That was a Jolt!

Glad it didn't murderize yas. :embarrassed:

I have always wanted to experience an earthquake just because I never have (not a deadly one obviously). One time in Costa Rica there was a little one but I didn't notice it. Everyone else did though. :angry:
 
tiger roach said:
Glad it didn't murderize yas. :embarrassed:

I have always wanted to experience an earthquake just because I never have (not a deadly one obviously). One time in Costa Rica there was a little one but I didn't notice it. Everyone else did though. :angry:
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Had one in Panama when I was stationed there, my roommate and I were taking a nap on the weekend he was top bunk and I was bottom. He told me to quit shaking my leg because I was shaking the bed and I told him I wasn't. He didn't believe me. Turned out it was an earthquake farther north out in the jungle.
 
I was working out in the garage. I thought the kayaks and paddle boards were gonna come crashing down on my head. Thankfully, they did not.
 
Down here in the Tennessee Valley of north Alabama we get the occasional low magnitude shake from the New Madrid area or some little fault in the southern Appalachians, and every 5-10 yrs somebody gets a cracked foundation out of it.....
but Ive never actually felt one.
 
I've been thru a 5.1 and a 5.4. Both really freaked me out. Those fuckers come out of nowhere...at least with a tornado you have time to take cover.
 
My Earthquake story
I moved to Santa Cruz 6 months after the Loma Prieta quake of 89. My Mom(when I told her I was moving to SC)
"Isn't that where just had the earthquake?"
Me "relax they've had theirs"
1st morning in SC I'm woken up by a 5.5 aftershock followed by a series of small ones.
The HR lady from the company I was coming to work for was frantically trying to get a hold of me all day while I was out looking for apartments and getting settled in a new city/state/country thinking I was going to bail and head back home :rofl:
And so far that's the biggest quake since I've been in Cali for me hoping the streak continues
 
I'm more likely to get swallowed by a sinkhole than harmed by an earthquake. The bedrock here is mostly limestone, so caves and sinkholes are pretty common. Not nearly to the degree as Florida though.
Our major hazard is tornados. Odds are ones gonna hit you at some point. A tornado comes within a mile or two of me just about every year, some years multiple ones. Last year a dude got taken out in a trailer less than a mile away form my house and it wasn't even a big one. F2, F3 at most. But even then if that hits you directly you better be in a damn good place or you are done for. Go out to the county/local region level its a definite theres gonna be at least a couple of really bad ones every year with loss of life absolutely guaranteed.
 
nuke_diver said:
My Earthquake story
I moved to Santa Cruz 6 months after the Loma Prieta quake of 89. My Mom(when I told her I was moving to SC)
"Isn't that where just had the earthquake?"
Me "relax they've had theirs"
1st morning in SC I'm woken up by a 5.5 aftershock followed by a series of small ones.
The HR lady from the company I was coming to work for was frantically trying to get a hold of me all day while I was out looking for apartments and getting settled in a new city/state/country thinking I was going to bail and head back home :rofl:
And so far that's the biggest quake since I've been in Cali for me hoping the streak continues
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The Northridge quake of '94 was pretty close--6.7.
I remember the '89 quake, though. I was in class at CSUS. It was really weird, it felt like rolling waves rather than shaking.
 
I was attempting to watch the 60 Cycle Hum during the premier on YouTube and Ryan started talking in the chat about how the quake had just happened. Said it was the worst one he had experienced in quite a while. Not something I know much about over here in New Jersey, but I could only imagine it's freaky.
 
micwalt said:
The Northridge quake of '94 was pretty close--6.7.
I remember the '89 quake, though. I was in class at CSUS. It was really weird, it felt like rolling waves rather than shaking.
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I didn't mind quakes until that one in Northridge. There were several strong aftershocks too. We would be visiting friends to talk about the earthquake, when a big aftershock would hit.
 
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