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I should have felt an earthquake

#1 Post by silvercamaro » Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:59 am

According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
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#2 Post by Evil Squirrel » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:03 am

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

I coulda threw something at the window if I knew you wanted to know when it was happening....
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#3 Post by Iben Browning » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:03 am

Yep, I saw this one coming too....

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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#4 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:57 am

They say we start to miss things as we age.




uh oh






did I say that out loud?

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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:22 am

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Does Lizbit have to learn to type just so she can send you an e-mail about this stuff? :P

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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#6 Post by silvercamaro » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:26 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Does Lizbit have to learn to type just so she can send you an e-mail about this stuff? :P
Lizbit simply could have thought a message into the backs of my eyelids.

If Annie knew there was an earthquake, she would have done that. If she felt the ground shake, however, she probably figured it was something that Lizbit had done. Again.
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#7 Post by T_Bone0806 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:41 am

silvercamaro wrote: I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
I am not disappointed that it was not enough of a jolt for you to have felt it. That means you all were/are safe. :D
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#8 Post by mrkelley23 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:04 pm

With a quake that small, the line of travel is very important, as is the construction of the building you were in at the time. Also the type of soil the building sits on.

It would be nice if we could choose to experience a small earthquake, just to say we'd been through one. But all else being equal, I'm glad you can still say you haven't.
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#9 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:57 pm

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.

So the earth didn't move for you........
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#10 Post by tanstaafl2 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:00 pm

silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#11 Post by secondchance » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:04 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree. :)

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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#12 Post by peacock2121 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:07 pm

Second Chance wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree. :)
You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.

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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#13 Post by secondchance » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:16 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
Second Chance wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree. :)
You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.
And there have been all those cracker eating incidents, too!

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#14 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:25 pm

I think I will post something on the What Have You Done Today thread about not posting on this thread.
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#15 Post by TheConfessor » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:39 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...
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#16 Post by ghostjmf » Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:09 pm

I thought I was in an earthquake once, but it turned out to be a "truck came barreling down the side street that dead-ends at the house's back door, went up unto the sidewalk, hit the door, & bounced off" experience instead. Shook the house pretty good, though.

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#17 Post by sunflower » Mon Mar 09, 2009 5:16 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.

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#18 Post by tanstaafl2 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:27 pm

sunflower wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:According to the news, I should have felt a small earthquake this morning, but I didn't. The quake was small -- 3.4 -- but I live within the area where it was perceptible to others. At one point, Lizbit came running into my office and peeked outside through the Levelors, so that may have been when it happened.

I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.
May well have been the same one. I am in Atlanta and that quake was along the Georgia-Alabama line just south of Chattanooga on April 29, 2003. It registered somewhere between 4.6 and 4.9 at the epicenter.

Earthquake!!!

USGS report
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Re: I should have felt an earthquake

#19 Post by sunflower » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:18 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:
sunflower wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!

The only earthquake I ever experienced was like that. I was in Chattanooga, TN on a business trip and woke up to feel like the bed was shaking. I found out later there was a slight earthquake, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was under 4.0.
May well have been the same one. I am in Atlanta and that quake was along the Georgia-Alabama line just south of Chattanooga on April 29, 2003. It registered somewhere between 4.6 and 4.9 at the epicenter.

Earthquake!!!

USGS report
I bet it was!!! The timing is about right, based on when I worked at that job! And I remember the news saying it was in Alabama. That's funny. I thought it was less than 4.0 but I was close.

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#20 Post by littlebeast13 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:26 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
Second Chance wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote: Based on my one experience with an earthquake, which occurred early one morning, it was rather like being in a bed with "magic fingers". You know, one of those beds in a run down no tell motel that you feed quarters into to get it to shake, rattle and roll. Umm, not that I have been in one of those. Well, not recently...

By the time I was awake enough to realize I wasn't in one of those beds (again...) it was all over with. Never made it out from under the covers.

If you are going to experience an earthquake that's the way to do it as far as I am concerned!
Speaking as someone who was thrown out of bed in '84... I definitely agree. :)
You've only been thrown out of bed once in your lifetime?

Wow.

oh





you were talking earthquake, not bad behavior.

You thought it was funny when it happened to me last year.......

Earthquakes are something interesting to experience...... once in your life anyway.......

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#21 Post by mellytu74 » Mon Mar 09, 2009 7:41 pm

When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

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#22 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:34 am

mellytu74 wrote:When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

Was it the Van Ness Street subway?
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#23 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:26 pm

I've experienced three earthquakes in my lifetime, and I dint know any of them were earthquakes until later.

My California-raised friend called me up after the third one and said, "How about that earthquake!??" I recovered instantly and did not talk about how I thought it must have been a water break up the street, or something.
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#24 Post by mellytu74 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:28 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
mellytu74 wrote:When I was in college, there was a small earthquake in Philadelphia.

I staying overnight on campus after a long night working on The Temple News.

We thought it was the Broad Street Subway. Just a little louder than normal.

Years later, when I was working in Fresno, I felt the Coalinga earthquake.

Which was NOT the Broad Street Subway.

Was it the Van Ness Street subway?

You're so silly :D

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#25 Post by Bob78164 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:04 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I am disappointed in myself for missing it.
Been there, done that. It's no great shakes. 8) --Bob
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