Personal note: scenes from an earthquake during a hurricane

| 7:14 pm EDT August 20, 2023
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Having an earthquake while you’re expecting a hurricane is weird. You feel the building start rocking and a for a second you think it’s the wind, then you remember the storm isn’t really here yet, and wind wouldn’t move a building in that way anyway. Then the earthquake alert pops up on your phone, and you’re like okay, so I’m not imagining this.

The earthquake was a non-event here in Los Angeles. Nothing sitting on the coffee table even shifted. But apparently it was a 5.0 centered about a hour north of here, which is fairly serious. Not the kind of earthquake they make movies about. But fairly serious nonetheless.

So yeah, there’s a hurricane making landfall about 150 miles south of here, and it appears to have triggered an earthquake 50 miles north of here. It doesn’t make sense, except it does.

On the east coast, one of the big concerns with hurricanes is how they could kick up tornadoes. Yes, there are tornadoes inside hurricanes. And now here on the west coast, where hurricanes are a new thing, it appears they can trigger earthquakes along the fault lines.

Everything continues to be “fine” here in my neighborhood, in the sense that nothing is going wrong. The winds are still only maybe ten miles per hour. The rain is still light. The earthquake has passed. The hurricane isn’t expected to hit here directly. The power is still on. And here we are. We live in interesting times.