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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on September 23, 2002, 01:59:10 PM
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I did not know you guys even had earthquakes.
Hopefully it was very minor.
Krush
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They're all probably AFK
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London isn't the only city in Britain you know. ;)
It was actually centred on Birmingham and was felt the strongest in the Midlands. Some relatives of mine felt it, although I was asleep.
No one was hurt, but I think it was strong enough to rattle furniture around and smash plates etc.
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Every place in the world has earthquakes. It's just that the consistency of terra firma cany vary from region to region and so some places actually feel them more than other places. Being born and raised in California, I've felt a few good ones in my day.
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Which was your favorite Puke?
Mine was the 7.4 Landers quake. I had a 100 year old home about 60 miles from the epicenter. Boy can old windows rattle when they want to! Sucker lasted over 1 minute.....incredibly long time for a quake.
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Yeah, I felt it, it was quite a good one as far as earthquakes go in the UK. Not sure exactly how long it lasted but it was in the region of 15 seconds.
However they're rather rare, this ones only been my 6th or 7th in my lifetime (29 years).
Regards
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Originally posted by Dowding
London isn't the only city in Britain you know. ;)
It was actually centred on Birmingham and was felt the strongest in the Midlands. Some relatives of mine felt it, although I was asleep.
No one was hurt, but I think it was strong enough to rattle furniture around and smash plates etc.
hey tell that too thisislondon.com I just read it, I didnt write it :)
http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=703774&in_review_text_id=677451
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Which was your favorite Puke?
Mine was the 7.4 Landers quake. I had a 100 year old home about 60 miles from the epicenter. Boy can old windows rattle when they want to! Sucker lasted over 1 minute.....incredibly long time for a quake.
The closest I came to a quake was watching the A's Vs the Giants world series game a few years back
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I remember hearing somewhere that the "rock" that the UK sits on is some of the oldest in the world, oldest meaning "been along time since 'Cano's formed it"
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We actually had a pretty good quake here in Chicago about 15 years ago -- not major by real earth quake standards -- but unsettling. Just the feeling when looking out at things swaying and moving that houldn't be swaying and moving.
Charon
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Meh rutabagas... try living ON a fault line.
Hell, even better, go to work in a building ON the fault line, 28 stories up :D
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Biggest I've experienced was 5.5 richters but the epicenter was far far away.
Still it was very unsettling to wake up to your bed shaking and realising you're in the basement with a newborn baby and your wife sleeping.. I really wasn't happy with the thought of a few tons of concrete crushing on me.
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It was a 4.8, happened at 1am local time here.
I was actually playing AH at the time and thought my speakers were playing up at first. :D
We get these about once every 10 years but it has been a long time since one of this magnitude has been centred on a heavily populated area. UK's bigget ever was a 5.0 but that happened in the middle of the north sea so hardly anyone knew about it.
Its a weird sensation but the thing that got me was how loud it was. Very strange... but also very cool in a funny sort of way.
Gatso
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Here in California...
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A year before I was born, my family lived in Cordova Alaska. Cordova (small fishing/crab town) was the eppicenter of the Great Alaska Earthquake of 64. It hit 9.4 on the richtor scale. My brother Mark (0osik) was a toddler at the time. In the late 80's (I think) he was stationed in Adak Alaska when the second biggest quake to ever hit Alaska. Adak was the eppicenter (small Navy base at Adak).
This makes 0osik the only known survivor of the eppicenters of Alaska's 2 greatest quakes!
He's also the first person (that we could find record of) to put on a fireworks show on the continent of Antarctica! (He was stationed there as well while in the Navy.)
eskimo
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My Uncle lived in Anchorage in 1964. He said the asphalt looked like it was boiling.
I remember the surfers flocking to the beaches in Ca. waiting for the tsunami after the Anchorage quake. It never really materialized as expected.
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Which was your favorite Puke?
For some reason, I never remember the names given to the earthquakes. I live in San Diego so am not always in danger of those up near LA, but we can feel them. I was up in West Covina during the Northridge Quake and remember feeling that one. My family is in LA and for a short time even lived with my grandparents in Montebello and so remember a few from visits and things. Dishes falling, the exterior of the fireplace cracking and shifting and that type of stuff. Oh yeah, and a few in the dorms up in Pamona...man, the alarms from all the cars in the parking lot was nuts! Now, my wife is from right in the city of San Fran and I believe she remembers the big one up there from about 10 yrs ago which was during a World Series I think. I haven't felt any in quite some time though, I think we are due.
I saw a show on earthquakes once and I remember something about how the east coast USA gets them alot but since their rock is a bit different, the wave of the earthquake doesn't travel like it does out here and so you don't feel them as much. I'm guessing it's a similar thing with the UK. But plate techtonics is plate techtonics and we are all moving.
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Gee.. the biggest earthquakes I've experienced, has been the explosion shock waves from near by construction yard...
It usually came with few whistles, then a long whistle and then the explosion was felt as a little shaking :>
but well, Finland is geographically on very old ground which doesn't evolve anymore that much... so only earthquakes are very small.
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I miss this type of post :)
Learned something, got some personal tales, and not one mention of politics.
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It's ok then Krusher. Damn those London-centric press!!! :)
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I live in an oldish house (1890's) about 15 miles from the epicentre (sp)? Windows rattles and things generally moved around quite a bit.
Wife reckons it's the 1st time the earth has moved for some time :rolleyes:
TTFN
snafu
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Originally posted by Braz
I miss this type of post :)
Learned something, got some personal tales, and not one mention of politics.
It's intresting that earthquakes are more severe when a Republican is in the White House.
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It's intresting that earthquakes are more severe when a Republican is in the White House.
I would normally assume that would be an indication of Gods impending rath, since God would naturally be a Domocrat if she existed in the first place.
Charon
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D'oh! :p