The first time I was in New Mexico they'd had an earthquake there, which was a fairly unusual occurrence along (I think) the Sandia Fault. Out on the unpopulated part of the mesa Albuquerque's built on, there was a crack in the earth roughly 8' across! It ran nearly 2 miles across the desert. Plants, rocks, who-knows-what had fallen into the gap.

I wish I could have been there--on a safe perch, knowing where & when it would happen. I was on a overpass in one of the San Francisco freeway systems in one earthquake & saw a bridge section across from me break off & fall. I can still see that.

I'll never move back to earthquake country. They've made a quakin' coward outta me! (yes, I said that)