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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hblair on February 28, 2001, 01:15:00 PM
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Think the big man's trying to show the people how to properly wreck their city? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Ok, not funny.
Hope nobody's hurt.
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6.2 on the ole scale, not a little one. Anyone out there experience it?
... err 6.4 now!
make that a 6.5 !
Ripsnort - you feel it?
Now a 7.0!! WOW!
Glad to see you are alright Rip.
Eagler
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Just rode the wave! Epicenter was right here in Renton, south of Seattle! WOW! I'm still alittle shaky as I type this!
Whats ironic, is, I work in an all glass 3-story businesss building offsite from the main plant, theres a sister building identical to this one, as the quake hit, I was watching the other building sway thinking "Look at that building sway!"..then I realized that it was a mirror image of ours!~ Under the desk I dove!
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Now they are saying 7.0. 30 miles deep though, so no after-shocks are expected, some damage to older buildings in downtown...our building has a nice crack in the stairwell, but, Boeing management has sent us back into the building (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Wow.. incredible
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Now hearing epicenter was 30 miles S of Seattle, 10 miles NE of Olympia, which put the epicenter about 10 mile from my house! Wife and kids were shaken to say the least.
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I was updating a commercial web site when it hit, and all I felt was a little rocking motion. People here were going nuts, even my boss said "everybody out!". I just shrugged and kept working; my boss didn't like that a whole lot. To me it's just another mover & shaker;<sarcasim> wow I'm shuddering in my boots </sarcasim>. We started to catch some info about it on the news. So far they've made a huge deal out of some falling bricks in industrial areas. Most of the bricks that fell around here fell off abandoned buildings! I sat back and told the boss "Just a little shakin', if the girls want to run let 'em run. Nothing's gonna happen so don't get your panties in a pinch".
He didn't like that, but so far I've been right. Now I'm back to reading these boards between spurts of doing code.
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We're very lucky it was 30 miles deep, the Northridge quake that hit CA was only a 6.4, but 10 miles deep and did heavy damage, killed 70.
Felt like I was on a water bed, big time rolls, then, getting outside, all the light poles continued to shake for a good 3 min. (prolly just the spring tension of the steel)
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I'm about an hour and a half drive north of Seattle... Vancouver BC.... and we felt it huge.
I was in a tangle with a 109 when it happened. It was really hard to tell what was happening at first. I thought for a second my plane was buffeting... Finally I was able to disassociate it from the sim, and I whipped off my headphones to hear the apartment just groaning.
It's funny... the other day I was lamenting the fact that I'm always someplace else, or sleeping, when an earthquake hits... This was fun (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Scared the living hell out of me Rip.
We had several people hurt by falling computers, monitors, cabinets and just about anything not tied down. A gal I work with was hit in the face by a door she had just opened. People were screaming and yelling.
I was holding on under my desk thinking:
"How much can this building take?" It was that bad. I started to wonder how I should position myself for the collapse. The Long Acres Training Center was moving in a back and fourth motion that must have been at least four feet end to end for about 15 times in about twenty five seconds. Then it slowely petered out.
Kid and wife shaken but ok. House did alright. Thankful to be alive.
Thank you Lord,
Yeager
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We're just across the street from Long Acres, no equipment fell, no one panicked (probably because our excellent safty monitor and brain-washing meetings about how to prepare for it)...everyone was visibly shaken, but no panic.
LNN (Laura News Network, my wife who works at Harbour view) says 12 people in so far, 9 serious, 3 critical, Hwy18 was a semi rollover during earthquake causing injury/accident..Supermall is closed due to structural damage, Hwy410 had a rock slide and its closed, Renton plant had some structural damage and all employees sent home, HWY 167 is a ZOO because of the onslaught of workers leaving work early...reports still coming in..
Oh, and it scared the hell out of me as well, I yelled 'earthquake' as soon as it hit and didn't have to tell people what to do in my cubicle jungle, as soon as I yelled earthquake, folks hit the underside of the desk.
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We're just across the street from Long Acres
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No toejam? Which building? 25-01 here
Hehe....that was a fediddleing rollar coaster!
I hate rollar coasters.......Doh!
Y
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Black River Corporate Park, about 3 blocks from you.
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Loggin off to fight the traffic, I hear its a real zoo out there... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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We got hit with a rolling version. Most quakes I've experienced (never in Oregon)have been somewhat rumbly.. not this one.
It was like riding a series of waves. Just as I got my quake legs, it stopped and I was still swaying (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I was in a room surrounded by HydroFloric, HydroChloric, Chlorine, Amonia and whatever else gasses and chemicals. I think I felt safer there than most of the people in our office building did.
AKDejaVu
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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
We're very lucky it was 30 miles deep, the Northridge quake that hit CA was only a 6.4, but 10 miles deep and did heavy damage, killed 70.
I am prety sure that the quake strength is measured on the surface no matter how deep the fault is. So in a quake of the same strength in the epicenter with a deeper fault the strength will reduce more gradually and greater area will be affected.
Damage done depends not only on the strength but on the kind of soil and construction/type of buildings. That is probably a reason of different results.
miko
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This one was a doozy. Went thru this in Boeing's Everett plant 22 miles N of Seattle. Judged to be moderate 50 miles N. of the epicenter, Felt like a full cement truck driving by on a long wooden bridge at first then came the east-west shaking like a ship on choppy seas. 45 seconds in length at my location and it felt like an eternity. More info here:
http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/activity/latest/eq_01_02_28.html (http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/activity/latest/eq_01_02_28.html)
MiG
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The earthquake appears to have been centered on my mother-in-laws house, about 10 miles north of Olympia. Sorry guys, I've been telling her to lose weight <G>. Hope everyones alright.
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<yawn> wussies.... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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Ehh.h. 7.0's pretty good. It's measured at the epicenter. If it's 30 miles deep, it's gonna be at least 30 miles distant from the nearest town. When crap like that happens, don't mess around. All you need is the wrong support to be shook in the wrong way.
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I was 1.5 hours into my sleep when it hit (work night/sleep day). I woke up to the rolling and rumbling, and in a semi-dream state watched my cat respond in the same lethargic fashion. I remember wishing that it would stop, because the longer it went the greater the chance for real damage. As soon as it stopped I remembered that my wife works in an Historical Landmark building, meaning very old & bricks, but I was so wiped that I went back to sleep in seconds.
Well, turns out she was a mental wreck. She had to get up at 1am that morning to go down to the store (which is in Pioneer Square) to assess and clean up the storefront damage done by rioting suburban brat hordes in the name of Marti Graz. She did get back home for a few hours of sleep before taking Ben to daycare, then returned to the store only to experience one of her most dreaded fears, an earthquake. When she got home at 6pm, her legs were still shaking.
Yeah, she wasn't too pleased to learn that rather than calling her, I had gone right back to sleep.
Yeah, I know. I'm a bastard.
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humm i felt nothing....
ahh maybe it wasn't enough strong to go in France..
lol