Yeah I live a vary short distance from the epicenter of that quake... a coffee can fell from the cupboard and a brick wall separating my property from another, cracked some... my yard is about 4ft higher then the next. What surprised me was the fact that my garage was still standing when I got home that day
I however was in Kent when it happened, in a building that took so much unseen damage that it was condemned.
They did not really know how much it took till a few weeks later, after it was cleared for entry and occupied by many people, the sprinklers went off. They could not understand where the water went... that was when they discovered the true damage it had taken. The foundation was destroyed.
Not surprising to me, since I road it out inside, the walls looked like jello and you could see and feel the shock waves rippling through the concrete floor of the transportation isle that runs in the middle of the building (spanning from end to end).
Few minutes ealier and I would have been standing.. err hanging off of the side of a catwalk some 30-40ft above a concrete floor.
It did enough damage as it was.. something bigger and this area is screwed!
