All I can say is that my butt did not feel it.

Neither did any of the hundreds of knick-knacks in my house.

A non-event for me.

Dave (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:32 am All I can say is that my butt did not feel it.

Neither did any of the hundreds of knick-knacks in my house.

A non-event for me.

I believe this! The only thing that I have seen that shakes YOU up is Mac and Bob/3...

A-1 (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:03 am I believe this! The only thing that I have seen that shakes YOU up is Mac and Bob/3...

Shame on you... I don't get shakes over them, I do enjoy beating up on their views.

wantonly enjoy it.

sinfully enjoy it...

I ahve lots of rocks and minerals on the shelves - roughly 100 and if they ever move...

dusting is a real hassle.

The east coast shuts down for two days, because of a baby earthquake that did no damage.

The rest of us from the West coast look at this and laugh, OMG, truly this would not have made the news other then in passing.

River

Y'all just wait, Jesus has thrown comet Elenin at you unbelievers to shake up things.

We're all gonna die later this month when it hits perigee, because NASA is lying and it's not a comet.

It's Nibiru...no, wait...it's a red dwarf...no, brown dwarf, hang on...no, black carbon star with extreme gravity.

Hang on, no, it's the Hopi Blue Star Kachina, followed by the red.

Any way you look at it, we're all dead later this year and the planet will crumble in 2012.

LOL!

moi621 (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:22 am I just do my best to get out of a building and into open space if it lasts.

Were you asleep when they had earthquake drills in grammar school or are you a transplanted Easterner? The last thing you should do is leave the building. Windows in the outer walls can shatter and cut you with flying glass and falling debris or parts of the roof can kill you as you scurry out the door; you go to the supporting walls in the center of the building and stand in a doorway where the structure is the most secure.

And a 5.9 quake will make the local news. The severity of a quake is not only because of the magnitude but the geology. Though I have friends on the west side who suffered severely in the Northridge quake, I shrugged it off; it was nothing just a harmless roll. We have a whole set of mountains that divert the faults from the downtown basin, but people say the much smaller Whittier quake was truly devastating around here because we are at the very head of the chain of rivers that make up the Whittier basin so there is nothing between us and the Whittier Narrows fault but sand and gravel, which transmits the shock efficiently.

All in all. I'm glad nothing serious happened on the East Coast. Too bad Congress wasn't in session though. A frightened Congress might just have been moved to spend Federal money on retrofitting the infrastructure and so unwittingkly stimulate the economy, which would be good for everybody except our domestic enemies, the Tea Party.

gareth19 (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:30 pm Were you asleep when they had earthquake drills in grammar school or are you a transplanted Easterner? The last thing you should do is leave the building. Windows in the outer walls can shatter and cut you with flying glass and falling debris or parts of the roof can kill you as you scurry out the door; you go to the supporting walls in the center of the building and stand in a doorway where the structure is the most secure.

And a 5.9 quake will make the local news. The severity of a quake is not only because of the magnitude but the geology. Though I have friends on the west side who suffered severely in the Northridge quake, I shrugged it off; it was nothing just a harmless roll. We have a whole set of mountains that divert the faults from the downtown basin, but people say the much smaller Whittier quake was truly devastating around here because we are at the very head of the chain of rivers that make up the Whittier basin so there is nothing between us and the Whittier Narrows fault but sand and gravel, which transmits the shock efficiently.

All in all. I'm glad nothing serious happened on the East Coast. Too bad Congress wasn't in session though. A frightened Congress might just have been moved to spend Federal money on retrofitting the infrastructure and so unwittingkly stimulate the economy, which would be good for everybody except our domestic enemies, the Tea Party.

I do not agree. First option, get out and clear. And from a California Ranch Style home, there is an exit in every other room.

We have no over head power lines so no problems there.

Do you remember being taught, "drop and cover" was going to protect you from the nuc-s. You believe it?

Moi

It's not the quaking earth that gets you but the man made stuff. Buildings and such.

I thought every building out there was made to withstand a mag. 15+ quake, while those on the East Coast weren't? So what gives?

Moi, in an earthquake the best place to be is in a doorway, its the strongest place in any structure and the safest place to get out of after. After the quake is over then get outside away for buildings.

River

Thank GAWD it's a free country and each of us may react to an earthquake as one chooses.

And I choose to go to a wide open space.

Moi