So I just experienced my first earthquake

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Magnitude 4.6 is pretty weak. I don't think I've ever experienced anything much stronger since moving up here. However, back when I was living in Los Angeles I was party to the Northridge Earthquake.

[Associate Justice PiT]

To me, Friday's tremor felt nothing out of the ordinary. If anything it felt as if those living below my residence were renovating the deteriorating flat once more! However, I did realise it was more than a 9PM renovation when two people I were conversing with at the time replied instantaneously "Conor, did you feel that?".

On a different matter altogether, I was amused when news reporters from Sky News pronounced Reservoir correctly upon they received reports that the tremors had reached as far as Melbourne's northern most suburbs. And I'm sure I wasn't the only person who was

How do they normally pronounce it (and how is it properly pronounced)?

The ending is the difference... wah vs war. I think the locals tend to pronounce it more like "war."

Reservor vs. Reservwah, basically. I'm in the wah camp

     Me too! Not that I've ever heard of anyone pronouncing it like reservor, but still!

[Associate Justice PiT]

Actually it is tornadoes.

cite?

If we are talking about property damage then floods is the obvious answer. Human life I am not sure about.

     Though I doubt that it would be earthquakes. Even in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the death toll was only about 3,000.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I think at a personal level, a major tornado would be more terrifying than a major earthquake - although both would be pretty frightening. I think that's predominantly because I'm rarely in a high rise... I think an earthquake would be worse in a high rise.

     Personally, the idea of earthquakes scares me a lot more, though that's because earthquakes are more of a reality for me. I might never see a tornado, but the next super-earthquake will hit the bay area any year now.