earthquake!!!~
did anyone just feel that??
5.6M earthquake in the bay area, California, just a few miles north of alum rock.. i thought the world was gonna fucking end hahaha. |
Damn crazy stuff. No effects of it here that I know of. Though I am across the country.
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if that was a 5.6, i really wonder what the 1906 earthquake felt like. the earthquake lasted a good 10 seconds, i freaked out and jumped in my closet hahaha ><
the last real earthquake i felt was the loma prieta earthquake, and that was a 6.9M if i recall. lots of damage from that one. |
I was about 60 miles from a 7.2 back in Alaska when i was in highschool, craziest natural disaster i've been around besides driving past a tornado in edmonton.
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holy shit right when i clicked on this thread we just got an earthquake.. that was crazy haha
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seriously, the worlds gonna end. |
yea i was serious, but earthquakes are not a big deal here in guam because nothing really falls apart or brakes i guess since are houses are made of concrete instead of wood. i just freaked out because it happn right when i clicked thread
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yea, there were like, 10 minor aftershocks after that big one. makes you wonder when the BIG one is gonna come. everyone says every 140 years, hopefully that was just it.
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time to buy land east of the san andreas fault?
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I felt it. I was in the garage, about to get under the car, lol
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i would be shittin in my pants if i was under the car when that happened. rather than the car protecting you from falling objects..
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Lol earthquake. We don't have those here.
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Part of the state is burning, part of the state is shaking violently, California just can't get a break...
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Originally Posted by RotorNutFD3S
(Post 169255)
Part of the state is burning, part of the state is shaking violently, California just can't get a break...
OR maybe they'll just break off from the rest of the US to go hang with Hawaii, Alaska can come too... THE END |
We had one in GA about 5 or 6 years ago, no kidding. It was a little one, but it happened in the middle of the night, so I woke up to this unreal grinding/growling noise. The shaking wasn't so bad as much as stuff in the house was vibrating and rattling around. It scared me for a minute, then I assured myself that it was all a dream, and I went back to sleep. Found out it was a quake when I watched the morning news.
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Originally Posted by badboy88000
(Post 169232)
yea, there were like, 10 minor aftershocks after that big one. makes you wonder when the BIG one is gonna come. everyone says every 140 years, hopefully that was just it.
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Originally Posted by Ben
(Post 169269)
We had one in GA about 5 or 6 years ago, no kidding.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/...atlanta1hz.gif |
Originally Posted by mike_671
(Post 169231)
yea i was serious, but earthquakes are not a big deal here in guam because nothing really falls apart or brakes i guess since are houses are made of concrete instead of wood. i just freaked out because it happn right when i clicked thread
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at least Columbia has a small lil rinky dinky piece of data, thats comforting
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I felt a Mercalli 6 when I was in Oklahoma City. It was crazy.
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Originally Posted by mazda/nissan
(Post 169277)
at least Columbia has a small lil rinky dinky piece of data, thats comforting
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:sadwavey: thats disappointing
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Originally Posted by jwarriner
(Post 169276)
Wood houses are less likely to be destroyed by an earthquake than concrete or brick...
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Originally Posted by badboy88000
(Post 169212)
i freaked out and jumped in my closet hahaha ><
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Originally Posted by badboy88000
(Post 169207)
i thought the world was gonna fucking end hahaha.
Originally Posted by mike_671
(Post 169231)
yea i was serious, but earthquakes are not a big deal here in guam because nothing really falls apart or brakes i guess since are houses are made of concrete instead of wood. i just freaked out because it happn right when i clicked thread
Originally Posted by badboy88000
(Post 169232)
yea, there were like, 10 minor aftershocks after that big one. makes you wonder when the BIG one is gonna come. everyone says every 140 years, hopefully that was just it.
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Originally Posted by firedog25
(Post 169322)
You should be hoping for small quakes every day then. Unless you didn't pay attention in basic Earth sciences. |
Originally Posted by cjernigan
(Post 169214)
craziest natural disaster i've been around besides driving past a tornado in edmonton.
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you guys crack me up. pansies. california isn't going to fall into the ocean for at least a million or so years. go ahead and buy your central california "waterfront property" now and I'll just sit back and snicker.
<-- california native for 30 years and felt all the "big ones" over that time. the 7.1 bent a lamp and a silver pitcher. I was about 20 miles from the epicenter for that. Oh and it was my dad's bday. |
Originally Posted by firedog25
(Post 169322)
Wood is actually better than concrete since it flexes. But appearantly mud and straw is better than either since in that Mexico City earthquake that broke the shit out of the region none of the historical structures suffered damage.
Mexico City is a different story altogether. Due to site characteristics (soft soil), the high frequency seismic waves were damped out, leaving only the amplified low frequency waves, which were right within the range of natural periods of modern construction. The response spectrum of the Mexico City earthquake, recorded in Mexico City (as opposed to outside the city), is very different than what occurs in this country. Earthquake engineering is my specialty in forensic engineering, so this is a topic close to heart. |
haha nah im outta the closet.
anyway, im not saying that the 5.6M was scary as fuck, but it sure was a nerve wrecker. i can still remember the loma prieta earthquake. it was all over news, went to a couple of stores, everything was on the floor... and that was only a 6.9... as for the BIG one coming... its getting dangerously close for the hayward fault according to the USGS. milpitas (the city i live in) lies directly above the hayward fault. the last big one was some decade ago, and calaveras fault shaker last night was considered "normal seismic activity" the big shaker that just occurred could even trigger the "BIG" one, but im holding my breath for that one. i guess you can say that because it was a shallow earthquake (only 5 miles from the under the surface) the effect of it "felt" greater than what it really was measured. and i was only 5 miles from the epicenter. |
I am excited for the big one to hit utah.. they keep talking it up.
I have never felt an earthquake in my life.. I feel left out |
Thank god I live in the pacific northwest.All we get here are floods and landslides.
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they are not a fun thing if you are in a bad place, so dont feel so bad
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Believe me when I say this guys. As soon as I am able im buying property on the border of Arizona and California. Once the big one hits, Arizona is gonna be beach front property.
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Originally Posted by Saml01
(Post 169408)
Believe me when I say this guys. As soon as I am able im buying property on the border of Arizona and California. Once the big one hits, Arizona is gonna be beach front property.
10 million? 20 million years? http://www.scotese.com/pangeanim.htm check out the animation on the left. |
thats awesome
America totally had it's wang in Africas face |
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