Earthquake?

That was crazy. My first.

This used to be one of my regular bookmarks.

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

Big news here in the midwest.

It woke me up in Louisville, KY.
My first earthquake!...

I'm 40 miles south of chicago. EVERYONE felt it but me. Never woke up any of the family, the dogs or nothing looks disturbed. People in surrounding towns are on tv and are talking about it like it was a 12.5. lol

Wow, wonder if Churchill Downs was damaged - the Oaks and Derby are coming up.

5.4??? pffft wouldn't even wake me up but I'd sh*t my pants if a tornando were anywhere near here so I guess its all relative.

My dog got me up just before it came ,hes was braking I got up I thought someone was in the house .. what a noise thinks fall .. the dog know long before it hit

Damnit, I slept through it.... I've never felt an earthquake, And my one chance, I sleep through mother fugger....Tornado's are no big deal, But an EARTHQUAKE...... I'm kinda glad I slept through it, As I prolly would have been skeered to death!!!!

I get mad that I don't get an earthquake when I'm in California, I feel ripped off

Hotel desk clerks look at you funny when you complain about it

Youve experienced (or at least was present at) plenty of California Earthquakes its just that most of them were too small to notice.

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/faq/rate_of_seism.html

Well what fun is that??

X2!! I wanna feel the earth rumble.......Kinda...

I just had to fucking move to cleveland and miss the only earthquake in my lifetime...

It woke me up. I am about 45 min west of Chicago. I thought someone was in the house, I was kinda bummed I did not get to shoot anyone.j/k

I used to live in Cali, and I was around for the Northridge and Landers earthquakes. I was putting up a shade structure in the back of my house, and I had just installed a swimming pool. When the Landers quake hit (aftershock...the first hit like 4am, if I remember right), I could actually see it coming down the street.

Much of my pool water ended up watering my lawn.

Hah! Us Cali guys scoff at you midwest weiners. Tornados? Fuck that. Reminds me of a Carol King song....I feel the earth move under my feet.....

Whittier, Landers, and Northridge are the bigger ones I remember. We are about due for another one too.

Just be glad you didn't get whacked with a 7.1 like the Landers quake was. Nothing like the feeling of being totally helpless. You just grab the family and ride it out.

tornado passed over my neighbors house yesterday...got pasted w/ golf ball sized hail.

You can keep your earthquakes.

Oh...I flew out of St Louis yesterday afternoon to come home to a tornado. Some luck I've got. Guess there's some higher power out to kick my azz...bad karma...stay away from me.

We had some rain and snow the day before yesterday.

Yeah Im sorry youve been short changed. Some of them are rollers, others shakers, They can mess with your sense of balance while their happening but its only for a short time. I guess we (and our inner ears) want to know the terra firma ....remains firma.

Earthquakes affect people differently. Many just roll with it and others are so freaked out its hard to believe. Sure a bad one would be horrible but here in Calif we will have a 3 or a 4 something you can definately feel but doesnt do much damage. The news will be all over it as soon as it happens, show us the graph of the Richter scale, then they go to this Earthquake place and interview this Woman scientist dr whatever about it. And then they show some convience mart somewhere in bumscrew calif where a jar of pickles was shaken off a shelf and has broken on the floor. "clean up on isle 5"

I did hear something a bit scary the other day about quakes here in so/cal. We have many fault lines but we have this one big one called the San Andreas fault. It was described by a specialist the other day as being "10 months pregnant"

whoops dbl post

The Discovery Channel did a series of shows called What If? years ago. One of the shows was based on a 8.0 earthquake in SoCal shortly after the Northridge quake. Basically a large part of the area would burn due to the fact waterpipes would be busted and many if not all the freeways would be destroyed,blocking access for emergency vehicles. The effects of the earthquake would have a major impact on the U.S. economy.

the San Madrid is a big nasty line...It's not long, but if it goes big, it goes real big. Swallowed up a whole town in the early 1800s.