Earthquakes

DanP740 · Post by **DanP740** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:49 pm

Have you ever been in an earthquake?
I haven't. I live in New York.

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:50 pm

We had one once, but I slept through it. :-(

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:56 pm

There aren't many earthquakes where I live.

-Cowboy

Tyrell · Post by **Tyrell** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:59 pm

I think we've had some small ones but that's it.

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:44 am

This may be surprising to y'all, but yes, there's been an earthquake here in Virginia! $\:D/$

It was the wierdest thing - I was sitting in my room reading, and the house shook. My mom yelled upstairs to see if someone was bumping on the floor really hard. That night we found out it was an earthquake. $\:D/$

kellyj · Post by **kellyj** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:36 pm

I live on Vancouver Island in Brithish Columbia which is part of the Ring of Fire. We usually have a couple of earthquakes every year but they are pretty small. Maybe only a earthquake every two years that you can actually feel.

gimp80995 · Post by **gimp80995** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:45 pm

I've been in a few.

I remember the quake of '89 in CA. I was 7 years old and doing homework after school when I looked outside that the tree in the front yard was moving back and forth. I woke mom up (who slept during the day because she worked nights) and she grew up in LA so very calmly told me that it was "just an earthquake". Well in CA kids in school go through earthquake drills more routinely than fire drills, so I ran into the kitchen and got under the table...........and was still there 5 hours later when mom was getting ready for work. See, us kids were taught to get under a table or desk and not to get out until an adult told us it was OK to do so........so I stayed under the table since I didn't know that it was safe after the shaking stopped (in about 30 seconds or so).

Trinarius · Post by **Trinarius** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:19 pm

Come to California for our earthquakes! $\:D/$

We don't really get any threatening earthquakes where I live in the state, however.

map · Post by **map** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:28 am

I've felt three or four. None have been that big. Just enough for everything to shake and move and know that you just experienced an earthquake.

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:38 am

gimp80995 wrote:I've been in a few.

I remember the quake of '89 in CA. I was 7 years old and doing homework after school when I looked outside that the tree in the front yard was moving back and forth. I woke mom up (who slept during the day because she worked nights) and she grew up in LA so very calmly told me that it was "just an earthquake". Well in CA kids in school go through earthquake drills more routinely than fire drills, so I ran into the kitchen and got under the table...........and was still there 5 hours later when mom was getting ready for work. See, us kids were taught to get under a table or desk and not to get out until an adult told us it was OK to do so........so I stayed under the table since I didn't know that it was safe after the shaking stopped (in about 30 seconds or so).

Aaah! I remember than quake.

I was so young, and it was so scary!

I'm just glad that we don't get very many around here anymore. I've felt a few small ones since then, but most I didn't know about until this one particularly paranoid mom at our church tells us about them. (She must be extremely sensitive or something, cause she's always telling us about these tremors and they only live like 10 blocks down from us...weird.

)

TeXico_Blondie · Post by **TeXico_Blondie** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:48 am

COWBOY OF TEXAS wrote:There aren't many earthquakes where I live.

-Cowboy

yeah, what he said

TX is a good place to live

there was an earthquake in New Mexico when I was there but it was so small we couldn't feel it although we were pretty close...

Rachael Blackgaard · Post by **Rachael Blackgaard** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:42 am

I was a baby when the quake of '89 happened... My mom remembers sitting in the rocking chair, watching the coverage on TV and being horrified by the people being crushed in their cars on the highway/bridge thing. :-( But I don't remember it at all.

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:32 pm

TeXico_Blondie wrote:
COWBOY OF TEXAS wrote:There aren't many earthquakes where I live.

-Cowboy
yeah, what he said TX is a good place to live

there was an earthquake in New Mexico when I was there but it was so small we couldn't feel it although we were pretty close...

We do get a few every once and a while though. Just not as bad as California.

-Cowboy

ajamj · Post by **ajamj** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:03 pm

gimp80995 wrote:I've been in a few.

I remember the quake of '89 in CA. I was 7 years old and doing homework after school when I looked outside that the tree in the front yard was moving back and forth. I woke mom up (who slept during the day because she worked nights) and she grew up in LA so very calmly told me that it was "just an earthquake". Well in CA kids in school go through earthquake drills more routinely than fire drills, so I ran into the kitchen and got under the table...........and was still there 5 hours later when mom was getting ready for work. See, us kids were taught to get under a table or desk and not to get out until an adult told us it was OK to do so........so I stayed under the table since I didn't know that it was safe after the shaking stopped (in about 30 seconds or so).

That was a bad one! I was living in Idaho at the time and we felt it there a little bit there.

Samwise · Post by **Samwise** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:46 am

Living where about 5 or so plates come together makes you pretty use to earthquakes. It's not unusual to have a few earthquakes every week. In fact 20% of all earthquakes around the world happen in my area.

The biggest one so far was about a richter scale 6. I haven't been in any 'major' one.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:37 pm

Yep and I prefer them to tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and all kinds of other disasters that I've never experienced! $\:D/$

Linne · Post by **Linne** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:19 am

Never. I've lived through several tornados, though. $\:D/$

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:22 am

There was one at my house, in september I think. It's epicenter was in a place just over the TN\NC line. I heard on the news that they felt it in Gorgia. It was a 4.7. I was in my bed at 11:30, when my cologne fell off my dresser. I didn't think that was a good sign. It lasted about ten seconds, then slowly stopped. I have a bedroom alone downstairs in my house, and I went upstairs to see what everybody else was doing. When I got to the hall, my two brothers and my dad where talking so fast!

Mandy Straussberg · Post by **Mandy Straussberg** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:31 am

We get little earthquakes here all the time. No big deal. When I was little, we used to have them in the middle of the night big enough that we had to get under a doorway or a table or something. But nothing huge.

Mandy

Linne · Post by **Linne** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:38 am

Because of this topic, this thread is going to locked, and all further conversation can be continued in the other thread.