Earthquake! Checked garage first!
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From: Land of the landeaus
A year ago in Vermont, my two Maine Coon cats (BIG cats) started running around the house
all crazy....I mean, 10x as bad as they usually do when they're chasing each other in a knock-down
drag out (Maine Coons love to play fight). I was like, "STFU with the racket you two!" and they
didn't even hear me. I got up and went to find 'em and the 25-lb male had somehow slinked under the bed.
Five seconds later, rumble, rumble, rumble for 10 seconds or more.
We had an earthquake with the epicenter just west of us near Plattsburgh, NY.
Cats are too cool for humans.
all crazy....I mean, 10x as bad as they usually do when they're chasing each other in a knock-down
drag out (Maine Coons love to play fight). I was like, "STFU with the racket you two!" and they
didn't even hear me. I got up and went to find 'em and the 25-lb male had somehow slinked under the bed.
Five seconds later, rumble, rumble, rumble for 10 seconds or more.
We had an earthquake with the epicenter just west of us near Plattsburgh, NY.
Cats are too cool for humans.
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From: Saint Augustine, FL
Originally posted by Smokee
Earthquakes . . . building rattles for a few seconds, ask coworker if he thinks that was an earthquake, confirm it probably was, go back to work, go home, pick up pieces of $2 vase.
Give me a good old earthquake any day.
Earthquakes . . . building rattles for a few seconds, ask coworker if he thinks that was an earthquake, confirm it probably was, go back to work, go home, pick up pieces of $2 vase.
Give me a good old earthquake any day.
I sleep through earthquakes. Mother nature's vibrating bed!
Try a 7.1 on for size, after that nothing much shakes you.
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From: NoVa
Actual earthquake events:
0<3.4: *snore* (doesn't get noticed)
3.5<4.9: *wakes up from nap* huh? Who's shaking the house? Be quiet! *goes back to bed* (barely conscious and barely noticed)
5.0<5.5: Uhh, George, was that a quake? Yeah, rock and roll. Alright, back to work... (fun for 10 seconds while dodging falling objects, clean up, then back to everyday life)
5.6<6.5: Forget the surfboard, here's a quake! (everyone notices- duck and cover; clean up afterwards)
6.6 on up: Pray that it wasn't as big as it felt, and that nothing fell over.
The largest I felt was the Loma Prieta in 1989 in the SF Bay Area. I just watched the waves roll through the ground, and went back to normal life. Nobody around me noticed how big it was until we turned on the news- the landfill areas were the ones that got hit hard. Anything less than 5.5 or so just causes people to stop and ask if it was a quake, and then get on with everyday life. I live in an active area that has 30-80 quakes a week (mostly 0.1-3.0), and I don't notice them at all. You just learn to be prepared and live with it, just like you learn to live with hurricanes or tornados.
0<3.4: *snore* (doesn't get noticed)
3.5<4.9: *wakes up from nap* huh? Who's shaking the house? Be quiet! *goes back to bed* (barely conscious and barely noticed)
5.0<5.5: Uhh, George, was that a quake? Yeah, rock and roll. Alright, back to work... (fun for 10 seconds while dodging falling objects, clean up, then back to everyday life)
5.6<6.5: Forget the surfboard, here's a quake! (everyone notices- duck and cover; clean up afterwards)
6.6 on up: Pray that it wasn't as big as it felt, and that nothing fell over.
The largest I felt was the Loma Prieta in 1989 in the SF Bay Area. I just watched the waves roll through the ground, and went back to normal life. Nobody around me noticed how big it was until we turned on the news- the landfill areas were the ones that got hit hard. Anything less than 5.5 or so just causes people to stop and ask if it was a quake, and then get on with everyday life. I live in an active area that has 30-80 quakes a week (mostly 0.1-3.0), and I don't notice them at all. You just learn to be prepared and live with it, just like you learn to live with hurricanes or tornados.