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Post by Headmistress Hells on Feb 27, 2008 4:28:51 GMT -5
I experienced my first Earthquake! I woke up at some silly time in the morning to find my bed shaking. At first I thought someone was breaking into my house, so I ran downstairs to take a look and didn't see anything. On the news this morning, there was an apparant tremor - 4.7 on the richter scale so at least that confirms I'm not going mad (or have poltergeist activity in my new home) Living in England, we don't tend to have many of these.
Has anyone else experienced earthquakes? I'm sure those of you in America have dealt with them more then us in the UK.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on Feb 28, 2008 14:36:40 GMT -5
I grew up in Southern California. Ring of Fire, baby; center for earthquakes. Not to mention the fault line not far off. So yes, I've been through some earthquakes, from the one (only one in my life) that emotionally scarred me (but then, I was only 8 and it was my first) to my 13th birthday party, where it was something we laughed about. Let's see...that worst one was like a 7 or something.
But enough about me, unless you actually want one of the full stories.
*remembers I'm Chase, and takes the time to surreptitiously look Hells over* Where have you been all my life?
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Post by Headmistress Hells on Feb 28, 2008 16:30:38 GMT -5
*I have missed you so much!* But I do want to hear your story. I might shut up about my mini tremor then!
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Post by Chase Firebrand on Mar 4, 2008 20:56:25 GMT -5
All right, then. Here we go:
It was October of 1980-something. I remember October because we called it "The October Earthquake" forever after. I was sitting on the couch, putting on my socks and shoes for school, and the apartment just started shaking like hell! I tore off the sock I'd just put on and dropped it, then vaulted across the room and latched onto my mother's leg. She draaaags me across the living room, and grabs, of all things, a small stained-glass window-hanging my grandfather had made for her. Then she makes her way baaaaack toward the hallway.
It's still shaking like hell, by the way. My sister, all of three years old, is screaming down the hallway. She's on the toilet, getting rained on by everything in the medicine cabinet. My mom tries to detach me because the hallway is lined with cabinets that are swinging like crazy. Eventually she peels me off her, and I'm standing near the doorway with wide eyes terrified as she bats her way past the cabinet doors.
And it stops. Shock. And my mom disappears into the bathroom for a minute and returns with my sister on her hip. Then we go sit down in the middle of the living room, away from the wall unit and the windows, and she starts explaining earthquakes, using her hands to show us about fault lines. (Looking back, she was in MOM mode; she'd panic later.)
My dad showed up. He'd been on the way to work. Something about the car bouncing on its tires. No real damage, actually, (that I knew of, being a kid) other than the panels in the kitchen ceiling having fallen to the floor. And I didn't have to go to school. Yay!
The End.
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Post by Headmistress Hells on Mar 5, 2008 3:16:10 GMT -5
Wow.. See I don't tend to panic. I just go crazy several hours afterwards. I am so glad I don't live in America though with all those Earthquakes.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on Mar 5, 2008 23:37:41 GMT -5
Not all of America, you know. The Midwest isn't earthquakey. But then, there's all those nice tornadoes...
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Post by Emily Wright on Mar 7, 2008 16:48:03 GMT -5
I live in England like Hells, so we never get Earthquakes. We have had two in Birmingham in my lifetime, but i have always slept through them. When this one happened i was at my friends house, i was awake. I was trying to get to sleep, but she was keeping me awake my staying online all night. She lives near a train track and i thought it was simpily another train passing by. I was half asleep and didn't really notice it anyway.
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Post by Savannah Brooks on Mar 10, 2008 18:08:39 GMT -5
Puerto Rico just has some crazy rain...Italy is pretty nice....
When I lived in Maryland for the short two years there were quite a bit of hurricanes.....
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Post by Headmistress Hells on Mar 10, 2008 23:11:28 GMT -5
well in ohio, we don't get earthquakes and we rarely get tornados... *pouts* it kinda sux, i love tornados lol. we get storms and stuff but i live right off lake erie, my house is like exactly a mile from it so it's like everything misses us
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Post by Headmistress Hells on Mar 11, 2008 3:07:00 GMT -5
We very rarely get snow. That sucks.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Apr 2, 2011 2:59:40 GMT -5
They're preparing for an earthquake in my area, which hasn't had one big enough to feel since the 1800's. Apparently they've predicted a huge one in the near future, which baffles me since I didn't know they were predictable. So, Ring of Fire, how often are yours predicted?  Anyhow, they're calling it the Great Shakeout and diving enthusiastically into skeptical panic, possibly because most people don't care until it looks like they'll die. Anyhow, all I'm really worried about is the structural defects and the falling wall in the basement. |
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Post by Annabelle Hennessy on Apr 2, 2011 3:20:48 GMT -5
Okay, so in California we have a yearly drill and we call it "The Great Shakeout." Everyone participates, well mostly everyone. Schools, businesses, Police, Firemen (yummy), whole cities. Every year on 10/20 at 10:20 we simulate an earthquake.
I find it really funny that the midwest would name some "prophesied earthquake" after our yearly drill. just saying. But yeah, all the earthquakes around the world are really shaking everyone here up and making us wonder if we are overdue for another big one.
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Post by Rowan Trace on Apr 2, 2011 3:45:58 GMT -5
Maybe that's the name of the drill they're having, and yes, there is a drill. Maybe it's already been blown out of proportion and there is no prophesied earthquake at all. Maybe they decided to have the drill and people started saying there had been an earthquake predicted. That sounds right for around here.
Unrelated subject: I hate Fox news.
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Anyhow, they're calling it the Great Shakeout and diving enthusiastically into skeptical panic, possibly because most people don't care until it looks like they'll die.
