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Earthquake
We had a 5.4 earthquake this morning at about 4:30 in Southern Indiana. The epicenter was about 50 miles northwest in Illinois. Anybody else feel it? It was kind of scary and cool all at the same time.
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Wow!! My first and only quake was while I was in San Francisco on business. I was sitting in the hotel desk chair with my feet up when it happened. I didn't really notice it until the guy I was working with came flying in my room and asked if I felt that. I kind of felt it, but I guess the springy chair absorbed most of it. There was a third guy in my room also working with us that didn't say anything because I didn't at first. LOL... He thought it was his imagination when he felt the building wiggle... BTW, it was about a 4.0, centered like 30 miles from us across the bay. A 5.4 must've been really impressive, relatively speaking!!
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I'm old enough to have lived through several pretty good California quakes. I think it was one in 1971 that rolled both my pregnant wife and I out of bed. I enjoy them myself. Course I've never lost a loved one or lots of property in one, so that makes it easy to find them entertaining.
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A few years ago when I was still living in Georgia, (it must have been above 5 yrs ago or so), I was laying in bed with my son at about 6:00am and all of a sudden the house was making noise like a really big wind was blowing. The screens were rattling in the windows and what not. I was half asleep and at first that is what I thought was happening, the it hit me...EARTHQUAKE!!!! I jumped up out of bed looked around was a little concerned but by then, the shaking had stopped. It was pretty neat.
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
Just for the hill of it, and the fact that I am so bored most of the time I figured to check my memory. I was pretty correct, but I was thinking it was April or May of '71, I was pretty close. But I told ya, it was a goodun!!
THE 1971 SAN FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE
THE 1971 SAN FERNANDO EARTHQUAKE
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From: Cut & Shoot, Texas
I experienced many earthquakes when I lived in California, the worst being the Loma Prieta quake. Blew the front windows out of my house and we had no power for a week.
I kind of like them as long as no one gets hurt. The rolling ones are cool to feel. It's the jolters that tear things up and aren't so fun.
I was once standing in a big warehouse in Vallejo CA and a roller hit. We actually watched the hump in the ground roll through the warehouse. It was really something to see.
I kind of like them as long as no one gets hurt. The rolling ones are cool to feel. It's the jolters that tear things up and aren't so fun.
I was once standing in a big warehouse in Vallejo CA and a roller hit. We actually watched the hump in the ground roll through the warehouse. It was really something to see.
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I heard it on the news this a.m. I have family in Bargersville, IN. I'm going to call them and see if they felt it! I heard no big damages or injuries, which is a blessing!!!
I've been thru the Sylmar quake in '71, and the Northridge quake in '94, and was fortunate to be far awy enough from both to get a little early morning excitement without any losses. Out here, quakes are just something we have to deal with infrequently. But you can find humor in it. California Angels (I still don't accept the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim") have a Single A farm club, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. Their mascot is a dinosaur named "Tremor"!
I've been thru the Sylmar quake in '71, and the Northridge quake in '94, and was fortunate to be far awy enough from both to get a little early morning excitement without any losses. Out here, quakes are just something we have to deal with infrequently. But you can find humor in it. California Angels (I still don't accept the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim") have a Single A farm club, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. Their mascot is a dinosaur named "Tremor"!
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We had some good ones out in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA back in the early 90's. Had one of them "rollers" while driving down the road once. That is some weird stuff. The "Big Bear" and "Landers" quake cracked the walls in our Base Housing apartment.
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From: TN
Woke us up in TN for sure my wife thought it was a Chinook at first then she woke me asking "what is that?". Took me a minute to figure it out. IF it shook that hard down here I can't imagine anything higher in magnitude.