Who felt the earthquake?

tokenadult
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:02:15 +0000

Too far away to feel this one. I felt the only newsworthy earthquake Minnesota has ever had (where I was, it felt just like a truck rumbling by), but never experienced SERIOUS earthquakes until I lived in Taiwan. We lived through the 21 September 1999 earthquake there that killed more than a thousand people, being about 100 miles from the epicenter. (The nearest building to us to collapse with loss of life was a shoddily constructed apartment skyscraper about three kilometers away.) For the next week we had intermittent power outages, and my sons remember earthquakes as an occasion for candlelight dinners. I have also felt earthquakes during a summer job in Los Angeles.