Has anyone heard reports of Puerto Rico? Haiti’s having heaps of big aftershocks but I don’t see any responses on the usgs did you feel it map from PR.

If you are able to get outside and are near multi-story buildings, keep your face covered because the air can fill with glass confetti shards. Pulling your coat over your head like a hood works. And watch for broken mains.

W, glad you survived. My mom is one of those steady people. I’ve seen her draw strength from within and work wonders under extreme stress. We’ve learned to mark the date because six months later she collapses for a day. I have found that I get the same adrenaline jag from a 1.2 as a 6.5, a surge of efficiency, then a long nap when we think the main cluster is over. My daughter didn’t realize we’ve been having a series of little quakes lately and she thought she was really sick because she kept losing her balance. I showed her the map at usgs dot com and she heaved a huge sigh of relief.

My aunt once lived in a really cheap rental house. The San Andreas ran through her back yard. The cousins and I had fun scrambling in and out of the big crack.

I missed the 1989 Loma Prieta quake because we lost the floor of our rental house in Little Loma earlier in 1989 and I moved to Montana. The world became a trampoline and we bounced and scrambled out of the house and up the hillside to huddle together by an ancient rock wall, then realized one of the girls was still asleep in bed(!). After the big quake, my dad had trouble tracking down Mom — she couldn’t get across the bridge so caught a ferry to her parents’ house and took care of them. The ferries were a godsend.