holy cow

We just had the strongest, longest earthquake I've ever experienced -- I actually ducked under my desk like they taught us to do in my Berkeley elementary school (and grabbed onto my standing lamp so it wouldn't fall over onto my computer). And it seemed to go on forever; in fact it kind of feels like it's still going on. My clothes are no longer swinging on their hangers though, so that is probably just my own shock moving my inner ear or something. I thought it was past earthquake season (summer, usually). Anyway, I'm going out to see if anything's broken.


update: Didn't see any damage, and apparently neither has anyone else, yet. It was around 7 on the Richter scale, biggest since the really terrible one in 1999, epicenter around 66 miles off the northeast shore, according to the latest report from bloomberg . See, it's not like my fieldwork is just movies and bars all the time. There's legitimate dangers involved here! Stop smirking.