Shake, Rattle and Roll, song, Bill Haley and His Comets, 1954.
Coming up from Southern California, I am no stranger to earthquakes. I've been in some doozies down there and some pretty good shakers down in the Sacramento valley. They're pretty uncommon up here, so it took me a minute yesterday morning when the big, heavy mirror in the bedroom started to, for lack of a better term, quiver. Sitting at the computer, I didn't feel a thing, but the mirror was doing a shimmy on the wall. Ah, an earthquake. Turns out this one was centered in Lake Tahoe, over two hours away. When I say Lake Tahoe, I mean the middle of the lake! This was a pretty low-magnitude quake, but it's amazing how far those ground ripples can travel. If there were aftershocks, I didn't feel them.
That was enough excitement for one day.
Stay safe. Be well.
That IS excitement. We had the small old fashioned shutters in our bedroom in Costa Mesa, and they always rattled when there was a tremor or earthquake, and that is how I knew if it wasn't otherwise obvious.
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