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LAist Editor Zach Behrens was neither injured nor trapped under a pile of rubble during today's 7.8 earthquake simulation that hit Los Angeles, one of the largest earthquake drills to take place.
"This is like the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, but our equivalent of that event," said Lucy Jones, the chief scientist for this demonstration project, officially known as The Great Southern California Shakeout. (We hope to see the Bay Area has an even bigger one soon.)
In a strange twist, however, a minor earthquake struck Central California just 24 minutes after the largest earthquake drill in US history hit the Los Angeles region was only a small one. At 10:24 a.m., a 3.2 quake struck near San Juan Bautista, a city northwest of Monterey and Salinas. It was followed by a 1.7 aftershock six minutes later. So, you know, stay prepared, folk.
Update: Doh! It happened a few weeks ago.
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When I was in high school, we had a big earthquake drill after a 6.5 had hit our town. The drill was predictably boring and we had to stand on a football field for an hour. About 15 minutes after they finally let us roam free, a real 3.5ish quake struck. So we had to stand on the goddamn football field for another two hours.
Moral of the story: uhh, I hate earthquakes.
Nah, that was another one of those zombie flash mobs complete with a pillow fight. When it all goes to hell, it will only be zombies looking for brains and people in the streets in their jammies smacking each other with pillows.