Just had a 4.2, which isn't too big, but everyone in the neighborhood came outside. Shook the house for a second or two. We are due for a VERY, VERY big one, it has been said--8 to 9!! That'll bring everything down around here. I've been in them before and it's kind of spooky when your house starts jerking around with the sounds of the lumber flexing and creaking. Went to college in Coalinga, Cal, and lived there from '60' to 64. They had an earthquake in ---maybe 82? or 84? Anyway when I moved back to the west coast from Florida and went over to Coalinga---I did not recognize the town at all. Buildings from way back--cool old buildings just fell down. The whole of down town was gone and replaced with new smaller buildings. The San Andreas fault runs close to Coalinga--and I've driven up to see it. Hope this isn't a precurser to THE BIG ONE!!
Son just called and said it was 7 miles east of Springfield, so that is a different fault than the one off the coast that will bring the big one.
I remember that one. And the one that brought the freeway down. Also the one in and around Santa Cruz. Ruined the down town of Santa Cruz.
Earthquakes are part and parcel of where I live they're a pain, but NZ has had a few big ones over the past few years. Try and have an emergency kit at home at all times!
I've only felt one earthquake seven years ago. Pretty weird it hit just as we were going to bed and we didn't know what it was. So we ignored it. It was only 3.4 at 4 km deep. I'd always thought they were rare around PA. But checking on the net I see we've had 3 in the past year in this area, all minor, I don't think the news even reported them, 1.6, 2.7, and 1.8.
Lived out in CA for 10 years... Never felt an earthquake. Two or three years after moving back to Ohio there was one near St. Louis that was felt all the way up into Ohio. Stranger than that... Erin the crow knew about it a full 3-4 minutes before it got here. Maybe not that strange, they know things we don't.
Tyrsonswood mentioned Erin the crow sensing one before it happened. In '50 or 51, there was a big one in Tehachapi, which is in the mountains south of Bakersfield on what's known as the Grapevine. It's the road to LA from the valley. I was asleep upstairs in my grammas house and my dad was in bed across the room. All of a sudden , the house started creaking and shaking and my dad hollered --"let's go." It sounded like a truck load of gravel was being dumped on the roof.We ran down stairs and out into the street. My dad said he had been reading something at 5 in the morning and he said dogs all over town had been barking for 20 minutes or so--before the earthquake. Obviously, they had heard the grinding of the fault before it slipped in a big way. That one was really loud and scary. Put a crack on both sides of the porch. The house is double wall brick, otherwise, I believe it may have come down on us. They keep saying here in Oregon that we are due a 9 on the Richter scale!! Happens on an average of 249 years and we're on year 300! The fault is off the coast---if/when that one happens---probably most everything comes down, with the added "pleasure" of a tsunami.
I don't remember that one. I do remember the scene where the stay puffed marshmallow man destroys buildings. That and the nisqually earthquake. I was driving and pulled over because I thought the wobble in the car was a flat tire. Then there is mt st helens.
Here in New England we had a 6.0 in 1755 which shook coastal communities from Maine to Rhode Island and leveled the city of Boston. Hotwater
nepal had a big one recently, felt all over neighboring parts of india and tibet. i wonder why no one has mentioned that. i'm guessing no one on here is from there. well of course i'm not either. its one of those places that has interested me for a long time though. wherever you have a fault zone that hasn't moved for a long time there is one waiting to happen. plenty of places like that along california's coast, and there are several out here in the middle of nevada. i remember several times in my life when each of them did. there was a big on in alaska in the 60s too. i may have been in high school at the time. loma prieta, could just barely feel it in sacramento. i was visiting csu, as i often did, at the time.
A friend working in New Zealand just went through an earthquake, his first and I ask him how it was he replies... translated** You hear it coming and you hear the rumble then feel it. The construction we worked on fell to pieces, almost hit my head and I could have died.. It was pretty cool" You know when you read things just like your friends speak with the pauses and the sarcasm etc. it made me laugh. He's in New Zealand doing demolition work in Christchurch I think it is, knock down old building and erect new building. Think the quakes doing his job for him.
