# I am shaking like -- well, a person in an earthquake. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605 "2005-06-16T20:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/1 "2005-06-16T20:48:33Z")
1:55pm or so, and the shaking starts. My building is on rollers, so we’re still rocking and I’m starting to feel dizzy. Anyone else feel the earthquake? Any word on magnitude? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/2 "2005-06-16T21:02:04Z")
> [@Campion](#): > > 1:55pm or so, and the shaking starts. My building is on rollers, so we’re still rocking and I’m starting to feel dizzy. Anyone else feel the earthquake? Any word on magnitude? 5.3 Epicenter just east of Riverside We felt it here in Santa Monica. ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/3 "2005-06-16T21:06:49Z")
Seconded from Santa Monica. Lots of swaying here. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/4 "2005-06-16T21:11:53Z")
Join the other Californians [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321488). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/5 "2005-06-16T21:21:14Z")
Well, that was quick. (And a simulpost thread [thread=321488]here[/thread].) We were rolling around here in San Burnitdowno; USGS places the quake north of Redlands (nearer Yucaipa, actually). They claim a 5.3; I dunno, it seemed a little larger to me, but nothing serious. I’d 'minds me of the time in '91 when some knownothing asshat predicted that the New Madrid Fault (on the border between Missouri and Illinois) was going to cut loose and flatten everything in a four state area (but who’d miss it?), and the Geophysics department had a party in his honor, complete with an Earthquake cake and End-of-the-World punch (unspiked, unfortunately.) There were actually a couple of cute girls in the Geophysics program…it almost made me want to change my major. (Which I did anyway–several times–but never to GPh.) What? Oh, sorry, just reminiscing. In my mind, better an earthquake than a tornado, flood, microburst, hurricane, sinkhole, or having a pig farm next door. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-shaking-like-well-a-person-in-an-earthquake/308605/6 "2005-06-16T21:34:42Z")
So this was near LA? And the King Tut exhibit opened there today…it’s the curse of King Tut’s tomb!!!