Living in Earthquake Country

5.3 centered out by Riverside/Victorville, 100 miles east of LA. Simon Foster reports that he felt it in Santa Monica. “Just rolling. Not too large.” LA Times: An earthquake struck Southern California early this afternoon, shaking buildings across the region from the desert to the Pacific Ocean. The quake measured 5.3, according to the Brian Grade, a spokesperson for the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado. The quake struck at 1:53 p.m. Pacific time A quake that size is widely…

If you don’t live in California and thought that maybe I might have been injured or affected by the 7.0 (!) earthquake that happened tonight off of the coast of Crescent City, California, you would be mistaken. Crescent City, CA is about 360 miles north of Oakland, near the Oregon border. We didn’t feel it at all.

MeFi points out: Photos of the 1906 SF earthquake. This is my favorite one, looking at the Ferry building in the foreground. And from Bennington, VT, Reuters reported earlier this week: Students occasionally parading naked around Vermont’s Bennington College campus has been a tolerated, if peculiar, part of the university’s student culture here since the 1960s. Now Robert Graves, hired this year as Bennington’s dean of students, has embarked on a crusade against public nudity — one that has run…