This quake was a 5.6 and about a 5 point earthquake is when I start to take them more seriously because roads can crack or move in various ways and houses and buildings can start to come off housing foundations as well as any buildings at all. Cracks will show up inside and outside of houses. So, even though your grocer's cans and bottles breaking seems like the biggest thing it might not be. For example, you gas lines might have been moved or changed as well as many other things causing natural Gas leaks or various other things can go wrong electrically or affecting the safety of being inside of buildings.
My most written about 5.0 story is in Orange California when my now 30 year old daughter was 5 years old and in a floaty in my Cousins pool in Orange California and an over 5 point earthquake happened. I was watching CNN at the time and I ran for my life and my daughter's life to the pool to see about a foot of water slapping over the sides and running all over the place. So, I told my then 5 year old daughter to swim her floaty to the center of the pool so she wouldn't be knocked unconscious against the cement edges of the pool. She did as I said and came through this all right but I was scared to death my daughter was going to be knocked unconscious by one of these 1 foot waves coming over the edge of the pool and going every which direction with the earthquake.
However, my daughter did what I asked and she survived all this okay which is good.
So, it's important not to underestimate that people can and do get injured in 5 point earthquakes and above a lot of the time. Likely 4 point earthquakes start the injuries but under the right circumstances even in a 3 point earthquake chandeliers can come down onto dining room tables and injure people too. So, when you live in California you always have to prepare for an earthquake the way you decorate your homes and businesses or people might die or get badly injured when an actual earthquake happens.
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