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Earthquake!!!
Dervacumen:
Shortly after I moved to Seattle from CA I was watching the 2 hour series finale of Seinfeld and there was an earthquake, must have been about 4.9. They news cut in to the episode and kept showing the same footage - over and over and over again, of people in an office looking puzzled while a hanging lamp swayed gently room side to side about 8 inches. I was pretty annoyed. But if you're not accustomed to them, they can be pretty scary no matter the size.
I now live back in CA and one of the houses in the town I live in sits directly on a fault. It's being torn apart very slowly and keeps getting repaired. Check this out.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: gryhnd on August 23, 2011, 05:28:28 pm ---Where I am in S.E. Mass, I didn't feel a thing, nor did my son or wife. Neighbors however did, as well as friends who live a few miles away.
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Same here in the same spot. Not a thing. Lots of people saying they did to get attention, though.
Howard_Casto:
That was an awful sissified earthquake. I was cutting the grass at the time and thought I had ran over a rock or a coal truck had drove by or something.
I watch our local news and all of the state buildings evacuated for AN HOUR because they thought it was a terrorist threat. Serioulsy an hour? How long does it check to log onto the internet, realize there was a quake a couple hundred miles away and move on?
City folks.... I just don't know.....
lordnacho:
--- Quote from: javeryh on August 23, 2011, 05:24:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: lordnacho1 on August 23, 2011, 04:14:51 pm ---I grew up in NJ :cheers:
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Where?
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Northwest(Andover/Byram), then moved to Morristown. Lot of my friends are down in Hamilton/Trenton area. How about you?
lordnacho:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 23, 2011, 07:44:16 pm ---That was an awful sissified earthquake. I was cutting the grass at the time and thought I had ran over a rock or a coal truck had drove by or something.
I watch our local news and all of the state buildings evacuated for AN HOUR because they thought it was a terrorist threat. Serioulsy an hour? How long does it check to log onto the internet, realize there was a quake a couple hundred miles away and move on?
City folks.... I just don't know.....
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Well can't speak for the rest, but I did. 5 seconds after. First listing on google for "earthquake" is a "Recent earthquakes" government site.
Took the fire safety team half hour to finally announce that.
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