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Earthquakes Conversation

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Joe: Hey, check this out . Y’know what Eric asked me when I got into work this

morning?

I have no idea: I do not

know

Kristin: I have no idea , what’d he ask you?

Joe: He asked me if I felt the earthquake last night.

you’ve gotta be kidding:

you cannot be serious

Kristin: Earthquake? You’ve gotta be kidding , I didn’t feel an earthquake.

Joe: I know, that’s what I said. He told me it actually woke him up last night.

Y’know…

Kristin: What?

pullin’ my leg: making a

joke by lying to someone

and pretending the lie is

true

Joe: …yeah, it was like, it went, it happened at like, uh, 4:42 in the morning. So we

must’ve been sleeping. But I mean, it’s possible that, y’know, even if we had been

awake we might not have felt it because, y’know, maybe it, uh, wasn’t felt, y’know,

this far north. But, uh, I, I mean I thought he was pullin’ my leg when he first talked

about it.

Kristin: Well, I guess it’s not so far-fetched considering we live on a major fault line

here.

far-fetched: unbelievable

Joe: Yeah, but actually I think this earthquake was, uh, on a different fault line, um,

because, y’know, Eric lives, uh, just, uh, south of San Jose…

Kristin: Yeah.

due east: exactly east of

someplace

Joe: …and, uh, the earthquake he said was due east of San Jose, so he was

obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were. So, I d-, I’m not even sure it

was felt here.

epicenter: the middle of

an earthquake

Kristin: Yeah, that makes sense. Well, y’know, I’ve experienced quite a few

earthquakes in the past several years but I’ve been living here a little over two years,

I’ve, I think I’ve only experienced one here. It was really strange, too, I was, um,

each, I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience. But

the one I, the one I felt here, I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and

another friend and all of a sudden it just felt like, this shift. It’s really hard to explain,

but it made me think of, like, a cartoon, like how, in the cartoon, like buildings might

just shift to the right and then shift right back.

all of a sudden: right

away with no warning

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Joe: Yeah, without falling.

Kristin: Yeah, without falling. And I, I had no idea what was going on for a few

minutes afterwards. And then I realized, oh that must have been an earthquake.

Joe: Yeah, you know what I usually notice, the times that I’ve been at home, here…

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: …and, uh, there’s been an earthquake? It’s almost as if there’s this really big

train, or like a gigantic Mack truck going by. And, uh, suddenly I start to hear the

heater shaking. And, um, it’s like, the noise is like, uh, is loud for like a second and

then it’s gone, so…

Kristin: That’s so…

Joe: …it’s really weird, y’know, it’s almost like the first couple’a times I felt it, I wasn’t

even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.

aftershock: an

earthquake that happens

right after another

earthquake

Kristin: Well, that’s so funny you say that because one that I experienced in

Bangkok, it actually was after the tsunami and so later I found out that it was, it was,

um, aftershock from the tsunami. But anyway, I was in a building up on the ninth

floor and suddenly, uh, there was all this rattling. And I’m thinking to myself, it, it just,

it, it was so irrational. I’m thinking to myself, god, there’s like a train going by and I

can’t believe that this building is shaking so much from the train [laugh]. It… And of

course a train wouldn’t have made a building, or at least me up on the ninth floor, feel

something to that effect. And I think it happened about two times. And it… That one

wasn’t until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like, “Oh

didja feel the earthquake?”. Then it dawned on me , oh, that was an earthquake. It

was…

it dawned on me: I

remembered; I realized

Joe: Yeah, I know. It’s, uh, it’s crazy how when you’re not used to feeling them you

can think it’s something else.

totally: definitely

Kristin: Yeah, yeah totally .

a while: a long time

it’s a given: there is no

doubt

Joe: I mean, I’ve been livin’ here for a while now and I’ve definitely felt my share of

earthquakes. I mean, y’know, when you live here it’s a given that you’re gonna

experience earthquakes. You just hope that you’re not gonna be here for the big one,

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y’know…

Kristin: [laugh] Yeah, right.

perspective: what

someone thinks about

something

Joe: When I first moved here, it was, uh, about five years after the Loma Prieta

earthquake, which was a very big earthquake here. And, um, there are a lot of

people who lived here who I met who had actually been living in the area when the

earthquake hit. So it was interesting to get their perspective …

Kristin: Oh.

World Series: the

championship games in

American baseball

Joe: …and, uh, it also like made me remember where I was when I heard about the

Loma Prieta earthquake. I was watching the World Series on TV. And, uh, y’know,

it was, uh, taking place in San Francisco. So, uh, as I’m watching it suddenly the

announcer starts, uh, uh, saying, “Wow, I think we’re feeling an earthquake here.”.

And the cameras started shaking. And, uh, all of a sudden the TV coverage cut out .

So, uh, y’know, I wanted to get a rundown on what happened. So I turned to the

news station and, uh, within a few minutes they were discussing this gigantic

earthquake that had hit San Francisco. And they started showing pictures, uh, maybe

thirty minutes later, of these people who were, uh, trying to weed through the rubble

of these buildings that had been, like, coming down. So, I mean, it was…

taking place: happening

cut out: no longer was

able to be seen

rundown: information

weed through: to look or

dig through

Kristin: Oh, wow.

I’ll tell you what: that is

for sure

Joe: …it was pretty scary, I’ll tell you what …

Kristin: Yeah.

Joe: …y’know.

a dime a dozen: very

common

surreal: unreal

Kristin: Yeah, well, um, you know the three months I was living in Japan I

experienced two. Both of those were very different, uh, very different from the one I’d

experienced here and also very different from the one in Bangkok. But one of ‘em, I

was actually up in my apartment, which was on the fifth floor of a building. And I was

woken up at about 5 o’clock in the morning to the building swaying. And because, uh,

earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan, they, they’ve built a lot of their

buildings to absorb the shock. So that’s why it was swaying, it was really, it was a

very surreal feel.

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