Here in Virginia, about 40 minutes ago, we actually had an earthquake. I didn't even know! I thought my cat was on my chair and had her claw hung up or something, as I felt a slight shaking, almost like a vibration. Only felt like it was my chair, but when I looked back my cat was nowhere to be seen! I didn't really think much of it until just now the news said that West Virginia had an earthquake, and it was felt all over Virginia, so that is what it was!

Earthquakes are VERY rare here, crazy stuff!

So anybody have any of their own earthquake experiences?

[ 12-09-2003, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: ladyzekke ]

Holy crap, they are VERY rare indeed! Check this out: A FREAKING 4.5 too!


Magnitude 4.5 - VIRGINIA
2003 December 9 15:59:14 ET
15 mi SE of Columbia, VA...
28 miles W from Richmond, VA...
104 miles SSW from Washington, DC...


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...42.-85.-75.gif

[ 12-09-2003, 04:43 PM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

Wow. A Earthquake hit Oklahoma too today...


I have a bad feeling that this will wake up the Fault that runs near through West Kentucky or even one in NEW YORK! (Hope not, but it could happen so easy).

<font color=skyblue>Oh man! Hey, LadyZ...if you need a place to stay...we're close by and could use a nanny for two children! </font>

Wow didn't know it was 4.5 Ziroc! Again we never get quakes here, and if we do I'm sure it is something tiny that nobody ever notices.

Larry - No that's OK LOL, I think I managed to survive the vibration! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

Wow! That's a bit of excitement I can generally do without!

I've been through one earthquake out in California about ten years ago. I was out there for training, and they covered "what to do when an earthquake hits". I remembered to get to a safe place, preferably outdoors.

I was watching TV in my hotel room one afternoon when I heard a semi going by outside. It didn't stop, and I noticed the doors on the armoire the TV was in were swaying... and that the ceiling fan (above me and on, because it was hot) was also swaying. I was on the third floor... with no decent elevators (a no-no) and tiny staircases.

I headed over to the doorway and figured my body would at least be well-preserved, if things went badly.

Made it through with no major challenges, but it was a piece of excitement I'm not interested in repeating any time soon [img]smile.gif[/img]

Glad you (and even your kitty) are safe, LZ.

Welcome to the club, we get them all the time. At least we don't get hurricanes

they are freaky if you have never felt one before, I rember a few years ago, about the same thing happened to me, I did not find out until the next day at work, people thought I was crazy, lol, we lived by railroad tracks, so we figured a train had derailed or something, and you guys got a 4.5, wow, you are lucky it did not do major damage

4.5 eh? Not bad. We had one a while back that was 6.8. Man is this world rocking or what. Even the weather and the Solar flares are getting it on. Woo hoo! Sorry, sometimes I just like a little calamity to stir things up but not if it takes a life. No siree! [img]smile.gif[/img]

I've had people tell me we have earthquakes near the southern Indiana border, though I never seem to feel them. Glad everything is alright Z, I've never been in an earthquake before but I know they're scary stuff to go through.

<font color=lime>I have only felt one before. It was in Eureka, CA (northern).We we're sitting in the living room of a friends house and all the sudden it just kinda waved from on side to the other. Thats best I can explain anyway. It was only the one movement, but freaked me out a little! Everyone in the room had felt the big one a few years back, and many small ones like this one many times, but they knew it was my first. So they all looked at me and my state of awe and said yep, that was an earthquake. Wierd stuff I tell ya.
Glad your ok LadyZ. [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

We had one over here about two years ago, I think I posted about it at the time

I was at work and my cup started moving across the desk, very weird, like yourself, very rare over here

Hmm I think we had one a couple of years back, 97 or 98 I think it was. NOthing major and I certainly didn't notice anything.

I'm glad you're safe LadyZ. With that alarming subject I wasn't sure. ;)

On the National day of Iceland 17th June one of the biggest earthquake to hit Iceland struck at around 4 pm, it was about 7.5 on richter, all the south part of the country felt it and most of the west.
It was very lucky that it truck at this hour and a strange coincidence because most people were outside in open areas celebrating, some houses near the origin were almost completely demolished and thank god no one was at home.
I was in Reykjavik working in a convenience store at the time me, the assistant manager and another worker were in the storage area talking when all of a sudden everything started shaking, I didn't realise what the hell was going on, thought a truck had hit the building or something. When we checked there was no damage in the store, or at all in the "city", only one box of kitty food fell from the shelves... [img]smile.gif[/img] My family lives close to the area were it hit, but they were okey, some glasses and dishes had broken and my grandparents greenhouse was pretty badly damaged, but most importantly no one was hurt
2 days later another quake happened, this time "only" 5 but this time it happened at night, again no one was hurt, Icelandic houses are built to tollerate at least 7..
But it was a very scary experience [img]smile.gif[/img]

As a long time California resident I have lived though a number of earthquakes. Most of those quakes were small time (3.0 to 5.5 on the R-scale).

I used to laugh at people that are scared of earthquakes, but after living through the magnitude 7.1 Loma Prieta quake of 1989 I will never criticize anyone again. This was a very damaging earthquake that cost the cities in the Bay Area billions of dollars in damages and hundreds of lives.

I was in San Francisco near the Marina district at the time. This area was hit hard by the quake - power was out for 3 days, fires everywhere, small buildings collapsed, etc. In Oakland across the SF Bay, the upper level of the Cyrpess Expressway pancaked on to the bottom level killing some 280 people. All in all it was not a fun week.

Here is a link for those of you that are not familiar with the history of this quake: http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/89.html. There is also info on the big 1906 quake here.

Personally I think tornadoes are worse than earthquakes, but I can understand how people fear the earth shaking. I would rather risk a big quake every 30 years or so rather than a number of tornadoes every year.

That's wild, LadyZ! We've had them up this way and I've never felt one, but my last boss said she did one time and it knocked a stuffed doll off her baby's dresser!


Larry... LOL, free nanny services for lodging? LOLOL :D

So LadyZ - what we all want to know is did the earth move for you?

<font color=lime> :rolleyes: Donut. Donut. Donut. :rolleyes:
[img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] :D </font>

I've felt a couple - the last one was just over a year ago (sometime between August & November last year, when I was living with my parents). I was in bed and my bed had a good old rattle, a couple of things fell over, and my birds went berzerk, flapping around and squawking. It was a bit alarming (OK I nearly wet mesself!) because we're not really used to them here.

The other one was about 13 or 14 years ago, apparently the epicentre was in Weybridge which wasn't far from where I was living at the time - I was in a department store and everything rattled slightly, that was about it.

LadyZ- Please don't think that an earthquake is a scary bad thing. Think of an earthquake as God's way of asking for a state-wide 'shimmy'. ;)

I'm glad that you're safe and sound, Ladyzekke [img]smile.gif[/img] Aww, your poor kitty must have been shaken...

Wow.....where in Virginia are you Lady Zekke? Im in Maryland. Next to DC. I heard about right after I got out of school. There will never be a Maryland earthquake :D

I'm near D.C. Dalamar. I guess the vibes missed yall in MD for a few miles, but it was close! :D