Hey, what about that earthquake?

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just seeing the news here...they had a sound clip from Edwina Currie on Radio five live, she was presenting a prog at that time.

'Ooh it's shaking'' or sumfink.

the earthquake was centred at dudley apparently...

Oh yeah... Whitter 6.0, Landers 7.4, Big Bear 6.5, Hector Mine 7.1, Northridge 6.9, Olympia 7.0

I ride tectonix like scars, muthafuckaz

I'm just waiting for the pacific ocean tsunamis to wipe us all out.

I am absolutely *gutted* to have missed it, though.

No one really knows. Same with Puget Sound. Waves would contruct and destruct at random points, and float along to different parts of the Sound. However, I doubt Seattle could possibly be hit with a tsunami large enough to wipe out downtown, unless a huge quake happened just off the waterfront, in which case the quake itself would be more the cause of concern. There are just too many islands in the way for a proper large tsunami to be of concern.

Now cities like Miami, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, San Francisco, etc. have a lot more to worry about. There's nothing separating those places from the vast, vast ocean.

Regarding time of day preference for quakes... Well, daytime earthquakes -- while they are more likely to increase the number of deaths -- are more comfortable to me, because at least I'm already aware and can react more rationally. (Selfish, I know.)

Most of those big quakes I mention above happened in the middle of the night or early morning, and it was just the worst.. I often did things that weren't smart to do in a earthquake because I was all hazy. Then I remained dizzy and restless the entire day. Even small quakes at night suck, because then you have this quake anxiety all thru the night, and you can't get back to sleep.

Call it the "triple threat," a doomsday scenario in which a giant quake sets off other, localized but more violent temblors, followed by a Cascades volcano jumping into the fray with either an eruption or massive landslide that reaches into metropolitan Puget Sound..... It's a full-scale Cascadia subduction event at 9 magnitude -- the kind of quake that in 1976 killed 250,000 people in Tangshan, China, or 66,000 in Peru in 1970 or 50,000 in Iran in 1990. The kind of quake that caused a volcano to erupt in Chile in 1960.
The Pacific coastline drops suddenly by 4 feet, wreaking havoc on structures. Seawater floods in to fill the lowered shoreline and then just as suddenly starts to recede -- as if some sea monster was swallowing up the ocean. Out on the horizon, witnesses from a bluff can see a single wave, only a foot high but screaming toward them as fast as a jet airplane. It quickly becomes a wall of water rising with the seafloor. In seconds, the 30-foot tsunami slams into the coast, smashing and sweeping away anything and anyone in its path. By the time the much-diminished tsunami reaches Seattle, most of the surviving residents in the city are too shaken to take notice. Disaster has already struck. At first, the slow, rolling motion of the subduction quake didn't seem that worrisome. The shaking seemed less pronounced than the Nisqually Quake. But it kept on shaking, for several minutes instead of 30 seconds.

'It is little known that lying underneath one of The United States largest and most picturesque National Parks - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world.

The term "supervolcano" has no specifically defined scientific meaning. It was used by the producers of The BBC TV show Horizion in 2000 to refer to volcanoes that have generated Earth's largest volcanic eruptions. As such, a supervolcano would be one that has produced an exceedingly large, catastrophic explosive eruption and a giant caldera.

Scientists have revealed that Yellowstone Park has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago…so the next is overdue. The next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

...

Such an eruption would disrupt global climate by injecting millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere. Some of the ash would remain in the atmosphere for years, reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet, significantly affecting life. In addition, a blanket of ash over a meter thick would be deposited in nearby regions and effectively smother life there...'

do yogi and booboo know?

anyway it was the noise that spooked her: the last one she thought was a helicopter landing on the roof, this time she thought someone had put a bomb under her car, then that a cow had jumped through the window!!

i don't understand why some of the places her mind leaps to are quite so columbian-druglord

Strangely enough on Sunday Vicky and I took a strange route through the West Midlands to avoid horrendous M6 traffic, straight over the epicentre, I mean, I know I'm a bit chunky but that's ridiculous.

Will my dad torture me by driving over the San Andreas fault as frequently as possible?

I thought everybody liked earthquakes....

I don't like OHMIGOD DEATH DEATH MOTORWAYS ARE FALLING BUILDINGS ARE COLLAPSING earthquakes like they get in San Jose.

It so nearly happened...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/Joe_Versus_The_Volcano.jpg/200px-Joe_Versus_The_Volcano.jpg

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-38.htm

wheeeee

Thanks for not toppling over all my shit while I'm packing, earthquake.

We get floods, you get earthquakes.

End times indeed.

my parents live in japan which means dealing with a LOT of earthquakes. usually, when i'm there, there's one as well. the last time it was in a restaurant. i just noticed some glasses making some noise and it felt *trembly*.

4.2! That's a BIG little earthquake! A Baby Huey!

And now a giant waterspout in Lake Pontchartrain!

I was groggily half-awake when that hit this morning. My cats looked at me, slit-eyed, then yawned, laid their heads back down and went back to sleep.

I'd still move to the bay in a heartbeat. I mean the whole country's fucked anyway, what's a fault line? The water quality and yr power grid present a few issues, also, I generally despise buses.

Some seriously grouchy people on BART this morning. Shut the fuck up, girl with loud voice, we've all been up since 4:30!!

I still can't imagine what an earthquake feels like. Shit just shaking? I've seen too many movies where the camera just goes up and down really fast.

I say that with the nation's juiciest faultline just hours from here. Sometime during our lifetime, Memphis is going to make New Orleans '05 look like Dubai.

It fells like you're sleeping and having a nice dream and then there's a WHOOMP sound and the house lurches violently and then there are several smaller "sways" and the bed shakes from side to side like you are on a giant jelly (or jell-o for yanks), until it finally settles and you are lying there a tiny ball of nerves.

The water quality and yr power grid present a few issues, also, I generally despise buses.

?? Hetch Hetchy water is some of the cleanest water in the country. Or are you talking about the Bay (which no one drinks and only the very stupid fish from)

I felt the quake but my reaction to earthquakes is generally the same as M. White's cats.

Yeah, I was going to point out that water thing but I didn't feel like being pedantic for once. Our water is awesome!

Midwest earthquakes feel like someone's driving a backhoe way too close to your house, or medium-sized children are jumping off the kitchen countertops upstairs. The one small Seattle earthquake I've felt, I thought it was someone kicking the back of my seat, hard, in the movie theater (downtown highrise theater, waiting for "Wild Wild West" to begin with my 2 kids). We are planning to move to the heart of the lahar zone in a few months - the part of Seattle that is where the city fathers filled in the Sound with dirt - highly unstable and turns into jelly during "events". whoohoo!

Yeah, I've been in a movie theater earthquake! Those are funny.

I still can't imagine what an earthquake feels like. Shit just shaking? I've seen too many movies where the camera just goes up and down really fast.

an tremor is just like a big bang. i remember one from when i was 9 or so, back when i slept maybe two or three hou8rs a night. it was around three am and i thought the fridge had exploded for some reason. i woke my whole family up but i got the "you were dreaming" line. HOW DO YOU DREAM WHE N YOU DONT SLEEP FAMILIEZX??

anyway, it was a tremor. the next day some people claimed to have fallen out of bed, but i doubt it.

the only earthquake ive felt was christmas day (ithink?) 1988 or 89. i was sitting near the xmas tree talking to my mom and grandmother and suddenly boom boom boom and shaking and i couldnt stop laughing for about 10-15 minutes. that was newcastle getting hit 100 miles away.

A few years ago in San Diego, there was a 3.5 or so earthquake that woke me up in the middle of the night. Because the doors and windows were rattling around, I thought we were being burglarised. In a very groggy state of mind, I ran around to all the doors and windows with a baseball bat.

I worry about my chances for survival.

4:45 am, epicenter 3 miles from our apartment, bolt upright in seconds and the dog is barking her head off. Good Friday morning everyone! Being in the bottom floor corner of a big apartment building is starting to freak us out a bit.

bottom floor corner of a big apartment building

Is that why I got such a good deal on rent? : )

I don't think I've ever been actually scared in an earthquake, I've lived through so many and nothing bad ever happens apart from maybe one or two things falling off a shelf or something.

Oh well I am very material, I worry about all my crystal pieces and expensive technology and what if my Claes Oldenburg falls over and tears a hole in my Gucci suit.

Claes? That's one letter away from my family name! :-)

Well, have you had big ones, SHakey? My parents have had quite strong ones and they were pretty scared. Especially when they last longer than a minute. Kinda feels like you're stuck in it and it won't ever stop. Also, when you literally feel the appartment building swaying, you are more than enerved by it. I think you also have to add the fact that in Japan they are "waiting" for the big one to hit. :-(

I still can't imagine what an earthquake feels like. Shit just shaking?

It also depends on the type (horizontal/vertical shifts?), I think.

I think the Bay Area might be waiting for a "big one" too. I've heard whispers about it.

woke up yawned and went back to sleep.

oh the ennui.

It was in the East Bay, though. How strong did you feel it?

I haven't been at the epicenter of either of the big Cali quakes that have happened in my lifetime (Northridge, Loma Prieta, etc.) but I've definitely witnessed some big ones. We did feel the Northridge quake when it happened, and I'm sure there were others above the 5.0-range that I've felt - like the Imperial Valley quake in '79 (6.5, no fatalities) and Oceanside in '86 (5.3, 1 fatality). The Whittier quake in '87 was probably the craziest cuz that was on a previously unknown fault line and I remember we were driving and my dad stopping and pulling over cuz the road was moving. And I moved to Santa Cruz the year after the Loma Prieta quake where there was tons of damage - but like I said, injuries and deaths are pretty rare in California, compared to other parts of the world, and I've never felt in any huge danger. There isn't a whole lot you can do to "prepare" apart from having your stockpile of supplies - if yr fated to die in an earthquake there's really nothing you can do about it, its more bad luck than anything else.

anyway yeah Shasta otm

It was in the East Bay, though. How strong did you feel it?

-- admrl, Friday, July 20, 2007 10:38 AM (4 minutes ago)

are you insinuating that i slept in the west bay last night? O______________o

um

I think I have some kind of mental block that prevents me from being scared of things I have no control over.

I think the Bay Area might be waiting for a "big one" too.

Yeah, sorry, didn't mean it like that!

Shakey, OTM.

Anyone feel today's midwest earthquake?

I was asleep but others I've spoken to did feel it.

i didn't feel it

i slept through this apparently

I was apparently woken by it, but I didn't realize that until much later. I need to call my brother, down at school in central IL, to see what he felt.

slept through it

Midwest: Still in denial.

it woke me up & i was like wtf then fell back asleep immediately & had a dream someone came in & was all 'earthquake!'; just assumed the whole thing was a dream until this morning when people were all 'durrr earthquake!'

slept through it

-- Jordan, Friday, April 18, 2008 1:05 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Ditto. A couple of co-workers I talked to felt it.

repost from chi thread:

I was awake at 4:36 a.m. (Plans to sleep the night: fizzled again.) And yes, I did feel the earthquake. Obviously nothing rattled off my walls or anything, but I was sitting in a rolling office chair on a hardwood floor, in front of a fairly flimsy Ikea desk which may or may not have had the legs screwed in tightly enough, and I certainly noticed movement. But hey, it was 4:30 in the morning, I was half awake -- lord knows that "conscious perception" can be an oxymoron at that hour -- and after, in the space of maybe five seconds, thinking, "Earthquake? Naw... it's the midwest! No, wait... that doesn't mean anything, it does happen. We had earthquakes in Texas," I finally blamed it on my rickety furniture and generally wobbly state of mind, and moved on.

the planet, she is ALIIIIIVE.

i woke up in the middle of the night and was watching Roseanne episodes, and I didn't feel shit.

i checked out the earthquake and was like, nah, not really feelin' it.

it didn't really move me

yeah, it was kinda like "She's a Bad Mamma Jamma" when most denizens of Earthquake Nation get "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag."

A real letdown, deeee minus, would not quake again. :(

http://www.puppykennel.nl/upload/files/stock/1412097024/1412097024.jpg

UPDATE: 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks buildings, damages highways in Anchorage: https://t.co/wnh7ZdwP3d pic.twitter.com/kbrHWlzTme

— KOMO News (@komonews) November 30, 2018

wow that's both the worst and the best possible spot to be in for that driver...

TSUNAMI WARNING 3: See https://t.co/npoUHxWBas for alert areas. M7.0 005mi N Anchorage, Alaska 0829AKST Nov 30:

#NTWC

— NWS Tsunami Alerts (@NWS_NTWC) November 30, 2018

anchorage airport tower had to be evacuated and all these big jets are coming in from asia without tower guidance -- apparently the controllers are in a van

https://www.flightradar24.com/UPS109/1eb85ccd

tsunami warning canceled, at least

To the Great people of Alaska. You have been hit hard by a “big one.” Please follow the directions of the highly trained professionals who are there to help you. Your Federal Government will spare no expense. God Bless you ALL!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2018

Your Federal Government will spare no expense.

Doesn't Donald know there are native people in Alaska with brown skin?

if only puerto rico had oil