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May 9th, 2006 
QuadsZilla From the cat blog files:
I lived in southern California for 8 years and felt 4, maybe 5 earthquakes. Here in Medellin, Colombia, I live on the 7th Floor of an apartment that is made mostly of brink and concrete; as far as I can tell they do not have to build to any kind of earthquake code here (like they do in California). That’s why when severe earthquakes hit in South America, thousands of people die.
Needless to say, I was a bit startled yesterday when the building began to shake earthquake style. The 5.4 earthquake lasted about 15 seconds:
The tremor particularly shook Bogota, Manizales, Medellin, Pereira, Soacha and Bucaramanga, capital of Santander, where it sparked panic among residents in high buildings.
Yea, no kidding! Tons of people warned me to be careful visiting Colombia; I thought they meant don’t get shot or kidnapped. How ironic would it be to die in a freaking earthquake?
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This makes me glad that I live on the 5th floor of a building in Argentina. Just like Columbia, every building is pure concrete, but earthquakes never happen.
Scary! I know someone who practically fled California after getting fed up with earthquakes, moved to Florida. He says he prefers hurricanes to the quakes because you know they are coming. I can’t imagine living in a building that could essentially collapse at random.
It was 1994 and I was sitting on Ground Zero, Northridge, CA. I was just climbing into bed after partying all night and I literally was hit with a 6.7 earthquake. It was as if God himself picked up the house and dropped it. But I tell yea, with all the aftershocks, power and water outages I will still take earthquakes over tornados or hurricanes anyday. Someone once said, “The anticipation of death is worse then death itself”.