Western Washington had a 3.4 earthquake 8:50 PDT. I was typing here and the floor shook for a second or two and the building creaked like it was shifting.:eek:

OMG. :eek: We don't get a lot of earthquakes in San Diego so I can't imagine what it's like. I remember there was one during the night a few years back but I slept through it like a rock. :sleep2:

ive never been in an earthquake. i live in North Carolina and well we dont get them. there was one like in Alabama or somewhere not to long ago and some people in Charlotte felt it but we didnt.

I hope everything is okay. There was an earthquake here in Alabama about a month ago, and I felt it. My computer screen rattled and it woke me up and the bed was shaking. I thought that it was my heart beating really fast because something had scared me in my sleep....so it didn't hit me that there had been an earthquake until I saw it on the news the next morning.

that sux...

We were having a lot of earthquakes in Spokane in 2001 (after never having any in over fifty years), but they stopped after about five months. It was a weird experience nonetheless.

The first earthquake I ever felt was the Seattle quake of February, 2001. I was here in Spokane, and the only reason I felt it is because I was on the sixth floor of an old building.

Was a 3.7 actually from what I heard.. I didn't feel it though... Feburary 2001 though oh man yea... 6.8, was scared as hell...

3.7 really isn't that big though... just a couple months ago we had one here in Washington that was a 4.0 or so...

There was an Earhtquake in Southwest Nebraska a few months back that was 2.5, which is weird because Nebraska dosen't get many Eathquakes. I hope everything is ok.

I just felt it for a second. It certainly wasn't anything like the one in February 2001 Which was kind of strange, since it happened after one of the worst days in the history of Seattle when a huge mob in Seattle started rioting in observance of Mardi Gras. One person was killed by some punk for trying to help an injured girl...Brutes.:mad: I remember the cops did nothing for that, like in the WTO riots over a year earlier. I haven't yet heard of damage from the quake yet, it was just so quick.

That would hve been freaky. :eek: I can't imagine what being in an earthquake would be like because I've never experienced one. The majority of Canada doesn't get earthquakes, but when my Dad and I were visiting in Victoria, BC last August a friend told us that they get earthquakes there sometimes. That freaked me out for a little bit, but then I just figured that I shouldn't worry during the vacation because the odds were probably as high as a tornado coming through Saskatchewan and in all my life that I've lived in Saskatchewan I haven't been through a single tornado.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
I just felt it for a second. It certainly wasn't anything like the one in February 2001 Which was kind of strange, since it happened after one of the worst days in the history of Seattle when a huge mob in Seattle started rioting in observance of Mardi Gras. One person was killed by some punk for trying to help an injured girl...Brutes.:mad: I remember the cops did nothing for that, like in the WTO riots over a year earlier. I haven't yet heard of damage from the quake yet, it was just so quick.

aw yea those riots... WTO was bad... that was f'n chaos...

I've never been in an earthquake, thank goodness.

Crystal :ufo:

OMG, that's scary. How much damage could there be if it lasted such a short time?

I was living in Redondo Beach, CA when the Northridge Earthquake occured on January 17, 1994.

It happened at like 4:30 am, my roomates and I had some people over and a couple crashed at our place.

It woke me up like someone was shaking me- I thought someone was- and said outloud, "what do you want?"

We all met in the hallway perplexed and half-asleep.
Before we came to any conclusion as to what to do, the major tremors stopped.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/ofr-96-0263/introduc.htm#impacts

Yup, only 15 miles away from me and I didn't feel a thing... now listed as 3.7. Seattle's of two years ago was 6.8, so this was nothing.

We had an earthquake over here a few months ago. It was so weird. I was sitting on my bed and I noticed the bed was shaking - I looked up and everything in the room was shaking. My first thought was that a car had hit the building (we have a huge parking lot out front) but I met my roommates and we all went on to the balcony. All of the kids in the whole complex were out on our balconies - all of us going "was that - what I think it was?" :eek: Turns out the epicenter was actually in France, but it was big enough to shake up south/west Germany for a few minutes. My roommates said "Freiburg doesn't HAVE earthquakes." Well, there's a first time for everything! :lol:

Earthquakes are scary. The last one I remember being in was in '94 I believe....the one dlemond mentioned. I nearly slept through it then...I don't think I would now.

That is very scary. I have never been in an earthquake before.

Captain Blair did you hear that they apparently found another fault line on the Pacific Northwest area and that they are expecting a big one? NOW THAT freaks me out

Originally posted by AnahiemPMWitch
Captain Blair did you hear that they apparently found another fault line on the Pacific Northwest area and that they are expecting a big one? NOW THAT freaks me out

Oh, I know we're gonna have a big one sometime. They say Seattle could be wiped out by a tsunami...if Mt. Rainier doesn't blow first. Geologists say it's a matter of WHEN, not "if.":eek:

But I'm not worried, because by that time, I'll be living in beautiful sunny L.A.!!!!:cool: :D

Originally posted by AKA
We were having a lot of earthquakes in Spokane in 2001 (after never having any in over fifty years), but they stopped after about five months. It was a weird experience nonetheless.

The first earthquake I ever felt was the Seattle quake of February, 2001. I was here in Spokane, and the only reason I felt it is because I was on the sixth floor of an old building.
The last large quake in the Seattle (before 2001) was a magnitude 6.5 in 1965. Here is a quick list from a book on earthquakes I have:

Date Region Magnitude

1965 Between Tacoma &
Seattle...................... 6.5
1949 Between Olympia &
Tacoma..................... 7.1
1946 Vancouver Island, B.C. 7.2
1946 NNE of Tacoma............ 6.3
1945 SE of Seattle............... - - (Mag. not listed.)
1939 NW of Olympia............ 5.8
1909 North of Seattle.......... - -

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica


Oh, I know we're gonna have a big one sometime. They say Seattle could be wiped out by a tsunami...if Mt. Rainier doesn't blow first.


Thatd have to be a really big tsunami lol...

god why are all the earthquakes and tornadoes happening everywhere cept here? my damn city is BORING.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica


Oh, I know we're gonna have a big one sometime. They say Seattle could be wiped out by a tsunami...if Mt. Rainier doesn't blow first. Geologists say it's a matter of WHEN, not "if.":eek:

But I'm not worried, because by that time, I'll be living in beautiful sunny L.A.!!!!:cool: :D yes me to hopefully I'M GETTING so sick of my JOB HELL my LIFE here the only thing keeping me here is my family but GEEZ like they cant drive 2 or 3 hours to HuntingtonBeach?? I mean it could be worse

Originally posted by AAOT



Thatd have to be a really big tsunami lol... ,

I saw a disaster training film put out by KING-5 TV at work that explained the plates beneath the city of Seattle were such that they wouldn't shift up and down, but back and forth (something like that), which would cause the water in Puget Sound to rock back and forth with it...and since geologists are predicting the Big Quake to be very huge, the water will spill over into the city.:eek:

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Western Washington had a 3.4 earthquake 8:50 PDT. I was typing here and the floor shook for a second or two and the building creaked like it was shifting.:eek:

I'll bet that must've been a little scary.
I live in Illinois so we don't get earthquakes, we get tornadoes, and we have had enough of them and it's not even techically summer yet. Dang!