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Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on January 25, 2003, 02:55:55 AM
Yesterday night, 21:20 in southern Spain. The Earth shook for a while: the furniture, paintings and lamps began to shake, and people went out of their homes.

It was a 4.8 earthquake in the Ritcher scale. Th epicenter was 120 kms from here, but I could feel it clearly. Never felt one before.

What\'s been your higher earthquake? Anybody survived to a 10.0 shake? :D
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: ##RaCeR## on January 25, 2003, 05:37:55 AM
Australia doesn\'t get too many earthquakes, very rare actually. Couple of months ago, Brisbane got a 3.1, you could feel it but it wasn\'t all that, no one seemed to care.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: videoholic on January 25, 2003, 05:42:32 AM
I was in Mexico one time doing a story in Guadilahara ( I can\'t spell).

I was setting up for the interview and the house shook like a mother. Dishes came off shelves, lights swinging.  It was cool.  We don\'t have anything in FL, so it was pretty neat.  If ithappened just 5 minutes later I would have had it all on tape.

We then went to Menzania where the epicenter was.  It was cool.  Traveled through ancient volcanoes and crap to get their.  A couple hotels collapsed and houses were goners.  It was really neat.  Well, it was neat because I didn\'t live there. It was a mess I should say.

GOt some really nice stories though to bring back to the states.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Samwise on January 25, 2003, 05:42:38 AM
Meh, no earthquakes around here. Nothing that can be felt anyway. :)
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on January 25, 2003, 05:43:25 AM
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Australia doesn\'t get too many earthquakes, very rare actually. Couple of months ago, Brisbane got a 3.1, you could feel it but it wasn\'t all that, no one seemed to care.


Australia gets thousands of earthquakes.

You just never feel it.

You stupid fucking emu.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: videoholic on January 25, 2003, 05:57:17 AM
yeah, there are earthquakes going on about every minute or so around the world.  Go to some of the earthquake websites.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on January 25, 2003, 06:21:00 AM
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Originally posted by videoholic
in Guadilahara

Guadalajara Video :)

It\'s true, there are thousands of earthquakes all the time around the world. But only those that are over 1 or so are noticiable. An earthquake over 6 is very dangerous. Better yesterday didn\'t happen nothing important. How big was that in Los Angeles years ago?
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Unicron! on January 25, 2003, 07:33:52 AM
I liked it when I felt one.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: KillaX on January 25, 2003, 08:26:38 AM
we had a small quake here back around the mid 80\'s I was in elementary school.  Yes we have had a couple Minor quakes here in ohio



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Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Darth Joyda on January 25, 2003, 08:27:19 AM
Earthquakes never occur here in Finland - and \'thus I have never experienced one.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: fastson on January 25, 2003, 10:54:25 AM
There was one here a few weeks ago.. I didnt feel it, as I was sleeping :)
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Kurt Angle on January 25, 2003, 11:20:49 AM
My first experience was 26th September 2002 an 1am the whole house shook for about 10 seconds. It was a 4.8 on the richter scale. We actually had a thread about it, here\'s the link.

http://www.psx2central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25010&highlight=earthquake
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: shawn9990 on January 25, 2003, 11:25:00 AM
the first time i was ever in a earth quake was 1991 in oakland the land spilt right in half i broke my arm because a table fall on it but other then that i was ok
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: (e) on January 25, 2003, 11:33:27 AM
We get a hell of a lot of earthquakes in alaska. Mostly just little vibrations in the ground, but you can notice them. Anwhere between a 1 to a 5 on the richter scale. Some of them have been pretty bad though.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Rya on January 25, 2003, 11:33:49 AM
In 1989 during the Loma-Prieta earthquake in SF.  It was a 7.1.  And I was in the worst place possible to be during an earthquake.  -_-
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Bozco on January 25, 2003, 12:28:45 PM
Ohio gets a decent amount of earthquakes.  Almost all are too deep and weak to even feel though.  I\'ve never actually felt one and don\'t plan on it either.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Silent D on January 25, 2003, 12:45:35 PM
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Originally posted by Spudz
We get a hell of a lot of earthquakes in alaska. Mostly just little vibrations in the ground, but you can notice them. Anwhere between a 1 to a 5 on the richter scale. Some of them have been pretty bad though.


Yeah we get em a lot up here. It\'s cause we\'re on that ring of fire thing.

The biggest earthquake I have ever been in was a 6.7, when I used to live in Northridge, California. I think that was the one in L.A. too, its right near there. It was crazy, stuff was falling everywhere and it split a bunch of houses. It was scary, but at the same time kinda cool. My neighborhood was ok, but places closer to the epicenter were thrashed.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Viper_Fujax on January 25, 2003, 12:48:59 PM
i remember when i was 10 er so there was an big earthquake at about 7 oclock in the morning on a sunday, and all my family members were in doorways and they looked at me and i was still sleeping,lol. Then my brother hit me and told me to get up but it ended by the time i got outta bed
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: nO-One on January 25, 2003, 01:14:17 PM
Quakes are pretty common around here, small ones atleast. Big ones well... they happen but not too often.

Last really big one was 3 or 4 years ago, brought some houses down and whatnot...happened on June the 17th, which is like the Icelantic version of the 4th of July.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: square_marker on January 25, 2003, 02:05:10 PM
4 Years ago a Earthquake hit someone in Pittsburg or something, and i felt that and 2 after shocks.  It was creppy.  You could hear it rumbling from like miles away.  But it barely shook the ground at all.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: SER on January 25, 2003, 03:48:00 PM
YUO GUYS TEH SUK!!!!!111

I live on Guam and we have had many many many earthquakes. All your 4.+ earthquakes suck! Those are nothing. ;) The biggest I\'ve been in was an 8.2 which lasted for a good 60 seconds in 1993. Since then we\'ve had at least ten 6 and 7 pointers and numerous others below that.  Good thing buildings here are designed with concrete, for protection against all these storms and earthquakes. :)
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: The Stapler on January 26, 2003, 02:27:49 PM
Yeah, according to SER I suck, but I don\'t care :p

A couple years ago, there was an earthquake here in the 4 range (we have smaller ones all the time). I heard what I thought was thunder, so I got up to look out of my window. I had a bunk bed that I was standing on to look out the window. I put my hands on boths sides of the window sill to support myselft cuz I wasn\'t awake at all. After a while I notice that the whole house was shaking. Freaky! :eek:
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: SER on January 26, 2003, 04:02:44 PM
^^^^^ :)

4 pointers are nothing man. Once you get to the 7s, you\'ll be rockin! I\'m not sure but I remember something about every point it\'s 25 times stronger or something..
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on January 26, 2003, 04:28:18 PM
5 is ten times stronger than 4
6 is ten times stronger than 5
7 is ten times stronger than 6

and so on and so forth.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: The Stapler on January 26, 2003, 06:02:28 PM
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Originally posted by SER
^^^^^ :)

4 pointers are nothing man. Once you get to the 7s, you\'ll be rockin! I\'m not sure but I remember something about every point it\'s 25 times stronger or something..


Yeah, yeah ;)

We don\'t get many above 4, or at all. We are a very active site for earthquakes, just most of them are 1s and 2s.
Title: My first experience with an earthquake
Post by: Spencer on January 26, 2003, 09:23:34 PM
i ive in CA, and we get them a lot. the biggest on ive been in tho is probibly a 5 that was far away, non actually colse to my hose.