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We have not had a strong earthquake in some time.

This is a good thing, I suppose, but I still have that yen to shake a little. It is an easterner's thing. A search for the exotic in the new country.

I check every day to see what is going on. The USGS (Geodetic Survey) shows all the latest data here.

Well, not all of it. Just Palm Springs. But you can get the world shakes on the same sites.

I suppose this is a foolish and ill conceived wish. Perhaps related to a death wish in a teensy way.

This wish for a tremor may say more about me than it does the earthquake situation.

But I think everyone has a little bit of lust for danger. Otherwise, quiet boring lives.

An earthquake is nothing like a hurricane but the excitement of anticipation is similar. In a way we never know/knew what the hurricane would do either. Veer into us? Go away into the Atlantic? A cliff hanger from nature.

So I wait.

Just a moderate shake would be enough.