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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 10/30/2007 : 20:07:23
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Nasty shake just now. No damage in my home -- this wasn't the biggest I've seen. Quite noisy. Some aftershocks, still. Details later.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/30/2007 20:27:06
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 20:20:16 [Permalink]
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Okay, initial info (http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-38.html) says it was a 5.6 quake, centered in San Jose.
I'm just guessing, but I imagine there could have been some local damage there in San Jose. Here in Half Moon Bay, it was more scary than anything else. My whole home rattled loudly. It didn't seem to bother my dog at all. Several neighbors were outside right away, exchanging comments, asking if everyone was okay.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 10/30/2007 : 21:49:26 [Permalink]
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| That's California for ya. I had to move after our 94 earthquake. The building we lived in was red tagged... Good to hear that you weren't hurt! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 22:07:33 [Permalink]
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Yup, I grew up with this stuff. My present mobile home was shifted on its jacks during the 7.1 Loma Prieta quake of 1989, and I had minor damage to falling items.
This was a much less severe quake, though equally noisy. This home is now on a secure earthquake-rated steel-and-concrete foundation.
Problem is, when earthquakes start, you never know how bad they'll get. I was hanging onto my computer. I would have comforted my dog instead, but the bitch just kept snoozing. (What scares her are fireworks explosions.)
The aftershocks are now getting farther apart, and less intense. Thanks for caring, Kil.
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 11/02/2007 : 05:47:58 [Permalink]
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Had a minor one here a few years ago, it sounded just like an explosion in reverse, a rising crescendo ending in a muffled bang. Wife didn't hear it, and she said she's never felt the earth move.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 11/02/2007 : 05:53:59 [Permalink]
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What's an earthquake like?
The extremely few we get in Sweden are far apart and faint. I think we had one 2.3 when I was around 15 years old, but never noticed. I only heard about it afterwards.
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/02/2007 : 06:28:33 [Permalink]
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I have experienced 2 earthquakes, both when visiting a friend in San Fran.
One was strong enough to knock dishes off shelves. It woke me up and I could hear it coming....very freaky-deaky. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2007 : 06:34:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
What's an earthquake like?
The extremely few we get in Sweden are far apart and faint. I think we had one 2.3 when I was around 15 years old, but never noticed. I only heard about it afterwards.
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Essentially, it's a shaking sort of thing, duh. 
It pretty much feels like being in a car that's being rocked by angry drunks. (You got drunks in Sweden, right?) It's about that kind of frequency. Faster than the rocking of a boat, and sharper. Outside, sometimes the earth itself rumbles audibly. In a building, the structural frame and all the contents of the building sway and rattle. It would actually be kind of fun if one knew in advance it was never going to become dangerous or damaging. I remember as a kid in San Diego in the early 1950's, I was playing outside at my Grandmother's home, just spinning round like a top, when a quake hit. I thought it was great added fun.
After the deadly 1989 Loma Prieta quake, my then-wife and I went to the Safeway supermarket in Half Moon Bay to see how things looked. Every aisle of the store was blocked with merchandise that had fallen from the shelves. Broken bottles and jars heaped everywhere on the floor, a foot or two high. Rivers of mixed soft drinks, beer, and pickle juice flowed across the tiles. It must have taken the employees days to clean up that mess.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/02/2007 : 06:45:39 [Permalink]
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Glad to know that you were shaken, not stirred.
I have seen one earthquake, in Vermont of all places, back in the late '70s. I hadn't the faintest idea what was going on until someone told me about it the next day. It was just a mild, well, shaking. It felt rather like what you might experience if standing on a bridge when a heavy truck crosses it.
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ocheewah
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 11/02/2007 : 07:00:50 [Permalink]
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| We occasionally get tremors here because of the proximity to the New Madrid fault. Every time we get a little shake the newscasters spend days telling us how long overdue we are for the really big one. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2007 : 07:39:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ocheewah
We occasionally get tremors here because of the proximity to the New Madrid fault. Every time we get a little shake the newscasters spend days telling us how long overdue we are for the really big one.
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We get some pretty big earthquakes. I have been through several, as most Californians have. But we too are waiting for the big one that is overdue. The one that's supposed to create new beachfront property east of where I live.
San Andreas Fault
The University of California study on "the next big one"
A study completed by Yuri Fialko[3] has demonstrated that the San Andreas fault has been stressed to a level sufficient for the next "big one," as it is commonly called, that is, an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or greater. The study also concluded that the risk of a large earthquake may be increasing faster than researchers had previously believed. Fialko also emphasized in his study that, while the San Andreas Fault has experienced massive earthquakes in 1857 at its central section and in 1906 at its northern segment (the great San Francisco earthquake), the southern section of the fault has not seen a similar rupture in at least 300 years.
If such an earthquake were to occur, Fialko's study stated, it would result in substantial damage to Palm Springs and a number of other cities in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties in California, and Mexicali municipality in Mexico. Such an event would be felt throughout much of Southern California, including densely populated areas of metropolitan Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Tijuana, Baja California.
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I have been though quakes that were stronger than 7.0. It's no picnic. An 8 would be devastating. I don't even want to think about a 10…
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/02/2007 : 08:11:28 [Permalink]
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We, who are so proud that we have peopled the earth as God intended, are at the mercy, not of God, but the very earth that we are so blythly abusing. We should be worshiping the Yellowstone Caldera, not the myth & legend of a mere book, and begging it to remain asleep for a little longer.
Because, not if, but when, it arises from it's slumbers, all other disasters will be minor in the comparison, and all gods & angels & demons & all other things sacred & profane will become moot.
ALL GLORY TO THE CALDERA!! 
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 11/02/2007 : 19:25:15 [Permalink]
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One of the disturbing things to come out of the quake we had a few years ago was the revelation that Lake Ontario has a number of fault lines in it, one of which runs under one of the reactors at the Pickering nuclear generating station, which is unconcernedly humming away little more than a kilometre from me.  |
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Earthquake here!
