Little earthquakes are indeed "fun', but anything above a 5 starts to grab your attention. The first and only big quake I've been in was back in 2005 when a 7.0 rocked our area. Never felt anything like it. Thankfully, it was located out at sea and not directly under us and yet not so far as to create a significant tsunami. For around 30 seconds the earth literally roared - unsettling to say the least!

We don't have many earthquakes here and those we have are usually limited at worst to old brick walls falling. Our tornadoes are few and F1 at most, and our heat waves last rarely more than four days. Never seen a report of tidal waves around here. Wild fires can be huge but far away up north., though you can smell the smoke. This said, we do get our asses frozen for nearly six months of the year, but I'll take that over all the disasters happening in other countries. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Earthquake!
 

Experienced my first (hopefully last) earthquake the other day! Interesting experience. The house felt like it was floating in the sea! It lasted 30 seconds. We sat watching TV, looked at each other and said '' Ok..... I think this is a quake. So..... should we do something?'' Then it was gone.

Mike

floaters are cool if you dont live on a landfill

Must be unusual in your area? Must have been scary.

Good thing nothing bad happened to you.

Ramonhttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/clap.gif

Something everyone should experience safely to reinforce how insignificant we are!

Oddly, I've not experienced a quake since moving to CA, but have in Mass! A very minor rolling one, but enough to wake me up. Felt like I was on a conveyor belt. Weird stuff.

I'll take that or a hurricane any day. Tornados scare the bejeezus out of me!

i was just reading that the southwest here may have temps in the 115-120 degree range next few days. i have relatives that live in deming, nm and they have already had a huge wildfire in the gila wilderness area to the northwest of there, north of silver city. actually not many trees in the deming area except for planted pecans and some cottonwoods; mostly cactus and cholla. ouch to the 'cooking' in your own water tanks (very sad)

I would take an Earthquake over a Hurricane or Tornado anyday! But then again I grew up two miles from the San Andreas Fault.

Tyler

I vividly recall the '89 Lima Prieta Earthquake in California. I was at work at the time. The building where I worked was an old converted warehouse built on wood pilings sunk into the mud flats near Candlestick park in San Francisco. Only about a mile away. The building rolled and rolled and rolled. That's when earthquakes stopped being "fun" for me.

Glad that you're alright and safe and sound.

Luckily we dont get hurricanes or tornados here, but we do get bush (wild) fires from time to time like the the many on Balck Saturday a few years ago. Unless you get out early there's nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. That day was 116F with high winds. Trees literally exploded, cars melted and some people boiled to death in their water tanks. I hear the US is experiencing record high temps at the moment. Be careful CA!

yikes! Rick, either i'm glad that I don't live near you, or if the big one is going to hit someday, maybe i'll take the extra room in your house for a night, until things blow over (hopefully you can keep dodging)

I have been in (fortunately) mild earthquakes several times. Once in KY 35 years ago, another here in PA last year (the one that damaged a lot of stuff in DC, like the Natl Cathedral and Washington Monument), but by far the most "exciting" was when I was on the 3rd floor of a corrugated steel building outside of Tokyo. Serious "shake, rattle, & roll" went on then!

Had a tornado go though my yard when I lived in KY.

Have lived through many hurricanes, including one in a mobile home in Daytona Beach when I was visiting grandparents as a kid. Now THAT was scare - especially when the pine cones fell from those tall trees and landed on the roof!

think i would deal with a hurricane in a solid structure above the water line somewhere... though we've only had very minor earthquakes here. tornados are not to be dealt with, glad you are safe

The scary ones are the rollers. You can watch the ground roll like small waves!

The '89 quake, I was outside with my brother and father playing catch before the World Series and we saw the 60 foot oak tree in the back part of our property jump up a couple feet and the wave hit the house. My mother was thrown five feet into the door jam and broke her arm in a few places. All in all everyone was "safe" but the house moved three inches off the foundation, my uncles house was cut in half though!! INSANE!

Glad that you escaped injury or serious damage.

Still beats severe weather in my opinion.

tyler

I grew up in Southern California and was there for a handful of significant earthquakes, and lots of fires, although my family has never experienced any significant losses from either force.

Then I moved to Oklahoma that had regular tornadoes. I managed to dodge all those bullets too (although bit by a hot snake at work).

Then now in TN we've been nailed by multiple tornadoes, massive straight line winds, and floods. I've had neighbors killed and massive property loss, but my number hasn't been called....yethttp://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/confused.gif

I think I prefer the risk of earthquake and fire rather than the hurricane tornado risk.