Also: that “dive under your desk, butt-to-window” move is INGRAINED. I had no idea how ingrained until i was in a meeting with my dissertation chair (a full 10 years after my last full scale earthquake drill) and a truck drove by (it was a very old building). I caught myself just in time.
If you didn’t grow up in an earthquake-prone area, let me tell you, big earthquakes are terrifying and devastating.
Tiny earthquakes, though? They are what you talk about at school and work. (“Did you feel it?”) If you didn’t, you feel left out. Small earthquake FOMO is real.
