Todd Akin Quotes

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.

I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I'd never had anything like that happen before. It's always stuck with me.

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.

We are the fault line; if you don't deal with this fault line, you're going to have an earthquake, that's what we always said.

••If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.