I was sitting up on the puter last night, early in the AM, and I start rocking around a little in my chair, then I noticed my house was shaking back and forth slightly. I was like "What the hell??, that's not wind" It felt like someone was rocking it back and forth slightly but rapidly..I look at the window blinds and the water level in my glass and they are moving. So I it still and try to figure out,..wtf? But after a few more seconds it stops. Maybe lasted 40-45 seconds all told. After a bit I just gave up on it, not too sure yet I had not imagined it, because houses in Iowa don't rock like that. Wind is diff.

Now today I find out there was a rare midwest earthquake last night, and I must have been one of the few up in my area awake and quiet enough to actually feel it. Now I think that's pretty cool. My first earthquake. I'm now an earthquake survivor. :D I feel so-deflowered.

I remember 5-10 years ago we had one in Georgia on the Cartersville fault. It hit around 5-6 AM.

It shook my house just enough to rattle the doors and windos. Sounded like someone pounidng on the door. So I jump out of bed and run downstairs to see who was at the door so early. Didn't learn about the quake until I got to work. Freaked the the F out.

There was a quake in Kentucky last night too...somewheres around Louisville...Mrs. Ton80's best friend is down here and her daughter called to say the same thing as you...that she was a quake survivor... 8DRTV75


A few years ago, probably the same quake that AEN talked about, we felt the aftershocks here, from a quake about 2 hours or so up the road, in the Lake Sinclair area. It was a pretty damn powerful one too...we were told that it was between a 5 & 6 on the Richter, but that they couldn't say for sure, because it took place in the middle of the lake, where they didn't have an seismic equipment...we're probably about 100 or so miles away, and we felt the a series of aftershocks for about half a minute...pretty effin scary...just like AEN said. :unsure:

It woke me up this morning - just tremors, nothing major. It sounded/felt like someone really heavy stomping up our basement stairs. I listened for someone to bust through the locked basement door (just the cat and me last night). When that didn't happen, I went back to sleep. Found out this morning it was a quake and my first thought was, 'I'm glad I didn't bother to drag myself out of bed'. <_< :D

I had nothing to contribute until I saw this story on Yahoo. I thought I was in an earthquake once, but turns out it was just eplayer coming up my front steps w/an armload of beer. ;)



1906: San Francisco is destroyed by an earthquake so powerful that it is felt from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Los Angeles, and as far east as central Nevada.

What became known as the San Francisco earthquake and fire struck at 5:12 a.m., when the San Andreas Fault gave way, tearing the earth wide open from Humboldt County, near the Oregon border, to San Benito County, a hundred miles southeast of San Francisco. The epicenter was on the fault line just offshore from the San Francisco-San Mateo county line.

The earthquake had a magnitude measuring anywhere from 7.8 to 8.3 — a precise method of measuring seismic activity did not exist in 1906 — but it was enormous by any standard. There have been larger earthquakes recorded in California, but none so near a major population center. And damage was widespread all along the fault line. The town of Santa Rosa, 50 miles north of the Golden Gate, was flattened. Stanford University, in what was later to be named Silicon Valley, suffered severe damage.

But turn-of-the-century San Francisco was, by far, the most populous and important city in California — it was the cultural and financial hub of the entire West Coast, in fact — and almost all the attention was focused on the carnage there.

Even without the fire that followed, the damage was severe. The earthquake kept shaking for a full minute. By the time it subsided, a number of buildings in town had collapsed. Brick buildings with foundations of unreinforced masonry, especially those standing on land fill, proved especially vulnerable.

But the quake also ruptured gas and water mains, causing fires to break out and leaving the fire department with no water to fight them. San Francisco, then as now a tightly compact city with a lot of wooden structures, burned well.

The result was a conflagration lasting nearly four days. To stop the great fire, mansions lining the broad thoroughfare of Van Ness Avenue were dynamited by Army engineers to create a firebreak by robbing the flames of something to burn. By the time it was over the heart of San Francisco lay in ruins. In all, 508 city blocks had burned to the ground.

Anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed, most of them as a result of the earthquake itself, making this one of the biggest natural disasters in U.S. history.

A new city emerged quickly (a little too quickly, some historians would say) on the ashes of the old. Also emerging was a new emphasis on seismological studies and new regulations regarding building construction. In order to guarantee a water supply in the event of another major fire, San Francisco constructed a network of reservoirs, underground cisterns, fireboats and sea-water pumps.

San Francisco today also has some of the toughest building codes on earth -- and yet remains vulnerable to both earthquake and fire. In San Francisco, it's not a question of whether the next big one is coming, only of when.

i remember a little tremor back a few years ago when i was living in an apartment
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Upstair neighbors bumpin' uglies? :huh:

No, I don't think Ray was involved. They were probably just straight up fuckin'

Bump til California falls in the Pacific.

It's rumbling out here. There's been a bunch of quakes just of the Oregon coast the last couple of weeks.

I remember that one. You know how a dog will be scratching himself rapidly with his back leg and if he is leaned against the wall it will sort of rumble. We had an old Lab that slept outside our bedroom and that's what I thought it was...but then it kept on going. Pretty odd sensation in these parts. In Cali they think nothing of it....

Good description, 'cause at first I thought it was Ace in his kennel doing that also. Only took me a bit to realize it was slightly too powerful for that.

They felt that shit in Grand Rapids, which is just south of here. Stuff was on the news about it for two days