Crazy. I thought I was going nuts, but it's official. OKC sustained some damage. Thats kind of abnormal for around here.
Earthquake.
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I'll have to look it up but I recall watching nova or nat. geo once some time back about how one of the largest quakes ever in the US was in your part of the world. Just cause it doesn't happen very often doesn't mean it can't.
Thats a freaky experience isn't it? Experienced a couple back when I lived on the left coast and it pretty much defies description.
ive always wanted to experience a real-deal earthquake. we had a small one in NJ and it sounded like a rumble in the distance.
New Madrid, Missouri. Pretty far from OKC, but not a location most people think about big quakes.
here is another that just happened.....
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=522312
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=522312
how many more before i can panic?
Went through the Landers quake, 7.4 on the Richter scale, in the late nineties, lived in Palm Springs, about 10 miles from the San Andreas fault.
Shook the hell out of my duplex. Aftershocks were creepy in the desert, you could hear them coming, resonate through the house, and then travel on south bound.
Shook the hell out of my duplex. Aftershocks were creepy in the desert, you could hear them coming, resonate through the house, and then travel on south bound.
I felt a rumble in the bathroom earlier today.
After I googled it thats the one I was thinking of.1812 New Madrid earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg/300px-New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/1/11/New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg/300px-New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg Your right, kind of far from OKC. But still
ing to think about. BTW they are calling the OKC trembler @ 4.3 Thats a decent ride.
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Yeah... 4.3 is pretty big for around here. Hell I've been in this part of the country for 20 years and I've never felt an earthquake.OKC trembler @ 4.3
BTW - The road.
Most boring movie EVER!
less than 6, no care
Be careful what you wish for!
I always wanted to experience an earthquake above 7. Because i live in a shaky part of the world, i got what i wished for and experienced an 8.8 earlier this year. It was a million times stronger than the 7 i felt as a kid.
What i remember the most about the 8.8 was not the actual movement, which was "quite strong", to say the least. It was the sound. Unlike any other you couldn't sense where it came from. The only way to describe it that comes to my mind right now is that it felt like what one would feel standing in the cone or dust cap of a giant loudspeaker.
Still, i would like to feel a stronger earthquake, but thinking about all the lives that would be lost in such an event makes me feel like an a-hole.
It would be great to have earthquakes without human or material losses
Earthquake? pffft that's nothing but a flesh wound
You must be high on miner release endorphins. There's nothing even remotely exciting about being close to a big earthquake. There's just fear.I always wanted to experience an earthquake above 7. Because i live in a shaky part of the world, i got what i wished for and experienced an 8.8 earlier this year. It was a million times stronger than the 7 i felt as a kid.
What i remember the most about the 8.8 was not the actual movement, which was "quite strong", to say the least. It was the sound. Unlike any other you couldn't sense where it came from. The only way to describe it that comes to my mind right now is that it felt like what one would feel standing in the cone or dust cap of a giant loudspeaker.
Still, i would like to feel a stronger earthquake, but thinking about all the lives that would be lost in such an event makes me feel like an a-hole.
It would be great to have earthquakes without human or material losses
You do not want to experience stronger. I promise. The Richter scale is logarithmic, so a 9.0 released 10 times the energy of an 8.0. If you were close to the epicenter of the Chilean quake earlier this year, you would have probably been thrown off the ground once the S-waves hit. A few of the guys I work with were based very close to the epicenter of the Chilean quake and said that the energy release was strong enough to create physical waves with 5 foot "crests" on the ground...I always wanted to experience an earthquake above 7. Because i live in a shaky part of the world, i got what i wished for and experienced an 8.8 earlier this year. It was a million times stronger than the 7 i felt as a kid.
What i remember the most about the 8.8 was not the actual movement, which was "quite strong", to say the least. It was the sound. Unlike any other you couldn't sense where it came from. The only way to describe it that comes to my mind right now is that it felt like what one would feel standing in the cone or dust cap of a giant loudspeaker.
Still, i would like to feel a stronger earthquake, but thinking about all the lives that would be lost in such an event makes me feel like an a-hole.
It would be great to have earthquakes without human or material losses
Damn.
Surfs up!
i mean i wouldnt want to be in a high rise, but i think it would be kinda fun (see terrifying)
I was relatively close to the epicenter, was thrown to the ground a few times (luckily i wasn't injured) and still i feel curious about it.
It's not that i actually want something like that to happen, but the strange feeling i described above is still with me.
It may be because i would like to be able to try and perceive the whole situation better than i did (it happened in the middle of the night). To feel every wave, hear it's sounds, see how it shakes everything, etc. . . It's a fantastic force that we have absolutely no control about and can rarely experience.
Don't you ever wish you could feel the "peace" in the eye of a hurricane, feel the speed and power of a tsunami wave or see an erupting volcano and i's lava flowing right in front of you?
It certainly is a strange feeling. Like when you scratch over a scar that is itching and you accidentally remove some of it. You feel a bit of pain, but it's a strange one; one that leaves you with that weird desire to do it again.
PS: I'm not talking about life losses and all the social chaos that arose a few hours after the earthquake. That was a tragedy and a real shame that i would never like to happen again.
It's not that i actually want something like that to happen, but the strange feeling i described above is still with me.
It may be because i would like to be able to try and perceive the whole situation better than i did (it happened in the middle of the night). To feel every wave, hear it's sounds, see how it shakes everything, etc. . . It's a fantastic force that we have absolutely no control about and can rarely experience.
Don't you ever wish you could feel the "peace" in the eye of a hurricane, feel the speed and power of a tsunami wave or see an erupting volcano and i's lava flowing right in front of you?
It certainly is a strange feeling. Like when you scratch over a scar that is itching and you accidentally remove some of it. You feel a bit of pain, but it's a strange one; one that leaves you with that weird desire to do it again.
PS: I'm not talking about life losses and all the social chaos that arose a few hours after the earthquake. That was a tragedy and a real shame that i would never like to happen again.
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The Tech Museum in San Jose (CA) has an earthquake simulator that is pretty damn fun. They simulate a lot of big earthquakes from around the world.
Well, yea. As a geologist, there's nothing I want more than to experience this planet's catastrophism... One of the things I love most about my field of study is the constant reminder that I (you) are an insignificant speck in a temporal and spatial sense. I want to watch a tsunami; I want to be alive for the upcoming eruption of Yellowstone; I want to experience a sizable earthquake. That said, I also have this sense self preservation that, while not particularly strong, keeps me from really going overboard.
Example: I had a meeting with a few bosses on Wed. Over lunch we were chatting about the Sudbury impact crater in Ontario (host of some of the richest Cu-Ni-PGE mineralization in the world). Somewhere around 1.85Ga, a large body hit the planet hard enough to:
a. Shatter and vaporize the crustal rocks of the Canadian Shield (~15-25km thick) and tap well into the mantle (hence the enrichment of Cu-Ni-PGE ore)
b. End the recently (~2.7Ga) developed oxygenation of the atmosphere via stromatolites
c. Cause a magnitude ~15.0 earthquake (that's roughly 1 million times the energy released by the Chilean quake).
Not sure I'd want to be present for that one...
no ****!
there was a 8.0 quake about 90 miles south-east of Lima 3 years ago.
holy ****!, the ground (i was on concrete floored gas station at the moment) was making waves that were a good 2ft high! its kinda hard to stay standing.
a few weeks ago, there was a 4.5 richter at 3am... it kinda woke me up, but since it wasnt "that strong" (by Lima standards), i went back to sleep before it was over... we get between 2-3 4+ quakes a year...
after 10 relatively "strong" ones, or so (by the age your are 20), you kinda get numb to them... but even then, 6+ richter is definately scary....
I can't imagine it, actually being there in the middle of a quake. Here up in the northeast all that happens is you go to bed, get up and go to work.
We need something big up here.
We need something big up here.
If a sizeable quake hit, the devistation would be massive with all those brick buildings with basements.
That is odd. I thought the trailer parks only natural predator out there was the tornado...
anything less than 6 probably won't even wake me up. i remember when i was 4 we had the 89 quake in santa cruz (8.2?) and i lived less than 5 mi from the epi. watching the tether ball pole in our backyard dance a couple feet to either side was fun. then all the glasses and plates exploded out of the cabinets and made a real mess.
congrats on surviving your first big one!
congrats on surviving your first big one!
We just had a 7.0 here in Concepción, Chile, with tsunami warning and everything. . .
Dude, OK is fuct. evacuate now or suffer the fate.
NOT where I would want to be during an earth shaker.
the tsunami warning was a false alarm. . .
I know, just wishful thinking, mixed with some general humor.
