I know I'm certainly in the minority, but I love earthquakes. The adrenaline felt afterwards, the frenzy to figure out where it hit, what it did. It's just great - a little scary - but great. Living here in Orange, I've felt my fair share of quakes - usually just minor tremors as there are no direct fault lines here that are too important (though we did get one in Riverside a year or two ago - just adjacent to Orange) - the real "fun" ones are the ones with epicenters in LA, or further east. We just get a bit of shaking, but nothing too spectacular and it's just amazing to think where these come from. I mean...the whole crust of the earth is moving beneath us and we just continue on with our daily lives, thinking nothing of it (unless of course, it does damage, like Northridge).

But after living in San Diego for the past few years for school, I've missed the earthquakes (and the police chases we get on the LA television stations), and I most definitely won't be missing this one - unless of course, it turns out that you can't predict earthquakes. In which case, they've just gotten my hopes up for no reason. Why not just tell me I'm going to win the lotto by Sept. 5th as well?

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