OT Who has felt an Earthquake?
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When we lived in CA I thought the dog woke me up because he was scratching himself on the bed.
When I woke up I realized it was an earthquake!!
I grew up in Midwest do that was s new feeling.
We lived in Anchorage 2005-07. I remember seeing the historical pictures showing the 1964 disaster from the BIG ONE!
When I woke up I realized it was an earthquake!!
I grew up in Midwest do that was s new feeling.
We lived in Anchorage 2005-07. I remember seeing the historical pictures showing the 1964 disaster from the BIG ONE!
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We felt one here in NH about 25-30 yrs ago. Thoughr the washer was off center. LOL Not a big one at all.
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Felt them when I lived in California and sort of expected it. What I didn't expect was feeling one in the mountains of NC. I later learned that my parents lived really close to a fault line that runs through NC.
I have a friend (former co-worker) who lives in Eagle River, AK -- about 15 miles from Anchorage.0 -
felt 2 when I lived in NJ, 1 over 30 years ago, 1 about 10 years ago. I thought it was thunder or maybe a truck making a delivery somewhere. No damage just a noise you could "feel" It sure made a big deal in the papers and news stations though0
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I have been in CA since 78, NCal since 92. They happen from time to time. Most are too small to be noticed. We live by 2 fault lines. The largest one I ever felt was the Whittier Quake in '87 @ 5.9. I was at work early that day. My computer monitor bounced off the top of the PC box and fell into my lap. We moved up here after the devastating Loma Prieta quake.0
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I've felt two here in the Chicago area. The first was while sitting at my kitchen table eating breakfast wondering why the table was shaking a bit. The second was in the middle of the night in the winter. Heard a big bang. DH thought the snowplow had hit the mailbox. I thought the darn cats were up to mischief again. That one was the winter of 2009-2010.
Both times that was all the local news stations could talk about all day long.
I traveled to California for a training seminar in 2008. Woke up in the middle of the night to hear the doors on the cabinets in my hotel room rattling. I guess if you lie there you just get used to it.0 -
I mostly grew up in SoCal and have felt many smallish tremors over the years. Felt a nice 5.5 ish in Oregon (springbreak quake) and wasn't able to stand up during a quake in Baja California (at least a 5+). We were camped out next to the Gulf of California and worried that the water might get sloshed out of the Gulf and inundate us. We weren't willing to take the risk and go up thru a mountainous pass to get away so we sat down and had another beer.
Went thru a strong quake in Pasadena one time too.
We are horribly not prepared in Oregon for large quakes which we will have for sure. Folks look at it incorrectly like it is a lottery and maybe we will have one or not. Untrue. As Dr Lucy Jones correctly puts it in her talks and books (the expert seismologist in SoCal) it is 100% certainty. The only thing we don't know is the exact date and time. That is a more sobering view. Trust me we will be much worse off than Anchorage.0 -
Yeah I felt it like I was there...because I'm there. The big main shake (7.0) was just a few seconds (15-30) and came on instantly, no pre-rumble or building up. It continued for a couple minutes with several >5.0 aftershocks within a half hour or so. Smaller aftershocks continued all day and night and expected for weeks to come.
I texted my DD in Mississippi during the shake expecting us to lose communications at any time. The i-net was down for a while but once I realized I was still on my wifi and switched over to cellular I could text and update family. Most radio and broadcast TV was off but cable still worked. It was wall to wall local EQ coverage until about 7pm then switched back to network programming (TV folks exhausted).
Yes we had some major damage to some roads and bridges, some landslides south of town that took a few hours cleanup. Some buildings had broken glass and crumbling fascia. This morning we are mostly returned to normal. WW was open and cleaning up, restaurants mostly open, gas stations open, grocery stores open and restocking shelves (there was plenty at Fred Meyers).
One take away I got was that the everyday service professional went to work immediately. Example, gas pumps had to be shut off until inspected and many were back on by noon and most by 6pm. Road work started within an hour or so, inspectors were out checking bridges that were closed and alternate traffic routes were established and operational to get folks in the valley back home last night.
Teachers stayed with their classes until parents picked up heir kids, then picked up their own kids after. Nurses stayed with their patients even though they couldn't check in on their family. Neighbors helped neighbors, many people checked in on me and I on others.
Much more could be said and I would still forget to mention so much but we are blessed. We know we live in a EQ zone and our building codes support proper construction techniques to minimize damage. Our utilities mostly survived, great planning. Emergency services practice for this monthly and went right to their plan. So many did exactly what they were supposed to do. I was off y'day, the guys at my shop were taking care of business to insure safe aircraft operation an the air base.
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@mr_sandyman Stay safe! Seeing the road damage (like giant sink holes) made me think of the limited highways out of town made me wonder how that is going.0
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Very disappointed no one has made an “I felt the earth move” joke.1
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@ savignr I used that one on my wife's obit. She was here for the big one in '64 (12yo).
Thanks Jim. The big new bridge to Eagle River is closed. Traffic to the valley is going to be a nightmare for a while.0
