Oooh don't know if I'm going back to sleep tonight!

[SnowyShiloh]

Okay, I have to get up for work in 3 hours and I just went to bed half an hour ago. Five minutes ago I woke up because of the house shaking and our poor new bunny's cage rattling like crazy! Paul said it was a train (we live next to the train tracks) but there was no train. I came downstairs to look it up online and there was a 3.84 magnitute earthquake 9 miles south of where we live.

That was a little scary, especially to be woken up by. We've slept through plenty of tiny ones before and felt small ones when awake. Because of the train tracks 150 feet from our house, we've learned to sleep through the little ones. Not even our pets get scared anymore!

So hopefully I'll be able to go back to sleep. The only reason I'd be concerned is that there are often little earthquakes before big ones and Alaska has the most and biggest earthquakes of any of the 50 states. My mom lived through one of the biggest earthquakes in known history in Anchorage back in the '60s when she was a little girl.

Here's the link to the web site that tracks earthquakes, cool to know it's updated so quickly!

http://www.aeic.alaska.edu/Seis/recent/sub/quakes/2009143_evid106087/evid106087.html

 

[irishbunny]

Hope you can get to sleep soon!

What exactly are earthquakes like? Does everything shake?

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Well with tiny ones, thinks just kinda vibrate. Sometimes you can only tell because the lamps are swaying or water in a fish tank is rippling. Sometimes you can feel light shaking. This one was like someone grabbed the house and gave it a couple of good shakes- it only lasted a few seconds but was pretty startling. Our house is really old but also made of logs so maybe that's good!

 

[maherwoman]

Oh, I HATE that kind of earthquake...the real jolters. The rolling ones...not a big deal. But those big jolters just scare the heck outta me. They had a 5.0 not far from my sister's on I think Monday...so not long after Danny and I left. I had one of Danny's relatives joke that CA was falling apart without us, hehe!

Did anything else happen? Were you able to sleep? Everyone okay?

 

[BethM]

I lived on Guam for a year, and there were lots of little earthquakes when I was there. They were just little ones, though, where everything just sort of vibrates a bit.

I've lived most of my life in Kansas, so the earthquakes really freaked me out!

 

[PepnFluff]

Ooo, earthquakes, I find them fascinating lol. NZ is placed right on the pacific and australian plates we have them everyday, although they're tiny ones nobody feels. Did anything break or was any damage caused?

 

[okiron]

Lol we're actually planning on moving out of Cali right now because I'm tired of our back to back earthquakes (we had them 3 days in a row)

 

[gentle giants]

Earthquakes make me nervous, I have only been through two in my life. The second one was just last year, it woke us up at 4am. My husband and I both thought at first that it was the washer on spin cycle cause that shakes our bed too, but then I realized that the doors on my glass fronted cabinets were rattling too. Scary, but no real damage done, thankfully.

 

[BSAR]

Wow scary. At least it was a small one. I have only been in one earthquake. The Nisqually Earthquake in 2001 or 2002 I can't remember. But I was in the third grade, it was a wednesday in Feb. and a half day. My mom kept me and my sister home just to take a break from school and all, since it was a half day.

Boy was she glad she kept us home! The earthquake was like a 6.7. I remember my mom was in the hallway holding a bucket of laundry, I was watching my favorite show (can't remember what my sister was doing.) and my dad was sleeping. It started so suddenly that my mom thought it was a truck passing by but it wasn't so she grabbed us and rushed under the table!!

It was so scary that my sister and I grabbed our precious belongings and stayed under the table for a while. lol. And we were afraid to go to sleep that night also.

 

[maherwoman]

okiron wrote:

Lol we're actually planning on moving out of Cali right now because I'm tired of our back to back earthquakes (we had them 3 days in a row)

Oh wow! Where were you guys thinking of moving to?

We just moved here to Canada about two weeks ago.

How's things? PM me!

 

[missyscove]

We had that 5.0 last weekend here. I was in the pool and didn't feel it though.
I don't usually notice them, but I've definitely grown up with them.

I was 3.5 and slept through the largest earthquake we've had in my lifetime... the 6.7 Northridge Earthquake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northridge_earthquake

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Amanda, I remember that earthquake! It happened on my 16th birthday. I was in Austria (foreign exchange student) at the time and it was on the news. The funny thing is that the next day my mom called to tell me we were moving to Washington. Our family lived in Virginia at the time. She's absolutely terrified of earthquakes and didn't even want me to tell her about the little one we had here the other day, so the whole "big earthquake in the place you just decided to move to" was kind of unsettling for her.

Also, for some reason earthquakes happen on our birthdays. That one was on mine, the sizable one before it was on my cousin's and grandma's birthday (same day) and the one before that was on my aunt's birthday. We only have 10 people in our extended family too!

 

[BSAR]

SnowyShiloh wrote:

Amanda, I remember that earthquake! It happened on my 16th birthday. I was in Austria (foreign exchange student) at the time and it was on the news. The funny thing is that the next day my mom called to tell me we were moving to Washington. Our family lived in Virginia at the time. She's absolutely terrified of earthquakes and didn't even want me to tell her about the little one we had here the other day, so the whole "big earthquake in the place you just decided to move to" was kind of unsettling for her.

Also, for some reason earthquakes happen on our birthdays. That one was on mine, the sizable one before it was on my cousin's and grandma's birthday (same day) and the one before that was on my aunt's birthday. We only have 10 people in our extended family too!

Wow I bet your mom was glad it happened before you moved at least!

That is weird about that birthday thing!

 

[jcottonl02]

I know this isn't an earthquake, but there was a HUGE explosion in Hemel Hemstead (spelling) which is ages away from my house. It was some kind of oil explosion I think, like forty petrol tanks or something.
Anyway I woke up to see the door shaking in it's frame and everything in the house falling over.

Needless to say I thought I was in the exorcist.

And needless to say I couldn't sleep LOL!

 

[DeniseJP]

jcottonl02 wrote:

I know this isn't an earthquake, but there was a HUGE explosion in Hemel Hemstead (spelling) which is ages away from my house. It was some kind of oil explosion I think, like forty petrol tanks or something.
Anyway I woke up to see the door shaking in it's frame and everything in the house falling over.

Needless to say I thought I was in the exorcist.

And needless to say I couldn't sleep LOL!

Way back in 1986 there was an explosion at a refinery in New Jersey that we felt in Connecticut whenI lived there. The whole house shook as if someone crashed a car into it. My grandma came out and asked if my horse at the time had gotten out and crashed into the house.

Have had a few mild quakes here in the East - enough to set the dogs and horses off and a tremor that rattled the house like a train but no tracks anywhere near where I was living.

I can deal with snow and ice storms... if I need tremors I will visit my dad or Greg in California.

Denise

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Hey, we just had two more earthquakes, one right after the other! The lamps were swaying and stuff. It's a lot less startling when you're awake, I tell ya...

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Okay, turns out it was just 1 earthquake, but it lasted longer than the one last week. It was a 3.49 and 12 miles west of Fairbanks, where we live. Our pets were utterly unconcerned, Phoebe Mae didn't even pause in her digging...

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Darn it, just had another one!!! What the heck is going on lately? I'm afraid Alaska is going to split in half or something with how things are going :?

Edit: this one was 3.75. All three recent earthquakes have been within 10 miles of Fairbanks, where we live. I think Paxie likes causing earthquakes because the first was the night we got him and the second was his birthday!

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Too late to edit my last post, but they upgraded the last earthquake to 3.98.

 

[YukonDaisy]

Holy smokes! If they get too much stronger I'll be feeling them over here!
We had a large earthquake here a few years ago. It was one with a rolling shake, felt like being on a boat, it was strange.