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[Lady Artifice]

I'm home alone, because my roommate is out of town, and we just had a little one. 

 

I live in Northern California so it's not really a big deal, or it wouldn't be if we hadn't just had a big one, a six point something a couple of months ago. It destroyed some of the buildings downtown and then we had aftershocks and lost power for days. 

 

So, I'm kind of freaking out, mostly because I'm afraid that there will be more and I'm posting this to calm myself down.

 

Sort of on edge, but that's okay. How about you guys? Ever been scared to death by the ground shaking? 

[AresKeith]

I slept through an small quake once 

[Garryydde]

Why do 39 million people live in a state that is under constant threat of earthquakes and could at any moment break off into the Pacific Ocean?

And as to your question OP once but it was about a magnitude 2 so nothing really happened.

[mybudgee]

Male or female room-mate??

[Voxr]

Was born and lived the early parts of my life in Cali so I'm used to it I guess. I'm in Oklahoma now and if anyone knows, we've been having a lot of quakes that we can feel. Been having a lot of 3-4 pointers nothing real big but you can feel some jolts. A lot of people are blaming the fracking that's been going on in the central and midwest US. I tend to lean that way, but not solid if that's the cause. I honestly haven't educated myself too much on it. 

 

It's funny though the central/midwest US is actually pretty active but they're usually too weak to feel. So a lot of people around here think it's something new!

 

But never have I been in a big one. And I don't get too freaked out. Just stay calm and have a plan ready in case of the worst

[Dobbysaurus]

Of course. I live right in front of the mountains where the San Andreas fault runs through in Southern California.

 

They don't scare me since earthquakes are fairly common for me. When one happens, I just sit there and wait it out. Of course, a really big one hasn't happened yet to truly scare me. It will come one day that's for sure. Hopefully not in my lifetime. 

 

 

 

I am looking forward to the San Andreas movie coming out next week though. But nobody wants to go see it with me  

[Voxr]

I am looking forward to the San Andreas movie coming out next week though. But nobody wants to go see it with me

I hear that movie is gonna Rock.

[Lady Artifice]

I will not be watching that film.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

 

And nothing serious happens unless it's 7 Richter or stronger. (For Japan 8 Richter or stronger)

[Broganisity]

I've. . .seen things, you people wouldn't believe. . .

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In all seriousness though? I'm prepared for the worst and I hope for the best. There is no worry for I have more immediate things to worry about. I'll worry when it happens. I live in Northern California as well, but I am a Wyomingite born and bred...which I like to think makes me equal parts Brave, Blunt, and Stupid.

[God]

I was born in California, lived through the Northridge quake of 1994 as a 4 year old, grew up all over the world in places close to the ocean (I was a Navy brat with both my parents in the Navy) including several places that are hotspots for tectonic and geological activity, did the same thing in the Army (where I've been stationed in several places that are prone to Earthquakes like Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, and Italy, not to mention a massive plethora of stateside assignments in California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii), I currently reside in Indianapolis (which is close to a minor fault which kicks up a quake every few years), and I'm currently in Iraq for OIH, which has a fair number of earthquakes.

 

I've been in several of them. Everyone has. You don't feel the vast majority of them. The biggest I've ever been in was the Northridge quake when I was a kiddo.

[LPPrince]

Yeah. And I'm in New England. Wasn't a big quake though.

 

It was what, last year? Or the year before? A quake originated in Virginia and was felt quite a few states up(I felt it in South Jersey). My room was shaking and I was confused, it then dissipated and that was that. Thought it was interesting. Meanwhile my stepbrothers were screaming like they were gonna die which is bizarre but hey, thats them.

[God]

Cali in the building? Brofist homie.

 

And yeah, I've experienced small ones here and there. Nothing major. 

 

Brofist too? I'm a native Californian (though I haven't actually technically lived there in almost 15 years now). I've never been stationed there, though I've done at least 10 TDY's through there of various lengths throughout my Army career. I'd love to go back, but I don't know what it'd hold for me anymore. I have an Aunt I'm close to who lives out there, but she's moving to Texas within the next 2 years for her job, so I won't actually have anyone out there. The irony being that it's my home state (what I consider my home state anyway), but sans said aunt and a few family friends I actually don't know anyone there, whereas I have a greater deal of friends in other states and countries.

 

Might end up in Phoenix. I want to join the Peace Corps and emigrate and be a perpetual world wanderer when I get out of the Army, and ideally end up in Australia, but who knows. Phoenix is likely the farthest west I'm going to be able to get to if I stay in the States. 

[Lady Artifice]

I slept through an small quake once

After the big one, it was no big deal. I actually just tidied up my room and went back to sleep.

It was all of those aftershocks that made me so nervous.

[coldwetn0se]

PDXer here. Born in the late sixties, so yup. Have experienced a few.

And of course.....

Finally one day,
In the middle of May,
the mountain started breaking in two....

35th anniversary on the 18th. (I actually owned the 45 of that song...don't judge.)

The funniest quake was one I never felt. Got a call from a neighbor who said, "Look out you window." A news crew was recording in front of our steps. Apparently we were the epicenter.


(It was small. *shrug*)

[Geth Supremacy]

I live pretty far from DC, but when they had the earthquake there a few years ago you could feel it here.  It wasn't anything major, but bottles on the counter with only a little liquid in them fell over.  I wouldn't want to be in a big one I know that.

[Lady Artifice]

Male or female room-mate??

I feel like I'd have a clever response to this under other circumstances.

Female.

[SmilesJA]

When I was a baby living in California, I slept through a major earthquake. Since then I moved around earthquake vulnerable places and felt tremors every now and then. 

[SmilesJA]

Male or female room-mate??

 

Wow. Nosy much man?

[Voxr]

Brofist too? I'm a native Californian 

I'll brofist *brofist sound* Wine country is where it's at though, Napa all day baby.

 

 

The last "big" quake we had here was like a 4 point whatever and made my little Taz (Looney Toons Taz) statue tip over and fall off my desk. Now the North Pole isn't stuck to his tongue anymore :[

[God]

Native just like me? Brofist homie. Born and raised. Moved away for my high school years though, to San Antonio. I kind of miss Texas. And then I moved back to Cali after high school.

 

Yeah, I've technically been an Indy resident for almost 10 years now. I've been in Indy since I was 16, and I turn 26 in December. I don't count assignments, deployments, and other things as residences. I've been fortunate in my career. I technically have only ever been stationed in one place (Indiana), but I've had a long list of various assignments, duties, and deployments all over the country and the world. Indianapolis has been good to me, but Indiana itself is... well, it's the middle finger of the South sticking up into the North if you know what I mean. Which is a shame, since I actually think the South gets a bad rap for the most part. 

[Lady Artifice]

Napa is where it's at indeed.

I'll brofist *brofist sound* Wine country is where it's at though, Napa all day baby.
 
 
The last "big" quake we had here was like a 4 point whatever and made my little Taz (Looney Toons Taz) statue tip over and fall off my desk. Now the North Pole isn't stuck to his tongue anymore :[

Wait, in Napa? The August one was 6.0 (I said a couple of months ago, but only because it feels like it).

I just found that the one today was 4.1. Is that the one you're talking about? Or did I miss one in between?