We don't get many here ..
see...
You're lucky. California (and Japan) are probably the most seismically active places on the planet.
😵
I was here during the 1994 Northridge quake...I was staying with my sister, and at 4:30am it felt like someone picked up our building, shook it, then dropped it. Whoa, I cannot TELL you how violent the shaking was. It actually threw my sister out of her bed. She was hysterical, and tried to run outside but
everything was moving; walls, furniture, floor...it was crazy. Luckily I was sleeping on an inflatable mattress on the floor, and wasn't tossed around too much. The shaking went on forever, plus aftershocks every ten minutes or so. Transformers blew, flashing in the sky, power was gone, and everybody on the block was outside in their night clothes...I was the only person with emergency supplies, so people huddled around my lantern and radio. It was like being in a war movie, with shell-shocked bombing survivors.
I didn't panic or freak out. I never do during emergencies. Which is funny because I
do occasionally suffer from panic attacks...I'm jumpy on an average day, but when something dire occurs, I'm very calm and take charge.
