We just had an Earthquake!

[Topless In Texas]

Originally posted by PKRWUD
Thanks kell, but it's cool. I actually love earthquakes. I haven't felt this pumped up since my drug days.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! WHY DOES THIS NOT SURPRISE ME???? The thought of the earth opening up and swallowing me whole does not appeal to me too terribly much!!! I"ll take a hurricane or a flood ANY DAY!!!!! Guess cause i've been through about 5 or so major ones that I can think of!!!!! Guess its all what your used to!!!!! Your coast gets hammered by Earthquakes, my coast by Hurricanes and floods!!! ALTHOUGH, I do think it would be WAYYYYYYY COOOOL TO SEE A TORNADO!!!! I've always thought about that. I used to dream about them chasing me!! Maybe I should have been a storm chaser instead of a hairdresser????? ahhahahahhaah. Thats crazy!!! We've had a few around here, but i've never seen one in real life. I love watching them on TV.
So, did stuff rattle and fall off the shelves like they do in the movies????

[PKRWUD]

Originally posted by Topless In Texas


So, did stuff rattle and fall off the shelves like they do in the movies????

Not at my place. There were reports of pictures falling, and stuff like that, but I just felt like someone shoved the back of my chair. What was kinda cute was that at first, I thought it had to be one of my cats jumping on the back of my chair, so I spun around to see who it was, and the two that were in my office at the time were cuddled together on a chair behind me, looking at me like I had pushed them. It was then that I realized it was an outside force.

It was very cool, but I prefer the "rolling" earthquakes. See, it kinda works like this: There are two types, depending on where you are in relation to the fault. If you are located inline with the fault, you get a sharp jolt, but if you are perpendicular to the fault, then they tend to be rolling, kinda like on a waterbed. Those are alot more fun because they last longer. As far as the earth opening up, that doesn't happen very often. Most of the quakes are underground, and never actually break the surface of the earth. Some do, but not many.

Take care,
-Chris

[Mercury]

Hey Pony Power.

When was that quake at the Madrid Fault. Wasnt it 1812. They said the Mississipi stopped flowing for a few hours that day.

If I remember correctly, that was a pretty big shaker on the Rictor scale. When ever I ask someone about that Quake, that supposedly knows Natural Diasters, they look at me like I'm smoking Crack.

[silver_pilate]

Mercury,

Yeah, that's the one I was referring to in the end of my last reply. If my information is correct, the river actually flowed backwards for a while.

Here's a firsthand account of the earthquakes of New Madrid (Missouri) of 1811 written by Eliza Bryan. There were three major quakes which were classified as magnitude-8 earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks:

"On the 16th of December, 1811, about 2 o'clock, A.M., we were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a very awful noise, resembling loud but distant thunder, but more hoarse and vibrating, which was followed in a few minutes by the complete saturation of the atmosphere, with sulphurious vapor, causing total darkness. The screams of the affrighted inhabitants running to and fro, not knowing where to go or what to do, the cries of the fowls and beasts of every species, the cracking of trees falling, and the roaring of the Mississippi, the current of which was retrograde for a few minutes, owing, as is supposed, to an erruption in its bed, formed a scene truly terrible.

From that time until about sunrise a number of lighter shocks occurred, at which time one still more violent than the first took place, with the same accompaniments, and the terror which had been excited in every one, and indeed in all animal nature, was now, if possible, doubled. The inhabitants fled in every direction to the country, supposing (if it can be admitted that their minds can be exercised at all) that there was less danger at a distance from than near the river. In one person, a female, (Mrs. Lafont), the alarm was so great that she fainted, and could not be revived.

There were several shocks a day, but lighter than those already mentioned, until the 23d of January, 1812, when one occurred, as violent as the severest of the former ones, accompanied by the same phenomena as the former.

From this time until the 4th of February the earth was in a continual agitation, visibly waving as a gentle sea. On that day there was another shock, nearly as hard as the proceeding ones; next day four such, and on the 7th, about 4 o'clock A.M., a concussion took place so much more violent than those which had preceeded it, that it was denominated the hard shock. The awful darkness of the atmosphere which, as formerly, was saturated with sulphurous vapor, and the violence of the tempestuous thundering noise that accompanied it, together with all of the other phenomena mentioned as attending the former ones, formed a scene, the description of which would require the most sublimely fanciful imagination.

At first the Mississippi seemed to recede from its banks, and its water gathered up like a mountain, leaving, for a moment, many boats which were here on their way to New Orleans, on the bare sand, in which time the poor sailors made their escape from them. It then rising fifteen or twenty feet perpendicularly, and expanding, as it were, at the same moment, the bank overflowed with a retrograde current rapid as a torrent. The boats, which before had been left on the sand, were now torn from their moorings, and suddenly driven up a little creek, at the mouth of which they laid, to the distance, in some instances, of nearly a quarter of a mile. The river, falling immediately as rapidly as it had risen, receded within its banks again with such violence that it took with it whole groves of young cottonwood trees which ledged its borders...."


Crazy Stuff.

--nathan

[MidNiteBlu 5.0]

I didnt feel any of it but i am pretty far away hehe. I havent felt a earthquake in a long time. I miss them they are cool. I remember when i lived in Monterey in like 88 or 89 i think we had one where you could actually see the street rolling. It was pretty cool LOL. Hey pony power do your friends drive mustangs? Do you know if they are in the San Diego Mustang club if they do? I think it would be interesting if I know them from the club hehe.

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