My First Earthquake....

[dieselsmoke1]

Peacefully minding my own business today, suddenly BOOM, CRACK, SHAKE!!!!

Now this little 4.5 was centered 30 miles west of Richmond and we're a good distance away, but to an old east coast boy that's never felt the ground the ground shake before in his life it was a enlightening experience.

WHAT THE **** WAS THAT??????

No damage anywhere around here of course, don't know if there was in VA.

Last one here in 1916. The odds are in my favor unless I move to California!

 

[itsmecindi]

My first was in Big Bear Lake Ca, 1988. I slept through most of it, but it woke Fred up right away. I woke to find him standing in the doorway and could hear the windows rattling like a train was going by.

"What the heck are you doing?" I asked him, thinking he was responsible.

"Trying to stay alive!"

He's a country boy from Texas, never been in an earthquake either. He was doing what he heard he should do, stand in the doorway. It was two or three days later when I smacked the heck out of him for leaving me in the bed and not waking me up. Delayed reaction. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BubbaJr]

My first earthquake was my daughters fault. We were sitting in the car watching a parade and the car kept shaking and rocking. It got so bad that the shaking of our car started to scare 6 big Clydesdales that were pulling a stage coach past us. I kept telling Michelle to sit still, and she of course said she was, and I of course didn't believe her.
It's a good thing I didn't punish her for it, because later that night we saw on TV that there was an earthquake centered somewhere close to Cincinnati, and I never would have lived that down. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[avorancher]

You get used to those small ones, but never the big ones. Below is a list of the small quakes in the Los Angeles so far today.

Your 4.5 is a pretty good shaker, especially for the right coast.

Magnitude Date location
1.6 2003/12/09 (10 mi) SSW of Hawthorne, NV
2.1 2003/12/09 NE of Obsidian Butte, CA
1.4 2003/12/09 ( 8 mi) N of Morgan Hill, CA
1.2 2003/12/09 ESE of Anza, CA
1.2 2003/12/09 ENE of Temecula, CA
2.2 2003/12/09 W of Tahoe Vista, CA
1.8 2003/12/09 ENE of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
1.7 2003/12/09 SSE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
2.9 2003/12/09 WNW of Obsidian Butte, CA
2.4 2003/12/09 N of Obsidian Butte, CA
2.4 2003/12/09 S of Ocotillo, CA
1.0 2003/12/09 SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
1.2 2003/12/09 SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
1.0 2003/12/09 SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
1.3 2003/12/09 NNW of Yucca Valley, CA
1.4 2003/12/09 WNW of Cabazon, CA
1.9 2003/12/09 E of Glendale, CA
1.4 2003/12/09 NW of Parkfield, CA
2.6 2003/12/09 ESE of The Geysers, CA
1.6 2003/12/09 SE of Ocotillo, CA
1.8 2003/12/09 N of Borrego Springs, CA
1.7 2003/12/09 ESE of The Geysers, CA
1.6 2003/12/09 NNW of The Geysers, CA
1.7 2003/12/09 SSW of Ludlow, CA
1.7 2003/12/09 ENE of Pinnacles, CA
1.1 2003/12/09 S of Palomar Observatory, CA
1.9 2003/12/09 ENE of Shandon, CA
1.0 2003/12/09 S of Tonopah Junction, NV
1.1 2003/12/09 SSE of Palomar Observatory, CA
1.8 2003/12/09 SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> My first earthquake was my daughters fault. </font>

Fault... get it? FAULT! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[fivestring]

I read somewhere that the east coast (particularly NC & SC) have a fault line like CA, just not as active. I think they said Charleston was in the middle of the line. If that's so, you'll be feeling more tremors, dieselsmoke1. I guess the Charlotte area will be at the westernmost end.

 

[Big_A]

Hello All,

I'm in Lynchburg Va, which is about 110 miles to the west of Richmond. I was tending the wood stove, talking to the boy about 4:00 pm when all of a sudden I heard a "whoosh". It sounded like a chimney fire. I looked at the stove and the fire was just smoldering, no fire. I was still hearing the "whoosh" so I asked the boy if there was a plane going overhead. He said he thought there was. After about 30 seconds, the whole thing was over. The ground didn't even shake at all.

The funny thing is that I thought animals were supposed to act all stupid before this kind of thing but my dogs, who were laying on the floor, didn't even bat an eye. Either they don't have ESP or they are just too stupid to care

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It was two or three days later when I smacked the heck out of him for leaving me in the bed and not waking me up )</font>

Maybe he was doing you a favor; at least he didn't wake you the way my wife woke me one night in Anchorage. I was sound asleep when my wife grabbed hold of my thigh (didn't know the old gal had that kind of grip; nearly pinched my leg off) and screamed, "BIRD!!" Needless to say I was wide awake pretty quickly, but it's not the way I prefer to be awakened, so I just said, "What?" She said, "Earthquake" and I said, "OK, whatcha want me to do about it?" I still don't know why she was mad at me just because she didn't have an answer.

It did rock the bed around a bit (the whole house of course since we were in the travel trailer inside a warehouse). The news media that day said a couple of windows were broken in a nearby shopping center, but no serious damage that I know of.

 

[HalseyGreen]

I was at work, about 30 miles west of the center, the building shook real good, but no damage, but what's funny the Charlottesville paper reported that the North Anna Nucluer power plant reported that they didn't feel a thing, and they are less than 10 miles from us, and about 25 miles from the center.

A lady here at work husband works there, and she said that he said that the place did rattle like everything in the area. I guess they though that we would beleive them, and they are in the permitting process for a third reactor.

 

[livincountry]

Bubba, was that the quake in the late 70's? I lived in the suburbs of Cincy and thought my dad was hammering the walls or something in the basement. Made the house shake but it's not what I thought an earthquake would be like. Too mild I guess.