My first earthquake!

DJ · Shaman Analyst Joined: 05 Dec 2006

So yeah! A 5.6er hit San Jose earlier this evening. I was actually on voice chat with a few people over the internet as it was happening.

I figured it'd freak me out a bit more than it actually did. It was sorta fun! It scared the shit out of my kitten, though. He hid under a chair for almost three hours and is still gingerly moving around, trying to make sure it won't happen again.

I've never experienced something like that before, though. The whole earth shaking, to the point where you can feel your entire building move. Like a train going by at first, but it just gets a lot more intense. Sounds about the same.

Good times, all in all. Dunno if I'd enjoy anything bigger, but 30 seconds of shaking was actually sort of neat.

Anyone in the area feel that? I'd assume so. It was apparently the biggest one we've had since '89.
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Panoptic · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I was talking to someone in Salinas when it hit. Said it knocked his webcam off of his desk. Being in Iowa, I've never felt a 'quake - a small to medium-sized one would be fucking cool/scary. I want to experience one someday.

another coma · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:19 am

this one was easily the most memorable for me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_Earthquake

even though I lived just shy of the area that received the worst of it, I would still describe the experience itself as extremely violent. Anything I've experienced since hasn't compared.

Interesting thing from the article:

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: My first earthquake!

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

because it tastes good?
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dessgeega · damaged Joined: 05 Dec 2006

two of my friends in california instant messaged me right after the earthquake. it's all the buzz!
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falsedan · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: San Francisco

psiga that article does not have enough Icelandic foods in it.

To make hákarl the traditional way, the shark is sectioned in pieces and then the meat is buried in gravel for 6 to 12 weeks depending on the season, and then hung in a drying shack for 2 to 4 months.

PROTIP: the smoked lamb is smoked with sheep dung
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108 · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:10 pm

fuck man we have a 6.0+ here twice a month

my building's foundation is like a huge rollerskate!
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DJ · Shaman Analyst Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Dude, I'm from the east coast. The worst weather we ever got in Rhode Island was Hurrcaine Andrew, which knocked a giant pine tree onto my neighbor's house and smashed it.

Earthquakes are a big deal for me!

Still, I'm a bit ~~dissapointed~~ surprised there was so little structural damage. You'd figure an entire giant building being shaken back and forth several inches for 30 seconds would crack something, but nope. I think some crap fell off my shelves?
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cowboykim · Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Location: C-Town

Man, I cant even remember the last time I experienced an earthquake. We dont get many here in Cleveland. I do remember my first one, it was so weak, the only reason I knew something was happening was that my DanDee cheese curls started dancing right off my plate.

Also, that page with the disgusting foods...wow, just wow, that was gross.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:50 am

Yeah Cleveland is on a minor fault line, so we get really minor ones like once every five years.

This one was quite impressive, so that is good. a lot of fun, that shaking.

aderack · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Yeah, that was the biggest one since I've been in the Bay Area. As you say, it was kind of like a funhouse ride. Glad you got to the main event so soon; it took me something like two years before I felt a tremor. And then it was just the floor rattling for a second or two.

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haircute · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:48 am

somebody in brill said:

lol did anyone else just feel that earthquake?

and i said:

hey i played quake once : /

This was the night of the quake, man!
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:57 pm

Haircute I am glad you are back.

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Daphaknee · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:43 am

dude thats so awesome, it was christophers and booji boys first real earthquake, i love the feeling of jello floor afterwards

it was funny becuase bleak and i are used to them and were like WOOOO RIDE THE WAVES adn booji and cossix were like WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS EVERYTHING MOVING

i remember in 89 when loma prietta hit, i was swimming in the pool and the earthquake caused a wave which knocked me out of the pool it was shaking so hard!

also when i was in shinjuku i was browsing through a snuff/porn shop with very very high walls full of porn and there was a big scary earthquake and man porn fell all over my head
i was covered in porn
it was a very warner bros cartoony moment, except with porn
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evnvnv · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:23 am

i grew up in california and never actually felt an earthquake until i came here! really weird! everyone else would always feel them and for some reason i would just never notice.

but in taiwan there have been like 4 really obvious earthquakes in the past few months. i wonder if it is just because i spend more time in tall buildings here.

they are fun! but if you tell that to anyone who was here in 1999, or is from kobe, they will kind of look at you funny.

tip i learned: if there's an earthquake, open the door for some reason

Daphaknee · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:30 am

open the door so you can stand in the doorway
if your house falls down the doorway will stay put and you will live

unless you're opening your door to leave to go outside where nothing can fall on you

man
theres this huge billboard looming over my house and after the earthquake it was totally swaying ominously
and man if it fell i would be so dead it would fall righ ton the house
i would get killed by a goddamn stupid comcast ad
TOOTHPASTE on the other side
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evnvnv · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:40 am

i think the doorway thing is actually so if the door frame gets compressed the door won't be sealed shut

but they always just do it after the earthquake anyway, i guess its in case there is another one in the next few minutes or something

it just seems like a superstition the way it happens with such regularity

bleak · wizard life Joined: 31 Jul 2007

yeah it kind of always confused me how they tell you to get under a door frame in earthquake safety videos, because you don't go around seeing fields of doorways after devastating earthquakes. it always amde much more sense too me to just go outside, where the only danger is like falling over
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Daphaknee · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:56 pm

ive seen fields of doorways in the LA earthquake mess, like if your house is going to fucking fall over a doorway isnt going to save you

i guess its to give people false hope
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Daphaknee · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:57 pm

yeah people who weren't impressed with this earthquake dont understand how terrifying it gets after like 6.8 or so
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Daphaknee · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:01 pm

would you say that you have a bleak outlook on life
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