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I just got home from the vet, And a 6.1 earthquake just hit. This place was rockin'. :o
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At 3:20 Pacific time this morning we had a fairly big earthquake out here in Northern California. It was centered in the Napa area, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. It measured 6.0 and was the biggest quake I've felt since the disastrous '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, which was a 6.9. I can't find any data on the duration but I'm guessing it was 20 seconds long. I think I was awake when it happened, although it may have woken me up. I heard the house creak, the dishes were rattling, and the cats freaked out and ran out of the room. I have some cousins in the Napa area whose houses suffered a bit of damage with bookcases and such falling over. Many buildings up there have been damaged as well. I haven't felt any of the four (so far) aftershocks (measuring 2.5-2.8). I don't like earthquakes. It's not so much the unpredictableness, but rather, the fact that when they're happening you never know how long they are going to last or how bad they're going to get. Maybe it's because I'm a native Californian, but I'll still take a quake over a tornado any day.
