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Earthquakes, if you have never experienced a big one, are hard to describe. There is something completely unsettling about the whole earth moving. It makes you skittish for a long while after. Each truck that rumbles by, people running along the walkways of the building, you tense up for a moment. Lived here in California my whole life. Like to stay real still in an earthquake to feel the whole thing. Only once did the earthquake feel like "RUN OUTSIDE".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_L...eta_earthquake
It makes you wonder if it won't stop, and will be "The Big One" we all know is coming. But overall, I wouldn't live anywhere else :)
A Guy
"RUN OUTSIDE" is the silliest thing to do during an earth quake yet is very helpful. Not unless you ran out towards a nearby building, then the death is sure. Sad to see some people panic and forgot that.
I was in a very high ceilinged, concrete slab building with a big parking lot. I guarantee you outside would have been a better alternative if that building collapsed. A Guy