• From: Benicia, Ca.
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Re: Midwest Earthquake

Melissa wrote:

We've had 2 little quakes around here (northeastern OH) that I remember, and neither were very noticeable.  One was in '86; I was home sick from high school one day and recall only the living room window resonating briefly when it happened.  The other was during the '98-'99 school year; it was late on a Friday afternoon, and it was so mild that I initially thought the cats were scuffling under the bed upstairs, but the timing couldn't have been better--I was teaching high school then and had just finished a unit on plate tectonics with my science class!

It would be a little unnerving to live with the so many tremors and threat of one all the time, though.

Well Melissa, it's something you never get used to, but it keeps you on your toes. There's no warning so it just lurks in the back of your mind and it doesn't hurt to be prepared. You can pick up a complete earthquake survival kit at many stores around here. As usual due to the shaker in the midwest all the news outlets here are running possible scenarios about the "Big One", that's due any day, we just don't know which one. I catch myself looking around when I hear too many dogs barking or birds chirping loudly as they say animals behave erratically prior to the shaking. My friends and I roll the dice every time we go to a Cal Bears football game as a very active fault runs north to south right through Memorial Stadium. There's a crack in the north end zone that moves noticably each year.

                                                                                            Livin' On The Fault Line,

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  • From: St. Louis, MO
  • Registered: 2006-06-20
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Re: Midwest Earthquake

ohiodawg13 wrote:
Melissa wrote:

We've had 2 little quakes around here (northeastern OH) that I remember, and neither were very noticeable.  One was in '86; I was home sick from high school one day and recall only the living room window resonating briefly when it happened.  The other was during the '98-'99 school year; it was late on a Friday afternoon, and it was so mild that I initially thought the cats were scuffling under the bed upstairs, but the timing couldn't have been better--I was teaching high school then and had just finished a unit on plate tectonics with my science class!

It would be a little unnerving to live with the so many tremors and threat of one all the time, though.

Well Melissa, it's something you never get used to, but it keeps you on your toes. There's no warning so it just lurks in the back of your mind and it doesn't hurt to be prepared. You can pick up a complete earthquake survival kit at many stores around here. As usual due to the shaker in the midwest all the news outlets here are running possible scenarios about the "Big One", that's due any day, we just don't know which one. I catch myself looking around when I hear too many dogs barking or birds chirping loudly as they say animals behave erratically prior to the shaking. My friends and I roll the dice every time we go to a Cal Bears football game as a very active fault runs north to south right through Memorial Stadium. There's a crack in the north end zone that moves noticably each year.

                                                                                            Livin' On The Fault Line,

                                                                                            J Dawg

J Dawg,

Are the tickets for the seats on the north and south ends of the stadium any cheaper? smile

~Rhonda

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Re: Midwest Earthquake

I remember finding pictures of that stadium and other examples of fault creep (I think that's what it's called) to show my students, and they also thought it was interesting that animals seem to pick up on it first 'cause it is thought that they can hear the bedrock shift/scrape prior to the quake.  Seeing/feeling all those little indicators would definitely be an intimidating reminder of the possibility of so-called Big One, and it would indeed keep you on your toes.  I hope 'any day' does not happen anytime soon, or anytime at all for that matter!

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  • From: Benicia, Ca.
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Re: Midwest Earthquake

photogal wrote:
ohiodawg13 wrote:
Melissa wrote:

We've had 2 little quakes around here (northeastern OH) that I remember, and neither were very noticeable.  One was in '86; I was home sick from high school one day and recall only the living room window resonating briefly when it happened.  The other was during the '98-'99 school year; it was late on a Friday afternoon, and it was so mild that I initially thought the cats were scuffling under the bed upstairs, but the timing couldn't have been better--I was teaching high school then and had just finished a unit on plate tectonics with my science class!

It would be a little unnerving to live with the so many tremors and threat of one all the time, though.

Well Melissa, it's something you never get used to, but it keeps you on your toes. There's no warning so it just lurks in the back of your mind and it doesn't hurt to be prepared. You can pick up a complete earthquake survival kit at many stores around here. As usual due to the shaker in the midwest all the news outlets here are running possible scenarios about the "Big One", that's due any day, we just don't know which one. I catch myself looking around when I hear too many dogs barking or birds chirping loudly as they say animals behave erratically prior to the shaking. My friends and I roll the dice every time we go to a Cal Bears football game as a very active fault runs north to south right through Memorial Stadium. There's a crack in the north end zone that moves noticably each year.

                                                                                            Livin' On The Fault Line,

                                                                                            J Dawg

J Dawg,

Are the tickets for the seats on the north and south ends of the stadium any cheaper? smile

~Rhonda

Yes they are, the end zones are the general admission seating and the north end zone is the family section. The University has a retrofit project to make the stadium safer, but they can't get the project under way due to protesters sitting in some of the oak trees just outside the stadium trying to stop the project to save a couple of trees. The University promises to plant 4-5 trees for every one that has to be removed, but Berkeley is Berkeley and the stand off continues. You can only imagine the verbal confrontations that occur on game days. The tree huggers were a must see for all the Tenn. fans that came out for the game last Labor Day weekend. Watching them taunt the hippies was worth the price of admission, not to mention Cal winning the game too.

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                                                                                                              J Dawg

What is success? Is it do yo' own thang, or is it to join the rest?   -Allen Toussaint