earthquake non-report
Aug. 24th, 2014 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacWe're some 60 miles south of Napa. We were asleep during the quake, and stayed asleep. I felt the Paso Robles quake, which was a slightly higher magnitude (6.5 vs. today's estimated 6.0) and about twice as far away, a decade ago, but I was awake at the time (in fact I was in the theater, waiting for Peter Jackson's Travesty III to start). But, this far away, it came across as a gentle rolling, and if I'd been asleep it would probably not have woken me up. The drama of earthquakes outside their immediately affected areas tends to be overassumed by those not used to them.
B.'s sister is in Napa, though, and there it is certainly notable: power and water out, things fallen over and smashed, her husband clonked by a bureau (he's OK). Somewhat more severe than what we went through in Loma Prieta - the magnitude isn't as great, but they're a lot closer to the epicenter than we were.
Reports have some crumbling buildings in downtown Napa and Vallejo - typical of such quakes, they hit worst in pre-code buildings, regardless of location - some buckled roads, one significant fire, numerous injuries but no fatal casualties. Everybody hang on.
B.'s sister is in Napa, though, and there it is certainly notable: power and water out, things fallen over and smashed, her husband clonked by a bureau (he's OK). Somewhat more severe than what we went through in Loma Prieta - the magnitude isn't as great, but they're a lot closer to the epicenter than we were.
Reports have some crumbling buildings in downtown Napa and Vallejo - typical of such quakes, they hit worst in pre-code buildings, regardless of location - some buckled roads, one significant fire, numerous injuries but no fatal casualties. Everybody hang on.
