good one

[Uncle Jesse]

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

6.0

[big worm]

i keep expecting cali to become an island one day and the good folks of nevada to be new beach dwellers...i guess you just get used to quakes after a while....sorta like we get used to sweet tea

[Butch50]

I experienced a few dozen minor ones in AK - I did not get used to them. Not even close.

[smokerscully1]

I'm with Butch--ground starts shaking--that just ain't right.

[Uncle Jesse]

earthquakes are pretty fun until they're big enough to knock things off the wall. the ones that just shake or make the walls move around a few inches are usually fun. hard to stay walking a straight line in a decent shaker.

[Butch50]

First one I experienced woke me up from a deep sleep. I was 19 years old. I was sleeping on the upper level of a two story wood framed building. I was nude. I woke up with the bed rapidly moving/jerking/shaking across the room in one direction and the dresser moving across the room in the other direction and dust flying everywhere. The building was swaying around something awful. Creaking and popping and a deep rumbling and probably me screaming like a banshee were the sound effects.

I ran outside thinking that the building was going to collapse, and jumped off the porch into snow over my waist, in weather that was -50 degrees. I was nude, did I mention that? I stayed there for about two seconds looking at that old building swaying and shaking and I decided I was going to die one way or the other so I might as well die warm and I ran back into the building while it looked like it was collapsing at any second.

-50 degree snow on ones equipment will shape your day up!

[QDanT]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7266136.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
Guess it was only a little one at 5.2 but to be woken at 1 in the morning with all the wardrobe doors banging and the house and ornaments shaking was kind of scary
cheers all Danny

[Uncle Jesse]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7266136.stm
Guess it was only a little one at 5.2 but to be woken at 1 in the morning with all the wardrobe doors banging and the house and ornaments shaking was kind of scary
cheers all Danny

5.2 is scary if you live in an area not used to quakes. Out here all the buildings are made to handle shaking. Very rare to see a brick house here in California. They have to be reinforced.

[BW Redneck]

I don't believe I've ever felt an earthquake in my entire life. We don't get much tectonic activity here. There might've been one in Ohio several years ago, but I probably slept through it. Imagine that, sleeping through an earthquake!

[junkyard dawg]

The only time I have experienced any sort of earth shaking was while kayaking through santa elena canyon in the big bend. we were floating on flat calm water a mile or so past the Rockslide rapids. The walls go straight up about a 1000 feet and its only maybe 200 feet wide. Its pretty spectacular on its own, then all of the sudden ripples came off of each side of the river and met in the middle. It looked like tapping on a big plastic tub of water but it stretched out as far as you could see. Couldn't feel it or hear it, but we were all really puzzled by what we saw. The next day we found out it was a tremor. That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

edited to add some pics

http://www.nps.gov/bibe/photosmultimedi ... oot_aid=41" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow