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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

Felt my first earthquake ever. I was in class here at OSU when I noticed that I seemed to be shaking. At first I thought it was me but I didn't feel sick or anything. After class let out I talked to some people and found out that a 7.0 earthquake had happend near seattle which is around 300 miles away. Neat to say the least.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Oregon State University?

Wow! Dude -- we got some freaky timing, I posted something about the 'quake at the 'zact same time.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

So is there someone here actually from Seattle?

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

Ahh, it's such a rite of passage. I remember my first, in Belgium in 1992. 8)

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I know Simon and Liz (Sol System and LOA, that is) both live within 300 miles of Seattle. I think we have a couple people here from Seattle itself, but I don't know who they are offhand...

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

I know a few people who live in Seacouver.

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Waitaminnit... was this at about 10:30 this morning?

IT WORKED!!!

On to trial 2!

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

"Set us up the bomb for Pennsylvania."

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

So what's your Target for Trial 2?

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

I felt the quake here in Spokane... it woke me up.. but I thought I was crazy and went back to sleep....

I have a LOT of freidns and family in Seattle... I can't get ahold of any of them... and I had another friend die in a car accident last week...... I'm so tweaked out....................... this is scary, you guys.....

~LOA

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

My God, LOA, my condolences for your friend.

I've checked news sources. Only injuries, no fatalities yet.

Glad you're still typing, LOA. Sol is probably a bit dazed, but ok too....

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

No more so than usual. Though I live closer (by about three hours, I think) to King County than LOA, I didn't really feel a thing. I was heading out to my car at the time. However, apparently, there was some shaking witnessed, including a set of hanging plants which, uh, shook. So those of you urgently praying for my demise will have to wait another day!

Er...unless this quake destabilized the chain of active volcanos I live spitting distance from, in which case I will be buried under a mountain of ash and rock and ash and more ash. But that doesn't appear to be the case.

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[This message has been edited by Sol System (edited February 28, 2001).]

Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

As a member of the Southern California contingent, let me first of all welcome you to the club of those who have been quaked.

It's not really a select club...there are literaly millions of us already initiated...but now you get a hat and a little blue button to wear. Those you will get in the mail from the home office 6-8 weeks after they process your application. Although anyone 300 miles away from the epicenter may have to get two letters of recomendation from previously quaked people. I could get one for you, maybe Ziyal could get the other.

A 6.8 (from the reports I've heard) is pretty big. But listening to the same reports it seems that all that retrofitting money went to good use. Believe me, this is of great discussion here in Los Angeles because we just sit around sometimes waiting for a big quake to hit.

We in Southern California feel for you in the great Northwest...and wish you all the best.

Remember, get under those doors, desks or other sturdy object, make sure there isn't a gas leak in or about the abode, and please try not to panic.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

An earthquake saftey guide or two:
http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/earthquake/reduce.html
http://www.fema.gov/library/quakef.htm

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Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :

BAHAHAHA!!!!

Bow to the earthquake master! man, u guys are all newbies to earthquake compare to me!

When I was back in Taiwan, I experienced more earthquake then all the grains of rice I ate during dinner time!

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

That, I guess, would roughly be alot.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Tahna... that would be telling.

But if Tehran is suddenly swallowed up by the ground...
It wasn't me.

*blinks*

Oh, who am I kidding?

In all seriousness, the North American urban areas classed as "overdue" for fairly large earthquakes include:
Saint Louis
New York
Boston
Charleston
Denver
Vancouver
Los Angeles
Portland
and, although perhaps not overdue anymore, Seattle.

[This message has been edited by First of Two (edited February 28, 2001).]

Posted by Antagonist (Member # 484) on :

I live in the same general area you and LOA do, Sol; Vancouver. It was a roller and it was actually quite fun. One moment I was in class have a great ol' time (if thats even possible), and the next I'm standing up swaying. People started asking me what the hell I was doing. I guess living in southern california gives one a seismic sense, you know, like Spiderman's spidey-sense! Except without the neat swirly animated tentacles coming from your head.

Anyhow, I was hoping for a few minor aftershocks. I thought it was fun.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

A Slipstreamer was in it.

http://www.slipstreambbs.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001246.html

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

whoa, that place was weird...may I never step into that reality again.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Woo-hoo! Go Saint Louis! Yeah! I� Oh. Wait...

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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

*imagines future archaeologists making a plaster cast of the hole in the ash left by Simon's body, like in Pompeii* Get another vat! Seems to be a problem filling above the waist, something large and protruding is using everything we pour in!

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Posted by MIB on :

I felt an earthquake once. Or so my mother says. According to her, I slept throgh the whole thing!

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Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :

Hey, at least the earthquake in Seattle was over 30 miles below the surface, unlike 8-12 miles below like the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I once felt a tremor. I don't think there was a more serious earthquake anywhere causing it, though.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Well, we maritimer's never feel earthquakes, cause, well, there's no fault lines here... Wait, actually, I think I heard once that there's one running along the Saint John River... Dunno how accurate that is, though.

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

I'm in the most earthquake-free zone in the world. There was a small one at the end of the 19th century that damaged a church and 200 "dwellings" (shit-holes would be a more accurate description) slightly.

Wait - that does't explain why I'm rocking back and forth
*smells breath*

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Actually, 90% of tremors are caused by an attractive lady walking past Simon's house.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

In the case of the Seattle earthquake, two walked by.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Emeraldcity reported in again today at Slipstrem. She said all was well with her, and that she worked two blocks from the Starbucks building. I didn't see it on the news, but I assume it collasped, or partly collasped.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Not only do no pretty girls ever walk past my house, no girls at all do. Indeed, no humans or, in fact, higher primates ever come within fifty yards unless they A.) Live here, B.) Want to sell something (shoes, power, a god) C.) Know one or more occupants or want money from them.

My home is, to say the least, physically isolated.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I know a few people who live there on another board, most said it wasn't that bad but surprising (how many would expect an Earthquake up there?

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Anyone who had been paying attention.

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

Sol: What about the innocent kids that use you as something to mount swings on?

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Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :

I don't know how it could have been missed. The ground went shaky-shake for a good 45 seconds. The Starbuck's building (cough) was only partially shaken down. Lots of cosmetic damage to older buildings, some structural. They've declared the capitol building in Olympia uninhabitable. And my friend who works at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle took a couple pieces of the ceiling home as souvenirs.

And Chris? I think when the New York quake hits, you'll feel it...

--Jonah

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

New York? Is that near a major fault line? I've never heard of any tectonic activity there.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

If you live on the Pacific Rim, you're gonna get it sooner or later. I'm not worried though.

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

There are some fault lines that run near that side of the country but nothing very close to NY. I don't think they have much to worry about.

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