Earthquake!

I only just noticed Noddy's comment... hee hee hee!!

Yeah, the ones I felt in L.A. (we moved there well after Northridge) were the wave-y ones. I liked them, they were cool. (None of the earthquakes I've experienced, including this one, were killers. May that remain true forevermore. Knock on wood.)

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bromeliad wrote:

I was in San Diego; not much damage there.

I was about as close to the epicenter that I could have been, and 22 stories up.

The lil earthquake felt big in this old building. File cabinets fell over in the adjacent offices and the elevators broke. I've been in many 6-7+ earthquakes and it felt worse. But yeah, not really any damage.

As a child in Japan, I was in an eathquake where you could visibly see the ground undulating. That one was strong enough to knock people off of their feet.

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Re: Earthquake!

fbaezer wrote:

dlowan wrote:
I'd probably rather sleep through it - live or die - than go through all the panic and the running about of trying to save myself and others, when I mightn't anyway...

I take it there are no earthquakes in Australia.

There's a parking lot a couple of blocks away from my working place.
There used to be a building there.
It fell apart in 1985.
I knew two people who died there.
One, Rockdrigo Gonzalez, was a rock singer/composer. The ceiling fell on him on his sleep.
The other one, Manuel Altamira, was a crime reporter. He didn't "go through all the panic and the running about", but did manage to get up his bed and look for "shelter" under the door frame.
When they found his body, it was standing up, it was purple and had a small scar -something hit him on the forehead-, a small injure. He wasn't crushed, but trapped by the walls and died of asphyxia, after about three days.

During an earthquake you don't panic, you don't run around. You gather your most important belongings (documents, not your PC!) and, as orderly as you can, move to open space.

Lol! We have 'em, but seldom and usually not big (last biggish one where I live was 1954) - so we do not learn to know what to do automatically. So far, all I have had time to do was think "earthquake".

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That's the benefit of living in the Netherlands: no earthquakes, just water!

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Rick d'Israeli wrote:

That's the benefit of living in the Netherlands: no earthquakes, just water!

There are every year some minor earthquakes in the Netherlands as well.

At one of the last bigger ones (APR 13, 1992; 5.5 Richter) , 20 persons were injured and many houses damaged at Roermond* :wink:

*The epicentre was situated about 5 km southwest of the town of Roermond.
Although classified as a medium-sized earthquake, it was one of the largest in central and northwestern Europe since historical times. It was felt within a radius of about 450 km around its epicentre, i.e. in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and parts of the U.K., France and the Czech Republic.
The maximum observed intensity is VII on the MSK scale, and a total damage of approximately 250 million DM was reported.

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I knew you were gonna bring that one up Walter - we actually felt them also here in Eindhoven. My point is however, that the chance getting killed or insured in an eartquake here in the Netherlands is far and far less than when you live in Turkey, LA or other places which are known for their earthquake danger. I mean, when you think of the Netherlands, do you also think of earthquakes?

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In 1989, I had 2 tickets to The world Series as a comp from a clients law firm. i had to return to Philly the day before because my mom was in an accident. I gave the tickets to a colleague and he and a friend were in Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit. The only big quake that I experienced and was scared , was in a tall buiding in Taipei . We had a 5 and the building swayed (I was also up about 20+ stories). I first thought I was having a stroke because i coulkdnt focus my eyes and I was getting dizzy. then I looked on the table at my glass of tea and the water level was swaying, so I thought"whew, at least Im not having a stroke in Taiwan'

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1989 - the Loma Prieta quake. I was on the other side of the state, and we shook pretty good on that one. The quake was centered off Santa Cruz (where I moved four years later).

There was a 6.something centered near Olympia when I lived in Seattle. It wasn't too bad because it was very deep, but it messed up a few roads and some buildings built on landfill, and got people's attention. Architecturally, the area is not prepared for a big shaker -- and the Alaska Way viaduct (Highway 99) is another Nimitz Freeway waiting to happen. I was at work when it hit, and out department chair immediately ran out of his office and out of the building screaming "Everybody outside!" Most of us waited it out relatively calmly, though it did take about five minutes to coax a timid coworker out from under her desk; she had her phone under there and was sobbing to someone on the other end. On the news that night, there was footage of people climbing out onto fire escapes -- a certain kind of genius, I suppose...

The midwest can be hit, by the way:

Quote:

The strongest historic earthquakes in North America occurred as a series of four shocks along the New Madrid Fault Zone between December 16, 1811 and February 7, 1812 and were centered near the town of New Madrid, in the boot-heel area of Missouri. Based on historic eyewitness accounts, scientists have estimated the intensity of the earthquakes using the Modified Mercalli Scale and estimated an equivalent Richter magnitude of 8.3 to 8.7. These devastating earthquakes were felt from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rockies and felled trees, opened fissures, destroyed log buildings, erupted sand and water, created Reelfoot Lake in western Tennessee, and reportedly caused the Mississippi River to temporarily reverse flow in places. Because of the low population density, fatalities were relatively few with most occurring on or near the Mississippi River.

http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/browse/quakes/quakes.htm

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EARTHQUAKE !
living along the shores of lake ontario, we do get the occasional jolt here. so far nothing major. i did speak to my insurance agent about adding coverage to our house insurance for damage caused by earthquakes. the adiitional premium is 50% ! so the insurance companies must figure that earthquake damage could cause considerable damage if it ever hits ! hbg ... some years ago we visited the science centre in sudbury, ontario. there is a continues display that shows the eartquake activities in ontario and quebec, and according to the display it's rumbling pretty well all the time (should make me sleep sound at night !)hbg ... >>> SCIENCENORTH ... click on "geological exploration"

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EARTQUAKES !
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Rick d'Israeli wrote:

I mean, when you think of the Netherlands, do you also think of earthquakes?

If you listened carefully to your geography teacher: yes :wink:

http://www.seismo.uni-koeln.de/images/pages/rhein.jpg

http://www.seismo.uni-koeln.de/images/pages/histbeb.jpg

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Grrrrr

I was very good at Geography actually. But still, I'll stick with what I said: we Dutchies are afraid of the water, not of earthquakes. Never heard of 1953, de 'Waternoodsramp' (I don't know the English translation 1,2,3, but you know what I mean Walter) - 1,835 Dutchmen drowned. It's an eternal fight.

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Waternoodsramp is "big flood of 1953' - happened in England, too.

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I know, as well as in Norway (or at least, what I remember).

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There was a slight earthquake in and around Chicago some years ago. At the time, I lived in a seventh floor loft space in the South Loop area and had just gotten in from work. Sitting with my feet up, reading the newspaper and drinking coffee, I felt a slight rolling sensation. It seemed more internal than external but then I noticed the coffee swaying in the cup and my plants swaying and I thought "earthquake??" but talked myself out of it. Who'd ever heard of earthquakes in Chicago? I didn't even call anyone about it but watching the news that night, it was reported that Chicago had indeed had a slight earthquake. Some felt it. Most didn't. I think that sitting with my feet up off the ground somehow had something to do with being able to feel it.

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As a child here in San Diego I was in numerous quakes. Only a few do I remember. This last one I slept right through just as I usually do.

Soz, as I vaguely remember from Geology 101 any part of the earth can have an earth quake anytime. It just depends on the plates there are fault lines everywhere. It is just that the Pacific Rim is very active.

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When I was a kid (in northern California) I would go and look for cracks in our backyard after every earthquake. Somehow I thought everything would run through our backyard eventually, but no crack ever showed up.

Well, there were the meteors in the summer and the septic creek that ran along the back that we tried to sail rafts made out of wood pallets in, but otherwise nothing ever went through.

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