The Town of Odyssey

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

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

There aren't many earthquakes where I live.


-Cowboy

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

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

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.

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.

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).

Come to California for our earthquakes!

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

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.

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. )

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Never. I've lived through several tornados, though.

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!

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

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