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Message started by ALfromN.H. on 10/16/12 at 16:54:32

Title: Earthquake
Post by ALfromN.H. on 10/16/12 at 16:54:32

We just had a 4.6 quake here. Scared the crap outta me. I thought I had an uneven load in the washing machine but I wasn't doing laundry.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/16/12 at 17:49:29

Are they fracking in the area?

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by Cavi Mike on 10/16/12 at 22:36:27

The Mayan calender. It's happening.

http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/quake/quake-faq.htm#q9

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by arteacher on 10/17/12 at 14:18:28

THaaaat's why I fell down! It wasn't the tequila shooters at all! ;)
In my area there is this great big slab of basalt that southern Ontario is on. Very stable, and we hardly ever feel a quake. Just a little shudder now and then like a train going by nearby. The worst I remember was some years ago when I was working nights and was woken up by the bed shaking and pictures rattling on the walls.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by verslagen1 on 10/17/12 at 14:53:00

Sorry... dropped my watch. ;D

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by Serowbot on 10/17/12 at 15:17:21

When the world does end,.... just turn yer' bike 'round and ride the other direction... :-?...

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by J C Stokes on 10/17/12 at 17:34:51

In New Zealands South Island, they aren't noticed at under six on the Richter scale.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by verslagen1 on 10/17/12 at 18:15:56

we notice them at 5
so we know to get out way of foreigners (non Californians) running for the door.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by 360k+ on 10/17/12 at 18:32:53

I am born & raised Californian, and so have been thru a dozen or so in my lifetime. The worst was the Loma Prieta in 1989. It was a 7.1, killed 63, and left 3000+ homeless. I was about 12 miles from the epicenter and it lasted 15 seconds... 15 verrry lonnng seconds!

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by Serowbot on 10/17/12 at 18:35:56

7573606B2B2721202B120 wrote:

The worst was the Loma Prieta in 1989. It was a 7.1, killed 63, and left 3000+ homeless. I was about 12 miles from the epicenter and it lasted 15 seconds... 15 verrry lonnng seconds!

Boy!... I'd hate to be on a bike for that!... :o...

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by verslagen1 on 10/17/12 at 19:09:53

pretty sure it was the northridge eq in 89 that a motor chippy lost his life when the overpass he was on collapsed.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by WD on 10/18/12 at 06:09:41

You get used to them, I grew up in an earthquake zone, the way Mt St Helens is always rumbling, and Mt Rainier having the occasional belly ache, I got to where I'd sleep through most of them.

Here in west TN we're at the edge of the New Madrid Fault. Lots of mini quakes. Sleep through them too. We're on top of a huge aquifer, ever seen the ground wobble like Jello? It does here sometimes...

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by Paraquat on 10/18/12 at 06:12:25

4A591D0 wrote:

ever sen the ground wobble like Jello? It does here sometimes...

Not sober.

--Steve

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by WD on 10/18/12 at 06:30:33

I wish that was my excuse but I very rarely drink anymore. A 12 pack lasts about 4 months at my house. >:( Even cheap domestic swill loaded with preservatives (or more accurately, pervertatives) goes bad before I can finish a half rack.

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by 360k+ on 10/18/12 at 08:14:04

6C7A6D70687D706B1F0 wrote:

Boy!... I'd hate to be on a bike for that!... :o...

Actually a friend of mine was riding in the Santa Cruz mountains when it happened. He said he thot he had ran over something and had a blowout. By the time he got the bike stopped on the side of the road, the quake had stopped and he was surprised that both tires were full of air???

At home, when I opened the garage to check my Harley UltraGlide, I was sure I was going to find it lying on its side, but to my surprise it was still on the kickstand... except rotated about 90 degrees sideways away from the garage door??? That means that much of that time the tires had to have been off the ground - yikes! That would have been hard to watch in real time :'(

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by John_D FSO on 10/20/12 at 15:49:19

4350140 wrote:

Yep, seen the Jello thing, but for a different reason: spring holes out in Dad's meadows. Driving across one with a tractor is like driving across a waterbed. Just sod growing on top of mud soup basically. ;D And if you fall through, it can be a job to get pulled out of. :P Fun to walk around on though; you can jump up and down and see the ground rippling around you! :D

Title: Re: Earthquake
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/20/12 at 16:17:26

Ive got a spot like that here. My 110 pound daughter can make it wobble after Ive driven over it a few times with the backhoe. I, naturally, didnt know it was there. It looked like most of the low lying areas on that section of the place,, lots of weeds & stuff,, No idea there was such a place, where the water table was so close to the surface. Makes sense, onca ya stop & think about it a while, but it was a real surprise to feel the backhoe sagging low in the rear as I rode across that spot & looked down to see the rear tires crushing the surface down like that. Im just glad the grass & weeds & such & their roots held it all together while I got myself outta there..