Midwest Earthquake (Page 1 of 2)

Hey Rhonda,
      I couldn't sleep last night, tossed & turned, finally conked out at 3:30, so I think I slept thru it.  Just heard them say the St. Louis area felt it.  I think we are on the fault line.  You know the more I think about this, our friends across the pond had the earthquake when Joe was there and Joe got his new LP yesterday and now we have an earthquake...hhhmmmm...................
new headline.....King Joe Bonamassa Shakes Mother Earth   

                                                                                   Patty

P.S.  Roy, you are full of beans.

"I'm not nice to any guitar!"     
                 Joe Bonamassa 05-03-12

JBLP CHILD #184

ROFLMAO Roy!! I'll alert the Geologic Service they can lay off their monitoring.

No tremors at the Cooley house. Not even the dog noticed. I think it was more exciting for the news channels than it was for anyone else.

Here's Roy:  http://stupidvideos.com/video/just_plai … n_Bed/#320

I would never do that...my feet are on fire.

I heard it was a 5.2, that's an attention getter alright, but like Shred said, you haven't felt nothin' till you ride out a 7.1 as we did in '89. You know the Giants just rolled into St. Louis to play the Cards, must have brought a little Ca. seismic activity with them. Yesterday was the 102nd anniversary of the '06 quake in San Francisco, coincidence?, you make the call. Time to start retrofitting the midwest.

                                                                                           Standin' On Shaky Ground,

                                                                                           J Dawg

Well aware of that fault and the damage it wreaked years ago. I believe it changed the course one of the major rivers in the area.

                                                                                                 Think Preparedness,

                                                                                                 J Dawg

Shakin' it, shakin' it, shakes.......................Los Lobos, funny I just heard that on the radio testerday.

Roy,

When that baby gets going and opens up you will be renaming your town to "Men moaning Falls to the center of the earth"!  HA HA

~Rhonda

We felt that baby and its aftershock in central Indiana.  Weird.  I don't know how you Californians take it!

Donna,

I'm not sure if your question was rhetorical, but, in case it wasn't, I'm going to try to answer you.  As a longtime California resident, who has experienced MANY, MANY, earthquakes and aftershocks, I think this is what happens to a lot of us..........

First of all.....not all earthquakes are created equal......they can vary greatly - in size, intensity, and, of course distance from the epicenter.  There are the gentle rolling variety which can be so subtle that many people remain unaware of them because they, themselves are moving (walking, driving, etc.), or sleeping peacefully.  Generally, if I get "that funny feeling" of movement, I will look at something for confirmation - like a ceiling fan, or chandelier, etc. to look for ITS movement.  On the other hand, sometimes the rolling is UNBELIEVABLY obvious and can be nauseating in its intensity.

Then there are the shaking kind.  Those are usually more obvious.......where things clink around in cabinets and plants shimmy and shake, etc.  They can be preceeded by that roaring or freight train noise you may have heard about.  They can be a little nerve wracking while they're happening - my instinct is always to grab the breakables that are going to shake off the mantel, or hold the china cabinet in place, etc.    But, again, sometimes NOTHING is happening.  Seriously, sometimes, you think an earthquake has started, and it turns out to be the dog scratching his ear and bumping the couch!

The worst, for me, are the jolting variety.  One LARGE jolt followed by the shaking.  The longer the shaking....the more nervous I become......exponentially.  And, it's worse for me when the big ones happen at night. 

The other strange thing is that we don't know, when we feel something, if it is the result of a nearby mild earthquake, or a distant large quake.  Generally, you just don't know, until the news reports start coming in. 

I think, for me anyway, the reason that most of my reactions to most earthquakes have been relative "non-reactions", is that my history tells me that TYPICALLY, lots of people are NOT injured or killed, and there is TYPICALLY little to no property damage.  That leads to a comfort level which may seem cavalier, but, I think we'd all be a little nuts if we thought about it too much or allowed ourselves to freak out EVERY TIME the earth moves.

As I said earlier, the worst time for me, that I remember, is when we had hundreds of aftershocks (of varying intensity) that went on for weeks.

  Libby