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>Gallegos said that the dried chiles hanging from a hook on her kitchen wall were all shaking. "It was surreal." was this really the best anecdote they could f
by notatoad 7y ago
>Gallegos said that the dried chiles hanging from a hook on her kitchen wall were all shaking. "It was surreal."
was this really the best anecdote they could find to include in the story?
- reaperducer 7y agoIt happened 30 minutes before. I doubt the reporter had time to survey every person in a lesser-populated 500 square mile area.
- squarefoot 7y agoI don't know, but anyway... If you happen to be under dried chiles when they shake, be sure to keep your eyes closed because the pain could make an earthquake much more pleasant. Been there done that, and that pain lasted hours... ouch! On a more serious note, the anecdote might suggest that the earthquake produced very high frequency oscillations. Dried plants are relatively light and stiff so that a larger but slow displacement might be harder to spot by looking at them, but they could be much better at transmitting fast oscillations.
- schoen 7y ago> Been there done that, and that pain lasted hours... ouch! What an unusual form of earthquake injury!
- squarefoot 7y agoWell, a fault was involved, although not a geological one:) Read as: don't pick dried chiles directly from below, or at least close the damn eyes...
- schoen 7y agoOh, I see! I thought you meant that you'd actually experienced getting chili pepper in your eyes during an earthquake.
- Gibbon1 7y agoIn the Loma Prieta earthquake Santa Cruz and Watsonville were badly damaged. But their was very little information getting out. So a lot of the coverage was San Francisco and Oakland. There is an inverse correlation between how bad a disaster is and a reporters ability to get any information.