earthquake hits during live news broadcast

[Demovictory9]

[customerserviceguy]

1. I noticed the way she was hanging on to his arm

and she dived under that desk pretty quickly...

[Hekate]

7. Exactly what she was supposed to do. Two people I know who lived thru the Northridge Earthquake...

...ended up with everything everywhere. My ex-husband who lived in an apartment was asleep when it hit and said it was like being tumbled in a dryer with all his furniture. Some old friends who had a house had every single thing thrown out of every cupboard and shelf.

If you can't immediately get outdoors, under a desk is a good place.

[customerserviceguy]

10. When I was

in the Nisqually earthquake of 2001 in Washington, I thought there was a big truck rumbling through the street, and when I realized it was my first earthquake, I actually thought it was kind of cool. One of our typists was from Guam, and we couldn't coax her out from under her desk for about a half hour.

[pangaia]

2. Lol

[tishaLA]

3. I just happened to be watching at that time

And I never watch the news at 8, but I felt like zoning out and nothing else looked interesting.

They handled it like total professionals and even reran the footage about an hour later and joked about how much they just wanted to get out of there when it was happening

[Beaverhausen]

4. With all the lights, etc swinging above their heads...

I’m surprised they didn’t go under the desk sooner. I know I would have. That quake was bad.

[RHMerriman]

5. Kent Aftershockneck...

rides again.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Right! I've been in a good many local news studios.

There is heavy stuff hanging everywhere.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Thank goodness it hit when most people were home and

not on the freeways or at school. Having an earthquake while teaching a class of little kids is no fun, believe me.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. rollin'...rollin'... rollin' on an earthquake.

Oh what a night. 166 miles away and all of our hanging lights swayed until we had to hold them still. The pool water made it appear that surf was up!

Now we await pretty strong aftershocks and 5% chance of something stronger.

[MineralMan]

11. In 50 years of living in California, I experienced many earthquakes.

My first one was when I was five years old. I was asleep in bed, but found myself shaken out of the bed onto the floor during a big quake in Kern County, some 75 miles from where I lived.

I went through many earthquakes, and sort of got used to them. by the time the 1991 Northridge earthquake hit, my reaction had lessened to simply sitting where I was and waiting it out. My new wife in 1991, who grew up in the Midwest, wasn't so calm during that quake, which was her first. We were 150 miles from its epicenter, but it knocked some things off shelves, and a couple of pictures on the wall hit the floor. She screamed.

Still, every earthquake is an unsettling thing. I mean, the floor is suppose to be still, right?