ok you california folks.. what do mean sending earthquakes over to us on the east coast?

it was weird.. i've never been in one before but it felt just like when the construction crew blasts rock. my dogs went nuts and started growling and barking and guarding the bedroom door like hell was on the other side. it was a 4.9 and yes i know it's not a big deal but i thought it was interesting.
you think i'm silly for thinking an earthquake was weird.. you should see the people here when it snows.

Yeah We had an earthquake in Buffalo before.. You should see the people here when it snows.. :D :D :D

The Mississippi river valley and Misouri(Sp?) river down in there have had some of the biggest recorded earthquakes in North America.

thats nothing!! It's like a truck driving buy!:rolleyes:

4.9

I'm surprised you even felt it!!!

Yeah, I had an email from my friend 1st thing this morning letting me know that it woke him up.

I hope that Dale's Den (located in Phoenix City, Alabama) is ok.
Listen to their answer machine if you need a good laugh. 334-756-3336.

Originally posted by Positive Vibes
4.9

I'm surprised you even felt it!!!

yeah most people i know slept through it. i woke up because my dogs started barking. weird thing is they barked just before it happened. i woke from the bark, then it happened.

I've learned to be very intune with my animals. They sense those things coming. Also the weather can seem funky before they hit.

quote i pulled from a news page...

Carolyn Parker of Gadsden said the earthquake woke her up.

"My husband jumped out of bed," she told WSB-TV. "He said he thought it was like the end of the world or something. He ran outside."

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see.. us southern folk aren't used to the ground shaking. we usually see big dark funnels slinging everything around. and lots of rain. and gnats.

Yea, my mom thought that a plane was crashing in our back yard...i thought it was kinda funny that she got all worked up. I wish I would have been up in Duluth so I could have felt it, sounded pretty cool.

Originally posted by jasonb
see.. us southern folk aren't used to the ground shaking...

hell...you souther folk aren't used to anything but humidity! even a mention of snow in the forcast and they start closing schools and emptying the grocery stores....lol...wierdos...

but there isn't any place that i would rather be!! Ya'll are a lot nicer than us yankees.... :D

Ya'll are a lot nicer than us yankees....

yeah they are. ive never felt an earthquake, but ive felt blasting at work, so i can imagine it. i just had to agree with the yankees statement. everyone up here flipps each other off, swerves at eachother, and is miserable at everyone in general. when i drove to florida, people were actually letting me out into traffic! no middle finger required!

Originally posted by riffman
even a mention of snow in the forcast and they start closing schools and emptying the grocery stores....lol...wierdos...

you couldn't be more accurate with that statement! finding bread and milk in a grocery store the day weathermand says there is a .0001% chance of snow.. no chance.

Yeah We had an earthquake in Alaska before.. You should see the people here when it snows..

hehehehe!!!!!!! just had to copy and add Alaska



Really we have tons of Earthquakes up here. We are in a Zone 4 which is the same as good ole California. Plus we have a few volcanos and get hit by Tsunami's. Anyone here of the Valley of 10,000 smokes (10,000 or 2,000 can't recall. Either way its a lot) Thats here in Alaska just a whole bunch of small cinder cones spewing gases and cinder.

THis thing caused so much excitement around here and I slept right through it :p We don't get many around here so even this "little" one by other peoples standards was big news.

And yea...snow closes everything down around here..not so much the snow but the ice it turns into once the sun comes up. People around here have no clue how to drive in that kinda weather :rolleyes:
I just like to get out and play in it with the 4 wheelers occasionally. But other than that you Yankees can keep that snow stuff to yourselves...I don't want none of it:D

lol....yeah i was alseep when my mom come in my room and said that her stuff on the living room coffey table was "dancing" :rolleyes: :D I though see was just drunk, hehe :confused: I laughed and rolled over back to sleep, I never felt a thing.

They say we may have some "after shocks" now :eek: ;)

Originally posted by AlaskanJack
Really we have tons of Earthquakes up here. We are in a Zone 4 which is the same as good ole California.

I was watching a show on the discovery channel the other night and they were talking about earthquakes in Alaska. They said that Alaska has had the strongest and most frequent earthquakes in the entire nation. They said you just don’t hear about them that much because of all the unpopulated land.

I remember that San Francisco quake in ’89. That rocked the whole bay area! Oakland smelled like death for a few weeks because of all the rotting bodies that were smashed in the Cyprus structure. That quake caused insane destruction, the new Cyprus structure is better then the old but San Francisco might not ever have a freeway system like it did before.

I remember My first.... It was in Tokyo, Japan I was asleep and woke up seeing my body shaking, in a complete daze I realized it was an earthquake I ran to the nearest door jam, covered my head with my hands, at this point I was dropping bricks if you know what I mean. Then it stopped. My wife came running up stairs and saw me in position for a nuclear attack and almost died laughing. It was only a 5.4. I thought it was the end of the world. Now I live in the Bay area of CA, we get 'em every once and a while and when they come it's like seeing a friend you haven't seen for a long time. Shocking, Slightly exciting, then it's gone again.

Originally posted by ipozestu
it's like seeing a friend you haven't seen for a long time. Shocking, Slightly exciting, then it's gone again.

That is true, I think that they are fun, as long as people do not get hurt and there is no destruction.

I slept through it. I heard about it on the radio in the morning.

My mom woke up, but she thought the rumbling was actually a bunch of squirrels running around on the roof :D

Conversely, one of my friends woke up and thought "An earthquake! I have to go stand in the doorframe! Nah, I'm tired" and she went back to sleep :D

And lastly, when we all got to school, one of my friends still didn't know about it. He slept through it, then listened to CDs instead of the radio. We had to tell him there was an earthquake