Fucking earthquake

jimed14

westsidepie wrote:

There is a giant fault running under that whole section of the country. The last devastating major earthquake they had was in 1803, I think. Scientists have been saying they are due for another big one.

close, 1812 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Earthquake

westsidepie

AmentsChick wrote:

Rookies! :cool:

That is funny. I know you are from California. I remember when I first moved to CA, every little earthquake used to make me jump out of my skin. After 5 years of living in SF, the only earthquake that would wake me up was the one that threw me out of bed. If you really want to have fun, be in tall building during an earthquake. I worked in an office in downtown SF on the 34th floor. One day we had a 5.2 quake. Earthquake resistant buildings sway to absorb the shock. The building I was in would sway 7 feet off its vertical axis in one direction for total motion of 14 feet in both directions. It was quite a ride. You could not stand up. My mom was still living in SF during the 89 quake. The day after the quake I went down to help her. She lived in the Marina in SF. A few blocks from her house, an apartment complex with 7 garages collapsed. The building fell on the cars in the garage, which were all mercedes, porches, etc. About half a milliion in automobiles squashed.

AmentsChick

westsidepie wrote:

That is funny. I know you are from California. I remember when I first moved to CA, every little earthquake used to make me jump out of my skin. After 5 years of living in SF, the only earthquake that would wake me up was the one that threw me out of bed. If you really want to have fun, be in tall building during an earthquake. I worked in an office in downtown SF on the 34th floor. One day we had a 5.2 quake. Earthquake resistant buildings sway to absorb the shock. The building I was in would sway 7 feet off its vertical axis in one direction for total motion of 14 feet in both directions. It was quite a ride. You could not stand up. My mom was still living in SF during the 89 quake. The day after the quake I went down to help her. She lived in the Marina in SF. A few blocks from her house, an apartment complex with 7 garages collapsed. The building fell on the cars in the garage, which were all mercedes, porches, etc. About half a milliion in automobiles squashed.

I've lived in San Diego all my life...and the truth is, I'm petrified of earthquakes. They still freak me out to the point where I can't sleep for days afterwards. :eek:

Lizard

GraySaturday wrote:

This woke me up last night too. I was like, what the fuck! I felt like I had drank 30 beers and the room was all ajar. However, I hadn't drank, and I was scared, so I put the sheet over my head, and my cats freaked out, and I feel back asleep.

I'd be good in a real emergency.

hahaha

Sounds like what I did in our last big one--

jimed14

AmentsChick wrote:

I've lived in San Diego all my life...and the truth is, I'm petrified of earthquakes. They still freak me out to the point where I can't sleep for days afterwards. :eek:

I'm an east coast boy now living in SF ... been here 3.5 years.

The first few I felt, it was kind of cool ... a little wobbling ... rolling ... ha ha, laugh it off. Feels like a large truck rolling by your house.

A few months ago I felt a 5.6 I think it was ... that caught my attention. Wasn't scared, but, it was enough to get me to take notice of shit shaking and rattling.

So ... yeah ... the stuff greater than 6.0 ... no thanks, I'm all set with that.

What's the statistic? California has a 97% chance of a major (6.7 or greater) earthquake before 2037?

Riverrunner

My alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. this morning as usual, but I had planned to sleep late so turned it off and was just drifting back to sleep when it hit. I am terrified of tornados so my first thought was that it was a tornado coming. I looked at the window and didn't see the tree outside moving. My husband woke up and he said it had to be a tremor. The windows rattled, the pulls on the ceiling fan were clanging together, but we really didn't have time to get out of bed before it was over.

Although the most dangerous fault line in this area is the New Madrid fault which is New Madrid, Missouri, this was the Wabash fault line centered at West Salem, Illinois - about a 1.5- 2hr. drive north of where we live.

The worst earthquake from the New Madrid fault was in 1812. There were very few Europeans living here then so written reports are sparse, but supposedly the Mississippi river ran backwards for a while. It was a devastating earthquake. It would kill a bunch of people if that same magnitude earthquake happened now.

norm

AmentsChick wrote:

Rookies! :cool:

hehehehehehe






does this mean that all the chickens that moved to the midwest from california after the northridge quake are gonna move back? :eek:

patrickredeyes

Couple times while in LA I thought what if there is a earthquake?

And then the midwest has one. How funny is that.

DaytimeDilemma

slept through it like a champ.

prism

fucking that causes an earthquake? or an earthquakes that happens while fucking? either way...mmmhmmm

seriously I love earthquakes...though not big destructive ones. I just love that feeling of the ground rolling underneath my feet.

among a few that I've felt we had a 5.4 in 1996 that seconds after the ground and everything stopped shaking we could hear the earth loudly groaning ....that was most definitely the creepiest sound ever....it was still awesome though

prism

prism wrote:

fucking that causes an earthquake? or an earthquakes that happens while fucking? either way...mmmhmmm

seriously I love earthquakes...though not big destructive ones. I just love that feeling of the ground rolling underneath my feet.

among a few that I've felt we had a 5.4 in 1996 that seconds after the ground and everything stopped shaking we could hear the earth loudly groaning ....that was most definitely the creepiest sound ever....it was still awesome though

I can't believe that i forgot to mention that the one that we heard loudly groaning came from the Devil's Mountain fault...i'm freakin serious

DaytimeDilemma

prism wrote:

I can't believe that i forgot to mention that the one that we heard loudly groaning came from the Devil's Mountain fault...i'm freakin serious

I can't believe you quoted yourself.

prism

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

I can't believe you quoted yourself.

so shoot me....oh lord the internets

heartdesire

http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20080418/48081cc0_3ca6_1552620080418404425243

It was freakin' freaky! I live five miles North of the Chicago loop and felt it!
I thought about standing in the door way ... just was so stunned ... thought I was having a really strange dream! : >

LikeAnOcean

heart&desire wrote:

http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20080418/48081cc0_3ca6_1552620080418404425243

It was freakin' freaky! I live five miles North of the Chicago loop and felt it!
I thought about standing in the door way ... just was so stunned ... thought I was having a really strange dream! : >

Man, I wish it woke me up to feel it.. I've never experienced an earthquake.. and I've spent about 3 weeks of my life in southern California and not a damn thing!

First mountain lions, then earthquakes.. is Illinois becoming California? Now all we need is the weather and we're set!

mindi

There was a pretty big aftershock last night around 12:40. I was the only one up so I went to wake my husband up and asked him if he felt anything because I thought we were having another one and he said all he felt was me shaking him.

porchdweller

It was crazy. I've felt a couple of tremors, but never an EARTHQUAKE. It was nuts. I thought it was a tornado, but there was no wind and my whole house was shaking. I woke up and jumped on top of my g/f and covered us with a comforter.

norm

porchdweller wrote:

I woke up and jumped on top of my g/f

but that had nothing to do with the quake

jimed14

mindi wrote:

There was a pretty big aftershock last night around 12:40. I was the only one up so I went to wake my husband up and asked him if he felt anything because I thought we were having another one and he said all he felt was me shaking him.

yup ... 4.0 ...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2008rcar.php

jimed14

looks like there was a small one near seattle in the last hour as well ... 3.4

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/uw04211840.php