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We didn’t feel the earthquake here in NY, but my parrots did! I was woken up early early this morning at the exact time that the earthquake reached this area (by that time, so diminished that only instruments could detect it) by my parrots freaking out! I thought that they had a night terror until I got up and read about the earthquakes.
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My art: featherdust.comEarthquakes make me sick, they throw off my equilibrium and I get nauseus. Obviously, I don’t like them much, especially if I’m not sitting down. I have lived in California all my life and one of my earliest memories is getting up in the middle of the night and finding both my parents in the doorway of our house being very quiet and listening to the dishes rattle hard. I think I must have about 4 and I think they were trying to decide whether to get me and my two brothers ages 3 and 1 up and out, or just wait. The memory is like a tableau, so I’m pretty sure they just waited it out. Since then, there have been many earthquakes, but we were always taught in school what to do like I’m sure you in the Midwest are trained in tornados. The worst one in recent memory was in 1989 in San Francisco that collapsed the freeway. I live in Chico about 5 hours north and it rattled the chandelier, sloshed the water out of the pool, and left cracks in the brick and tile work. But most of them are too mild to feel and if we feel them at all, they are few and far between. There is a story about a preacher in California who was very afraid of earthquakes so he packed up his “flock” and moved to Kansas for safety and got hit by a tornado! The major danger in California is not the earthquakes, it’s the fires. We have major fires every year, compared to far fewer major earthquakes. We lose $billions in fire damage, and in human and animal lives lost than in earthquake damage. Occasionally the earthquakes cause the fires, but more often it’s lightning, downed power lines, accidental, or even arson. But we get them every year. I’ve worked on them as a social worker and they are unbelievable. The damage is breathtaking, like the flood in New Orleans is breathtaking in the same horrible way, and the trees can’t run. The animals panic and the ones that survive often come out with burnt paws and fur, one man brought out 50 emaciated feral cats!
(sorry, I went a long way from earthquakes!) I guess I just wanted to say that California isn’t all that many earthquakes! Of course I say that today and a big one will hit tomorrow and I will be a bf liar! 😆Rusti wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:😯 Wait…call me naive 😳 , but I didn’t know that Illinois or Missouri had earthquakes? ❗ Does that mean Iowa has them too? I didn’t feel anything, but I am glad it wasn’t too big!
Illinois and Missouri have a fault line called the New Madrid fault that runs from somewhere in Missouri down to Tennessee and it also has branches stemming out from it.
If you research the earthquake of 1811 (where the ground shook so hard the Mississippi river ran backwards) you’ll learn more about it.
Geez…that had to be some earthquake! I guess the fault line is really inactive since earthquakes don’t seem to be too big or too common?
eaglefeather831 wrote:Rusti wrote:eaglefeather831 wrote:😯 Wait…call me naive 😳 , but I didn’t know that Illinois or Missouri had earthquakes? ❗ Does that mean Iowa has them too? I didn’t feel anything, but I am glad it wasn’t too big!
Illinois and Missouri have a fault line called the New Madrid fault that runs from somewhere in Missouri down to Tennessee and it also has branches stemming out from it.
If you research the earthquake of 1811 (where the ground shook so hard the Mississippi river ran backwards) you’ll learn more about it.
Geez…that had to be some earthquake! I guess the fault line is really inactive since earthquakes don’t seem to be too big or too common?
It’s a quiet fault, but it has the potential to produce some whoppers.
Info:
http://www.scchealth.org/docs/ems/docs/prepare/newMadrid.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone
In a nutshell, every 300-500 years it tends to get really angry and produce some really big earthquakes, in succession.
It tends to produce damaging earthquakes every 80 or so years.
Earthquakes can happen east of the Rocky mountains more than you think…
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My art: featherdust.comkitsunelady wrote:An earthquake! 5.4 probably doesn’t seem like much to people in California, but it surprised the heck out of me! I bet nightcrow and Rusti felt it!
Haha, yes I did!
I was lying in bed, half-awake, and I thought at first that someone was driving by with their car stereo’s bass all pumped up… But it kept going, and my WHOLE BED was shaking, and all the votives on my dresser were rattling like a musical instrument! The walls sounded like they were going to fall over — like there was a big storm wind outside. But I could tell that it wasn’t raining, so I knew that wasn’t it!
I felt the aftershock at 10 AM, too– I was sitting in class, and the projector screen started vibrating (and so was the desk, when I pressed my hand to it)!
Glad you’re okay!!
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Nightcrow, I was in class when the aftershock hit, too! We were up on the 7th floor of one of the buildings, so it was a little scary 😯 The door of the room we were in is really old and loose on its hinges and it started to rattle back and forth really bad. You could kind of feel the floor vibrating. I’d rather be firmly on the ground next time that happens, thanks! 😆
Did anyone feel the four pointer we had at midnight or so this morning?
Apparently we could be in for weeks or months of aftershocks, depending on how the ground feels.
I felt it! They said it was the 15th aftershock since Friday’s quake. It’s madness, lol.
Ah, I shouldn’t have watched SuperVolcanoes and Mega-Earthquake on the Science Channel last night…XD
The only thing I don’t like about earthquakes (aside from the fact that they feel REALLY WEIRD) is their unpredictability.
They’re even more unpredictable than tornadoes and you never know when it’s coming. That’s hard for me, because I know that if something really bad hit, the only animal I’d probably be able to keep with me is the dog, because she wouldn’t leave me anyway.
The two cats and the snake would be on their own.
Yeah, it kind of creeps you out to wake up in the night to a jiggling bed. Of all things, you expect the Earth to hold still beneath your feet (unless you live somewhere with regular quakes!). It’s sort of surreal.
Makes me miss my cockatiel. = I bet he would have warned me!
Poor little snake and kitties. XD
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