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Earthquakes

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:49 pm
by DanP740
Have you ever been in an earthquake?
I haven't. I live in New York.

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:50 pm
by Rachael Blackgaard
We had one once, but I slept through it. :-(

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:56 pm
by COWBOY OF TEXAS
There aren't many earthquakes where I live. ;)


-Cowboy

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:59 pm
by Tyrell
I think we've had some small ones but that's it.

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:44 am
by Laura Ingalls
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/

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:36 pm
by kellyj
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.

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:45 pm
by gimp80995
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).

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:19 pm
by Trinarius
Come to California for our earthquakes! \:D/

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

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:28 am
by map
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.

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:38 am
by Frank
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. :sad: I was so young, and it was so scary! :mecry: 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. :-k )

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:48 am
by TeXico_Blondie
COWBOY OF TEXAS wrote:There aren't many earthquakes where I live. ;)


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

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...

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:42 am
by Rachael Blackgaard
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.

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:32 pm
by COWBOY OF TEXAS
TeXico_Blondie wrote:
COWBOY OF TEXAS wrote:There aren't many earthquakes where I live. ;)


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

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

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:03 pm
by ajamj
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.

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:46 am
by Samwise
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. :P The biggest one so far was about a richter scale 6. I haven't been in any 'major' one.

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:37 pm
by Chandler
Yep and I prefer them to tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and all kinds of other disasters that I've never experienced! \:D/

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:19 am
by Linne
Never. I've lived through several tornados, though. \:D/

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:22 am
by Hawk
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!

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:31 am
by Mandy Straussberg
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

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:38 am
by Linne
Because of this topic, this thread is going to locked, and all further conversation can be continued in the other thread. :)