Just saw on the news about the earthquake...
Everyone ok?
Everyone ok?
You Central CA people ok?
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*BUMP*
DUDE....
The quake was pretty far from here - I'm on the 10th floor of an 18th story building and I got queasy!!! Everything in my office was moving...
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51147892.html
The quake was pretty far from here - I'm on the 10th floor of an 18th story building and I got queasy!!! Everything in my office was moving...
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc51147892.html
Acadian said:
so was it a rolling type or a hard hitting type?
I didn't realize there was an earthquake until Acadian called to tell me about it. Some people in my office bldg., here in San Francisco, felt a little bit of shaking but not much
I think people in your building are getting "shaken" for other reasons right nowJoe Pozer said:
Freak: the building was just swaying back and forth...no hard hits.
Oh my good f'ing God, you out of staters/countriers!!! You actually FELT that??? Pfffff! Then you get on the phone and on line all oh my god oh my god...
Goes to show you barely anyone in Cali is from Cali anymore...gettin all exicted over a 6.0 nearly 200 miles away...sheesh.
Goes to show you barely anyone in Cali is from Cali anymore...gettin all exicted over a 6.0 nearly 200 miles away...sheesh.
dh girlie said:Oh my good f'ing God, you out of staters/countriers!!! You actually FELT that??? Pfffff! Then you get on the phone and on line all oh my god oh my god...
Hey take a chill pill....you're not on the phone with someone wanting their tree cut down or something... :dancing:
Only 6.0 and 200 miles away.....dh girlie is right pfffff! At least that is the way I felt when I lived in Cali (most of my life). We don't have that up here in Washington, oh well......dh girlie said:Oh my good f'ing God, you out of staters/countriers!!! You actually FELT that??? Pfffff! Then you get on the phone and on line all oh my god oh my god...
EXACTLY...I'd like to see what all these out of staters/coutriers would do if they were here in 89!evilbob said:
But thanks for the concern Freak...I forgot to mention that in my original post!
And one more thing I find weird about when an earthquake occurs...people call the radio stations...even when it's a tiny one to report NO injuries...NO damage...odd, isn't it...the excitement a little rumbling can evoke.
dh girlie said:
I wasn't there in 89, but I was there for the northridge quake in Jan 94....
Freak said:
The one in 89 in SF was BAD...to see it on tv is completely different to see it in person...in sf there were 5 story buildings on the ground that you were looking at the roof top...street broken and raised about 6 or 7 feet...creepy and eerie was what it was...
Ha! I was sitting on the gurney with my cast just removed and all the nurses got really excited. "Did you feel that? Did you feel that?" Uh no....next.
Now whichever mountain decides to blow it's top up there in the Pac North West, THEN that's a story!!!
Now whichever mountain decides to blow it's top up there in the Pac North West, THEN that's a story!!!
I can't wait for Arnold to come out with a speech saying that we (Californians) won't let a simple earthquake damage our pride and pursuit of freedom. Hey, he did it for the last one...
Acadian said:I think people in your building are getting "shaken" for other reasons right now
Yep, it's not a fun being around here today. Pretty sad seening people you've worked with for the past four years getting laid off.
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Joe Pozer said:Yep, it's not a fun being around here today. Pretty sad seening people you've worked with for the past four years getting laid off.
yup - bummer dude.
You don't? Then what happend in Seattle in 2000 (or was it early 01?)? I've experienced a couple of small quakes around Portland.evilbob said:
I felt the quake right off. I thought somebody was pushing my cubicle wall back in forth, so I stood up and still felt the shaking. Pretty mild (about 55 miles away). It was a rolling quake, and only lasted about 4-7 seconds. It felt like a tiny version of the san simeon quake last last winter.
We had a little quake up here a couple of years ago. I had to work with this one A$$ of a contractor from England. Bosting this and that everyday, putting America down.... bla bla bla. Oh but then the ground shook a little and he started to cry (seriously, tears). Next day he went home..........bye bye.dh girlie said:
On a serious note:
I hope everyone is ok and calmed down.
Got me, yes there are quakes up here but I have not been knocked down by one yet. In Cali I have been takin off my feet 3 times, that will get your attention real quick.towelie said:
Holy crap I was in that one... At first I said to myself "oh an earthquake" then it was like BAM "holy sh!t this is not good. Ran out of my bedroom to see the lighting fixture that hung 6 ft from the second story ceiling smashing holes into the ceiling drywall. Now that was a quake!!!dh girlie said:
I'm about 50 miles from the epicenter, so it hit pretty hard here. It was definitely a long smooth roll, the second story of my house was swaying back and forth, windows rattling and all that, but nothing fell or broke. Didn't even lose any water from the aquarium this time. I love talking to the people who were in their cars at the time, "WHAT QUAKE!" hehe.
Didn't notice it in Morgan Hill. But I got emails from folks working up on the peninsula that did. Of course the buildings they are in are on fill or sandy areas so that tends to exacerbate the effect which is why stuff in SJ was largely undammaged while SF and Oakland 30mi further away got hammered.
It's rumored that MT St. Helens is going to Erupt again.(Note not being sarcastic.)
I grew up about 35 miles from St. Helens. I remember every few years you'd look out in the morning and see a big streak of ash across the snow. It tends to have these eruptions from time to time, and it has been awhile. It is about due.
Make no mistake that St. Helens, like all the cascades, is a very active Volcano. If you ever climb it you can look down and see the dome in the crater steaming. If you ever climb hood, just above Timberline you encounter the "sulpher vents", which is a series of stinky, sulpherous steam vents. I've never climbed Rainier, but I hear it has some activity too, as does Adams. These are very active mountains, and it is only a question of which will have a major eruption first, and when. All of them will likely erupt again though.
Make no mistake that St. Helens, like all the cascades, is a very active Volcano. If you ever climb it you can look down and see the dome in the crater steaming. If you ever climb hood, just above Timberline you encounter the "sulpher vents", which is a series of stinky, sulpherous steam vents. I've never climbed Rainier, but I hear it has some activity too, as does Adams. These are very active mountains, and it is only a question of which will have a major eruption first, and when. All of them will likely erupt again though.
I'm talking about the kind of eruption like was seen in 1980.towelie said:
Activity on the San Andreas and St. Helens?
Pacific coast ultra-mega-super disaster is imminent.
Pacific coast ultra-mega-super disaster is imminent.
The damage in Parkfield was much more extensive then they thought:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2004/09/29/mn_caquake04.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=QUAKE.TMP&directory=/c/a/2004/09/28&type=universal
A bookshelf AND a lamp got knocked over!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2004/09/29/mn_caquake04.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=QUAKE.TMP&directory=/c/a/2004/09/28&type=universal
A bookshelf AND a lamp got knocked over!
Damn I was hoping the quake would be during the race
RACE IN PARKFIELD
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97513
super fun!
RACE IN PARKFIELD
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97513
super fun!
i felt it here in sb during english class. teacher made us leave the building, good stuff.
I don't think there is enough of the mountain left for that to happen, let alone glaciers.Rip said:
haha...that old lady looks like her whole house fell down or something...maybe her dog was under that bookcase?bomberz1qr20 said:
I don't know about you guys, but havin been through the 89 earthquake and a mere tornado out in the mid US one time.. I think I'd take earthquakes over hurricanes and tornadoes. The wild fires are another story however.
What were you guys doin during the 89? I was sittin in the backseat of mommy's car.. "Hey mommy, mommy.. who rear ended us???" "No son, the trees are shaking you dummy"
What were you guys doin during the 89? I was sittin in the backseat of mommy's car.. "Hey mommy, mommy.. who rear ended us???" "No son, the trees are shaking you dummy"
Just in case anyone cares there was an article in Outside magazine about a year or two ago outlining the fact there are at least 10 volcano/mountains up and down the West Coast. Oh and did anyone hear about the quake in Alaska. They are saying all this activity in this short time span could mean something big is gonna happen. Just thought I would add to the hysteria.
Who is "they"? Do you have a link to a geologist, or is this just casual speculation? I really don't think things are any worse today than they have been for the past 100 years. Lassen erupted in 1915, San Francisco was destroyed by a quake in 1906, Alaska had a 9.2 quake in 1964, St. Helens erupted in 1980.
Rainier erupted 2200 years ago, and 7000 years ago Mt. Mazama (crater lake) had an eruption 100 times greater than St. Helens, and has had smaller eruptions as recently as 650 years ago. In fact, in Washington ALL of the volcanoes except Adam's have erupted in the past 250 years.
St. Helens is the most active volcano in the states though, and has been for the past few thousand years. An eruption wouldn't be suprising, but I wouldn't get too worked up about impending doom.
Rainier erupted 2200 years ago, and 7000 years ago Mt. Mazama (crater lake) had an eruption 100 times greater than St. Helens, and has had smaller eruptions as recently as 650 years ago. In fact, in Washington ALL of the volcanoes except Adam's have erupted in the past 250 years.
St. Helens is the most active volcano in the states though, and has been for the past few thousand years. An eruption wouldn't be suprising, but I wouldn't get too worked up about impending doom.
So when does california fall into the ocean? I can't wait.