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Scott Renshaw: I was living in the Bay Area in 1989 during the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake, in the basement of my graduate student dorm waiting for the World Series game to begin. That's not an experience I ever hope to repeat, so of course I moved to another fault zone.
Tyeson Rogers: Yeah, I slept through it.
Jeremiah Smith: I've been in a few. The worst I have ever been in was in Los Angeles. It was in 1992, and, if I remember correctly, it hit at around 2 a.m. It was 5.5 on the Richter scale. No one I was with or around got hurt, but a couple of buildings collapsed. I was scared as hell.
Enrique Limón: Growing up near the San Andreas Fault, many. I'm glad none of them were intense enough for me to try that standing under the doorway thing, which has now proven to be as effective as the rhythm method.
Andrea Harvey: A few small ones, including one last summer in Oregon that had me sweating bullets because I thought "The Big One" had finally arrived. Oregon is something like 50 years past due for an earthquake that is supposedly going to be the biggest natural disaster to happen in the country, which definitely made it easier to move to Utah.
Mason Rodrickc: I grew up in California and I lived through many earthquakes, but apparently, I only remember one. I was on the fifth floor of some building, I felt the building sway a bit and I said, "Whoa, it's an earthquake!" and the others in the room said, "No, probably not." But, like, I swear it was.