for those too lazy to search OR click on Random's link... it was a 3.4

 

i was on the 7th floor of a building once durring an earthquake, it felt like a slolom kinda.. like it was moving one way and then the other... if you run durring an earthquake on the ground, it seems like the ground moves from under you. like you can't plant your foot where you want to. When i was a kid there was an earthquake that shook my house and i could hear the rafters creeking in the walls and it felt like something big was dropped, but the vibration just dosn't stop with an earthquake. You expect it to, but it keeps going. it can be scary or it can be fun, just depends on what you're doing. Try running next time you're in an earthquake. it puts a new twist on it.

 

yeah scary shIt!! we had a quake here in Maryland once. We were walking at the mall and everything apparently shook a few CM's. I don't remember feeling it though, maybe we were passing victoria secret store or somethin.

 

This was a 7.1 in an unpopulated area
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/hector/photos.html

You can imagine what that would have done in downtown LA.

 

^^^BADDASS bigeyes.gif

Back in Seattle we had a 4.sumthin hit downtown and the entire Puget Sound metropolitan area, I was in middle school is P.E. LOL, that gym instructor thought all the shaking was from the kids running back to their lockers and yelled at us. lmao.gif then we all stopped running and the ground/gym kept shaking. It was a really interesting and scary experience, seeing ALL the locks on the lockers swinging up and down and slamming into the lockers simultaneously.

I remember running back out to the gym and seeing the cracks in the flooring and a huge hole/indent in the middle of the gym floor.

That earthwuake wasn't even bad and it caused buildings MADE for earthquakes in downtown Seattle to loose bricks and shatter windows....

Glad everyone is allright..
There will be more this year.. gotta love California! smile.gif

 

i didnt even feel it..

Funny how you just get used to the ground shakin...

 

^ you sure it's not just your bed?!

 

I was in the one that shook Reading Pa a decade ago... It started off with this aweful rumbling sound.. like a hundred tractor trailors laboring up a steep hill... and THEN we felt the shake