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[Duck on Wheels]

You California folks amaze me, we had one little 4 something quake here in IL back in the late 80's and it freaked me right the hell out!

Vikings can be pretty laid back about quakes too. We felt a 4.4 from over in San Jose the year Baby Bear and I were in Santa Cruz. I remember he was doing homework in the living room and I was in the bathroom when there was a rumble and shake and Baby Bear called out "Mom? Was that an earthquake?" "Probably. Unless a giant truck just raced by." "How big was it?" "Um, any books fall out of the bookshelf?" "No" "Light fixture swinging?" "Yeah" "Then I'd say somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5, depending on how far away it was." "Oh. Cool!" I reminded him of it today. He'd forgotten.

[Trek420]

I'll pick up some Peets for Bmomx3 to try

[Pax]

Vikings can be pretty laid back about quakes too. We felt a 4.4 from over in San Jose the year Baby Bear and I were in Santa Cruz. I remember he was doing homework in the living room and I was in the bathroom when there was a rumble and shake and Baby Bear called out "Mom? Was that an earthquake?" "Probably. Unless a giant truck just raced by." "How big was it?" "Um, any books fall out of the bookshelf?" "No" "Light fixture swinging?" "Yeah" "Then I'd say somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5, depending on how far away it was." "Oh. Cool!" I reminded him of it today. He'd forgotten.

I've been through tornados and hurricanes but NOTHING scared me like that little quake, I think it was the whole "no place to hide" thing that freaked me out.

[Trek420]

I've been through tornados and hurricanes but NOTHING scared me like that little quake, I think it was the whole "no place to hide" thing that freaked me out.

yeah, but at least there's no "earthquake season", that would flip me out.

there's earthquake weather, but no earthquake season

[Pax]

yeah, but at least there's no "earthquake season", that would flip me out.

there's earthquake weather, but no earthquake season

You just learn to read the weather, heck by the time a kid is 10 or so they can tell you what a tornado sky looks like. Those quakes sneak up on you and you can't hide, what do you guys do when one strikes...run outside and jump up in the air?

[chickwhorips]

sounds like a fun time at snap's house. though i'm not suppose to drink due to meds..... but what the doc doesn't know can't hurt her right? specially if kit is playing bartender!

just someone has to make sure i don't have a stupid moment and try to walk on my foot. trust me, it isn't pretty!

[mimitabby]

when the big one hit here, Nisqually Quake 6.8 in February 2001, that's just what I did, Queen. I was in the lab we call "the control room" and everything started to shake. I knew there was nowhere to hide. So I ran outside and held onto a jersey barrier until the shaking stopped. (Jersey barrier, a concrete thing that keeps cars in their own lanes.) I watched as the flight tower swung back and forth and also a panicked crane operator hanging on for dear life.
Because of that quake, we got a new control room. It was "totalled"

But we've had some fun quakes too, where everything just gently does a pendulum swing..

[Eden]

when the big one hit here, Nisqually Quake 6.8 in February 2001, that's just what I did, Queen. I was in the lab we call "the control room" and everything started to shake. I knew there was nowhere to hide. So I ran outside and held onto a jersey barrier until the shaking stopped. (Jersey barrier, a concrete thing that keeps cars in their own lanes.) I watched as the flight tower swung back and forth and also a panicked crane operator hanging on for dear life.
Because of that quake, we got a new control room. It was "totalled"

But we've had some fun quakes too, where everything just gently does a pendulum swing..

Yowza! I was working up on Beacon Hill at the VA Hospital during that one. Everything started creaking and sounded like there was a train going through the room next door. I was helping a client/coworker at the time and we both just braced in a doorway until it was over. Then I went around and locked all of the doors and went outside. One thing we all learned was that *nobody* remembered what to do and where to go in an emergency and that's not a good thing in a hospital. We had a bunch of training and drills after that. All in all there was a lot of superfical stuff - cracks and the like, but no real damage and no one hurt, even at the American Lake campus that was very near the epicenter.

[mimitabby]

Eden, it was that quake that made my company stand up and take notice.
we are VERY catastrophe aware now. we have evacuation maps everywhere,
safety meetings, etc, etc

[KnottedYet]

One of our patients was in an MRI tube during that one. The staff evacuated the building, but forgot about him! He rode the quake out, still in the tube, then extracted himself and went out into the parking lot where the staff was... I wouldn't've wanted to be the person in charge of radiology that day!

I was in a coffee shop during the Nisqually, and we all ran to the big plate glass window to see what was happening. Oopsy.

[snapdragen]

Oopsy is right! I have a window cubicle at work - at the first sign of shaking I get out of the cube and away from the window.

Our big one - Loma Prieta - I was on the floor holding my dog Rikki. I didn't realize how bad it was, until a friend called from Washington DC to see if I was OK. He's the one that told me a section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed. Shortly after that the phone went out. Fun times.

[chickwhorips]

from an earthquake in japan today, we now have a tsunami warning here.

[mimitabby]

from an earthquake in japan today, we now have a tsunami warning here.

how high up are you, CWR?
I've seen plenty of water pictures from you...

[Trek420]

More to the point...do we have any TE'ers in Japan? that must have been some quake.

[mimitabby]

Gee, i hope a moderator wakes up soon, the spammers are in full feather today!

The quake was in the pacific and no one was hurt. Further, they are calling off the tsunami warnings. But it WAS a big quake 8.3!!!