As my housemates and I sat around the dinner table tonight, we heard a loud bang and then felt some quick shaking. It was an earthquake<\/a>, though in the seconds after the rumbling, I fought hard not to go into a state of surreal denial. What did we have to do next? Should we stand in the doorway? What's the chance of an aftershock?<\/i> When a minute or so had passed without any tangible shakes, I pulled out my Treo 300 and surfed around to find some info on the earthquake. It wasn't easy to find any information immediately after a quake, at least from a little cellphone\/web browser; I did finally land on the \"Most Recent Event\" ShakeMap page<\/a>. Yes, indeed, there had been a quake 6 km SE of Berkeley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another wakeup call, no doubt. The power outages out east<\/a> already made me wonder how prepared we are for natural disaster. It's time to double check our preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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