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Were you an eyewitness?

From the lens The Paso Robles Earthquake, December 22, 2003.

Whether you experienced this earthquake or another one, or maybe none at all, I'd like to know your thoughts. If you are an eyewitness,please consider sharing your own experience. Also, I'd appreciate it if you would go back to the top of this lens where the stars are and be the first (or second) to rate it. It's nice to have feedback.

  • OhMe Jun 26, 2011 @ 7:18 pm | delete
    I can't even imagine how it must be to live through an earthquake. I am so thankful that you are ok. We have never experienced one and hope we don't.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Mar 18, 2011 @ 5:20 am | delete
    I am reading this after Japan. You had a mess, but I am glad you are ok.

    Nuclear reactors make it a whole lot more complicated
  • BarbRad Mar 18, 2011 @ 1:03 pm | delete
    It is experiencing my earthquake that made me imagine how devastated the Japanese must feel. In comparison, I was simply inconvenienced. I still have my house, I had somewhere else to sleep until my bedroom was habitable again, and my town only lost two lives and a few buildings. Because so few were in mourning, there were plenty who could help and comfort them. In Japan, thousands have been killed or injured, thousands have lost everything, and those who haven't' still have to protect themselves against the radioactive air. Since almost everyone is affected, the community can't gather around just a few unlucky ones in the same way they could here.
  • JoanneOtt Oct 15, 2010 @ 1:04 am | delete
    I live in an earthquake prone area as well, and have felt a few, but all of them have been minor ones. It's strange and hard to describe for people, except once you have experienced one you know exactly what it is the next time.
  • ohcaroline Oct 9, 2010 @ 8:10 pm | delete
    Excellent account of the earthquake. My 2 aunts went through a really big one back in the 80's. Blessed by an Angel. will be featured on my angel lens: angel on assignment.
  • Pukeko Sep 4, 2010 @ 4:21 am | delete
    Just in another one last night. It's odd how even being awaken from a deep sleep, you know exactly what is going on. I think my cousin was in the Paso Robles quake and that this was the one that blew her stove off her wall. Great lens.
  • BarbRad Sep 4, 2010 @ 11:57 am | delete
    Rhonda, I'm so glad you are all OK. Thanks for taking some of your limited bandwidth to comment. I hope this latest quake didn't cancel your vacation. As to knowing what's going on when you're in bed, you ocatch on fast, and then you wonder whether to get up and get under a door or stay put and pull the covers and pillow over. There is a window over my bed and there is absolutely no way a bed will fit any other way in the room.
  • poddys Jan 21, 2010 @ 4:03 pm | delete
    Very nice lens and very touching, 5*****. I haven't been through an earthquake, but I have seen the damage caused by several major ones. It's a horrible thing to go through, especially if all around you collapses.
  • SemperFidelis Apr 23, 2009 @ 8:07 pm | delete
    Nice local history Barb!
    Blessed by a SquidAngel today!
    www.squidoo.com/squid-angel
    ~ Colleen :o)
  • kiwisoutback Apr 19, 2009 @ 4:50 pm | delete
    I've never experienced an earthquake, but I frequently head out to Palm Springs, CA where they predict the next "big one" to possibly have its epicenter. What can you do but be prepared and live life? This sounds like a horrible experience to have to go through. I never realized the sulphur springs caused such damage in Paso Robles. I was there two years ago and it seems like they've rebuilt everything -- then again I don't know what it looked like before. Thanks for sharing.
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Apr 10, 2009 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    We are sitting on a fault line, but since moving to SC, I've only felt a few rumbles. They say we're due and that's scary.
    Thanks for sharing
    Lizzy
  • FunGifts4All Apr 9, 2009 @ 1:13 pm | delete
    Very nice lens. 5 stars.
  • Sarunas Apr 9, 2009 @ 12:40 pm | delete
    Great lens.
    Well Done. 5* from me
    And Keep it up : D
  • MsSnow4a Apr 9, 2009 @ 10:20 am | delete
    I live in oregon and I keep hearing we are going to have the "Big one" soon. Kinda scary but I life life each day at a time. I have only been in one quake and it was a tiny one. I thought someone was dancing on the floor and makig it shake lol
  • Mountainside-Crochet Apr 8, 2009 @ 3:16 pm | delete
    Wow - interesting quake story. If I heard about it at the time, I've forgotten. I'm sure I would have remembered if it had been called the Paso Robles Earthquake because I lived on the Central Coast, in Los Osos, outside San Luis Obispo, from 1975 to 1982 and know Paso Robles and the Avila Beach area well. In Los Osos we felt a slight tremor from a minor earthquake over near the Nevada State Line once (don't remember what year or where exactly the epicenter was), but I'll never forget the sensation! I was in the kitchen at the time and my husband was having a meeting with a group of about a dozen college fraternity boys in the living room. When the house began to shake and the coffee cups on the rack on the wall began to clink together and the hanging lamp over the dining room table began to swing, I thought these college boys were 'rough-housing' in the living room and causing all this commotion! Ha - fooled me! The boys laughed at my reaction to my first earthquake! 5*.
  • BarbRad Apr 8, 2009 @ 2:04 pm | in reply to Joy Bergquist | delete
    Joy,

    I was hoping you would post that experience, since I knew you had an exciting story to tell. I'm glad you've just given it a wider audience.
  • Joy Bergquist Apr 8, 2009 @ 9:14 am | delete
    It was awesome from a heavily wooded mtn top. The trees swayed back and forth violently, thunderous boulders and rocks came crashing down the hill sides. I was on a slope half way down the mtn. where it dropped off on either side. A safe place because the boulders went down to the lowest spots to each side of me. I was unable to continue standing because the ground was moving so much. I sat down to the ground holding onto my dog. After the earthquake I hiked for 4 hours checking out the huge cracks in the ground, the areas where the ground had elevation changes or over 12 inches. Hugh gaps between soil and rock formations where they have been shifted during the quake. It was good that I didn't try to drive home immediately as Hwy 46 had 8 road crews working in various sections trying to repair road damage and I would not have been able to drive home anyway. I spent an hour removing rocks/boulder from the road to get to the Hwy. Feeling the powerful quake took my mind to God.
  • C-Joy Apr 8, 2009 @ 6:43 am | delete
    Fortunately, the only earthquakes I have experienced were very minor (rattling dishes). Natural disasters are so hard to deal with! My city is recovering from last summer's major flood - your photos look similar to ours, just without the water lines.
  • tandemonimom Apr 7, 2009 @ 10:08 pm | delete
    I have never been in a quake - thank goodness!
  • BarbRad Apr 7, 2009 @ 5:27 pm | delete
    Thanks for the kind words. My heart also goes out to those in Italy; they have it so much worse than we had it here. I will always feel more compassion for those who are experiencing them than I did before I had my own earthquake experience.
  • Evelyn_Saenz Apr 7, 2009 @ 4:03 pm | delete
    I experienced several earthquakes in Costa Rica. The building there have been built to withstand the strong tremblings of the earth and only very old buildings were damaged. Each time is a bit scarier than the last.

    My hear goes out to all those people in Italy that are living through the nightmare of this recent earthquake.

    Your lens gave me a very vivid memory of the earthquakes that I have experienced. What an incredible first lens. Welcome to Squidoo!

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