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  • StuartD
    Sofa King Band
    • Jul 2002
    • 29903

    #1

    Whoa... earthquake....

    I just felt the building swaying back and forth... freaky!!

    I sure as hell hope that was all that it was, and not some kind of "preliminary" quake.
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  • BRISK
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Feb 2003
    • 12240

    #2
    where?
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    I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

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    • Shoplifter
      Richest man in Babylon
      • Jan 2002
      • 5870

      #3
      Here too. About 7 seconds of shaking and I am in a very sturdy concrete building.
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      • BRISK
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Feb 2003
        • 12240

        #4
        Originally posted by Shoplifter
        Here too. About 7 seconds of shaking and I am in a very sturdy concrete building.
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        • Dagwolf
          President of Canada
          • Sep 2003
          • 23141

          #5
          "outside the box" ...

          Sure hope your tremors subside
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          • StuartD
            Sofa King Band
            • Jul 2002
            • 29903

            #6
            Vancouver Canada.. just along the beach.

            We're at the northern end of the San Andreas fault... so we get quakes all day every day, it's just that we don't usually feel them.

            That's the 3rd time I've felt that now

            They predict that within 200 years, we'll have a major one that'll basically just level the place. With the predictions for California for September... who knows, it might be sooner
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            • Elli
              Reach for those stars!
              • Apr 2003
              • 17991

              #7
              Uhh nothing out here, cap'n.
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              • Elli
                Reach for those stars!
                • Apr 2003
                • 17991

                #8
                http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/recent/50.htm
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                • StuartD
                  Sofa King Band
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 29903

                  #9
                  Jeeze yer quick with these links.
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                  • Elli
                    Reach for those stars!
                    • Apr 2003
                    • 17991

                    #10
                    Originally posted by MaskedMan
                    Jeeze yer quick with these links.
                    I have a few useful bookmarks in my files
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                    • PerfectionGirls
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Oct 2002
                      • 4484

                      #11
                      Man, your post freaked me out a bit. With all the talk of the "Big One" coming by Sept I thought this may have been it or the start of it anyways.

                      Scares me to think about what would happen to this country as a whole if what they are predicting should occur.

                      Not fun to think about.
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                      • StuartD
                        Sofa King Band
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 29903

                        #12
                        "dozens of reports coming in to news 1130 from people being woken up and car alarms being set off as a minor tremor has shaken up the lower mainland..."

                        Yup, I'm definitely not the only one. That's the report on a local radio station.

                        Freaky man... I hate when the ground moves.
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                        • baddog
                          So Fucking Banned
                          • Apr 2001
                          • 107089

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Shoplifter
                          Here too. About 7 seconds of shaking and I am in a very sturdy concrete building.
                          don't know how to break it to you, but concrete is the last thing you want to be in during an earthquake . . . why do you think our homes are made of wood? Flexibility

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                          • Tempest
                            Too lazy to set a custom title
                            • May 2004
                            • 10217

                            #14
                            hmmm.. I felt something over here a few minutes ago as well and my first thought was earthquake...

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                            • StuartD
                              Sofa King Band
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 29903

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Tempest
                              hmmm.. I felt something over here a few minutes ago as well and my first thought was earthquake...
                              The report just said that it was pretty wide spread... felt on the island, mainland and inland quite a ways as well.

                              I'm glad it went distance wise instead of magnitude wise.

                              Now I'm gonna have a hard time sleeping
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                              • Dagwolf
                                President of Canada
                                • Sep 2003
                                • 23141

                                #16

                                This just got posted:


                                July 19 1:01 a.m. PDT: A moderate earthquake has occurred off the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Nootka Sound area. It was felt at Campbell River, Courtenay, Comox and Duncan. Details soon.
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                                • StuartD
                                  Sofa King Band
                                  • Jul 2002
                                  • 29903

                                  #17
                                  sheesh, this site is quick!! I just clicked on the link again and it now says this...

                                  July 19 1:01 a.m. PDT: A moderate earthquake has occurred off the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Nootka Sound area. It was felt at Campbell River, Courtenay, Comox and Duncan. Details soon.

                                  Edit: got it just a second before me dagwolf ;)
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                                  • Tempest
                                    Too lazy to set a custom title
                                    • May 2004
                                    • 10217

                                    #18
                                    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...at00000188.htm

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                                    • BRISK
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Feb 2003
                                      • 12240

                                      #19
                                      shake, shake, shake...

                                      shake, shake, shake...

                                      shake that bootay! shake that bootay!
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                                      • StuartD
                                        Sofa King Band
                                        • Jul 2002
                                        • 29903

                                        #20
                                        6.3?? Yikes... that's kinda major. If that was more inland.... ugh.. I shudder to think
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                                        • Elli
                                          Reach for those stars!
                                          • Apr 2003
                                          • 17991

                                          #21
                                          Guess I need to call the cousins in Campbell River tomorrow!

                                          I felt absolutely nothing here. Some areas out here are on bedrock, though. My mom was working at a stable during the really big one in Seattle, and she said the horses didn't even feel it, even though everyone else in town felt it. WOOT here's to not feeling the earthquake!
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                                          • Tempest
                                            Too lazy to set a custom title
                                            • May 2004
                                            • 10217

                                            #22
                                            he he he.. about 15 years ago there was a somewhat major quake.. maybe a 7 something or so.. I was working in a high rise on the 7th floor... smoking (back before the laws were in place), drinking a ton of coffee... the room started to shake... I didn't know what was going on.. I figured I needed to de-stress and that it was just me... I went down the hall and asked a couple peopel and they said they didn't feel anything... It was a couple hours before we heard that in fact it had been an earthquake...

                                            We get them a lot actually and don't even notice... I wouldn't worry about it as the more smaller ones we get the better it is as it relieves the pressure on the plates.

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                                            • Centurion
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Dec 2002
                                              • 6033

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by MaskedMan
                                              6.3?? Yikes... that's kinda major. If that was more inland.... ugh.. I shudder to think
                                              Luckily it was pretty deep at 9.3 miles. A 6.2 close to the surface would have been nasty..but probably even then only the coastal areas would have really been affected.

                                              That's why on 2/29/01 Seattle was spared. That was like a 6.8 I believe we had here (epicenter just 90 miles south of Seattle), but it was really deep. When it hit that morning and I was getting tossed around my apartment (had just got up and had nada on..so was TRYING to get something on to run outside), I thought that half of Seattle had to be leveled because the quake had hit with 3 distinct waves..the first the usual sort of "jiggling" that only lasty 4 or 5 secs..and then WHAM like someone had pulled the carpet out of under you followed by another one..the last two shakers lasted about 40 secs..but it seemed like 40 friggin mins!

                                              We were SOOOO lucky that the quake was so deep!

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                                              • baddog
                                                So Fucking Banned
                                                • Apr 2001
                                                • 107089

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Elli
                                                WOOT here's to not feeling the earthquake!
                                                why? they are fun

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                                                • reynold
                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                  • Oct 2002
                                                  • 51271

                                                  #25
                                                  luckilyb there's no shaking in here...or else it would freak me out

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                                                  • StuartD
                                                    Sofa King Band
                                                    • Jul 2002
                                                    • 29903

                                                    #26
                                                    http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/ms...719-locmap.htm
                                                    This earthquake occurred near the site of a M=5.8 event on Thursday, 15 July 2004.

                                                    Hmm... should we be concerned that a slightly smaller earthquake happened just a few days earlier in the same area?

                                                    I'm no expert but I know an earthquake followed by a bigger earthquake shortly after usually isn't a good sign.
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                                                    • baddog
                                                      So Fucking Banned
                                                      • Apr 2001
                                                      • 107089

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by MaskedMan
                                                      http://www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/ms...719-locmap.htm
                                                      This earthquake occurred near the site of a M=5.8 event on Thursday, 15 July 2004.

                                                      Hmm... should we be concerned that a slightly smaller earthquake happened just a few days earlier in the same area?

                                                      I'm no expert but I know an earthquake followed by a bigger earthquake shortly after usually isn't a good sign.
                                                      actually it is a good thing . . . . releases pressure . . . go ahead and go to sleep . . . you can't do anything about it anyway

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                                                      • KRL
                                                        Entrepreneur
                                                        • Oct 2002
                                                        • 31429

                                                        #28
                                                        6.1

                                                        http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/

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                                                        • StuartD
                                                          Sofa King Band
                                                          • Jul 2002
                                                          • 29903

                                                          #29
                                                          Originally posted by baddog
                                                          actually it is a good thing . . . . releases pressure . . . go ahead and go to sleep . . . you can't do anything about it anyway
                                                          Heh, I'm not actually that worried, I will sleep alright. I'm just finishing up some work at the moment.

                                                          But I do still find this stuff interesting, so I keep checking it. They've been doing a great job of updating the various sites with info about how far it reached and stuff.
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                                                          • KRL
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                                                            • Oct 2002
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                                                            #30
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                                                            • Firehorse
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                                                              • Apr 2002
                                                              • 30767

                                                              #31
                                                              I think Australia is right in the middle of a tectonic plate and as a result we only get a few minor quakes.
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