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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 25, 2006 17:51:09 GMT -5
OMG last night at around 8:40 the earth moved beneath our feet! Sometimes the snowplow races down the hill and everytime he hits the manhole that sticks out ever so slightly and the whole house vibrates under all that power. Well last night was like that - minus the snowplow. Scared the beejesus out of us. My daughter was next door at a party & felt nothing as they were jumping around - I grabbed my half naked son & started to rush downstairs when it stopped. I'd say it lasted about 5-8 seconds!
Alice, did you feel it? The epicentre was Thurso Quebec about 30 kms from our place but it was felt up to the Laurentians.
First time hubby felt one, not me - called my mom right after on the cell phone as our phone was out...
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Post by stoner on Feb 25, 2006 18:15:45 GMT -5
Kinda fun, wasn't it Tweetie? What size was it?
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Post by Alice on Feb 25, 2006 18:28:12 GMT -5
Yup, I felt it
Thought it was a few snowplows racing down the street, because it lasted longer then the usual 2 second snowplow "quakes".
Not the strongest earthquake I've ever experienced, but it was noticable.
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Post by Alice on Feb 25, 2006 18:33:46 GMT -5
Stoner, it was a baby earthquake. Didn't even make the newspapers (not the montreal one anyway).
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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 25, 2006 18:35:42 GMT -5
Alice, it was on the weather channel, some folks said it was llike a train through their living room
Stoner, it was a 4.5
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Post by Alice on Feb 25, 2006 18:38:33 GMT -5
That explains why I don't know anything.  I don't get the weather channel, or any channel for that matter! Just DVD's, where there aren't any of those darn commercials! |
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Post by BAZ on Feb 25, 2006 18:44:44 GMT -5
4.5? I used to eat 4.5's for breakfast! Just joking, they are all freaky!
I lived in Cali during the Northridge quake, it literally threw me out of bed and onto my feet! I tried getting under the door frame but it was swinging so violently I had a hard time. I lived through 27 years of some nasties till moving to AZ. Ed, I'm sure you have been through some doosies, Loma Prieta?
In an odd way I kind of miss them, they do get your adrenaline going, especially when transformers start blowing through the city and the night sky lights up blue-green. GZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!
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Post by Alice on Feb 25, 2006 18:56:22 GMT -5
I don't remember how strong it was, but somewhere between 2000 - 2003 there was an earthquake early in the morning (maybe 6:00am?). It lasted for about 45? seconds, and then it was just little after shocks after that. That one had to have been the strongest one I ever felt.... Pictures falling off the wall, things on the shelves falling, everyone's car alarms went off, etc... People who were visiting Montreal from California were calling radio stations saying that it was stronger then the earth quakes they experience from home. It apparently started somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the states somewhere. It baffled the weather scientists because this place wasn't even on a fault line (it is now though). It was felt from the atlantic ocean (maine) as far as Toronto. Tweetie, I found yesterday's earthquake here www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060224/ottawa_quake_060224/20060225/ |
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Post by stoner on Feb 25, 2006 21:37:20 GMT -5
Yea, I've lived in the Bay Area all my life and I can remember some pretty good ones. The 1989 Loma Preita quake actually scared me. I was in my garage cutting a piece of wood on my table saw and heard it before it hit. The light pole in front of my house was swaying for 20 minutes afterward. But I didn't get scared until I saw the section of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Freeway that had collapsed. That one was 8.1.
Oh well, that's a small price for living in such a great part of the country. At least we don't have hurricanes EVERY year or tornadoes.
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Post by thehawke on Feb 25, 2006 22:44:49 GMT -5
We had one in 2001 that put the fear of jeebus in me. I think it was a 6.9 epicenter in Nisqually. I've since found out that the best thing to do is to actually crouch next to your bed. That way, any debris will fall on the bed and create a little pocket where you will be.
My dog KNEW beforehand. He kept trying to get me out of bed and I ignored him until he put my hand in his mouth and started tugging. And then the walls started going BOINGOINGOING and looked outside and the ground was moving like waves.
Amazingly, we didn't lose power or the internets. There have been smaller ones before and after. I usually almost pass out. I've no idea why.
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Post by Cher on Feb 26, 2006 12:04:34 GMT -5
Man that's freakin' scary, sometimes Minne-snow-ta isn't so bad.
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Post by stefan on Feb 28, 2006 12:52:58 GMT -5
I have only expeirenced one- very small (4 range) scared the holy crap outta me- Nope I'll pass- give me a good ole snowstorm-
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Post by Emerald on Feb 28, 2006 20:36:39 GMT -5
Greetings All...
I was in Las Vegas somewhere around the 23rd floor of Excalibur during the earthquake that hit LA? The room swayed violently. It hit around 4:30 am. The bed shook violently, the light fixture was swinging and nearly hit the ceiling. Even the curtains were flapping 2ft from the window. It woke both my hubby and I from a dead sleep. On top of it...the door was being wrenched in the frame...sounded like someone was trying to kick down the door. We just held onto the bed and waited for it all to stop. I think it lasted a few minutes. I couldn't imagine how awful it would have been for the folks in LA.
That's the closest I EVER want to get to an earthquake. It was rather unnerving.
Regards,
Emerald
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 28, 2006 20:52:50 GMT -5
hi EM where ya been havent seen ya for awile
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Post by thehawke on Feb 28, 2006 23:39:23 GMT -5
Today was the 5 year anniversary of the Nisqually quake which was officially 6.8. It lasted for around 45 seconds. About the most terrifying 45 seconds in my life. AND MY WIFE REFUSED TO COME HOME!!!!!! OOOHHHH!!! I gave her all kinds of hell for that.
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Post by LCARS on Mar 1, 2006 5:39:39 GMT -5
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Post by BAZ on Mar 1, 2006 10:32:23 GMT -5
I had a job pulling building permits in So. Cal. before the Northridge quake, needless to say after the quake I was a busy bee. I got to see the damage first hand, pretty crazy. Mom Nature can be pretty crafty. I was at the 4 story apartment that collapsed in on itself that they kept showing on TV. It was 4 stories that turned into a pile of rumble less than one story tall. It sounds dumb, but I kept thinking about Jenga when I was surveying it!
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Post by hermatite on Mar 1, 2006 10:37:53 GMT -5
The only time I thought I'd felt an earthquake, it turned out to be a bomb. I'm not sure which I'd rather have.
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Post by Cher on Mar 1, 2006 12:03:35 GMT -5
A bomb? OMG that's another thing I wouldn't want to be anywhere close to.
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Post by xenaswolf on Mar 1, 2006 12:37:43 GMT -5
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of the Nisqually Quake here in WA. I've never been so scared in my life and I went through a few when I was in CA....I LITERALLY got knocked out of bed.
I'm glad ya'll are all ok!
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