Earthquake
There was an earthquake today. Magnitude 3.9 (USGS) with an epicenter at Millbrae.
I felt it. Sitting in my room, starting my reading homework, and feeling the slight wobbling of the ground with the shaking sound of the walls. With the inability to do anything but watch and listen and look and feel.
I'm lucky that this wasn't a major earthquake. What would I have done?
When I was small, I was scared of earthquakes. They made me cry at night. The existential feeling that everything could come crashing down at any moment and I could die at any moment was harrowing. Combine with all the experts shouting about California was overdue for an earthquake and you can imagine how scared 8 year old me was.
Now I feel better. But there's not much I can do about earthquakes, they exist more or less in my mind yet there's not much I can do about it.
Stay safe I guess, and Duck and Cover and Hold.
There have been a lot of earthquakes (minor ones) in California these past couple weeks....