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Originally Posted by Sage
Now, if I lived in Cali, like some of you do, it wouldn't be a big deal, but I live in Asheville NC.
3.8 with an origin in Hot Springs. I was downtown in the comic/game store Martel and I hang out with, and all the sudden the floor started shaking. We (me, Martel, and our friends J and A) just looked at each other and were like "Holy crap what the hell was that?" then the phone started ringing off the hook with friends calling being like "did you feel it too?"
So, I've been through an earthquake... tic that one off the list!
Any of you guys been in ones? Stronger? What's it like when the whole earth rumbles, like in a 6 or a 7?
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As a long-term CA resident (20 yrs this week), I've been through a number of 'em
Most notable was the
Loma Prieta quake in Aug 1989. 6.7 mag., I think.
Even though I was just starting the 6th grade that summer, I vividly remember that afternoon.
The shaking was so prolonged, and the vertical movement so intense, it was impossible to ignore... even though I lived about 75 miles north of the epicenter. As soon as the shaking began, I ducked under a stout desk at the edge of the sheer wall in our kitchen and rode her out. The floor and walls rippled in sync with the waves. A few sheetrock joints ripped open in the celing and a few of the grout joints were pulverized in the tremor. But for the most part, we were fortunate to have such minimal damage.
This was mostly due to the fact that our timber structure sat on bedrock at the north end of the San Francisco Bay. OTOH, the Marina and Waterfront districts of SF fared much worse... to say nothing of the poor souls who were crushed on the Nimitz Expressway.
To wit, I still remember coming back from the local market with my mother about 15 mins after the quake. From the passenger seat of a 505 Peugeot, we cresting the hill that looked across to the Marina district and paused by a neighbor's house, only to see a tremendous ball of CNG-fueled fire rise into the sky.
I could go on, but we've all seen the pictures.
So yeah, it was a trip.