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JoitheArtist
03-16-2010, 11:16 AM
I was just rudely awakened by a 4.4 quake! Not one of those rumbly rolling ones, either--everything shook like crazy!

Southern California--what a crazy ride!
Nurian
03-16-2010, 01:58 PM
I hope everything's okay.

Give me a tornado. I have some warning and they tend to stay away from city limits.
JoitheArtist
03-16-2010, 02:46 PM
I hope everything's okay.

Give me a tornado. I have some warning and they tend to stay away from city limits.

That's exactly why I hate tornadoes--the warnings. I spent half of my growing up years being freaked out by tornado watches and tornado warnings. If I'm gonna die in a natural disaster, I'd prefer not to know that it's coming.
HYHYBT
03-16-2010, 03:50 PM
Sorry, I just love the wording: "I was just rudely awakened by a 4.4 quake!"

What the world needs now is *polite* earthquakes :)
JoitheArtist
03-16-2010, 04:01 PM
Sorry, I just love the wording: "I was just rudely awakened by a 4.4 quake!"

What the world needs now is *polite* earthquakes :)

Oh, we get those--they are these funny, rolling quakes where you don't really feel much of anything, almost like you're drifting in the ocean and a big swell catches you for a minute. I love those!

But this quake was loud, sudden, and jerked the whole house around rather roughly. Stupid tectonics.

(and now, the earthquake song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ne0HosLdr4 )
dalesys
03-16-2010, 04:06 PM
So the earth moved for you... wish it would for me:p
Sheldonrs
03-16-2010, 04:07 PM
So the earth moved for you... wish it would for me:p

A lot of it depends on your position....

on the map. ;-)
protege
03-16-2010, 04:19 PM
Nice save, Sheldon :lol:

Seriously though, we've had a few 'quakes here in Pittsburgh. Not enough to rattle windows, but enough to set off the seismograph at the museum.
Food Lady
03-16-2010, 04:36 PM
Glad you're ok, Joi. I gotta call my mom. :)
JoitheArtist
03-16-2010, 05:07 PM
Glad you're ok, Joi. I gotta call my mom. :)

Unless it's a 5.0 or above, there's usually not any damage. Maybe one or two broken knickknacks, but that's about it.

Funny thing though; I'd just been chatting with someone a few hours before, commenting that it'd been a while since we'd had a quake. Next time I'm keeping my mouth shut! :lol:
Soulstealer
03-16-2010, 05:20 PM
It reminds me of the earthquake the midwest got summer of 2007. I suddenly wake up in the wee hours of the morning and my first thought to myself is 'when did my bed get a vibrate option'?
dalesys
03-16-2010, 06:26 PM
My workplace is right on the Wasatch Fault, which is expected to kick off at about 6.5-7.3. When it does, this valley's going to look like the old song "Oh Sinner Man"

Run to the mountains? ... Rocks rollin' downhill
Run to the shoreline? ... Lake is a sloshin'
Run in a circle? ... Ground liquefying

All on that day
AdminAssistant
03-16-2010, 06:28 PM
My folks live pretty much right on the New Madrid fault line. Luckily, there hasn't been a major quake in a while, but there's been some really subtle activity and a few 2-3 pointers. Here's hoping it stays that way!
Megg
03-16-2010, 06:51 PM
I slept through it, and it seems the epicenter was quite close to my house. It was enough to knock my clock off the toybox (not a super stable place for it anyway :lol:)and make us almost late this morning, but I didn't even feel it. :(
JoitheArtist
03-16-2010, 06:57 PM
I slept through it, and it seems the epicenter was quite close to my house. It was enough to knock my clock off the toybox (not a super stable place for it anyway :lol:)and make us almost late this morning, but I didn't even feel it. :(

Geez, how did you not feel it? :lol: I'm a 40 minute drive from the epicenter, and it woke up my whole house! But then, we all sleep on the second story, and that does tend to amplify the shaking...
Bella_Vixen
03-17-2010, 01:36 AM
First thing I heard about an earthquake was a text from my older sister to my mother, saying, "We didn't feel the earthquake, but it did wake us up."

:blink:
:wtf:
:blink:


Yeah, I have no clue what she meant, either.
JoitheArtist
03-17-2010, 06:05 AM
First thing I heard about an earthquake was a text from my older sister to my mother, saying, "We didn't feel the earthquake, but it did wake us up."

:blink:
:wtf:
:blink:


Yeah, I have no clue what she meant, either.

Probably that the shaking woke them from sleep, but didn't register in their consciousness. That can happen if it takes you a few seconds to drift upward from a sleeping state.
Megg
03-17-2010, 08:21 PM
Geez, how did you not feel it?

It's apparently been a life long problem. I was living in Seattle when Mount St Helens went off in 1979 (? I think, I was like 2), and my mom has always delighted in telling people I slept through that. She always said it with this incredulous look on her face, too, like it was really a big deal. I wouldn't know, I was asleep! :lol: