How Many Earthquakes Have You Been In

[Parche]

My first ever was a day before my birthday, 1993
530am, I had the early shift, talking to my accounts in Cleveland
and the whole building seemed to roll, not shake, but roll, and it was loud....

2nd was up in Anchorage, TWA took me up and others on a trip, small one.

3rd, was 2000 here, we felt the one all the way from Seattle
i saw my office partition was shaking, i thought one of the guys was shaking it,
but they were not.................


:woohoo:
:hi:

[MsKandice01]

1. As a lifelong Californian...maybe 10??

Most of them pretty small.

[CreekDog]

2. I've lost count

Strongest I felt was Morgan Hill 1984 6.4?

Lots of 5's. Last year's 5.6 in San Jose was the longest I've ever felt, Morgan Hill was close to that.

Missed 1989 --but I didn't *miss* it at all. :rofl:

Don't like them one bit.

[madrchsod]

3. 3 in northern illinois

only felt one of them.....i`m waiting for the new madrid

[yellowdogintexas]

27. oh man if that thing ever blows, it will take out St Louis, Memphis

and possible others, at least by flooding...depending on the epicenter of course

We really don't need a repeat of the New Madrid Quake of the early 19th century that created Reelfoot Lake

[Arugula Latte]

4. Oh,man ... lots and lots. Grew up in Cali.

The most memorable was the '89 Loma Prieta quake. I was driving in Berkeley and my car tipped to the side. For a moment, I thought I had two flat tires on one side. Then I saw the street lamps swaying towards the middle of the street. :scared: I pulled over, and a woman in a minivan full of kids was behind me and didn't realize we'd had a quake. She lay on her horn, and she was pissed! I always wonder what her reaction was when she finally figured out there had been a quake.

[Auggie]

9. And as you are well aware, we haven't had "The Big One" yet

The Hayward and San Andreas Faults. Do you have family in the East Bay?

[Iggo]

13. If there's an earthquake...

...and a brick falls off of a building and hits you in the head and kills you, then for you it was the big one.

[Auggie]

15. Excellent point

Though in the Bay Area we refer to the big one as around 7.5 to 8.0. At least I do.

[Arugula Latte]

19. Yep -- My mom and sister and niece and nephew

in Contra Costa Co.

:scared:

[mikeytherat]

5. Two: one in Utah in the 70s (not fun), one a few years ago in Virginia (small)

The Virginia one was weird, because we just got two solid aftershocks from it, one right after the other, and they did not feel like the other earthquake. It shook the house differently (more a "vertical" than "horizontal" shaking).

mikey_the_rat

[SeattleGirl]

6. About 5 here in Washington.

Shake, rattle and roll!

[Auggie]

7. I can't recall -- there have been several in the Bay Area

Loma Prieta in '89, of course. I was working in downtown S.F. on the fourth floor of a high-rise.

Two in the earlier 1980's, I think -- about 5.0.

One a few weeks ago in wine country.

And numerous smaller jolts over the years. Sometimes the house just creaks.

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Earthquake, what are those again?

[PeaceNikki]

10. Just one... but

[Iggo]

11. All of the SoCal ones from '61 thru today. (n/t)

[SidneyCarton]

12. Lets see...

Whittier Narrows
A couple in Upland in the 1990's
One in Big Bear
Northridge, (nuff said)

I missed Landers and the really big Big Bear

Hector Mines
A tiny one in Yucaipa
One in Elsinore
Today

8-9 total, I think.

[azmouse]

14. One small earthquake when I lived in Sunnyvale, CA

Just one reason among so many others that I now live in AZ.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My dear Parche!

I have no idea!

Many, many ...

Too numerous to count, baby!

:bounce: :bounce:

[driver8]

17. Too many to count. I lived in the Aleutian islands as a kid, and have

lived in Southern California for the past 16 years.

They still scare the shit out of me!!

[SoxFan]

18. Just a few very minor tremors

Felt like a big truck with mechanical problems barreling through the yard.

New England actually sits on a minor fault line, but the quakes are never serious or really noticable here.

[sarge43]

20. Two: A pants wetter in CA and one here in NH (yes, we have quakes) n/t

[Flaxbee]

21. Every single one in Southern California from 1969 to 1998.

Actually, I think I missed an enormous one that was wayyyy out in the desert of SoCal in the early 90s (by enormous, I mean 7.something). I was visiting friends in Nebraska.

The Northridge earthquake happened my first year of law school; I had to change the way I went home to see family because of bridge collapses in Los Angeles.

[JTG of the PRB]

22. None. We don't exactly get a lot of earthquakes in Colorado.

There was a small one a year or so ago in a different part of the state that was barely felt, but that's the only time I've ever heard of an earthquake here.

I know there's the potential for earthquakes though, because we have a fault line right here in the city of Boulder. If that sucker goes off someday, yowza...

[arcadian]

23. I was in the big one in Hawaii on my birthday

6.7 mag. 2006

[Shine]

24. '71 Sylmar, '89 Loma Prieta, '94 Northridge....and countless other tremors

I live in CA, afterall. :D

[Sisaruus]

25. One in Connecticut

Which is one more than my son has experienced in his ten years in southern California.

[yellowdogintexas]

26. two quite small ones, both in the Indiana/Kentucky/Illinois area

epicenter of both was around Carbondale Illinois

The one in Kentucky shook the bookshelves in the college library and the ground rolled visibly.

The one in Indiana many years later was much smaller.

[MorningGlow]

28. About five or six, most of them while visiting family in California

However, I felt two here in New York State, one of them pretty strong-in '83? '84?--epicenter was in the Adirondacks, but I felt it at college in the Catskills. Freaky. When they happen in California, I'm not so surprised. But NYS? VERY freaky.

[hobbit709]

29. 1 Earthquake, 1 Smoking(exploding) Mountain

That's why I don't live in a place that has either. I want my terra to stay firma.

[Fire Walk With Me]

30. One in Detroit (mid 80s) and several in LA since then.

Search photobucket for "northridge earthquake" or mpeake to find my photos from that one..

[Whoa_Nelly]

31. 6.1 in CA a week after Mt. St. Helens blew

My son was a baby. I was outside. He was sleeping in his crib inside.
I ran into the house to make sure nothing fell on him...could barely move as the old craftsman bungalow shook.
He never woke up. Nothing fell on him.
Neighbor's chimney fell down.

Other than that, a few mild quakes in CA and Reno, NV...nothing big.

HOWEVER!
Son and I were on the Nimitz Freeway on the underneath part the day before the Lome Prieta quake heading east.
Had almost decided to stay an extra day before returning to Reno, but changed my mind.
(We were visiting friends in Ramona, just south of Stanford)
Had we stayed, my son and I would have been among those squashed underneath the top freeway.
As it was, when that EQ struck, son was with me at Univ. of Reno class...we felt the building there rumble.

[bumblebee1]

32. Three

Two in California and one in Greece. I felt the tremors. Our duty interpreter called over to see if I was alright. Until then, I've never experienced an earthquake.