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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2008, 09:30:50 PM »
Quote from: parts on February 27, 2008, 09:17:16 PM
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I am on the East Coast and we really don't get them a all here just wondering what it was like

I was in upstate NY when we had a 5.3-5.4 richter scale quake centered near Plattsburg about 7-8 years ago.  It happened at 6am and I was awake and looking out my window at the sky.  When I heard what sounded like a big rushing wind, like the kind that whips up before a thunderstorm arrives.  The only thing was the trees weren't moving.  The sound passes like a freight train and then next thing the house of my inlaws shakes for 7-10 seconds like somebody grabbed it and shook it.  (I was on the second floor of wood beam framed house)  Then everything stopped and there was dead silence.  The epicenter was up near Plattsburg, NY.

The earthquake was felt all over New England, it even shook walls and windows and knocked things off shelves as far away as Maine.  we heard all about it when we got back home.  Of course I was in the middle of it.  My daughter came out of the adjacent room wide eyed, but, not scared, we both felt it was cool to feel our first really good size earthquake.  It was my third, but the first two were pretty small and short.
 

Well there have been a few in the Stamford Ct area but they where the type that most people don't notice but they make the paper I never noticed any  of them

We had one here about four years ago. I was standing on the ground in a city park waiting for my next photo sitting to show up for an on-location shoot in the woods. I think it was a four point something, but I felt it and heard it. Even if I had not felt it I would have been aware that something was up, because it freaked the fuck out of the birds and squirrels and all the insects went silent.

Most people who were inside buildings knew nothing about it, though. It was extremely minor, but it hit the radio within minutes with full reports.
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2008, 09:40:34 PM »
The  closest thing I have ever experienced to one was being near where they where blasting rock
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2008, 05:30:54 AM »
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2008, 06:10:40 AM »
That would be a weird feeling, driving during an earthquake.
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2008, 06:36:55 AM »
I've never felt one :(
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2008, 06:50:24 AM »
Don't feel bad, a friend of mine and fellow volcano fanatic has never felt one either.   And he's been to Hawaii and took a sample of fresh lava from a lava flow.  So I may be ahead of him in earthquakes, but, he's been to a live volcano and all I'v ever seen are dead ones. :(

Most earthquakes in the UK are too small to be noticeable, they can sound like a truck going buy or thunder.  Thats the way most are in the Northeast US.  The day of the big one in upstate NY, my wife was taking a a walk down our country unpaved road at the same time (here in MAine) and she never felt or heard a thing.
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Re: Earthquake
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2008, 06:51:29 AM »
When I went to Naples when I was a kid, we were going to go up Vesuvius, but we never did
I want to go back there though
I was obsessed with Romans at the time :P
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