APAD: Wake-up call

最西边的岛上
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Wake-up call

a telephone call made according to a prior arrangement to wake the person called.
"she nearly slept through her wake-up call"

a person or thing that causes people to become fully alert to an unsatisfactory situation and to take action to remedy it.
"maybe this will be a wake-up call for society to change"
 

-  Definitions from Oxford Languages
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Sunday morning at 5:03am: the earth rattled and the house shook, and I was woken up by the motion.  Ahh, it must be an earthquake!

Living in part of the "Ring of Fire" where most major earthquakes occur, we had many small ones in the past, but none of them felt this strong before to me.

From BC history, the largest earthquake at magnitude 8.1 happened on Jan. 26, 1700 off the coast. Per seismologists' estimation, we are due for the next big one anytime with high probability.

So, that early morning earthquake was a wake-up call literally and figuratively.  It not only reminded me of the danger, but also put things into perspective.  

Man plans God laughs. We all hope for the best, but in reality, we really don't know when our time will come.  So stop worrying about trivial things and start to live life the best we can. To smile and say hello to people we pass by; To stop and smell the rose whenever we can.

That is what I will do. 

 

 

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7grizzly
We've turned a deaf ear and pretended the phone's dead :-)
硅谷居士
Thanks for sharing!中文同义词是应该是当头棒喝?
移花接木
So much calls nowadays, extreme weathers, low cost AI model.
最西边的岛上
as long as there’s no plane or earthquake waiting :-)
最西边的岛上
yes close or 警钟?
最西边的岛上
so much so that one needs 2 find somewhere 2 hide ;-)
暖冬cool夏
Do what we can and leave everything else to God:) CA is also
暖冬cool夏
known for earthquakes. But I don't even buy the 地震险:)
暖冬cool夏
To me it is not in our hands. Let's keep our fingers crossed
最西边的岛上
Ha,we bought it 4 years until the cost was tripled. Then one
最西边的岛上
day I realized our house is sitting on bedrocks, no地震险since