I rode out an earthquake....

[robtonya]

I was responding to some replies to my post, and then I was in my first earthquake (the first one you could really feel). Wow, just found out it was a 5.4 based somewhere in IL., anyone else feel it?

 

[bruegf]

I felt it in northern Indiana

Fred

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

Yes, we could feel it here in Indy.

 

[robtonya]

there isn't any way to describe it except helpless. we just had an aftershock about 10 min ago.

 

[robtonya]

I felt it in northern Indiana

Fred

I just noticed your location Fred. My mother lives in Elkhart, I was going to call her and see if she felt it, but after hearing from you I bet she did.

 

[daveg]

We slept through it here in central IL. Didn't feel the aftershock a few minutes ago, either.

 

[krs2404]

woke me up. dog barking, bed shaking...... Naperville, IL

 

[nickao]

Slept through it. I am way north.

I definitely felt the one in 2002 the roof framing was screeching!

Nickao

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008qza6.html#details

 

[krs2404]

a clear conscience will sleep through anything

 

[iggy07]

I've been through about a dozen, in Seattle, Mtn. View, CA, and Portland. It's amazing how it can screw up your inner ear for the next hour or two. Even though the quake is long gone, I've experienced 'sea-legs' for awhile afterward. One fairly large one I was on the 3rd floor of the OLDEST (100 yrs) building on my college campus. The worst was in CA - not so large, but it lasted about 20-30 seconds. Usually the experience is, "Wow, I think we just had an earthquake!" That time it was, "Hey, Jim, is that an earthquake?" "Yeah, it sure is." "It's still going, isn't it?" "Yeah." "How long is this going to keep going . . . "  "Finally, I think it's over . . . "  The only thing worse than feeling the earthquake in the first place is having the time to think about it, while it's still happening.

I visited my son in Mtn. View about 3 days after the big S.F. quake. He was sick from acute appendicitis, and thought he was dizzy from nausea. Then he looked at the aquarium and saw the water sloshing back and forth, and realized that nausea does not cause that. I took a picture of a car that was parked beneath a roof with a brick chimney -- it looked like a convertible. Lucky no one was in at the time.

iggy

 

[clintholeman]

Pshaw - that warn't hardly nothin'  ;D  A little 5.3 temblor?  Hardly worth wakin' up over.

Out here we get about 150 EQs a week with about 3 - 5 over 3.5 as a usual course of events -wth dome 4s and 5s thrown in just to get yer motor goin' wondrin' ifn' its "the Big Un"..  ;D ;D ;D

 

[robtonya]

Pshaw - that warn't hardly nothin'  ;D  A little 5.3 temblor?  Hardly worth wakin' up over.

Out here we get about 150 EQs a week with about 3 - 5 over 3.5 as a usual course of events -wth dome 4s and 5s thrown in just to get yer motor goin' wondrin' ifn' its "the Big Un"..  ;D ;D ;D

I don't want anything higher than what we got, I thought the house was coming down. I don't see how you could get one all the time like that. I'd be freakin' out.

 

[robtonya]

here is a video of our local news forcast when it happened.http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2391369/7456650

 

[robtonya]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008qza6.html#details

Thanks Shane, I liked the "did you feel it map".

 

[clintholeman]

If'n you want to see what its like for us in earthquake country point your ole browser to http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/123-39.htm

191 Eq events in the past week - not many over 3 though - an easy week.

Personally, tornadoes really scare me.

 

[Ned]

Like Clint, I live in earthquake country.  Amazing what you can get used to.

Earthquakes, even the minor ones, are humbling experiences.  Nothing like a quake to make you realize that you're only a flea on a really big dog.

Ned

 

[Fred West]

Basically you are all a bunch of wimps. ;D In 1964 I was living in Alaska when the second largest earthquake of the 20th Century hit at 9.2 and lasted for 4 minutes. It also had 52 aftershocks of which 11 of them were recorded as 6.0 or higher.  8) Like some of the other guys have said living in earthquake country is more than a little interesting. In my 13 years in Alaska we rode out thousands of earthquakes and you truly never really get used to the big ones. As a trivial piece of information the state of Alaska averages 1000 earthquakes a year of 3.5 or higher. Fred

 

[Michael Kellough]

Basically you are all a bunch of wimps. ;D In 1964 I was living in Alaska when the second largest earthquake of the 20th Century hit at 9.2 and lasted for 4 minutes. It also had 52 aftershocks of which 11 of them were recorded as 6.0 or higher.  8) Like some of the other guys have said living in earthquake country is more than a little interesting. In my 13 years in Alaska we rode out thousands of earthquakes and you truly never really get used to the big ones. As a trivial piece of information the state of Alaska averages 1000 earthquakes a year of 3.5 or higher. Fred

I saw that on TV but they edited it down to 30 seconds so we wouldn't get bored  ;D

 

[Fred West]

Wish I had too.