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ost_uid0="Guest"]I'm about 1 mile south of San Francisco, slightly more than a stone's throw from the Bay.[/quote
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How do you deal with the earthquakes. I don't think I could take it.[/color
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ost_uid0]Bit of a misunderstanding about earthquakes, really. They happen all the time, even where you are. Most of them just aren't big enough to notice.
As an example, for the week ending May 29, there were 91 earthquakes in the Bay Area. I actually noticed exactly one (a little tremor that had me wondering "Was that ...?" punctuated by just enough of a bump to answer "Yes, it was!"
They're also a fairly local phenomenon. The one that I felt was a magnitude 3.4, but for the same week, there were two slightly larger ones (a 3.8 and a 4.3) in the area that I didn't notice at all because they were centered 30-40 miles away.
Anything big enough to do more than knock things off shelves or pictures off walls really doesn't happen often, and when it does, it's usually somewhere else (again, effects diminish greatly over distance). Most of the time, if you notice it at all, it's about on par with a tame carnival ride that lasts 2 or 3 seconds. Sorta fun, really, and you don't even have to get up off the couch.
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