Living on Shaky Ground

[Extollager]

As a wee one I lived in Coalinga, California, which had a big quake in 1983. long after my family moved.

Funny thing is that the only time I remember having been in an earthquake (if it deserved the word) was when we lived in Urbana, Illinois! It felt like a big truck drove past as I stood, I think, in the kitchen.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Still aftershocks after the big one, was what? Ten or twelve days ago?

Not to be confused with The Big One; which we still haven't had for a few hundred years.

Slept blissfully through the M 5.4, Saturday at 11: 22 PM. Not especially nearby. Those what did feel it report more annoyance than fright.

The near local M 4.4, at supper time this evening caused a couple of raised eyebrows in the Alex household. "Yeah, I noticed."

Always that moment of wondering whether it's coming stronger or done and fading.

And now, this on-going brouhaha is growing a bit tiresome.

 

[Harpo]

Earlier tonight, further south of me

 

[BAYLOR]

Earlier tonight, further south of me

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The High Boundary Fault line ?

 

[Harpo]

It’s the red squirrels protecting their irn bru

 

[BAYLOR]

It’s the red squirrels protecting their irn bru

So the ground shaking in fact has to do with their long running war with the Grey Squirrels?

 

[KGeo777]

We have had earthquakes but only remember one slight tremor.

When Mt. St Helens erupted, the front door shook though.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Did you feel it, @Harpo ? M3 is about the threshold. of perception, if you're close enough; but might be disconcerting for one who seldom experiences one.

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Wow, @KGeo777 . I visited the St Helens barrens a couple of years after and it was still a stunning wasteland. Hard to imagine what it was like to be nearby.

 

[KGeo777]

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Wow, @KGeo777 . I visited the St Helens barrens a couple of years after and it was still a stunning wasteland. Hard to imagine what it was like to be nearby.

I was not nearby. I was across the border --but the impact was such that it did make the door shake.

I remember a guy who decided to stay there and got caught in the impact.

Even Charles Bronson did a special warning about volcanos.

 

[THX1138]

We live in the center of the Dakota Group fault lines, with the Dakota Hogbacks just 4miles (6.4kl) away from us. They just raised our earthquake warning from M5 to M7. We're over a hundred years overdue for a quake here.

When I was younger, we had small tremors quite often on the east side of town (Denver is in the base of a glacier valley), more due to the Army Core of Engineers dumping liquid waste down wells to the bedrocks out that way. It's been calm here since then.

Anyway, our fault group is part of several that lace their way up to the Yellowstone volcano up in Wyoming. And it's waaay overdue as well.
When it goes there will a massive chain reaction all the way down. But that could be a century or two away. Fingers crossed...

 

[Harpo]

Did you feel it, @Harpo ? M3 is about the threshold. of perception, if you're close enough; but might be disconcerting for one who seldom experiences one.

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Wow, @KGeo777 . I visited the St Helens barrens a couple of years after and it was still a stunning wasteland. Hard to imagine what it was like to be nearby.

Nope, didn’t feel owt. I’ve seen Facebook comments from people near it who heard a noise