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Cool, we just had an earthquake. [:0][:0][:0]

I'll have to check the news to see where/magnitude, but man I was thinking that I *much* prefer one of these to hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzard, etc. assuming no-one got hurt of course!
 
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A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck at 8:40 p.m. in the East Bay. The quake was centered near Lafayette. Details as they become available.
 
Looking at earthquake.usgs.gov it looks like it was centered just under my house in Pleasanton. Sadly we were on the road at the time so didn't feel it at all.
GK
 
I guess it is the same way people in Tornadoe alley don't go running for safer grounds: we're all insane in our own ways. [:D] Either that or we all feel "better the evil we know rather than the evil we don't."[?]
 
I was in the 1964 Alaska Earthquake. 9.2. I remember it like it was yesterday! I'm still in the same town only a few blocks away from where I was then. [:D] I will say that every time we have a shaker, my heart rate goes up some. [:0][:0]
 
I was in one in the late 70s while in San Diego, back when I was a very sound sleeper. Woke me thinking someone was trying to break into the house. Glad you and yours are OK.
 
My family and I were 20 miles from the Kobe quake of 95 that killed 6000. Had several friends at ground zero. Wasn't good. We have typhoons, not usually as strong as hurricanes but plenty powerful. Volcanos here too, but not near us. I do make a run by Mt Fuji regularly.

As a result of the '95 quake, we do get instantly ready to vacate the house at the first sign of a quake. Been through plenty in Tokyo, Osaka and now Toyota/Nagoya.

For the last 30 day quake activity in my area click this link:

http://www.rcep.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/main/eqinfo/eqinfoE.html
Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto are the green areas of the lower center.
Nagoya is the green area to the east of it.
 
I went through an 8.2 magnitude earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks...some of which are 7.2 (richter scale (sp?)).

And like Roy, I remember it like yesterday. Funny how time slows down when things like this happens. Not sure if it is just me but semms like everything went slow motion.

I don't want it...main reason I ended in Texas and not Califiornia.
 
Went thru that earthquake too. We live on the San Andreas fault in southern Ca. Yes Dario, slow motion, very weird. Not afraid of them tho, we have no high rises in our area. I went to check on my parents about 15 minutes after the quake, couldn't figure out why my parents were flooding their front yard[?][?][?] I walked in their back yard and the pool was half empty still rockin and rollin.

Glad it was no bigger and you guys in Pleasanton are OK!
 
Originally posted by Tea Clipper
<br />Cool, we just had an earthquake. [:0][:0][:0]

I'll have to check the news to see where/magnitude, but man I was thinking that I *much* prefer one of these to hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzard, etc. assuming no-one got hurt of course!
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Give me a hurricane any day. I don't want nothing to do with that earth shaking mess.
 
I'm gonna have to wander that side of the state more often, I think. I've never felt a quake before, and they don't generally make it out this far. The funny thing about people outside of california is that somewhere along the line they were convinced that the entire state just shook like crazy. They don't realize that most of the state is geologically inactive and that quakes are only felt in the western edges of the state. Us valley trolls rarely get any shaking :(
 
I was in Sunnyvale in about '78 when Hollister got shook.. my nephew was out from Oklahoma staying with me for the summer.. kinda got him excited... I think it was just a little 2.2 though.

My daughter is in Aptos and was working in Sunnyvale when the 6.something hit Santa Cruz.. she was trapped on the east side of the mountains because the Highway 17 fell off the hillside.. that was when the Nimitz freeway fell on all those cars in Oakland.
I was back in Texas as the time and couldn't get in touch with daughter anywhere... she finally called her brother to tell him she was okay...

We sat out Hurrican Rita in Houston in 2005... don't know which I would rather have.. Hurrican or 'quake.
 
I can take about anything but a flood (which usually accompany hurricanes) I been through one bad one and don't want anymore!
 
I've been through several super typhoons (hurricane here), floods (Houston 2001, etc), earthquakes, etc.

For me earthquake is the scariest hands down. Not sure about tornadoes yet but that may compete for the top.

Problem is you won't really know how scary it is until you experienced it...and comparing it to small ones is NOT in anyway realistic.
 
I realize this isn't really a multiple choice quiz or even an IAP poll, but if we get to vote I go for hurricanes. Don't like the unpredictability of tornadoes and quakes, can't stand the cold of a blizzard, so if we get to pick . . . . .
 
Dario,
Are you old enough to remember Typhoon Karen in '61.. I was sitting in the barracks at the naval station watching gravel fly off the chow hall like bullets.. The Surf Club in Agana was total destroyed and the only thing they found was the dance floor and the entrance awning frame.. and I wound up sitting in a funeral home on Garrett road in Houston during Allison.. the water in the parking lost was over a foot deep, the water in the street was close to chest deep.. it took me almost 18 hours to get home from work the night Allison hit... if you remember the pictures of the semi's floating in water, they were withing 1/2 mile of my office....

and Jerry, since I am a lousy swimmer, I guess I agree with you... I like floods least of all.
 
I feel very sorry for those people that have lost every think and there loved ones it must be so hard, in 1964 we had a freak twister that came threw our dairy farm l can remember mum holding me and two other brothers down on the floor of our house as the house was lifted off the ground for a short time and we where very lucky no one was hurt' the only thing we lost was a huge tank of rainwater, our nearby friends lost every think, its was scary and unreal too see those huge old trees just ripped out off the ground leaving huge holes. once was enough for me.its some think that l will never forget.[:0][V][:)]
 
I was in the 89 bay quake and it scared me to death. I was in Lafayette under a car doing a front end alignment. I got (hopped because of full leg cast for broken leg) out of the shop and falling object in time to see cars switching parking spots. Never have I seen the ground roll like that. I made it across the Dumbarton bridge as they closed it 2 cars behind me. I made it to East Palo Alto to see if my first wife and few week old daughter were ok. Ex-wife was being treated for cancer at Stanford Hospital. Whole other story but my daughter was first baby to be born while mom was given radiation treatments during pregnacey (was to slow cancer long enough so my daughter could live) Never forget sitting all night watching the news trying to make a phone call to let family know everone was ok. I was 20 years old and scared to death on so many levels. I like "Beamer" Jason am from the valley and had never and have never since felt a quake. That being said I dont have a list cause at any time any one of those listed can tear though a community and destroy somebodys life even if I am lucky to have it not mine.
 
I was up in Washington State when the Loma Preita quake of '89 hit. I tried calling my folks in Santa Cruz for three days before my call finally went through. They were okay. What was scary to see was downtown Santa Cruz in ruins. That area is also the central city bus exchange station, so everyday while going to high school, I switched buses there and after school I'd be hanging out with my friends before catching a bus to go back home. Years later, I came home on leave and visited the area again after it had been remodeled and now I don't recognize a thing.[:(]
 
Here is a link to a picture of our town after the tsunami and quake.
There were seven docks, a large railroad yard, and a small boat harbor full of vessels in the forefront before it hit. 12 people died in Seward.
http://tinyurl.com/2e8ft4
 
FEND FOR YOURSELF! How is that for a response for the LOYL?

In the fall of 2004, I had been in Tokyo for a meeting and also to meet a woodworking friend from Australia who happened to be in Tokyo. It was raining hard and I was unaware of the news about a typhoon coming in; just rain - so I thought. I met my freind, then went to a meeting at 11 AM. At lunch I was not feeling well and decided to go home early to Toyota (Nagoya) about 200 miles. I got on a 1 PM bullet train and arrive in Nagoya right at 3 PM. I did not know it at the time but it was the next to last bullet train into Nagoya from Tokyo until late that evening - and they run about every 10 minutes.

The wind was blowing hard.

I caught a local from Nagoya to Toyota - about 1 hour. About 10 minutes before arriving in Toyota, I called my wife and asked her to pick me up at the Toyota station.

"FEND FOR YOURSELF" I am not getting out in this! She said. "Well," I thought, "I'll catch a bus or get a taxi.

That was the last train to pull into the Toyota station until late that night. At the station, there were no busses of any kind. ONE Taxi. I got in and it took 25 minutes for what is normally 10 to 12 minutes. Rain was horizontal. The house shook like a mild earthquake for nearly two hours. The typhoon wasn't a Katrina or Camille in wind speed, but it did have wind speeds of 100 mph +. It seemed to have stalled in its forward progress as the winds lasted from around 5 PM to around 8 PM with the same strength of winds the whole time. We are about 8 miles inland from the bay.

I forgave LOML for not getting out.
 
Originally posted by ozmandus
<br />Dario,
Are you old enough to remember Typhoon Karen in '61.. I was sitting in the barracks at the naval station watching gravel fly off the chow hall like bullets.. The Surf Club in Agana was total destroyed and the only thing they found was the dance floor and the entrance awning frame.. and I wound up sitting in a funeral home on Garrett road in Houston during Allison.. the water in the parking lost was over a foot deep, the water in the street was close to chest deep.. it took me almost 18 hours to get home from work the night Allison hit... if you remember the pictures of the semi's floating in water, they were withing 1/2 mile of my office....

and Jerry, since I am a lousy swimmer, I guess I agree with you... I like floods least of all.
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Chuck,

Not old enough but I survived 3 that was comparable according to locals. Another big one that I didn't experience is Karen.

One in particular they said is a mix of Pamela and Karen...named Paka(PAmelaKAren). She tore the US Airforce windgauge at 185mph [:0] and lasted a few hours. Like Lee described, it kinda decided to do a pit stop on the island...I think for 6 hours!!!

Another big one is Omar...both these typhoons left the island waterless, and powerless. We went withouit water for a week atleast on each and powerless for a MONTH!!! on each. Some had to wait 2 months and that is with assistance from Hawaii and California Power companies who sent people to work round the clock! Majority of the CONCRETE power poles (most are 24" diameter) were broken like sticks!!! [:0] The last one so happened the first week of December so we went without power on Christmas '97 and New Year of '98

That (plus other factors) is when we decided to move [:D]
 
I have rode out two large earthquakes and several small ones. I lived about 20 miles from the epicenter of the Sylmar earthquake on 2-9-71. In that earthquake the Olive View Hospital's bottom floor collapsed and the upper floors fell. On one street the houses were shaken apart on one side of the street and the other side of the street had minor damage. We had furniture moved around and lost some glassware. No injuries.
I knew some people that lost their home in the Sylmar Earthquake. They packed up all of their belongings and were moving back to the midwest. They got hit buy a tornado and lost everything. They moved back to California. For them the tornado was worse that the earthquake.
On 1-17-94 I lived two miles from the epicenter of the Northridge earthquake. Now that was a E ticket ride. (For all of you young guys, Disneyland used to sell ride tickets. The E ticket was for the best rides, rollercoasters etc. Now they sell day passes for any ride.) A good friend of mine and former classmate at the police academy was Clearance Dean. He is the motor officer that rode off of the end of freeway and was killed. The overpass collapsed during the earthquake, all of the street lights were out and he could not see the roadway was gone. He was riding to work at about 5 AM.
The front of our house faced east. The kitchen cabinets on the north and south walls were totally empty as a result of the shaking. The cabinets on the west wall, with our fine glassware, were intact. Not one glass broken. Figure that out if you can.
I have only seen the results of a small tornado. I don't know which would be worse.
But, now living in Idaho, very few if any earthquakes, no tornados and mild winters. And a great supply of native woods, what more could a guy ask for.
 
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