The Earth Moved!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

usually when the earth done quaketh its tryin to tell you somethin....



move!


lol

YEAH.....I don't think so..

where ya gonna move to?

[TdcOgre]

I titled it that way on purpose. :D:

Randy

Hmmm....I wonder why I didn't notice the earthquake. :)

[Randy B]

Hmmm....I wonder why I didn't notice the earthquake. :)

Reason one, it was at 4:40 am when most "normal" people are less sensitive to such things.

Two. The fault is 3 miles deep and so by the time the energy worked through all that dirt, the quake was rather muted. I have had wilder rides on a magic fingers bed in a Days Inn.

Three. You are a bit further away than I am. If you had been awake and in a place to notice earth movements (for example driving a car completely covers any earth movement of this magnitude) you could have felt it. I have heard of reports of it being felt as far as Detroit to the north, DC to the east, Oklahoma City to the west and mid Louisiana to the south. But I know if I hadn't been at work and hyper aware (my shift was about to end) I might have missed it too. I know I missed the aftershock that went through at a little after 10 that morning and I was awake and at home.

Randy

[hobie16]

(for example driving a car completely covers any earth movement of this magnitude)

No it doesn't. Most people driving when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit thought they were getting a flat tire.

[BRWombat]

(for example driving a car completely covers any earth movement of this magnitude)

No it doesn't. Most people driving when the '89 Loma Prieta quake hit thought they were getting a flat tire.

I think the key phrase is "of this magnitude." Loma Prieta was a wee bit stronger.

[Princess Susi]

Yeah that was interesting to hear about an earthquake in the US in an area most people would think is earthquake free.

It was maybe a 5.2. That's like a semi going by in California. When the 7.2 hit in Northern Cali I was teaching a class to a bunch of international students. Many didn't know how to spell earthquake. We had blown out windows, equipment cabinets on their side, interior doors jammed and because the buildings were built on bay fill, we sunk three inches in fifteen seconds.

Talk about an E ticket ride!

Yeah, that was a fun one. I was working radio when that happened and my roomate was in Santa Cruz at that time it hit. I got him on the phone to do live broadcasts from the area. I felt my chair move and thought the sales manager was behind me and pushing me (the chair was an office chair with wheels) and turned around and one was there. Then the big table like area that had our broadcasting board and equipment on it, started to slide back and forth. It was an uncanny feeling. I have been through mild ones having lived in California (the Bay Area) most of my life, but that one was a BIG one.
sues