Earthquake

I'm a little ways away from it, but I heard it on the News... And I have Breaking News for everyone... It wasn't an Earthquake it was just my mother-in-law, she slipped getting out of her tub this morning... Don't worry though, she is okay...

If she causes an earthquake at that scale that far away from her tub, I sincerely doubt she's any kind of okay.

Also, I would check the bathroom floor for cracks.

-Fred

Didn't feel anything here in Michigan but it was still an interesting event. Back in the 70's I felt a tremor from an earthquake in Ohio. A little unnerving to say the least.

That was funny, Bafitis.

I was pretty close to the center of the Loma Prieta Earthquake back in 1989.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1989/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_earthquake

This was a 6.9 with a surface-wave magnitude of 7.1.

It was quite an interesting experience. I was at a Physics conference sitting in the front row at a presentation. Then there was a rumbling that kept getting louder which I thought had something to do with noise or feedback on the public address system. Then the chandeliers started swinging and the guy who was making the presentation stopped talking and ran out of the room. I turned around, and everyone else had already left. Then it dawned on me, "This must be an earthquake! Cool!"

So I got up and tried to leave the building, but I could hardly walk because the floor was moving so much. Like walking on a boat in rough seas. I finally got outside and the parking lot, paved in black top, looked like a black sea. There were waves running through the blacktop, as if it were a dark sea in a storm. Very cool and surreal. It all happened in a very short time, but seemed like several minutes.

One of he most interesting things I observed, when it was finally over were the reactions of all the people. Every single female, without exception, was crying. Every single guy, on the other hand, was laughing. What a remarkable example of how primally different men and women are.

That's a very typical male response, actually. I got hit by a bus once, and I found myself snickering when I realized I wasn't badly hurt. Although I did have a strong urge to strangle a busdriver, however.

Anyway, men can't help but laugh in dangerous situations. It helps us cope and let's us not face the terrible possible consequences. Women however seem to see the worst possible consequences and mourn them as if they had happened. Inferior emotional walls, I say! Okay, just kiddin'. I have no idea why women are women. But, your God, how I love them just the way they are!

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:If she causes an earthquake at that scale that far away from her tub, I sincerely doubt she's any kind of okay.

Also, I would check the bathroom floor for cracks.

-Fred

No worries about the Floor, we all got together in 2006 and re-enforced her floors... All floors in her house are now 8 inch thick concrete with 5 inches of hard stone under that... We've tried but we just can't stop her from making quakes whenever she falls... Talked to her this morning, just found out that she only knelt down to pick something up, she didn't even fall, it was just her knee hitting the floor that caused all the shake-n-bake...

my girlfriend woke me up when it was happening and she said "What the hell is going on? An earthquake?" I said yep and then kept saying "What do we do?" When I didn't hear any dishes falling or tv's crashing or anything else breaking, I just said "ride it out..that's all we can do" the whole house was shaking and the bed was rocking....then we had the earthquake!! lol thank you, I'll be here all week.

We hardly get any natural disasters down my neck of the woods. The worst we had was a cyclone back in 1991... damn near tore the suburb apart... we lost our back shed, but hundreds of others lost their homes and as I recall we were without power for about a week and there were enough hailstones on the ground to make it look like a winter wonderland.

Being as young as I was back then, we had a ball, even if we did have to put on our swimming costumes to get from the living room to the garage! lol

-Cub. =o)

I'm in the middle of the states on the East Coast, so we rarely get disasters around here as well... Worst we had was Katrina back in '05, flooded most of the people who have waterfront homes... That's nothing compared to what it did in New Orleans though... Shame, that place still isn't back together...
We get some winds here, that are annoying, once every few years we'll get a decent snow fall, maybe we'll have a tornado touch down somewhere for about 5 minutes at most... Our biggest problem is Manmade though, Homicide rate it through the roof in our main City of Baltimore... We are already over 200 murders this year and we still have 8 more months to go... Crazy...
If you break it down Proportionately, Baltimore is in the top 5 worst Cities in the States...

Not that we have a Governor that gives a damn, he is too busy giving his Cabinet members raises they don't deserve or too busy Stealing Tax Payers money to fly himself and 7 guests to Ireland on a private plane for week long trips, he has done that twice and there is a rumor he is about to do it again... And we don't have a Law in this state like some of the others that allows us to pull him out of office, like Arnold did in California...


Any way, lets get back to Topic... Sorry for my little Soapbox...

Fred Buer wrote:That's a very typical male response, actually. I got hit by a bus once, and I found myself snickering when I realized I wasn't badly hurt. Although I did have a strong urge to strangle a busdriver, however.

Anyway, men can't help but laugh in dangerous situations. It helps us cope and let's us not face the terrible possible consequences. Women however seem to see the worst possible consequences and mourn them as if they had happened. Inferior emotional walls, I say! Okay, just kiddin'. I have no idea why women are women. But, your God, how I love them just the way they are!

-Fred

I seem to remember that every time I've been in a potentially dangerous situation and escaped by the hair of my neck ... I sure as hell didn't laugh. Maybe I'm not manly enough, but I tell you, the time I almost put my semi into someone else's car and caused a 30 car pile-up ... yeah, I was breathing hard and trying not to cry. Must be my estrogen levels.

England is really unknown for getting most natural disasters (outside of floods which sadly have been plaguing us... ).
So the few things we did get caused a massive stir here. I experienced both the mini earthquakes we got in recent years, the most recent one was stronger than the last. Bed shook (thought for a split second someone or some'thing' was shaking it... o_o ) and my collection of figures were wobbling, one of which caught my attention as she has her hand up so looked like she was going "earthquaaake everyone!! *wobble wobble*"
Also a few years ago there was a small tornado near me.
Weird weather in recent times...

<soapbox> And the reaction of someone when a disaster threatens depends on alot of different things really outside of gender As a girl myself I thought the mini earthquakes were cool (well mainly after any risks had passed) . With massive incidents I think its understandable for there to be variations in reactions</end soapbox>

Agreed....my girlfriend I could tell was freaking out, but mainly due to the fact that her 2 little girls were upstairs and we were downstairs....she didn't know what to do about them. But aside from that, I thought it was fun to just lay there while the bed was rocking back and forth...kinda freaky...reminds me of that time when my girlfriend came home late and I was sleeping and....nevermind.

There are sooo many people that "Know" what to do, but when the Situation actually arises that knowledge ends up lost over panic...

DrPaul wrote:So I got up and tried to leave the building, but I could hardly walk because the floor was moving so much. Like walking on a boat in rough seas. I finally got outside and the parking lot, paved in black top, looked like a black sea. There were waves running through the blacktop, as if it were a dark sea in a storm. Very cool and surreal. It all happened in a very short time, but seemed like several minutes.

That's a really cool story doc! I always wondered what an earthquake looked like - people always say it looks like waves in the ground, but it's impossible to actually find video footage of such anomalies

Bests, Rockefeller