And a week later the aftershocks keep on keeping on. Apparently I am getting good at sleeping through up to a 3.0 - provided they are quiet. The rumble that often precedes the shaking just makes it worse. I yelped out loud when a 4 came a rumbling and banging while I was having my tea this morning. I am not sure how many aftershocks there have been but I suspect we are into a thousand something now and many of the epicenters are less than a mile from my house. I was born and raised in the SF bay area and have never felt anything like this.
This valley, like much of the Walker Lane seismic zone, is chock full of little faults. I suppose it is like trying to sleep in a dog pile - when one dog moves everyone else has to adjust as well. It is exciting but also exhausting. My housemate leaned against a closet door and it moved and made a noise and we both jumped. Or a truck on the highway down the hill is loud and I brace. And here I am whining - she has been here the entire time while I just got home on Monday.
After the past year - fire (lost 1/3 of the community) blizzard (6 feet of snow paralyzed this community and closed Hwy 395 for a week) and winds that drop tree limbs on the roof and kick up lightning holdover fires we now have the earth shaking. I have been singing this song since I felt the quake while sitting by a lake in the backcountry:
"That's great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes - Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of the hurricane listen to yourself churn world serves it's own needs don't mis-serve your own needs (etc)
It's the end of the world as we know it --
(my favorite line - Birthday party cheesecake jellybean boom)
REM - End Of The World As We Know it
here is a photo of the Slink Fire approaching my house last year
Edited by teledork, 16 July 2021 - 03:40 AM.