Post #86774 by freddiefreelance on Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:56 AM

On 2004-04-15 15:40, bigbrotiki wrote:
Aaah...I fondly remember the Northridge rumble. I like earthquakes, what a kick.

Sven, where do you live that Northridge was only a "rumble?" I lived on the east side of Hollywood on the 3rd floor of the Karnak Apartments & all of my dishes broke, my 50 piece International beer bottle collection was broken & spread across my entire kitchen (my 3rd & last California-based beer bottle collection), everything in my medicine cabinet broke, & my new Ikea desk exploded(!).

My wife no longer felt safe in Hollywood & we ended up moving to Sherman Oaks, to the last building standing on it's block (I guess she felt that if it didn't fall down in the main quake it wouldn't in any of the aftershocks?), & soon afterwards to San Diego.

I've lived in Southern California since '84, & I've lived through several good sized quakes, but Northridge was probably caused the worst damage to the neighborhood I was living in in that time.

I don't expect an earthquake in So Cal on the timetable they're quoting (NO earthquake has ever matched a scientist's p0redictions), but we are over due for something big soon...