San Francisco and was in class at Berkeley when it sounded like a giant dumptruck outside was scraping the pavement ... then the shaking like we were in a building on stilts ... then the freaked out look of all my classmates. After a few moments I was like, "Oh -- so this is what a California earthquake is like... Not to worry, folks, this happens all the time."
Then we just kept on going with class.
Waiting for my lab to start afterwards, I thought people were joking when they mentioned that a section of the SF Bay Bridge collapsed.