Topic: Shake Shake Shake (Read 21536 times)

Lines · « **on:** 18 Apr 2008, 06:04 »

http://www.suntimes.com/news/902398,quake041808.article

I don't even live in Illinois and it woke me up at 5:30 this morning because my bed was shaking. Did anyone else feel this? Are you Illinoisers okay?

jhocking · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 06:19 »

My fiancee called me this morning to ask if I felt it. It didn't wake me up, but I do have a vague recollection of dreaming that my bed was moving.

First the cougar, now this... we think some sort of apocalypse is coming.

0bsessions · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 06:40 »

Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 06:58 »

...Now that is a terrifying thought.

This is my favorite quote from that article:

Quote

''Oh, yeah, I felt it. It was interesting,'' Griswold said. ''A lot of shaking.''

...I don't think I've ever heard an earthquake described simply as "interesting".

valley_parade · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 07:07 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 18 Apr 2008, 06:40

Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.

I am trying to stifle my laughter. It's not working.

Lines · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 07:12 »

Quote from: ThePQ4 on 18 Apr 2008, 06:58

I don't think I've ever heard an earthquake described simply as "interesting".

I wouldn't have called it interesting. I woke up thinking someone had crawled under my bed and was wriggling around under there. It creeped me out and then when it stopped I was confused about whether if it had really happened or not. When I told my mom about it, she said she'd figured I'd woken up and was bumping into things or that the roof was shaking for some reason.

When reading those now, I don't think either of us have any sense that early in the morning.

jhocking · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 07:17 »

Quote from: 0bsessions on 18 Apr 2008, 06:40

Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.

That would definitely be a sign of the apocalypse coming.

benji · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 07:20 »

We felt it in Louisville. It was my first earthquake and I was still half asleep, so I thought I had imagined it at first. Then my house-mate asked loudly "was that an earthquake?"

jhocking · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 07:56 »

I experienced an earthquake once before back in Egypt. Now that was quite a disaster.

laizeohbeets · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 08:13 »

Nope. Didn't feel it, but I'm also a bit far south. We occasionally have tiny little earthquakes, but to me, it feels like someone is doing maintenance down the cul-de-sac, with like, a road driller.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 08:18 »

I have never felt an earthquake. Hooray for the east coast and its stable plate location!

benji · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 08:25 »

Just felt a little aftershock.

RobbieOC · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 09:17 »

I got to experience a 6 pointer while I was living in Japan. It was several miles out to sea, but damn it was about the scariest thing I've ever experienced. Tornadoes, I can handle anyday, but when the earth starts moving, that's when I'm done. I'm glad to see so far that everyone appears to be OK.

RedLion · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 12:29 »

Quote from: jhocking on 18 Apr 2008, 06:19

My fiancee called me this morning to ask if I felt it. It didn't wake me up, but I do have a vague recollection of dreaming that my bed was moving.

First the cougar, now this... we think some sort of apocalypse is coming.

Hey, the cougar passed through Wisconsin, and, more specifically, the outskirts of my town (Janesville) too.

Unless there's two random cougars wandering the WI-IL state line.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 12:44 »

Earthquakes are awesome and you people are a bunch of wusses.

muteKi · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 14:15 »

Quote from: jhocking on 18 Apr 2008, 07:17

Quote from: 0bsessions on 18 Apr 2008, 06:40
Or the Cubs are going to win the Series.

That would definitely be a sign of the apocalypse coming.

If only the LHC would have been built around Fermilab.

october1983 · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 16:57 »

I was in Peru for the 7.9 quake they had last summer, that was pretty intense. We'd driven through Pisco that day, but luckily arrived in Lima when it actually hit, so we didn't feel the worst. It was still pretty crazy though, more for the reactions of the people around us than anything.

qtownstegy · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 16:59 »

I didn't even wake up, although the quake was 200+ miles away.

My co-workers felt it, so now I feel left out. DAMN EARTHQUAKE MAKIN' ME FEEL INADEQUATE!!!

Emaline · « **Reply #18 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 17:39 »

The first two I didn't feel because I was asleep. I felt one of the small aftershocks at work around 10:15am, though.

It knocked some things off the shelves, and a cord out of the wall, but really not much happened. It was interesting.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #19 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 18:03 »

earthquakes freak me the fuck out.

I was once in a bath while one happened. I was about four but I still remember. It was the scariest thing ever.

I hope everyone is okay.

DonInKansas · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 21:46 »

grreddit

DonInKansas · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 21:47 »

Quote from: DonInKansas on 18 Apr 2008, 21:46

I was at Candlestick Park in San Fransisco when the World Series Earthquake hit. Now that was some scary shit, especially for a 10 year old.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #22 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 22:21 »

Quote is not edit.

I was also like a year old when that happened. Apparently my dad just turned around and said 'isn't this fun?' to me and I then concluded that it was some sort of game.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #23 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 23:42 »

I don't think I have ever felt an earthquake before

That reminds me, I heard some story about a building that will be the newest tallest building trying to get built in San Fransisco.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #24 on:** 19 Apr 2008, 01:14 »

That's actually a lot smaller than you might think. The skyline in San Francisco is not very large, pretty much precisely for that reason. Also, there's very strict building codes that new construction has to meet. People in other parts of the country freak out a lot about earthquakes, I find, but really when you're prepared for it like we are there's only one every decade or so that does significant damage.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #25 on:** 19 Apr 2008, 22:18 »

We have an earthquake here about once a year. Never really that interesting.

dennis · « **Reply #26 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 01:56 »

I was actually working when it hit. It was so minor that I wasn't sure if it was an earthquake, or my imagination. The entire house wobbled, like being up on a swaying branch.

My first earthquake in the Bay Area was more definitive. Everything rattled and slid across the floor a little ways.

valley_parade · « **Reply #27 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 04:34 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 19 Apr 2008, 22:18

New Mexico. Never really that interesting.

ForteBass · « **Reply #28 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.

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...

Barmymoo · « **Reply #29 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 12:12 »

Quote from: benji on 18 Apr 2008, 08:25

Just felt a little aftershock.

This made me laugh because when I took geography, our teacher told us that earthquakes were just like sex. It's the only thing I can remember him teaching us, which presumably is why I failed geography.

Slick · « **Reply #30 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 15:43 »

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 · « **Reply #31 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 15:51 »

I woke up and thought it was because my nose was stuffed, so I just went back to sleep.

october1983 · « **Reply #32 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 16:40 »

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.

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...

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 · « **Reply #33 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 17:25 »

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 · « **Reply #34 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 17:28 »

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.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #35 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 18:30 »

*slam*

NO DEAL

ForteBass · « **Reply #36 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 18:38 »

Somewhere, Howie Mandel just got a boner and he doesn't know why.

Jinjo · « **Reply #37 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 18:40 »

I'm too southern for this conversation

ForteBass · « **Reply #38 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 19:20 »

Remember, kids: The left coast is the best coast!

Ozymandias · « **Reply #39 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 19:34 »

Quote from: ForteBass on 20 Apr 2008, 18:38

Somewhere, Howie Mandel just got a boner and he doesn't know why.

Then he stuck it in boiling water and carefully wrapped it in ethyl alcohol soaked latex.

He cried for three hours, three minutes, and three seconds exactly, wiping each tear away with an individual sanitized tissue and placing each one into a Ziploc bag before placing them securely in a hazardous waste disposal container. It is collected every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday at five o'clock. He has learned to give the collectors fifteen minutes of leeway in either direction from that time, but it stresses him so. Sometimes he gets tummyaches when they're more than ten minutes late.

ForteBass · « **Reply #40 on:** 20 Apr 2008, 19:35 »

Well played...

Patrick · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Apr 2008, 18:33 »

The only time I've ever really felt an earthquake was here in Albania. At first I was like "Hm, the cat is scratching itself on my bed."

I woke up in the morning and remembered that I haven't lived with a cat in like 4 years.

Slick · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 Apr 2008, 22:27 »

Ozyman I love you.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 Apr 2008, 23:27 »

Quote from: ForteBass on 20 Apr 2008, 19:20

Remember, kids: The left coast is the best coast!

YES

...unless you're south of Oregon. in which case, it's all nine circles of hell combined into one. they call it "Super-Hell"

RobbieOC · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 Apr 2008, 23:31 »

There is a Hellmouth down there, afterall.

Thaes · « **Reply #45 on:** 22 Apr 2008, 00:24 »

The Crossroads of Abadon is south of Oregon?! Creepy...

Patrick · « **Reply #46 on:** 22 Apr 2008, 00:49 »

California is awesome. It's when you get south of Lone Pine that shit starts to suck.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 Apr 2008, 01:41 »

Basically everything in California that isn't Los Angeles is awesome and all of you guys are jealous.

Also, fuck the Dodgers.

Lines · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 Apr 2008, 07:11 »

I'm not going to be jealous when you guys sink into the ocean. To hell with California. You and your freaking good weather and lack of snow.

HellStorm · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Apr 2008, 13:35 »

I feel so left out
I think I'm the only non-American one here ¬¬
We don't get Earthquakes
Except for one a couple months ago, where a plane broke the sound barrier over the Irish sea
(I live in Wales btw)

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