Earthquakes

2007-05-24 10:04:07

#1

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6993|Global Command

So anyone else deal with them?

Here in L.A. the last big one was the Northridge quake. It felt like 30 seconds of class four rapids while riding my bed.

Last night around 10 p.m. I heard felt a sharp crack and reverberation. It sounded exactly like what I imagine a nuclear bombing going off would sound fifty miles away. A few minutes later it happened again. Nothing shook, the lights didn't wiggle, but the house make a disturbing cracking sound near the roof line. So I pulled up google Earth and realized my house sits between two epicenters of prior quakes, about a mile apart from each.

The are rather terrifying, as there is abosultely nothing you can do and you never know if the one your feeling
is the beginning of the end.

Here's some data on last night quake storm:
1.2 2007/05/24 03:54:00 34.213N 117.365W 4.2 3 km ( 2 mi) ESE of Devore, CA
1.6 2007/05/23 23:37:13 34.182N 117.394W 15.3 4 km ( 3 mi) S of Devore, CA
1.2 2007/05/23 23:28:48 34.187N 117.401W 16.9 4 km ( 2 mi) S of Devore, CA
3.9 2007/05/23 23:15:15 34.203N 117.376W 10.0 3 km ( 2 mi) SE of Devore, CA
3.9 2007/05/23 23:11:39 34.198N 117.385W 12.7 3 km ( 2 mi) SSE of Devore, CA

All mostly small, yet closely spaced and withing several minutes of each other.
I'm scaird, hold me.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/sha … nsity.html

2007-05-24 10:07:11

#2

SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|7032|Mountains of NC

I'll hold u

I was out at 29 palms when they had a big 7.1 few years back --- I was couple miles from the epi-center

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2007-05-24 10:09:22

#3

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6993|Global Command

What was it like?

2007-05-24 10:11:30

#4

sfarrar33: Halogenoalkane; +57|7082|InGerLand

i want an earthquake, England just gets boring and miserable weather

2007-05-24 10:13:35

#5

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7202|The Hague, Netherlands

Never a earthquake here

https://bf3s.com/sigs/36eac2cb6af70a43508fd8d1c93d3201f4e23435.png

2007-05-24 10:14:20

#6

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6994|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

Now that aint true, some where in time there was a little vibration in Limburg

2007-05-24 10:15:17

#7

^*AlphA*^: F*ckers; +3,135|7202|The Hague, Netherlands

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox wrote:
Now that aint true, some where in time there was a little vibration in Limburg

"vibrations" not earthquakes

kinda thats the same as calling the hills in Limburg mountains

2007-05-24 10:16:12

#8

_NL_Lt.EngineerFox: Big Mouth Prick; +219|6994|Golf 1.8 GTI Wolfsburg Edition

I fail

2007-05-24 10:19:37

#9

SEREMAKER: BABYMAKIN EXPERT √; +2,187|7032|Mountains of NC

it was about 2 am and i was in my sleeping bag next to my HUMMVEE, sleeping good when it happened

I thought I was dreaming bc it was like a herd of buffalo stampedeing right NEXT to me

I jumped out of sleeping bag and looked around and looked like the HUMMVEEs were on hydraulics

there lights were on and there was so much dust and sand kicked up

that was probably the worest feeling I have lived through bc theres no where to go for safety (unless you're in the air)

2007-05-24 10:22:22

#10

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6986|...

We had one earthquake in Virginia that could be considered substantal. Most damnage was cracks in walls. The noise was loud as shit.

2007-05-24 10:26:37

#11

(T)eflon(S)hadow: R.I.P. Neda; +456|7293|Grapevine, TX

Earthquakes scare the shit out of me and I've never even experienced one. I've been through 3 F1-F2+ tornado's. Ill take one of these

over an earthquake any day or night!

2007-05-24 10:29:51

#12

Schwarzelungen: drunklenglungen; +133|6760|Bloomington Indiana

we had one a few summers back in North west indiana at like..4am.
it was summer break from college for me so i was up playing video games and my cat was on my lap sleeping. the initial movement felt like a damn truck hit my house
(it prolly only lasted 10 seconds tops.)

2007-05-24 10:29:57

#13

geNius: ..!.,; +144|6906|SoCal

ATG wrote:
So anyone else deal with them?

Here in L.A. the last big one was the Northridge quake. It felt like 30 seconds of class four rapids while riding my bed.

Since we haven't dealt with a good one for 13 years, I'm guessing we're in for it.

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2007-05-24 10:30:29

#14

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7085|London, England

sfarrar33 wrote:
i want an earthquake, England just gets boring and miserable weather

You can say that again. Although we did have a minor earthquake in Kent about a month ago and there was a Tornado in Kensal Rise (London) a couple of months ago.

Tornado - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6217514.stm
Earthquake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Kent_earthquake

2007-05-24 10:35:41

#15

heggs: Spamalamadingdong; +581|6852|New York

Couple of years ago at Binghamton, NY there was a little quake, enough to shake everything in my dorm, knock a few things down. Almost shit my pants because you really don't expect quakes at all in that geographical region.

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2007-05-24 16:09:26

#16

sfarrar33: Halogenoalkane; +57|7082|InGerLand

Mekstizzle wrote:
sfarrar33 wrote:
i want an earthquake, England just gets boring and miserable weather
You can say that again. Although we did have a minor earthquake in Kent about a month ago and there was a Tornado in Kensal Rise (London) a couple of months ago.

Tornado - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6217514.stm
Earthquake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Kent_earthquake

lol the earthquake where one old lady got a bruise on her head
the tornado didn't do much either, thar was one in birmingham as well wasn't there?
actually i had one earthquake here where i live not to long ago, i slept through it and i think all it did was knock some pictures of some walls it was about half as strong as the kent one...

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2007-05-24 16:25:30

#17

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|7131

SEREMAKER wrote:
I'll hold u

I was out at 29 palms when they had a big 7.1 few years back --- I was couple miles from the epi-center

Hector Mine, 1999
This quake, in a remote area of the Mojave Desert, created a 25-mile long surface rupture along what had been classified as an inactive fault.
Magnitude: 7.1
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0

(T)eflon(S)hadow wrote:
Earthquakes scare the shit out of me and I've never even experienced one. I've been through 3 F1-F2+ tornado's. Ill take one of these... over an earthquake any day or night!

Nah, you get used to them.

Whittier Narrows, 1987
Two quakes, three days apart, occurred on a previously unknown fault east of Los Angeles and caused severe damage.
Magnitude: 5.3/5.9
Deaths: 8
Injuries: 200
Damage: $358 million

Loma Prieta, 1989
A significant quake, this caused over a half billion dollars worth of property damage.
Magnitude: 7.1
Deaths: 63
Injuries: 3,757
Damage: $5,900 million

Northridge, 1994
This quake damaged over 25,000 buildings, closed 11 major roads, and left 22,000 people homeless.
Magnitude: 6.7
Deaths: 57
Injuries: 9,000
Damage: $10,000 million

Last edited by Ilocano (2007-05-24 16:29:23)

2007-05-24 16:38:07

#18

stryyker: bad touch; +1,682|7184|California

I had the same thing last night, except it was the Marines at Pendleton shoosting off their 105's for an hour.

I was like, "OMGWTF QUAEK?"

later to realize, "OMFG STFU ARTY WHORES"

/end.

2007-05-24 16:58:48

#19

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7061|Seattle

Seattle is ready for a double catastrophe. Big earthquake which could then trigger Mt Ranier to blow...or vise versa. Olympia and Tacoma will be washed away by the lahar. (sp?)

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2007-05-24 17:00:17

#20

cowami: OY, BITCHTITS!; +1,106|6753|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

Apparently, Manhattan's on top of a fault line. Yayz! There's actually been really tiny earthquakes since forever.

I live in Queens, bitches. Ideally that'd be enough to save me.

2007-05-24 17:03:15

#21

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7307|Alberta, Canada

Nope, I don't have to worry about them.

2007-05-24 17:13:15

#22

TheunforgivenII: Member; +12|6746

There are earthquakes everyday non-stop though you just can't feel them

2007-05-24 17:19:45

#23

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|7001|Long Island, New York

The last one we got was up in Rochester. Yes, NY gets earthquakes too. We are on a plate after all.

I felt my bed rumble for like half a second. That was about it.

2007-05-24 17:24:26

#24

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7061|Seattle

The last earthquake we had, I was smoking a bowl in a car with this fat chick (she was just my friend, I swear ) I totally thought the movement was just her big fat ass breathing or something...anywyas, went home to my parent's house to find them awake, for one thing, which was weird @ 10:30pm...and asking me all sorts of questions about the earthquake that I had no recollection of. I thought it was some sort of sick joke they were trying to pull on me. "Ha ha! yeah earthquake lolz"... I think they could tell I was stoned out of my mind.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

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