Earthquake This Morning

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:39 pm

Anyone else feel that? Only a 5.2, but it woke us up. We are about 45 miles from the epicenter so we sustained no damage. Just a 4:40 wake-up call that sucked. Curious if anyone closer may have had damage.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:55 pm

I believe today is the 102-year anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:01 pm

Oh baby...the earth moved.

--Pickle, to Arch Angel's friends

RumpleForeskin · Post by **RumpleForeskin** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:49 pm

This thread will not go well for me.

Mustang · Post by **Mustang** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:57 pm

It was about 5:30 (I'm on EST) and I had woken up just a little before, contemplating whether to et up and go to the gym or wait till evening. Next thing I know, the whole house starts to shake and I'm thinking WTF?!?!?! I thought it was one of the big winds like we get around here occasionally that will make the house groan a little bit. But this was totally different. Lasted about 10 seconds and I thought if this gets any worse, the walls would come down. It ends and I get up to look outside. Trees are dead still. I'm thinking......"earthquake????.........maybe...." And go back to bed. Flip on the radio at 6:30 or so and they're talking about it. No damage but this was my first one and it was very weird.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:02 pm

My first too. It was wierd, but I wasn't freaking out like my wife was because it really wasn't that bad. Just a few pictures and things shifted around. Once the resident Calis get in here, expect plenty of "5.2? Puhhhhhlease." replies.

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:11 pm

Nothing here.

I'll step outside and barren the hatches though, just in case.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:28 pm

5.0 is about where you start noticing it.

5.5-6.0 or so is when things start rocking.

Beyond that... you'll have to ask the calis. Hasn't been one bigger than that around here in my lifetime (or the pioneers' lifetime, which they tell me means "we're due").

Did the paint on the door/window frames crack?

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:42 pm

poptart wrote:Nothing here.

I'll step outside and barren the hatches though, just in case.

Do your hatches have a hood clutch like mine? It's a bitch to pop'em.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:51 pm

I've lived in Cali for a total of about 44 years, both the Bay Area and LoCal. I can remember actually feeling maybe a half dozen quakes and only two that really jolted me. I was taking a nap on the sofa when the Imperial Valley quake hit in 1979 (6.6). Basically it woke me up.

If felt the Northridge quake enough from San Diego that it woke me up at 4:30 in the morning and kept shaking for what seemed like half a minute. Turned the TV on to see LA sliding into a yawning crack in the ground.

My mom was within probably 20 miles of the epicenter of the Loma Prieta Quake (the one that interrupted the World Series). Didn't damage the house but all of the china was broken and the ancient grandfather clock basically walked away from the wall, turned around and fell over.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:53 pm

I couldn't imagine being in one of those big Cali quakes.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:53 pm

Did the paint on the door/window frames crack?

Pardon me...but WHAT?

Don't tell me you paint frames and windows? What kind of numbskull are you, anyway?

Sure, here's something that slides back and forth constantly...why don't I just slap a coat of paint on that surface?

GOOD FUCKING IDEA.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:56 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:Anyone else feel that? Only a 5.2, but it woke us up. We are about 45 miles from the epicenter so we sustained no damage. Just a 4:40 wake-up call that sucked. Curious if anyone closer may have had damage.

45 miles is plenty close enough, I'd say. Reports say it was felt as far away as Iowa. There have been warnings of the New Madrid fault going postal for years. This may have just been a precursor for when the Mississippi river changes course and flows North again.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:59 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:I couldn't imagine being in one of those big Cali quakes.

I'd rather be in a quake than a hurricane or tornado or some of the other natural disasters. Basically they're over in a few seconds and you're not really in that much physical danger unless you're:

a) in an old building built to substandard codes
b) on any level of a multi-deck freeway
c) on the Bay Bridge
d) right on the fault

Most houses don't fall down in a quake.

A big fire is a helluva lot scarier than a quake.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:04 pm

Fires often follow big quakes.

For example, Pickle fires up a smoke after getting his ass shaken by a Street Nubian.

J_hawk's cheeks were aflame after lk_pk sat on them.

NoCal had to apply aloe on her booty after spending all day with her cheeks up in the air, welcoming all passers by.

The Vogel family has been run out of several homes by flames after a mvscal visit.

BCO squirms in his seat and cries "IT BURNS!!!" after visits from his preacher.

Just helping out.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:06 pm

Mikey wrote: I'd rather be in a quake than a hurricane or tornado or some of the other natural disasters.

I'd rather avoid any and all but at least with a tornado or hurricane you have ample warning. Earthquakes, not so much.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:14 pm

Mikey wrote:the ancient grandfather clock basically walked away from the wall, turned around and fell over.

Sound like something that could also happen to the ancient grandfather. How'd he do?

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:29 pm

...nothing but a small aftershock, go back to sleep.

sin. SoCal

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:30 pm

War Wagon wrote:
Mikey wrote: I'd rather be in a quake than a hurricane or tornado or some of the other natural disasters.
I'd rather avoid any and all but at least with a tornado or hurricane you have ample warning. Earthquakes, not so much.

Agree. Only dumbasses get hurt in a hurricane.

For the most part, only trailer park residents get hurt in a tornado. I call that God cleaning house. There's always some collateral damage that He is sorry for, but the trailer parks He is not.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:38 pm

Mister Bushice wrote:
Mikey wrote:the ancient grandfather clock basically walked away from the wall, turned around and fell over.
Sound like something that could also happen to the ancient grandfather. How'd he do?

Never knew what was happening.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:30 pm

And only coon-ass LSU/Duke/USC/Utah/Bowling Green/etc. fans believe everything they read.

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/aggie.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Then again, if they used square headed deck screws, maybe the frame could have supported it. Who knows?

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:32 pm

e wrote:
IndyFrisco wrote:For the most part, only trailer park residents get hurt in a tornado. I call that God cleaning house. There's always some collateral damage that He is sorry for, but the trailer parks He is not.
the entire city of greensburg ks would like to thank you for qualifying you post with, "for the most part."

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=11379" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Qualifiers kick ass.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:02 pm

those are some straight ass streets

a 5.2 on the east coast is worse than a 5.2 would be on the west coast, hope everyone is alright

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:56 pm

RumpleForeskin wrote:This thread will not go well for me.

You're safe from earthquakes, my man. Just jump into your wife's gunt, roll yourself up, and wait out the danger like a joey in his mother's pouch.

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:13 pm

e wrote:
SoCalTrjn wrote:those are some straight ass streets
this is kansas we're talking about. there's really nothing to build around where you would need a bend in the road, or a fork in the family tree...

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:19 pm

War Wagon wrote:
I'd rather avoid any and all but at least with a tornado or hurricane you have ample warning. Earthquakes, none whatsoever. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Nothing. Nada. Nil .

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:27 pm

You're safe from earthquakes, my man. Just jump into your wife's gunt, roll yourself up, and wait out the danger like a joey in his mother's pouch.

I'm gonna guess rumple wouldn't feel a thing. The after shocks of rumplewifes midnight trips to the shitter have rendered him immune to any shaking up to about a 5.7.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:52 pm

Wind is supposed to blow---I laugh at hurricanes. Tornadoes are a different thing altogether----nasty concentrated air flow. Earthquakes ?? The earth is not supposed to move---dammit !

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:22 am

Wolfman wrote:The earth is not supposed to move---dammit !

You must not be familiar with Carole King.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:26 am

The earth should not move?

Wolf must be a flat earth society nutcake.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:23 am

No warnings?

Umm, maybe it's just me, but a "warning" doesn't make this thing any less intimidating:

I'll take 5 seconds of some warning-less shaking and rattling before THAT thing any day of the week.

Watch that head straight for your house, and then get back to me.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:08 am

MGO,

Not sure what it is like in the rest of the country. I know in the trailer parks of Oklahoma they may not have the warning systems we do, but when a tornado is forming, we have sirens going off. We also subscribe to the local news tornado alert system. Anytime a siren is set off, our phone automatically rings. That way, if you are asleep and do not hear the sirens, you get the call and head to the basement.

Granted, if the tunnel forms over your house (not trailer), you may not have the chance to move. However, the meterologists, while having almost 0% chance of predicting the rain accurately for the most part, have a pretty good handle on tornado warning signs.

So, I will give this to tornados. I'll take my chances with a quake while I sleep. If it is daytime, I'd take an F3 going over my house vs. being in the epicenter of a 5.5+ quake. Hopefully, I am never in either of those situations. This morning was the closest I have been to either. I have seen 1 tornado, prolly an F1 when I lived in Dallas. It was small. It was about 1/2 mile from my house when I saw it. We had a 5.2 quake this morning 45 miles form my house and our house was rumbling for 20 seconds pretty good.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:44 am

Now let me get this straight....

Snow, Ice Storms, Freezing Rain,Thunderstorms, Lightning, High Humidity and an occasional Twister......

Heavy Flooding and now....

Earthquakes?............

Damn....

and I thought dry heat in Summer is tough on property values. God must hate all of you U&M people. Chin Up...there could always be a massive Locust Swarm.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:39 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:those are some straight ass streets

a 5.2 on the east coast is worse than a 5.2 would be on the west coast, hope everyone is alright

Illinois, Indiana and Kansas are hardly the east coast, you fucking retard.

Qbert · Post by **Qbert** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:53 am

Mikey wrote:
Wolfman wrote:The earth is not supposed to move---dammit !
You must not be familiar with Carole King.

that is furkin'Funny....

~Sin,
Tumblin'Down

Kee-rist....i was 5 in 1971....verrah Sad out here Mikey.

Ang · Post by **Ang** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:09 am

Dang...Mikey nailed the Northridge quake time and came up with Carole King smak? The rest of us are simply not worthy :)

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:59 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:My wifes first orgasm too. It was weird, but I wasn't freaking out like my wife was because it really wasn't that good. Hope we have an earth quake next time I fuck her, so she thinks I got her off.

FTFY.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:22 pm

Qbert wrote:
Mikey wrote:
Wolfman wrote:The earth is not supposed to move---dammit !
You must not be familiar with Carole King.
that is furkin'Funny....

~Sin,
Tumblin'Down

Kee-rist....i was 5 in 1971....verrah Sad out here Mikey.

Shit, I was already starting to lose my hair by then.

And I think wolfman was just settling into retirement.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:25 pm

Mikey wrote:
Qbert wrote:Kee-rist....i was 5 in 1971....verrah Sad out here Mikey.
Shit, I was already starting to lose my hair by then.

So was I.

Sin,
A Year Younger Than Q

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:36 pm

You call that a quake?

We'd call that a "jiggle" or a "twitch."