In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
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.
••If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.
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.
The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.
My base will show up in earthquakes.
On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
