I live in one of those pancake-ish 3-level buildings (like the kind that collapsed in Northridge) and the strudcture is so weak you can hear the walls bending with the quakes! I think if the saccompanying ounds were not so bad, it wouldn't be as unnerving! Yes, I am physically okay, but I get very nervous and jumpy in quakes. I like living alone - except when there are quakes!! I was surveying the room and trying to decide if I should start taking down picture frames and Disney snowglobes - as I always do if a quake seems nasty - but I also was ready to go bolting out the door.
Yes, the Northridge quake was terrifying, wasn't it? People who didn't feel it don't understand. That one actually traumatized people who were nowhere near the epicenter because it was so violent. I know I was one of many who couldn't go to sleep for weeks without being fully clothed - if I was lucky enough to sleep at all. I was too afriad I would have to run outside and didn't want to be undressed! I imagine it was traumatic for you, Corpsebride, because you got thrown out of bed in the darkness of the early morning hours. How did you manage to sleep in the weeks after that one? The Landers/Big Bear quake combo of 1992 was pretty ugly, too. Way too many quakes here lately. I don't like it at all!