I’ve lived in LA for a couple years now and had yet to experience an earthquake.  Until last week.  I’ll own to the morbidity here, but I’d honestly been looking forward to it.  Thought it would be like riding a metro and trying to balance when the train comes to a hault—sans guard-rails of course.  It really wasn’t though.  More like slow-motion body surfing in the dark, or amatuer skateboarding with your eyes closed.  No…even those aren’t cutting it.  Bottom line, earthquakes are scarier than I’d imagined.  And this one wasn’t even that big.