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Not 'the big one' but big enough!

MoodyBlues

MoodyBlues

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Whoa. So my cats are freaking out...as is their mommy. :) Just got RATTLED by a good sized earthquake. The chandelier kept swinging for a very long time. Okay, just hearing it's a 5.3, certainly not 'the big one' but enough to get your heart racing.

ETA: Three earthquakes in the last 90 minutes, all centered in the same area. I only felt the latest, biggest one.
 
MoodyBlues said:
Whoa. So my cats are freaking out...as is their mommy. :) Just got RATTLED by a good sized earthquake. The chandelier kept swinging for a very long time. Okay, just hearing it's a 5.3, certainly not 'the big one' but enough to get your heart racing.

ETA: Three earthquakes in the last 90 minutes, all centered in the same area. I only felt the latest, biggest one.
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That's scary! Glad you and the kitties are ok.
 
Here in the San Gabriel Valley we got off easy. In other parts of LA there's some real damage, with buildings/houses red-tagged, water mains broken, and so on. A rock slide in Carbon Canyon flipped a vehicle over. But no injuries that I'm aware of.

Poor Joy Noelle...she looked stunned. I grabbed her and held her close. And when she started moaning and groaning to get down I knew it was all good. :D

I have to say that old habits die hard. As soon as I realized what was happening, my first thought was to run and check on Mom--she hated earthquakes. Then reality hit. :(

Oh, for years and years I said I FULLY expected that as soon as I moved back home [to California], the big one would hit and we'd fall into the ocean. [No, I don't actually think that can happen. :laugh:] Well, we're at ~8 years and counting! :D
 
Felt it a bit here in Rubidoux / Riverside. Apparently the whole city is built on this giant chunk of solid granite so anything earthquake-movement related tends to get massively dampened down to a small shudder.

Because of being raised here, earthquakes aren't as scary to me, in fact their unexpectedness is kinda cool, since not much happens. :cool:

My wife, on the other hand, hates 'em. Apparently she was still in-womb during a particularly large earthquake and was nearly lost due to what it did to her mother. :(

So, as a result, when yesterday's earthquake hit, I was all *WEEEEEEEE!!!* while my wife was all *panic panic panic*. To anyone watching they'd get a chuckle out of the opposite reactions. :D
 
I thought it was the Big One...

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I'm glad everything turned out okay for you Moody.
 
Joelgp83 said:
Felt it a bit here in Rubidoux / Riverside. Apparently the whole city is built on this giant chunk of solid granite so anything earthquake-movement related tends to get massively dampened down to a small shudder.
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That's good.

Because of being raised here, earthquakes aren't as scary to me, in fact their unexpectedness is kinda cool, since not much happens. :cool:
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Same here. Anything smaller than the biggest quake I experienced, the '71 Sylmar quake, doesn't faze me much. It's kind of exciting, especially having lived out of state for years. I was here visiting a number of times when big ones hit--but none as big as Sylmar. When Northridge struck I was in Dallas, and I remember watching its coverage on CNN and KNBC (thank goodness for DirecTV!) all night long.

The main reason I got spooked last night was because my baby, my little princess, Joy Noelle (known to some people as a c-a-t), was startled by it. She was like, "Mommy! That sounded like thunder...but why aren't there any tornado sirens going off?...oh, wait a...minute...WHAT IS THAT?! :eek:" I jumped up and grabbed her before she could run and hide somewhere, like under a bed, where I'd be unable to get her if anything really happened. That's the thing about earthquakes, you don't have ANY idea at the outset how bad it's going to be, how long it'll last, etc. So it COULD be the big one...or not.

My wife, on the other hand, hates 'em. Apparently she was still in-womb during a particularly large earthquake and was nearly lost due to what it did to her mother. :(
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Oh no!

So, as a result, when yesterday's earthquake hit, I was all *WEEEEEEEE!!!* while my wife was all *panic panic panic*. To anyone watching they'd get a chuckle out of the opposite reactions. :D
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:laugh:
 
bjacks12 said:
I think typhoons are more fun
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They're certainly wetter, anyway. :D

I've lived through hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes, and they all have their pros and cons...so to speak. With hurricanes you get TONS of advance warning--like days--before they hit. Tornadoes, on the other hand, CAN have some advance warning, but certainly not days--a few minutes if you're lucky. But they can also pop up out of the blue...well, out of the BLACK sky. And unlike hurricanes, their paths are not at all a given. They can hop, they can change direction, they can flatten one house while leaving its next door neighbor untouched, then flattening the house on the other side of it, and so on. Totally unpredictable. Earthquakes? Yes, they're totally unpredictable, too, but I'll still take them any day over tornadoes.
 
I love earthquakes they are part of nature... growing up as a young boy we felt tremors almost every week. It was scary but exciting.

Last tremor I felt was about 2 summers ago in New York City. I was living in the 29th floor of a high rise and the building shook from side to side, then up and down. ... Man I went down to the lobby faster then a New York minute :)
 
ceva321 said:
I love earthquakes they are part of nature... growing up as a young boy we felt tremors almost every week. It was scary but exciting.

Last tremor I felt was about 2 summers ago in New York City. I was living in the 29th floor of a high rise and the building shook from side to side, then up and down. ... Man I went down to the lobby faster then a New York minute :)
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I can only imagine! :eek:

The thing is that everyone thinks in terms of the west coast being the earthquake part of the country when, in fact, there are faults all over the US. And the really scary thing is that if a quake of even moderate magnitude hits somewhere like NYC, buildings are going to fall. They're not built to the same earthquake standards that buildings here [in CA] are.
 
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