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[spumoni99]

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@SportyShorty07 wrote:

@Enufstuff  Thank you for your kind words and concern, Donna 💗! It is interesting to be born and raised in San Francisco. I was one year old when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that caused millions and millions of dollars of damage and killed 63 Bay Area residents.  San Francisco had a ton of damage and my parents set up a tent that night on 10/17/1989  in the backyard and they slept in the tent with my big sister and myself. My big sister was almost 3 and I had recently turned 1.  My parents said that I kept squirming down to the bottom of the blankets in the tent and that they had to keep scooping me up into their arms or next to them throughout the night.  My parents house wasn't damaged, but many other houses in San Francisco were damaged.  Earthquakes can be very destructive and scary. 

    I've felt little earthquakes here and there throughout my life, and one time I was sitting in a chair and the chair swayed back and forth and I almost fell out of it during an earthquake. I'm glad that you've only had small earthquakes where you live near Boston. I also hope that you never experience any severe earthquakes, sweet Donna! 💖

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Okay I feel old now!  I was at work when that happened!  I was 28.   It was so scary and horrible.  I had a coworker that took the evening off, we worked swing shift, to go to a giants game. This was before cell phones but she finally got to a phone and let me know she was okay.  I was talking on the phone to a customer and felt dizzy when it happened, I'm 90 miles from SF.

[qvcaddition]

I went through two big earthquackes  One in SF. Was working in a tall building on Market street and it was scarey. The other was when the bridge collapse. I think it was in 1986, not sure, was horrible.

I now live in Northern Ca and got an alert on my phone.  I was talking at the time to my sister in Washington and we wonder why I was getting an alert. 

Didn't feel anything.  It was up north in Eureka.  The town of Ferndale got the worse of it, but nothing real divestating.  Couple houses had the foundation shift and a few shops had broken bottes off the shelves.

Ferndale is such a cute little town.  Than goodness it was not real bad for those folks.

[icezeus]

I live in Southern California so of course I did not feel the earthquake. We have multiple earthquakes a day in California some are felt many others are not.

I joke around that I do not even think about moving for less than a 5.0.

However, a 7.0 is a big earthquake, so glad that it was not in a more populated area. That would have caused extreme damage and loss of life, if it would have hit  San Francisco or Los Angeles. 

[gardenman]

They're now saying the earthquake caused a tsunami, but it was just nine centimeters in height. I'm not sure I'd call a three-plus-inch wave a tsunami, but apparently, it counts as one. I'm assuming there was minimal damage from a wave of that magnitude.

[SoCal Bred]

Earthquakes have been unusally frequent this year in the Malibu areas, the 7.0 quake that was up in northern CA was a big one, glad there was no considerable damages or fatalities reported, but it's scary!

[AFWIFE]

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@SoCal Bred wrote:

Earthquakes have been unusally frequent this year in the Malibu areas, the 7.0 quake that was up in northern CA was a big one, glad there was no considerable damages or fatalities reported, but it's scary!

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I live on the Central Coast and we, also, have had a more frequent past few months of earthquakes centered right outside of my town!  Makes ya wonder and think...not sure what but it does! 

[Wsmom]

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@SoCal Bred wrote:

Earthquakes have been unusally frequent this year in the Malibu areas, the 7.0 quake that was up in northern CA was a big one, glad there was no considerable damages or fatalities reported, but it's scary!

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@SoCal Bred Thank goodness the epicenter was in the ocean and not on land!!!  Very scary indeed!  

[just bee]

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@qvcaddition wrote:

I went through two big earthquackes  One in SF. Was working in a tall building on Market street and it was scarey. The other was when the bridge collapse. I think it was in 1986, not sure, was horrible.

I now live in Northern Ca and got an alert on my phone.  I was talking at the time to my sister in Washington and we wonder why I was getting an alert. 

Didn't feel anything.  It was up north in Eureka.  The town of Ferndale got the worse of it, but nothing real divestating.  Couple houses had the foundation shift and a few shops had broken bottes off the shelves.

Ferndale is such a cute little town.  Than goodness it was not real bad for those folks.

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@qvcaddition 

I spent a lot of time in Ferndale when I was in college.

Still have a soft spot for it.

[SportyShorty07]

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@spumoni99 wrote:

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@SportyShorty07 wrote:

@Enufstuff  Thank you for your kind words and concern, Donna 💗! It is interesting to be born and raised in San Francisco. I was one year old when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that caused millions and millions of dollars of damage and killed 63 Bay Area residents.  San Francisco had a ton of damage and my parents set up a tent that night on 10/17/1989  in the backyard and they slept in the tent with my big sister and myself. My big sister was almost 3 and I had recently turned 1.  My parents said that I kept squirming down to the bottom of the blankets in the tent and that they had to keep scooping me up into their arms or next to them throughout the night.  My parents house wasn't damaged, but many other houses in San Francisco were damaged.  Earthquakes can be very destructive and scary. 

    I've felt little earthquakes here and there throughout my life, and one time I was sitting in a chair and the chair swayed back and forth and I almost fell out of it during an earthquake. I'm glad that you've only had small earthquakes where you live near Boston. I also hope that you never experience any severe earthquakes, sweet Donna! 💖

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Okay I feel old now!  I was at work when that happened!  I was 28.   It was so scary and horrible.  I had a coworker that took the evening off, we worked swing shift, to go to a giants game. This was before cell phones but she finally got to a phone and let me know she was okay.  I was talking on the phone to a customer and felt dizzy when it happened, I'm 90 miles from SF.

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@spumoni99  You're not old, Spumoni99 😊! That must've been so scary to wait until your gal pal called you to let you know that she was okay.  I'm glad that you both were ok!