Crazy. I thought I was going nuts, but it's official. OKC sustained some damage. Thats kind of abnormal for around here.
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.Crazy. I thought I was going nuts, but it's official. OKC sustained some damage. Thats kind of abnormal for around here.
New Madrid, Missouri. Pretty far from OKC, but not a location most people think about big quakes.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.
how many more before i can panic?here is another that just happened.....
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=522312
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.New Madrid, Missouri. Pretty far from OKC, but not a location most people think about big quakes.
don't worry, it's just yellowstone prepping to pop.
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
less than 6, no careBTW they are calling the OKC trembler @ 4.3 Thats a decent ride.
Be careful what you wish for!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.
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.Be careful what you wish for!
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.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 mean i wouldnt want to be in a high rise, but i think it would be kinda fun (see terrifying)Be careful what you wish for!
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.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.
no ****!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...
If a sizeable quake hit, the devistation would be massive with all those brick buildings with basements.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.
NOT where I would want to be during an earth shaker.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.
Everyone thinks that it is california that's going to breakoff and sink in the Pacific. What the experts don't want you to know that the state that is going to break off and sink in the pacific is Oklahoma.Dude, OK is fuct. evacuate now or suffer the fate.
Everyone thinks that it is california that's going to breakoff and sink in the Pacific. What the experts don't want you to know that the state that is going to break off and sink in the pacific is Oklahoma.
I know, just wishful thinking, mixed with some general humor.Unpossible.