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Shake Shake Shake
Slick:
So apparently this was felt as far away as Kitchener-Waterloo in Ontario. Where I live. And where I may have been illicitly underground in a tunnel system a day after the quake.
Man if there was an earthquake while I was in the service tunnels I would have freaked the sweet fucking fuck out.
DoubleAW:
I woke up and thought it was because my nose was stuffed, so I just went back to sleep.
october1983:
--- Quote from: ForteBass on 20 Apr 2008, 07:35 ---
--- Quote from: Linds on 18 Apr 2008, 07:12 ---I wouldn't have called it interesting. I woke up thinking someone had crawled under my bed and was wriggling around under there.
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Sorry about that. Won't happen again.
So, they say because the mid-west is so flat, earthquakes travel better and can be felt further away. Here we have lots of mountains so we don't feel it unless it's our area. I wonder how true that is...
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I think there's something to it. I'm no scientist, but I seem to remember being told in Peru that Cusco, a city in the mountains, never got hit by earthquakes because of where it was located. Sounds like there's something about the make up of mountains that acts as a kind of earthquake dampener.
petmilk:
ah! i thought the midwest was immune to this! i thought our unique scourge was tornados, apparantly i was wrong. luckily i live by train tracks so house shaking is not unfamiliar territory.
my mom's commentary on this event:
mom: you know how everyone says california is going to break off from the continent one day because of its earthquakes? my theory is, what will actually happen is the midwest will break down the middle, and chicago will become the new east coast!
me: mom, we don't have nearly as many earthquakes as california.
mom: there was that one back in 1998!
me: do we have them MONTHLY?
mom: oh.
but i do really like the idea of chicago becoming like, a second new york. oh wait it already is. BUT BETTER.
valley_parade:
Basically you want Chicago to be as awesome as Boston.
I'll propose a trade. You send us the Lawrence Arms, and we'll give you 50% of our awesomeness.
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