i'm too far north but i know we have a lot of so cal people. anyone? Recent Earthquakes - Info for event ci14383980
no one felt the earthquake?
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Stoney McFried
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I've never felt an earthquake.Whats it like?
hom36rown
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pretty gnarley, its not that hard to imagine...everything just shakes back and forth....I slept through the one today, thats the second time now, Im a super heavy sleeper....my dad was in downtown though In a high rise near the top...the buildings all sway back and forth too, he said it was pretty crazy
Stoney McFried
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I slept through a tornado about a mile from my house...I guess no matter hwere you go, something's gonna get ya.
it's fuckin' crazy. i was in the bay area during "the big one". the ground swells under your feet. we were eating at round table and ran out into the parking lot. it was a big loooooong lot. we looked down it and saw all the cars bobbing up and down like they were floating on water. it was crazy. then we had after shocks for weeks. the first week they happened a few every hour. big ones. it gave me PTDS.
Stoney McFried
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Whats PTDS?
it's fuckin' crazy. i was in the bay area during "the big one". the ground swells under your feet. we were eating at round table and ran out into the parking lot. it was a big loooooong lot. we looked down it and saw all the cars bobbing up and down like they were floating on water. it was crazy. then we had after shocks for weeks. the first week they happened a few every hour. big ones. it gave me PTDS.
hom36rown
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how big was it? the biggest one Ive ever been in was like a 6.8 or something and I was pretty close to the epicenter...it was pretty crazy...I remember a freeway collapsed and killed a copit's fuckin' crazy. i was in the bay area during "the big one". the ground swells under your feet. we were eating at round table and ran out into the parking lot. it was a big loooooong lot. we looked down it and saw all the cars bobbing up and down like they were floating on water. it was crazy. then we had after shocks for weeks. the first week they happened a few every hour. big ones. it gave me PTDS.
hom36rown
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I think he means ptsd
Stoney McFried
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Seamaiden
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Uh uh, that's only if you're sufficiently far away that it shakes or sways back and forth. I was in Uptown Whittier for the Whittier Narrows quake in '87, and lemme tell you what, that was no shaking. It felt like Godzilla had grabbed the building, ripped it out by its roots and was SLAMMING DOWN ON THE GROUND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! There was no walking or moving into a doorway or under a table, no fuckin' way.
My oldest son felt it, he dug the ride but was pissed he couldn't get any calls out.
that's the part that traumatized me. the OVER and OVER and OVER again of the aftershocks. it made me realize how NOT in control of my life i actually am. i'm scared of a lot of things now.
Seamaiden
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It happens, we feel our mortality as we age, and if we have kids it just gets even worse. For the first few months after that, any time a train or truck or ANYTHING that would cause that particular rumbling frequency just got me flipped.
Whoa.. brings back memories...
NOAA Images: Southern California Earthquakes - slide 20
Anyone who's old enough may remember the shots on the news channels of a sign that said Quake City, from Quaker City FCU (that used to be my bank), which was only a couple of blocks from where I lived at the time. That was one hell of a shaker.
Whoa.. brings back memories...
NOAA Images: Southern California Earthquakes - slide 20
Anyone who's old enough may remember the shots on the news channels of a sign that said Quake City, from Quaker City FCU (that used to be my bank), which was only a couple of blocks from where I lived at the time. That was one hell of a shaker.
IGTHY
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I felt it major!
I feel cool.
