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Just had a 6.2 quake down here. Never felt a large building sway like that before. Amazing how much info is available moments after it happens! And how I suddenly was very, very thirsty.

[edit- they just adjusted it to 6.0. Still can't get back to sleep]

roymond wrote:I suddenly was very, very thirsty.

Is that because you wet yourself in fear?

Has the bitter metallic taste in your mouth subsided yet?

For the first month after my first big LA quake I kept checking <a href="http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm"> this </a> map every hour on the hour and wondering when the next would come.

Take care down there...

I was there for the big one in Newcastle in 1989.

Gave me the willies, I can tell you. It it was only 5.6 - but is still caused a lot of damage, killed a lot of people and if I recall correctly - knocked my cup of coffee over. I really wouldn't want to experience anything bigger. As far as I'm concerned, the earth really should just stay still (unless of course, I'm moving it for the ladies )

I was on the 17th floor of my hotel and the building was doing this dance thing...sort of swaying, sort of shaking. Like on a big boat that had a really jittery engine sailing over huge swells. You could also hear all this water swashing about. I don't know where that water is, is it just in the pipes between floors or are there tanks in the walls? But the plastic sticks that you use to pull the curtains with were banging against the windows, which woke me, then the swells, and the water sounds.

Had a 5.4 three hours later, and I was still awake, so I could feel it kind of build into itself, lasted about 40 seconds, then died down.

"Gave me the willies" is exactly it.