Posted on 06/12/2005 8:43:45 AM PDT by missyme
Loud shake and rumbling this morning...
I watch the USGS, same page as above on this thread.
There is a low rumbling sound, continuous as it is happening. I was sitting in my chair at my computer and the chair was bobbing up and down. My computer screen was wobbling just a bit, like it does when you bump the table the monitor is sitting on, again, continuously. The house makes a creeking sound, you can hear different wood joints inside the house giving a low pitched stress popping sound.
Visually, if you have a pool, the water will slosh about. In a strong quake it will actually slosh out over the pool sides. It moves in waves back and forth from one end to the other, not like someone jumping or playing in a pool. We don't have a pool but the cats bucket of water was sloshing. Also, you can see the glass in the windows shaking. If it is a strong quake, you can hear the window frame making a lound shaking noise of metal on metal - windows frames always seem to make the most noise.
Also, in other quakes - not this one, it was not strong enough - you can see your car rocking back and forth in your driveway if you do not have your parking brake set. Telephone poles will sway, not in unison, but one pole going one way while the next is going the other way.
Most the time, drivers never feel a thing, other than see utility lines swaying. The vehicles suspension masks and softens the shaking or rolling.
thanks I hope she does too.
You had an 83-yr old gf? ;-)
And she didn't feel the earth move? Guess you weren't doing your job then, eh? ;-)
Wifey and I were coffeeing in the back patio and heard what we thought was glass breaking (and turned out not to be)...I wouldn't have been surprised to have had some windows break, it was that significant.
Just a few fallen things and pictures to straighten, along with a few new stucco cracks. Whew..."
My experience too, but you said it so well. :-)
"overdue" = those Cascadia subduction zone quakes were recorded on AN AVERAGE of 300 years. That's what they mean by overdue. So it could happen tomorrow, or 200 years from now.
They sleep in the garage at night. I let them out as usual and they went out on the back porch. Every morning I put dry food down for them and water. As soon as they go out side they seemed really distracted and did not eat. Instead, all three of them jumped up on top of something and sat there. One cat on top of the swamp cooler, another on top of the patio table. The other up on top of the patio cover. I commented to the cats - What, you are not hungry this morning?
Also, in the morning they are really playful - not old cats. I usually roll a ball out for them and they play with it. Not today.
After the quake I did not see any of them for about 10 minutes. Then they came back and are their usually selves.
Until you've been in a 7.0 - a 5.5 is a blip!!
I was in a large hotel at a conference. We all huddled in the doorway - and the chandeliers were swinging so far back and forth that they were touching the ceiling on each side and breaking off pieces of the chandelier. But .. the hotel was well built and didn't sustain any major damage.
That's an earthquake. This was a blip!!
They reported that it was the San Jacinito fault.
A million Citizen Reporters. Get it first hand - and first - on FReeRepublic!
Whoa... I begged the difference. I was driving thru Fwys 405 and 10 back in 88's (big Santa Monica bay earth quake). I certainly felt as if I had a blown tire since the car swayed side to side. EVERYONE on the Fwy slowdown at the same time, then we started seeing the telephone poles swaying around. Only at that time, we all knew it was earth quake. One car only couple cars a head of me ran into the ditch on 405...
I know. I think they said they recorded (discovered, rather) something like 18 major events in the last 7,000 years.
My mom in Virginia just called. "Did you feel the quake!? Are you okay!? Oh, I'm glad you answered because if you didn't answer, I wouldn't know if your phone service was cut or if you were just out!"
The trailer folk can't buy a break -- they get the worst of it from hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes!
I don't know about most drivers, but I know how it felt to be in a few hard shakers while driving. Flat tire shaking syndrome while utility poles sway overhead is not safe nor soft and rolling.
"It seems to come in two waves."
An oscillating wave followed by an ondulating one.
Pretty strong.
Sorry if it seemed like I was telling you something you already knew... I know you knew it because you had seen the show... I was simply adding to what you had said for those who didn't see the show.
;) Meant to make it say we were there in 1983. She was a few months older than me though. Think we were both 29 or so. We definately could rock each others world.
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