Reply #59: MrMatt and I moved to Santa Ana CA

[MrsMatt]

from Minnesota in 1987 - MrMatt was attending grad school and I was a blushing bride. We experienced the Whittier quake at a distance. Our apartment complex was set up like a motel - all the apartments were surrounding a courtyard with a pool. Access was via a balcony that serviced all apartments with centrally located stairs. The neighbors were enthusiastic users of the pool, and were boisterous in their progress to the pool, which would shake the apartment as they ran by. The day of the Whittier quake, I felt this shaking and assumed that it was the neighbors running on the balcony ( I guess I didn't mention that they were rather large). However, the shaking was stronger than usual and lasted longer than usual. I got up from my chair to find my handsome husband standing in the doorway between the hall and the bathroom (he figured out it was a quake LONG before I did, but did he bother to tell me?).

Other temblors were pretty minor - MrMatt says that I slept through most of them.