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EARTHQUAKE!!!

We had an earthquake today.

It was the first quake I've ever felt before in all my twenty-.... uh, twenty-some-odd years.

The center hit about 90 miles away at 1:53pm... It was nearly 2pm when I felt the quake - I guess it took that long to travel to Beverly Hills.

I don't even know if that makes sense... I'm not real earthquake-educated actually. Ask me about tornadoes... ask me about hurricanes... but we don't have a whole heck of a lot of earthquakes in the south.

It was short... very short. According to the news, the quake lasted much longer near the center and folks experienced a "rolling" sensation of the ground. Where I was, I felt a small "trimmer" or "vibration." Truthfully, it kinda felt like the bit of vibration on your feet when you first step onto the escalator. And by the time I realized what was happening, it was over. In full, the trimmer and shaking sounds of things hanging on the wall lasted all of about 6 seconds.

Immediately, I tried to call home to tell my folks in Georgia that I'd just felt an earthquake. Evidently, Cingular had some difficulties immediately following the quake. About a half hour later, the calls were functioning again.

Oh man, I can't believe I felt an earthquake. Weird!

Here's the bad, kinda scary thing. This is the 3rd quake since Sunday (it's Thursday today). One big one off the coast of Northern California, one around the Canadian border, and one down here in Southern California near the San Bernadino National Forest.

So, does mean there are more to come? Seems there is quite a bit of activity surrounding the plates in the past 5 days.

Do you think California could just break away from the rest of the continent if this continues?

Well, look at the plus side - twice as much ocean front property!