Earthquake!!!

[Igel]

8. USGS says 3.9 and not far from San Fran proper.

Millbrae.

I lived in LA. Wife and I had van packed and car on trailer and around 3 a.m. I woke up and immediately checked my watch (this was '90s) and started counting. A jolt had gone through the apt. It woke her up, too.

When the surface wave went through I told her, "Don't worry, 3.7 [ or whatever ], located a few miles away in Santa Monica Bay. Didn't know there was fault there, but it's no biggy. Go back to sleep."

KNX in the morning said I was off by a point or two and a few miles, and nobody knew there was fault line there. You adapt.

Russian proverb: Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas. Updated for me: "Hang out with astrophysicist grad students at UCLA, walk away an ubernerd." I mean, these were students that when the nice lady from Caltech came on the tv during commercial breaks corrected her and were more often right than wrong.

Note that I was seriously *not* calibrated for the Northridge quake, at 7.4, and just sat there and wondered if my studio apt. would collapse on the cars parked underneath.