My 1st Earthquake Today
Byrnzie
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About an hour and a half ago I was sitting at my computer and felt the building moving from side to side, and the blinds rattled, which they never do. I figured it must be an earthquake.
I then sent out a message asking if anyone else had felt anything, and they said no, and that I must have just had a dizzy spell.
Then I checked the news about 30 minutes later and saw this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... s/3323215/
Strong earthquake hits eastern Taiwan
AP 9 a.m. EDT October 31, 2013
Buildings shook over a wide area including the capital
Earthquake hit Thursday evening and measured magnitude 6.6
It was centered 28 miles south-southwest of the eastern coastal city of Hualian
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake hit eastern Taiwan on Thursday, shaking buildings over a wide area including the capital. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake measured magnitude 6.6 and struck in the evening. It was centered in a remote mountainous area 28 miles south-southwest of the coastal city of Hualian at a depth of just 5.8 miles, it said.
In Taipei, the capital, buildings swayed for more than 10 seconds and startled residents ducked for cover.
Local TV channels reported that there appeared to be almost no damage in Hualian. However, it could take some time for the full impact of the quake to be evaluated because of the remoteness of the epicenter.
Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.
However, a magnitude-7.6 earthquake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Anyone else ever felt an earthquake??
I then sent out a message asking if anyone else had felt anything, and they said no, and that I must have just had a dizzy spell.
Then I checked the news about 30 minutes later and saw this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... s/3323215/
Strong earthquake hits eastern Taiwan
AP 9 a.m. EDT October 31, 2013
Buildings shook over a wide area including the capital
Earthquake hit Thursday evening and measured magnitude 6.6
It was centered 28 miles south-southwest of the eastern coastal city of Hualian
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A strong earthquake hit eastern Taiwan on Thursday, shaking buildings over a wide area including the capital. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake measured magnitude 6.6 and struck in the evening. It was centered in a remote mountainous area 28 miles south-southwest of the coastal city of Hualian at a depth of just 5.8 miles, it said.
In Taipei, the capital, buildings swayed for more than 10 seconds and startled residents ducked for cover.
Local TV channels reported that there appeared to be almost no damage in Hualian. However, it could take some time for the full impact of the quake to be evaluated because of the remoteness of the epicenter.
Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.
However, a magnitude-7.6 earthquake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.
Anyone else ever felt an earthquake??
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Last summer when the Earthquake struck Virginia (East Coast USA) I was home in New Jersey playing music really loud with the bass all the way up. Didn't notice a thing..
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I felt that one here in Philly, I was in the middle of my pre-screening to donate blood and all of a sudden, the whole cubicle started shaking and rattling. I thought to myself, what are they doing to that poor donor in the next cubicle.
It was bizarre. We evacuated the building but were soon let back in.
Growing up in so-cal been through a lot of them. Only one that stands out, the northridge one from 94 I believe.
The 1994 one, badbrains. Holy shit! I was home alone, barefoot, bracing myself in the doorway as I watched electrical transformers pop outside (pretty cool, btw - like blue mushrooms). It was scary, and being cut off from power and communication with everyone except my neighbors was an odd feeling.
(though we did all gather in the darkened hallway passing around a bottle of booze while the building continued to shake off and on)
How'd you do through it, Byrnzie? Nothing broken? Aftershocks?
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sierra madre 1991 - 5.6
northridge 1994 - 6.7
up until northridge, i thought quakes were fun...northridge wasn't fun...living about 5 miles from the epicenter will do that...my building was one of the only one that wasn't red tagged (uninhabitable)
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It freaked me out a bit. I Immediately figured it must be an earthquake, though I've never felt one before. And then after I messaged a few people I know and they said they'd not felt anything, i thought maybe I'd just imagined it, and that it was probably just a dizzy spell - although my blinds rattled, which they never do, and a dizzy spell doesn't cause that.
It was only when I googled 'earthquakes today' that i noticed one had hit off the East coast of Taiwan - not too far from here on the East coast of China - at that exact same time.
Good to know you're OK overall.
(and consider your quake-cherry popped
Funny I was at work for the 2011 VA office here in NY, and I also thought a truck must've hit the building while backing up into the loading dock. Everything swayed a bit for a few seconds and then everyone looked up at each other like 'did you feel that?'
There was another one a few years prior that we felt here but I slept through it, so I consider the 2011 one to by my first and only.
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4.0-4.5 on the Richter scale? Shit, we in Cali dnt even get out of bed for those
Love watching people freak out and trying to run away...I have no idea where they think they are going to run "to".
Most of them are really quick, and by the time you think, "is this an earthquake?" it's all over with. The last 'big one' in 2001, was NOT fun, 45 seconds seemed like a looooooong time. I was also in a newer building that is supposed to 'absorb' the earthquake, so it sways significantly more...started to feel
Must say, I think I prefer an earthquake over something like a tornado, hurricane, or tsunami...though, when we do get 'the big one' here, we will also get a tsunami on top of it. :(
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I know those are 4.0's don't do much to the big shakers out west. I've never felt one, so it may feel like an 8.0 to me.