Earthquakes are freaky!  I was coming to a stoplight in Everett, a few miles north of Seattle in our latest significant earthquake in about 2005 or so ( I came to NE in 2006) or so..don't remember the year.  The pavement turned into a jello like flow of waves, every light posts shook up and down.  When it started, I thought maybe somebody knew me and was tapping my rear bumper with their car on mine at the stop sign. I look in my rearview mirror and nobody was there. The pavement moved up and down like a boat passing with it's wake!  then I saw everybody running from out of their work-places!  It's very scary!!  I was at another quake at our family cabin also in Washington when about 21 or so..  Veeery scary as it just sits on pilons with no real foundation sitting on the edge of a 30' cliff to the beach!!  The land made all these weird wavey motions like water. It makes a noise like a train passing through town, but with gusto!!! I didn't feel the one here in lincoln, but it was a wimpy thing!  Just set your chess pieces upright on the board, and you'll be fine. The "big one" is supposed to happen soon.  Then California will be some sort of island!  I'm not kidding! We're waaaay over due (geologically speaking) Paul Now in Nebrasky! OK here!  Still miss the beautiful Pacific NW!! <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td>From: <td>PianoTek4u@aol.com <tr valign=top> <td>To: <td>pianotech@ptg.org <tr valign=top> <td>Date: <td>11/06/2011 12:29 PM <tr valign=top> <td>Subject: <td>Re: [pianotech] New experiences</table> <hr noshade> They are terrifying indeed...........having been through the Sylmar and Northridge quake, the epicenter of which was a few miles from my house...........I hope I never experience that ever again!   Stay safe and well, my friend!   Tony Bajada   In a message dated 11/6/2011 10:14:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, rnossaman@cox.net writes: On 11/6/2011 11:57 AM, PianoTek4u@aol.com wrote: > No thanks, Ron...........we actually get a few tornadoes here in > Southern California every so often..........we'll pass! :-) We have plenty, really. No trouble at all. <G> Seriously though, I can certainly see how an earthquake of any real magnitude would be pretty terrifying. Ron N