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nonhuman · Sep 4, 2003, 09:41 PM

Just had a nice little earthquake in Oakland. Biggest one I've felt yet. Dunno how strong it was. I must say, I still find them more interesting than anything else.

mixin visuals · Sep 4, 2003, 09:45 PM

i never have got to experience on yet

vmpaul · Sep 4, 2003, 09:47 PM

4.1 according to this.

Not bad. I didn't feel it in Cupertino.

nonhuman · Sep 4, 2003, 09:48 PM

Haha, awesome. My guess was 4.

vmpaul · Sep 4, 2003, 09:49 PM

Originally posted by mixin visuals:
i never have got to experience on yet

I kind of enjoy them. They're only scary when they last longer than you expect. And very few of them ever do last long.

vmpaul · Sep 4, 2003, 09:50 PM

Originally posted by nonhuman:
Haha, awesome. My guess was 4.

Isn't it funny how after you've experienced a bunch you can guess the magnitude?

nonhuman · Sep 4, 2003, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
I kind of enjoy them. They're only scary when they last longer than you expect. And very few of them ever do last long.

Yeah, they're fun. Although slightly unnerving when they wake you up in the middle of the night.

vmpaul · Sep 4, 2003, 09:55 PM

Originally posted by nonhuman:
Yeah, they're fun. Although slightly unnerving when they wake you up in the middle of the night.

Yeah, those are the 'jolts'. When they're so close they feel like the house has been hit by a truck.

The 'jiggly' rolling kind barely even open my eyes.

TheGreatButcher · Sep 4, 2003, 10:37 PM

my buddy in berzerkeley IMed me about it - I told him to quit whining, he wasn't up here for the good ol' Loma Prieta party

Zimphire · Sep 4, 2003, 10:41 PM

Got lucky, California isn't in the ocean.

fireside · Sep 4, 2003, 11:05 PM

damnit once i move from california earthquakes start happening.

nonhuman · Sep 4, 2003, 11:07 PM

It's your fault!

vmpaul · Sep 4, 2003, 11:51 PM

Originally posted by nonhuman:
It's your fault!

I thought is was San Andreas's? (rim shot)

DigitalEl · Sep 5, 2003, 08:57 AM

We were on the phone with my wife's parents when it happened. They're in Alameda. Very surreal to hear them say "Earthquake!" Guess it only lasted a few seconds.

I slept through a minor earthquake once. I didn't even know it happened 'til I got up to go to work. All the traffic lights and the ATM I went to were out.

wdlove · Sep 5, 2003, 12:37 PM

I've never experienced an earthquake either, they say that we are overdue in NE. I have seen a tornadoes in Nebraska.

ZackS · Sep 5, 2003, 01:00 PM

We had one in Connecticut 2 years ago. It was only a magnitude 1.9 but it was pretty strange just because of my location. I don't think I'd ever felt one before that.

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/Conn_20010815.html

Jansar · Sep 5, 2003, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
I thought is was San Andreas's? (rim shot)

Hah, nice pun.

Anyway, I'm right across the bay in San Mateo and we didn't get one. We still get a lot of small ones occasionally, but let's not forget the big quake (I think almost 7 on the Richter scale) in 1989. Damn!

Logic · Sep 5, 2003, 04:17 PM

We had one a couple of weeks ago that was 5+ just south west of Reykjav�k. Didn't wake me up

The scary thing about earthquakes in this area(just as anywhere here on Iceland) is the risk of volcanic eruptions that could follow. I wouldn't exactly like it if one of the bigger "dormant" volcanos here would wake up just next to my home. The whole security system is set in place and the activities that followed are monitored.

We don't want this to happen again:

And that was just a small eruption on an island south of Iceland.

But I guess that is what you must live with when your ancestors decided to live on a volcano in the middle of nowhere

gethigh · Sep 6, 2003, 03:12 AM

Volcanoes!!!! Talk about needing major insurance.

Anyway I felt the quake and its aftershock here in SF. They felt like some big dude just shoved me.

Now the 89' quake was more of a mugging. It's been over a decade since. I think we're overdue for a "big" one.

Patrick · Sep 6, 2003, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by vmpaul:
I thought is was San Andreas's? (rim shot)

Hehe... but from what I read, it was the Hayward fault. That one doesn't go with the joke, though.

And apparently it was downgraded to 3.9 after some reports of 4 or 4.1 came out. I don't see much difference.

I felt it here in Menlo Park (west bay), but it lasted about 1 second here, and I can see how some people might not have felt it at all. I felt sort of a slow lurch, but it stopped as soon as I realised what was happening. There was apparently an aftershock about an hour later, but I didn't feel it.

Dubloseven · Sep 7, 2003, 03:07 AM

that earthquake was fun. i was sitting on my sofa and suddenly felt it and thought, hey, earthquake! i like the small ones.

IUJHJSDHE · Sep 7, 2003, 07:57 AM

Damn, I feel like I am missing out on something here.

jckalen · Sep 7, 2003, 08:30 AM

I've actually experienced two earthquakes right here in upstate NY. One probably didn't count as a "true" earthquake though. It was caused by the collapse of a salt mine south of Rochester. I don't think either quake topped 3.5 which is probably a joke to most Californians.