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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: JediMAC on December 22, 2003, 02:33 PM
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Dammit, I'm getting tired of these things! Especially when I'm high up in a hi-rise building! Our whole building started swaying back and forth, and it felt like I was surfing in my office (we're on the 11th floor). The blinds were swinging and kept banging into the windows, and you could hear the whole building creaking. I bolted out the door and stupidly into an elevator which was already at the wait, which made matters even worse. That thing was swinging all over the place. Somebody wound up getting on at the 5th floor, so I wisely jumped out and took the stairs the rest of the way. I was the first one out of the building, and thought I must've just been imagining it, until the rest of the building wound up evacuating a minute or two later...
Registered at 6.5, and was located up near San Simeon (Hearst Castle), which is about 4 hours away from here. That should tell you how powerful this thing was! But considering I felt the Northridge quake all the way out in Las Vegas, it's not surprising I guess.
My legs are still shaking right now! God, I hate quakes. :'(
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Yeah I just read that, you OK???
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Everyone okay here in SoCal. My Vader's tie and P-51 Mustang are still shaking hanging from my ceiling. I was laying in bed watching In the Line of Fire and felt the wall moving and was thinking it was an Earthquake. Hopefully everyone will be okay and there will be no serious damage.
Matt, I haven't had the experince of being in a high rise when an Earthquake struck but from what you just said I don't want to be in one when one does. THe worst thing for me is just waiting to see if it will stop or not. WIth Northridge I remember it was slowing down a little then it went all out and from then on I always wonder if its just a small one or if its going to be a big one.
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Crap, you guys got my heart racing reading this. Everything OK?
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Hmm, suddenly it doesn't feel that cold here.
Hope y'all are doing well and no damage :o
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Everything seems OK around here, but considering this was located so far away, I have no idea what happened closer to the epicenter up north. Sounds like it may have been out in the middle of nowhere, which would obviously be a good thing.
Matt, I haven't had the experince of being in a high rise when an Earthquake struck but from what you just said I don't want to be in one when one does.
Let me tell ya', it's the worst. I swear to God you think your building is just going to topple right over. This is at least the 4th time now I've been in a hi-rise for a big quake. I think I pissed my pants... :-\
Fox News story (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106421,00.html), MSNBC news (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3784234/). Looks like it was in a pretty uninhabited area, thank God.
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Watching the news now and it sounds like (from early reports) not to much damage happened it seems. Like Matt said it sounds like it hit in a low population area. So hopefully this will leave the damage to be low and the injuries low.
In under an hour there's been 19 aftershocks.
EDIT: A building clock tower collasped trapping people in a store below it. Just heard this on the news. No reports yet of causilites.
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Just got this off CNN:
Earthquake hits central California (http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/West/12/22/ca.earthquake/index.html)
Glad everything is OK.
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I just saw this now as well, I hope all of you in the area (and your loved ones), are safe and sound. I've never been through anything like that (don't get much of that in Nebraska), but I can't imagine how scary it probably is. God bless you all.
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Sounds like it was in a remote area which is great news. When I was in Georgia last summer there was a small quake, I slept through it blissfully unaware as to what happened. Hope all is well with everyone
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Sounds like it was in a remote area which is great news. When I was in Georgia last summer there was a small quake, I slept through it blissfully unaware as to what happened. Hope all is well with everyone
Some of the cities in the area are tourist locations so it may still turn out bad but not as bad as Northridge or San Fransico.
Edit: Paso Robles Downtown has a lot of damage to the old buildings and cars were crashed when the building bricks fell. Still no word on deaths some minor injuries so far.
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Hope you guys are ok,man am I glad I live on the east coast.
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why didnt i feel anything, i am right here in Central Calfirnoria, and didn't feel anything at all!!
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glad you guys are Ok out there. I never felt an earthquake before and I am in no hurry to do so.
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At least
1 person died so far.
The death toll is up to 2 3. :'(
Here are some pictures of damage:
(http://images.ibsys.com/2003/1222/2721223.jpg)
(http://images.ibsys.com/2003/1222/2721228.jpg)
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Man, sounds scary! Good to know everything's okay on your end.
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Whew...not in CA anymore, but lucky I missed things.
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Missed this thread last night (the original reason I came in here). Glad to hear you guys are ok.
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Hope everyone is okay. It's a good thing that epicenter wasn't 100 miles south of where it happened, otherwise things might've been a lot worse.
I can't really identify, since we don't have very active faults around here. The slight tremors we have had I've managed to sleep through. However, when I worked in Manhattan, I worked in a high-rise building on the 19th floor. On occassion, we'd get strong winds hitting the building, and it would sway so much that you'd get disoriented and nearly sick to your stomach. And this could go on for hours. Ugh! It was like being sea-sick on dry land.
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I'm very surprised to see as much damage has actually occurred, and the unfortunate death toll, but, as big a magnitude as it was, the location was a stroke of relative luck. If anyone else here rode out the Northridge quake, they can share the notion of how bad a jolt this size can be if centered just a hair north or south of where this one was. As they're fond of rolling out and saying every time an earthquake hits here - 'Earthquakes don't kill people. Buildings kill people.' Proven true again, unfortunately. As for this area, we didn't seem to feel it (me at all, actually) as much as some even a few miles away.
J
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Glad everyone is ok here. I would be a spaz in an earthquake. I have never been in one. Well not one that I knew of. One hit here in Illinois many years ago but we were driving at the time and I could not tell it.
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Just read at CNN there was a 5.8 in Central Cali...hope everyone is OK! :-\
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Funny, but I was just searching for this thread to bump it back up, to explain my soiled underwear following our latest quake (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/28/california.quake.ap/index.html) out here. :P
I've been hearing reports that it ranged somewhere between a 5.7 and 6.1. Fortunately the thing was centered about 4 hours away from here, in the middle of nowhere between L.A. and San Francisco. But it still shook our office building like a mother ******, and had me sprinting down 12 flights of stairs REAL quick! Always scary...
But yeah, I think everyone/everything should be perfectly fine out here, aside from maybe a ranch or farmhouse or two up there...
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This is where it hit:
Parkfield, population 37, is known as the earthquake capital of California. Located on the San Andreas fault, it has experienced six similar, magnitude 6.0 earthquakes with apparent regularity...
Sounds like 37 pretty stupid people if ya' asked me! :P
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Sounds like everything is okay. We're about 230 miles north of the epicenter, and we felt both quakes during our meeting. I think I was the only one to immediately get away from the windows...everyone else was either just standing still or actually going toward the window to see what they could see. At least made the meeting somewhat palatable. :P
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Dammit, I'm getting tired of these things! Especially when I'm high up in a hi-rise building! Our whole building started swaying back and forth, and it felt like I was surfing in my office (we're on the 11th floor). The blinds were swinging and kept banging into the windows, and you could hear the whole building creaking. I bolted out the door and stupidly into an elevator which was already at the wait, which made matters even worse. That thing was swinging all over the place. Somebody wound up getting on at the 5th floor, so I wisely jumped out and took the stairs the rest of the way. I was the first one out of the building, and thought I must've just been imagining it, until the rest of the building wound up evacuating a minute or two later...
Registered at 6.5, and was located up near San Simeon (Hearst Castle), which is about 4 hours away from here. That should tell you how powerful this thing was! But considering I felt the Northridge quake all the way out in Las Vegas, it's not surprising I guess.
My legs are still shaking right now! God, I hate quakes. :'(
This is the first time I read this, and all I could think of when you were describing your evacuation of the building is the episode of Seinfeld where George pushes the old lady out of the way to get out of the burning apartment.
Glad to hear you're okay, but I spit water all over my keyboard and started laughing in my office...by myself.
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Ha! Pretty close there Ed. ;)
But I don't push the ladies out of the way, I just hurdle them! 8)
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But I don't push the ladies out of the way, I just hurdle them! 8)
One would think that sort of bulk would be incapable of said hurdle.... :-*
Perhaps sweaters help one glide
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But I don't push the ladies out of the way, I just hurdle them! 8)
One would think that sort of bulk would be incapable of said hurdle.... :-*
Perhaps sweaters help one glide
(http://www.telusplanet.net/public/djustus/rofl.gif)
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Crap filled pants are always nice after these events I would guess
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One would think that sort of bulk would be incapable of said hurdle.... :-*
Perhaps sweaters help one glide
Watch it bug, or you may find "The Sweater" wrapped tightly around your face in the middle of your sleep one night at C3! :o
:-*
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As long as it's around my face, I can live with it. *shudder* :-*
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Another serious aftershock. At least a 5.0, which would be at least the fourth 5.0+ aftershock since the 6.0 earthquake yesterday. This one shook our building real good as well. I hate this ****! >:(
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Apparently that one wasn't an aftershock, but an entirely separate quake (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14095628.htm). A 5.0 just an hour and 20 minutes away from us. Ugh.
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Apparently that one wasn't an aftershock, but an entirely separate quake (http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14095628.htm). A 5.0 just an hour and 20 minutes away from us. Ugh.
It sounds like this Earthquake may of caused a rock slide which may of trap a car in it.
Edit: Sounds like CHP may of at first overstated what happened.
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As long as it's around my face, I can live with it. *shudder* :-*
Better on your face than on your bedroom floor. :-*
Kevin
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Matt where you in a highrise today for this earthqauke today?
For anyone here who doesn't know a 5.6 earthquake hit about 20 miles south of Palm Springs this Morning. Sounds like moderate damage to the local area with possible low number of injuries. Got me out of bed wondering if I should grab my GG bust off the shelf. Hopefully everyone is okay here in Califorina.
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Wow. Hopefully everyone's safe. I don't know how you guys do it - I really think I'd freak if I felt the ground moving beneath me. :(
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Yiles! Hope everything is OK Tom. Just been reading that there were a few minor aftershocks.
Keep us posted and hope everyone is safe. :)
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Matt where you in a highrise today for this earthqauke today?
Nope. Slept right through it, actually. Patty was up though, but said she didn't feel anything. I'm sure if I'd been in the office though, I would've felt it real good, as usual.
Hopefully everyone's ok out there by Palm Springs...
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Hopefully everyone's ok out there by Palm Springs...
Don't forget their GC Busts...
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Dammit, I'm getting tired of these things! Especially when I'm high up in a hi-rise building! Our whole building started swaying back and forth, and it felt like I was surfing in my office (we're on the 11th floor). The blinds were swinging and kept banging into the windows, and you could hear the whole building creaking. I bolted out the door and stupidly into an elevator which was already at the wait, which made matters even worse. That thing was swinging all over the place. Somebody wound up getting on at the 5th floor, so I wisely jumped out and took the stairs the rest of the way. I was the first one out of the building, and thought I must've just been imagining it, until the rest of the building wound up evacuating a minute or two later...
Registered at 6.5, and was located up near San Simeon (Hearst Castle), which is about 4 hours away from here. That should tell you how powerful this thing was! But considering I felt the Northridge quake all the way out in Las Vegas, it's not surprising I guess.
My legs are still shaking right now! God, I hate quakes. :'(
Most important: Is the collection okay???
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:-\ Hope you (and your collections ;)) are all OK!
I still can't decide whether you CA people have balls the size of cantelopes or brains the size of peas. :P I know I wouldn't live there. Here in the Midwest we have tornados but they just rearrange stuff on the surface, they don't move entire chunks of land.
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I'm fine...I actually woke up while my bed was shaking, but I guess I'm really mellow about that kind of stuff, because I went back to sleep...while my bed was still shaking. :)
And thankfully, my collection did not fall on me....that's would have sucked big time.
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It seems like everything around the area was is okay down by the epiercenter. I have heard a few stories about a small casino have damage and a shelf folding in half and then falling on a kid, but it seems everyone is okay. Now I just need to put the time and effort in to secure my Busts to the shelf and tie the shelf down to the wall before we are actually hit by a big one.
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Crazy stuff. I was on the way out to the lake on Saturday and talked to one of my little brothers. He said he was headed for Palm Springs that afternoon.
Yesterday when we finished tubing, he left me an IM on my phone telling me he "was in an earthquake, and it was awesome." Of course, being from Texas, I guess anything other than a tornado is cool.
He was out later that afternoon playing golf.
Glad though this one was not terribly damaging and I hope it's not the precursor to a terrible one.
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We didn't feel it at all here. In fact, the only evidence that there was a quake of any substinance was the fallen figures from my display. :P
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6.6 today? Everybody fare well?
Kevin
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6.6 today? Everybody fare well?
Kevin
I must've slept through it. But yesterday's 4.9 knocked all my toys over. >:(
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6.6 today? Everybody fare well?
Kevin
I think most of the JD members from Califorina didn't feel the 6.6 since it was up North in Eurkea close by to the 7.0 a few nights ago.
A reporter for a local station was talking about how some USGS people were saying that the 4.9 yesterday could mean the San ANdreas will go soon (within a few days). THe chances through get smaller with time.
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I heard there was a tsunami warning from California to British Columbia.
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I heard there was a tsunami warning from California to British Columbia.
I think that was for the 7.0 on tuesday (I think) didn't hear of one being issue for the 6.6 yesterday. In a way I wish there would of been a tsunami so that the stuipid idoits who went to the coast to see the ocean being suck out to sea would of gotten to see it. ::)
You would think that with the 2004 tsunami people would know what not to do.
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We had another small tembler yesterday morning, a 4.9 if I remember right, about 80 miles inland from LA.
Again, I didn't feel it, but it did manage to rupture the main gas line in my apartment building. Since yesterday, we've been without gas (and hence hot water) and apparently the Gas Co is in no hurry to fix the situation. They're heading out here on Saturday "sometime before 6pm" to look into the problem.
I might be able to have a hot shower sometime by week's end. ::)
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California shall snap off and slide into the ocean. Hide your toys guys!
Kevin
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All my real estate in Otisberg will be worth $$$ soon.
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3.8 here last night. I know several people who felt it, and I heard it. Pretty neat.
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Nahh.... Been through 2 worse ones than that where alotta folks died. Hell in one of them if they hadn't let us off early that day at the wherehouse someone at my work could have perished....just minutes after everyone left one of our 4 story racking fell -it had tons (literally) of starters and alternators on the racks that were everywhere on the floor when we came to work the next day- when I got home that day my Pool was like a 4 foot tidal wave pouring all the water out- my backyard was soaked. And the same quake they had to resume all the world series games in Oakland!
a 6 point whateverer...sigh, experienced worse. Oh, and Cally will 'fall off' into the ocean long after my kids and I are dead. My plastic star wars figs will last till then