earthquake!

[Dookus]

Any californians? Things are a-shaking!

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

1. Felt it in San Jose!

Kind of a roller, not too bad.

[Dookus]

9. yeah

a gentle roll, that went on for a long time. I wasn't sure at first it was a quake... thought I was having a dizzy spell or something. Then noticed my ceiling fans shaking.

[arcane1]

2. I was JUST about to post this!

quite a ride on the 6th floor in Pleasant Hill

:bounce:

[jus_the_facts]

13. HEY...you better keep yer ass safe......

....it's such a fine one an all!! :evilgrin:

:hi: long time no see!! :hug:

[arcane1]

23. so far so good, anyway

my ass had been through much more than this! :evilgrin:

[jus_the_facts]

26. Glad to hear you're still doin' fine.....

....and I have missed seein' it just so ya know....bet it's still fine as ever!! ;-)

[arwalden]

3. It's A SIGN!!! a SIGN I tell ya!!!!

Run for your lives!!! Abandon all hope!!! We're doomed!!!

[Donkeyboy75]

37. Fuck!

All of this could have been averted if the energy workers hadn't gone on strike.

[Dookus]

38. it's the chemtrails, I tells ya

CHEMTRAILS!

[newsguyatl]

4. i feel for ya folks

we had one here in georgia (very minor) about a year ago, and i remember never being so rattled in my life. it's the strangest sensation one can feel (unless of course, you're used to it, like you californians).

let's hope they just remain rumbles.

[Dookus]

11. oddly

you DO get used to 'em. They're sorta fun when you're not scared.

[arcane1]

17. give me an earthquake over a tornado, hurricane, etc...

anytime!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. hell no...

at least you get a LITTLE warning with most tornadoes and hurricanes get days in many cases...those damn shakers just show up whenever and with no real warning.

I was in one quake...it was a little bitty one...and I HATED it. Very unnerving. The ground is not supposed to move (except under special circumstances ;-) )

theProdigal

[lazarus]

28. As one who's been through all three

I'd MUCH prefer an earthquake region.

Warning for a tornado? Nope. You might get a "tornado warning", but that just means there's one in the area. You have no idea where it is, or if it'll swoop down and wipe out your life.

Hurricane? Yeah, you can leave, but houses get wiped out. ISLANDS get wiped out.

Earthquakes that cause serious damage, to the level of a tornado or earthquake, are exceedingly rare.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

29. i agree with the rare part on major earthquakes

but if one ever hits, you can be pretty screwed. I have been in all three as well (just a tiny earthquake) and I still prefer the others...provided I have a basement for a tornado (you can hear them coming) and an evacuation route/plan for a hurricane.

We can just agree that they all suck... :-)

theProdigal

[Dookus]

30. nah, I'll take earthquakes

over tornados, ice storms, blizzards, hurricanes and the like.

We get 'em once in a great while. They're almost always minor. Even major quakes in the US dont' do THAT much damage. My little 75 year old house has survived plenty of 'em.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

36. call me when the big one hits...

provided we make it that long. I know that fire is not the threat it used to be ... but billions of bucks in damage are a mere 7.5 away...



theProdigal

[keischin]

5. pretty big

in Central Coast...dogs barked all over the place this morning

[Poll_Blind]

6. Here is is, I believe.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51147892.html

5.8 near Shandon, Ca.

PB

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Yikes!

I gotta call my step-ma. She's in Atascadero.

[MuseRider]

8. I do not know

how you all deal with this! Damn, here in Kansas we get blown around but shaken from underneath? YIKES! I was in one earthquake, a very minor one on an island off the coast of Honduras. It was just very loud and one long, big roll and then it was over. I was completely undone by it. Luck to you all. Man, even hearing about them gets me feeling all creepy.

[NV Whino]

18. Too far north to feel it at my place

But I'll take earthquakes anyday to all that blowin' around that you guys can count on every year. Earthquakes are a sometimes thing. And most buildings these day stand up to them.

Although I do have to continually straighten my paintings from all the little tremors from the geysers.

[MuseRider]

22. I guess it is

all what you are used to. Funny, the blowing is often fun and beautiful and I look forward to storm season every year. I am glad you did not feel this one where you are.

[skygazer]

10. Darn! Didn't feel it.

I'm in the Santa Cruz mountains outside Los Gatos. Didn't feel a thing.

[Dookus]

12. I'm right in Santa Cruz

it was a gentle rolling, no big shakes.

[skygazer]

15. I never feel the rollers in the hills

Unless they're really big. The side to side shakers are what I feel here. Probably because of the rock.

[Endangered Specie]

14. Shaking? sure its not Arnold just groping someone?

I bet that would show up on the ricther scale.

[arwalden]

16. Could This Be Related To Mt. St. Helens' Increased Activity?

[keischin]

19. maybe the asteroid

that's passing by? I can't believe how all the dogs in the neighborhood freaked out several hours ago! really must be something they can sense.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

24. asteroids effects beyond minimal

at more than 1million miles out...gravitational pull would be negligible...

theProdigal

[keischin]

39. I think I saw a news report yesterday....

that there was increased risk of volcano activity at Mt. St. Helens, volcanos in Hawaii and Mammoth Mtn, all of a sudden? Wonder what's up with all that?

[Dookus]

21. doubtful

it's on a well-established fault. It's near Coalinga, which was damaged badly in '83.

[nini]

20. hell - I didn't feel it but my blinds started swaying.

no one here felt it and I'm on the 4th floor of a high rise.


I'm down by LAX.

[VOX]

27. Didn't feel anything here in So Cal...way too far from it...

Which doesn't mean we won't feel any earthquakes soon!

[ronnykmarshall]

31. My step mom in Atascadero

said it was pretty strong.

This could be realated to the one last year in Paso Robles.

[liontamer]

32. A sign that hell is opening up to let the sinners in CA in

:evilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. 2 of them...5.0 and 5.9

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US2/35.37.-122.-120.html

[Dookus]

34. man, look at that cluster

of quakes!

[alexisfree]

35. not is sac.

not here ....stilll waiting