EARTHQUAKE!!!

[BSmack]

OK, so it was really just 30-40 seconds of watching my monitors shake on my desktop. But God damn it was a fucking EARTHQUAKE. I've always wanted to feel a little tremor. Just to say

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... merica.php

[BSmack]

More likely it was one of Otis' Internet flames.

[Dinsdale]

5.5 is definitely enough to feel.

Looking at the USGS site, looks like Trampis had a 4.2 this morning... which you really have to be paying attention to feel much.

[R-Jack]

Guess Mt. Rumplewife is a soccer fan.

[trev]

What's the big deal?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 16-33.html

[Mikey]

So is NY going to break off and float out into the Atlantic?

[Wolfman]

Epicenter up near Ottawa Canada. My younger daughter in Buffalo felt it and called MrsO. MrsO's sister who lives about 60 miles south of Ottawa said she heard a loud noise and then the house shook. I guess 5.5 is child's play to SoCals.

[Mikey]

We had a 5.8 last week. I thought I was feeling hunger pangs.

[Wolfman]

Here's the entire fault. you can see why a quake near Ottawa would affect Buffalo, etc.

[Trampis]

5.5 is definitely enough to feel.

Looking at the USGS site, looks like Trampis had a 4.2 this morning... which you really have to be paying attention to feel much.

Link? What? Was I still in bed? The Hanford Nuclear res. is still intact, thats all I know.

[OCmike]

Epicenter up near Ottawa Canada. My younger daughter in Buffalo felt it and called MrsO. MrsO's sister who lives about 60 miles south of Ottawa said she heard a loud noise and then the house shook. I guess 5.5 is child's play to SoCals.

Nah, once you get out of the 3's it's a pretty decent-sized quake.

[Dinsdale]

Nah, once you get out of the 3's it's a pretty decent-sized quake.

So far in my life, we've yet to have a big one here (although the geologists keep saying it's coming, and apparently, the Cascadia Subduction Zone produces massive quakes). Had a couple of near-big (the Seattle one in 01 was pretty deece, but 150 miles away... I was hungover and posting on SC3 when it hit).

But my theory, based on little -- screw the numbers, if you felt shit move and it made noise, it was a real quake.