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Did this just happen? I was cooking dinner and it felt like something shook hard, and I couldn't tell if it was an earthquake or the upstairs neighbors.
I was 12 miles from the epicenter of the '71 San Fernando 6.7 quake; spent much of it in the doorway of my bedroom looking into the back yard as my family's recently-built swimming pool emptied itself.
Then I was 4 miles from the epicenter of the '94 Northridge quake, also 6.7; couldn't get to doorway because I was in a waterbed trying to empty itself with a panicky wife AND a panicky dog. Good times.