Had A Earthquake This Morning

[lizbud]

......and I slept right through it. Woke up this morning with both
dogs in the bed just staring at my face.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15919536/detail.html

[pitc9]

On the news this morning here in Cleveland they said that people in our area (North East Ohio) felt it.

One of the news casters as at home and awake at the time and felt it and heard his sky lights in his apartment creaking!

[lbaker]

I heard on this mornings news! 5.4 on the whatever scale... pictures from all over the area, as far away as Kentucky. Oh Liz I was thinking of you and all else in those parts. When/if you live or ever have lived in California you sort of know what it is and what to do. But MY...

[Freedom]

Just stopped in to see if anyone had posted about it as yet.

Here is the AP report:

http://rhodeisland.cox.net/cci/newsn...alidatearticle

[Seravieve]

Yep! We woke up.. was at 4:37am. I woke up and just laid there.. was like uhh... thats interesting. LOL. Dogs woke up, but I dont think they acted out of the ordinary. And of course my worrywort mom called me 10 minutes later. She grew up in CA though, so she kind of knows what to expect I guess...

I lived in CA for 7 years, never felt one earthquake, move to MO and 16 years later.. an earthquake. So weird.

News says we're had 6 aftershocks as well... 4.5 was the last one. But I didnt feel any of them.

I hope nothing more happens. *fingers crossed* I've been watching my niece (8 mos) all week, so I would hate for something to happen while I have her.

[Cinder & Smoke]

... In Cleveland they said that people in our area (North East Ohio) felt it.

And some of us Slept right through it!

Zipp & Zopp had exchanged places last night - Cinder had the Inside Spot (under the covers)
and SmokeMutt had the Foot Guard position (mostly On Top of my feet).
To my knowledge ~ NUNbuddy woke up for The Big Shake!

Maybe next time ...

[RedHedd]

I heard about that. We're "celebrating" the 102nd anniversary of San Francisco's big quake in 1906 today

[catland]

glad everyone's ok.

last big quake we had here in Portland was back over 15 years ago. Our kitty Crystal woke us up with her meows moments before we felt it.

[RICHARD]

Ahem,

Call us when you get past a 6.0 shaker.

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They are really good when they get to the 'Exorcist/I am possessed stage'.

When it stops you crawl out of bed. Then people that give you a score for riding it out-Kinda like a PETA rodeo....no bulls or broncs involved.

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Have you all been misbehaving out there?

[RedHedd]

Ahem,

Call us when you get past a 6.0 shaker.

I'm with RICHARD

[lizbud]

Ahem,

Call us when you get past a 6.0 shaker.

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What's the largest quake recorded for California?

[Cincy'sMom]

I was in Indy this morning, but not until after the quake...We had a meeting
with a client at 10 am, I was on the raod then, probablly around Perrysburg, Ohio. Didn't notice anything driving!

Our clients were telling us about it and then afterward, when we stopped at the Tony Stewart Store, the lady working there had heard the trophies rattle in the case with one of the aftershocks. Weird stuff!

[ramanth]

Slept through it here, but reports are that people in Detroit and Lansing felt it.

Would of been interesting to experience.

[Donnaj4962]

Something woke me arounf 5:30 this am..... may have been the quake, may have been a kitty screaming for food!

I guess there were several aftershocks, but I felt none. I was home for lunch, watching the noon news as they were reporting live from one of the highrise apt. buildings that had some bricks fall from the quake (Ft. Wayne is in the northeast corner of the state!) and when they went back to the studio, one of the newscasters had something of a startled look on his face. He said there had just been another tremor. The other newscaster said, "Oh, I thought you were shaking your legs under the table!" I felt nothing and neither of the kitties have acted any differently.

[RICHARD]

The biggest recorded quake was a 6.9 was the San Fran Quake.


The last three in the San Fernando Valley/ Lost Angeles area were the
Sylmar '71, Whittier Narrows '87 (?) and Northridge '94 quakes.

Those were all 6.2 and above. On the Richter scale every 10th of a point is one hundred times stronger than the previous point.(I may be wrong on that-
It's been awhile since I have done Quake Trivia.

There are two different kinds of quakes- the shakers and the jolts.

The shakers are like having a mattress in the back of a truck and laying on it.
Then have a friend drive down a potted dirt road. These last anywhere from a few seconds to a whole minute.

The jolts are really sharp, short lateral moving quakes. In 94 I was in a store next to a display of 2-liter soda bottles when a sharp aftershock hit.

This is theater of the mind time!

Put a 2 liter bottle on a table then hit the edge, watch the liquid. Take about 250 bottles, stack them up the way they do in a supermarket and move the supermarket......Freak out! I did!

I made eye contact with another shopper who was standing about 15 feet away- we had a 30 minute conversation in about 10 seconds...LOL, it was like this - #%@#$ THAT WAS BIG! ARE YOU O.K.? SON-OF-A-&^$%! WTF DO WE DO IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN? HOLY^@#$# JEEZUZ CRIMINY I DIDN"T SEE THAT COMING....and never said a word. We then kinda smiled and laughed, nodded to each other and went on our way.

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During the 87 quake I was in the basement of a 10 story building and saw the six foot thick concrete floor doing the wave......that was wild!