1989 quake. My brother and I were home, in downstairs area. We still had rabbit ear antenna for some of the house. It was the 2nd game of the World Series, a few minutes after 5pm. I noticed the antenna start to move. We moved to under the door jam. We felt the beginning of the quake, and then the wave that brought down freeways and bridges came through. I had my hands holding onto the door jam. The house came out of my hands. We went outside and it looked as if the world had jumped up and down, dust in the atmosphere. I will also never forget the look on AL Michael’s face. He was in the booth at the ballpark.
Re: 2.9...growing up south of San Francisco, even a 4.0 was not disturbing. It was fun to lie on the ground (away from any structures, and experience the 4.0 and less.
PS. I loved to tweak the liberal wackos when they would try to discuss earthquakes. I would explain that a good deal of oil and natural gas was released from deep down in the Earth, and easier for us to harvest it.
We moved to under the door jam.
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Hope you didn’t get any of that sticky stuff on you.
(couldn’t help myself.....It’s door jamb)
About that...
The bottom of the top deck of the Cypress Structure looked like a series of door frames.
An amazingly large percentage of the fatalities were in cars where the concrete cross support fell precisely on the driver's seat of the car. The deeply ingrained 'in case of earthquake get in a door frame' response served them poorly that day.