Quake!

[PRB]

California, where else? 6.5, not huge, but certainly not small.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_on_re_us/us_california_coast_earthquake

[Cloud9Gal]

That has to be scary! I can recall one time, during my childhood, when NB/Maine was hit with one. I woke up to my bed shaking and remember seeing the ceiling fan/light in my room just going side to side. I can still hear the glasses in the kitchen rattling in the cupboards...

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Yes, definitely scary!

[Chacha]

That has to be scary! I can recall one time, during my childhood, when NB/Maine was hit with one. I woke up to my bed shaking and remember seeing the ceiling fan/light in my room just going side to side. I can still hear the glasses in the kitchen rattling in the cupboards...

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Yes, definitely scary!



Definitely Scary C9g,

I was in Cali in October 1989, when The Earthquake happened..... Was so scared we slept under the table, yes under the table.... My sister had her helmet on.... :isadizzy:

[PRB]

Yep. I felt both the 1983 Coalinga quake and the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, which hit during the World Series. In Central California, where I lived, we only just barely felt them, though. Well, the Coalinga one was pretty good, being not so far from us after all... The Northridge quake of 1994 I didn't feel at all though.

[Dangerousdave26]

The scarier thing was this Quake was off shore.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2010/eq_100110_nc71338066/nc71338066.jpg

Had it had the power that the 1989 one did it might have produced a pretty scary Tidal Wave. Its too close to the coast for any type of Early Warning system to be of any use.

Guess thats the price you pay to live near the Ocean.

Water is mightier than the Pen or the Sword. :pop4:

[srgalahad]

LOL Paul!
when I saw the title and your name I thought New Madrid had slipped and the continent was parting.

This one was fortunately not too severe but Ferndale is not a place I'd buy real estate. They have suffered several devastating 'quakes.

http://ebeltz.net/fieldtrips/1906quake-fdale.html
http://jclahr.com/science/earth_science/shake/damage/ferndate.html
http://jclahr.com/science/earth_science/shake/damage/eqdamage/indexa.html

MSNBC on yesterday's 6.5
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34785860

Rob

[PRB]

LOL Paul!
when I saw the title and your name I thought New Madrid had slipped and the continent was parting. ...

Yeah, hoping that one doesn't let go any time soon..!

[Lionheart]

I was in one near Los Angeles in Orange Country one year. 6.3 in the richter scale, 33 seconds. That was one of the longest 33 seconds of my life. I could hear the building shaking all the way down on the first floor, and I was on the 3rd floor.

The scariest part was that my contact lense were in a case on the night stand, and I was standing in the door way. I refused to go get them. I figured the room was going to shear off and so I chose walking in a land of debris half blind was better then winding up buried in rubble with my contact lense.

Whats wierd was after the quake, all the sounds of the people in the building at 4:30 AM in the morning. The car alarms, children crying, people yelling.

The next day, driving around, I found buildings that had cracked. One small motel, very old, very nice, had caved in half way, its top story half crushed the lower story. Not much else that you could noticeably see.



Bill