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SHAKE AND ROLL NO RATTLE

Today's calm was shattered by a series of earthquakes all around Anza which is just over the mountain roads to San Diego. I go through it for my scenic trip to the water every year.

A 2.7, followed by a 4.7, that followed with a 3.0 and finally a 2.5

All in about half a minute.

Then a flurry of 2.5's a while later. We didn't feel those.

These were tremors, rollers. Not slip shock where there is a sharp bang and a jolt.

We are about 30 miles from Anza as the crow flies but there is a sizable mountain range between. Well, Anza is sort of on top. We are down below to the NE.

This is the first in quite a while. The first we can feel anyway. The small ones, sub 1 are going on all the time.

I was in the bathroom. On the throne.

I sort of go through a quick mental assessment. Is it bad enough to go flat on the floor or into the door frame? There wasn't a table to go under, the other precaution. We are on one floor so there isn't a lot of worry about the house collapsing on me especially in a small room like that.

This is sort of useless cogitation about something which is totally unpredictable. Like a basic question is whether this is a pre-quake, the big one, or whether that is all there will be.

John was close by in the work room. Booker was sleeping. Until it happened. He doesn't like it more than we do not.

Which means that the main thing is just to get to him and tell him it is OK if it is and save his ass if it isn't.

These are on the order of "nothing special" as it turns out. I suppose that later in the day or tomorrow, someone will ask if I felt the shake. Yes. Then on with the next item of business.

We have been here long enough that I don't think of them at all in between. If I wasn't writing this it would be erased pretty much.

The idea is that if it is the "big one" it will already be over. It is not like a hurricane where we sit waiting for days and hours before the inevitable, well not always inevitable, outcome.

We are very close the the huge branch of the San Andreas Fault. Almost all quakes have nothing whatsoever to do with this Fault but arise from some other known or unknown locales.

Of course, we could live in Japan.

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