Earthquake? - Page 3

aephi alum · #1 08-23-2011, 05:56 PM

I felt it up here in Connecticut. Not much more than a little rumble. They say animals are very sensitive to things like earthquakes, but my kitten didn't even seem to notice.

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

It's not too different from when West Coasters flip out over a few snowflakes.

Pretty much...

Now to hunker down for the hurricane.

christiangirl · #2 08-23-2011, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

It's not too different from when West Coasters flip out over a few snowflakes.

At 18, I saw my first flakes. I asked a guy passing by if there were any volcanoes around. It was a fairly warm winter day so my brain didn't comprehend "snow." I thought it was ash.

I'm kinda cracking up at the thought of all my east coast friends who pelted with with quake questions because they'd never felt one. Guess that's not true anymore.

I'm glad their first was big enough to feel but not big enough to traumatize them all.

carnation · #3 08-23-2011, 10:42 PM

My husband's cousin, who's a genetic counselor in VA, feels like she just had her professional image shattered. As her couple sat in front of her and didn't move, the quake made her chair spin her around and around. Who knows what they were thinking while they watched her? LOL

aephi alum · #4 08-23-2011, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

At 18, I saw my first flakes. I asked a guy passing by if there were any volcanoes around. It was a fairly warm winter day so my brain didn't comprehend "snow." I thought it was ash.

At the start of my sophomore year of college, we had a dorm floor meeting so that our new freshman residents could get to know the upperclass (i.e. sophomore and up) residents, and vice versa. We each were asked to give our name, year, room number, intended or declared major, hometown, and something interesting about ourselves.

One of our new freshman residents said, "I'm Shiva, I'm a freshman, I'm in room ___, I'm from Trinidad, I want to study computer science, and I'm really looking forward to seeing snow." We upperclassfolks all laughed, because Boston had gotten 90" of snow the previous winter.

Fast forward to just before Thanksgiving break. Shiva came running out of the elevator, bumped into me in the hall, and said, "aephi alum! aephi alum! It's a snowstorm! My first ever snowstorm!" I went over to the window, looked out, turned to Shiva, and calmly explained, "Shiva, this is what we call a 'flurry'. The real snowstorms are yet to arrive."

And arrive they did ... I understand he hightailed it back to Trinidad the day he graduated.

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Munchkin03 · #5 08-24-2011, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

At 18, I saw my first flakes. I asked a guy passing by if there were any volcanoes around. It was a fairly warm winter day so my brain didn't comprehend "snow." I thought it was ash.

LOL! I'd seen tiny amounts of snow before I went to college, but I didn't see real snow--the kind that sticks around for a while--until the January of my freshman year. The novelty still hasn't worn off, almost 12 years later.

I've noticed a lot of West Coasters criticizing New Yorkers and Washingtonians for going outside. When I spoke to a friend who has lived here longer than I have, he pointed out that, after 9/11, people try to get OUT of a building until the cause of the problem is pinpointed. In light of the fact that the 10-year anniversary is close, people were a little bit more worried than usual.

Kappamd · #6 08-23-2011, 04:42 PM

I felt nothing in NeOH. Fiance felt it in State College, PA.

Edit: There are a ton of us from NE Ohio on here. Didn't even realize.

TPA85 · #7 08-23-2011, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Kappamd

I felt nothing in NeOH. Fiance felt it in State College, PA.

Edit: There are a ton of us from NE Ohio on here. Didn't even realize.

Me neither!!

GammaPhi88 · #8 08-23-2011, 04:52 PM

I was in class at my law school at the time, and felt some shaking...at first we thought it was a bunch of people on the floor below us, but then someone yelled "Its an earthquake, get under your desks!" So we got under our desks, and the professor just continued with legal analysis once we got up. Then, of course, they evacuated the building; following that they kept us captive in a classroom...without our books. So you take some nervous law students, put them in a room without their books and keep them there...there's a joke in there somewhere.

ADqtPiMel · #9 08-23-2011, 05:26 PM

I'm really close to the Capitol building, so I thought there was some kind of attack. After a few minutes it was apparent it was an earthquake and we evacuated. Cell service was down for about an hour after. Traffic in DC is HORRENDOUS right now. I walked the 3-4 miles home from work.

AznSAE · #10 08-23-2011, 05:32 PM

didn't colorado have an earthquake too yesterday? soon the hurrican will hit. that old pastor might be right about the end of the world

AGDee · #11 08-23-2011, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by AznSAE

didn't colorado have an earthquake too yesterday? soon the hurrican will hit. that old pastor might be right about the end of the world

It would be good timing for me.. as long as it happens before I write the 10 page paper that is due in 10 days.

barbino · #12 08-23-2011, 05:42 PM

One of the radio stations that I listen to suggested that we might have been able to feel the quake in Chicago but I haven't talked to anyone who has. It's interesting hearing reports from people who did feel it, though.

AznSAE · #13 08-23-2011, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

It would be good timing for me.. as long as it happens before I write the 10 page paper that is due in 10 days.

sorry, but i think he predicted the new date as October 21st, so you will have to write that paper haha. i walk down the isle on October 29th, so this might not be good for me.

Benzgirl · #14 08-23-2011, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

It would be good timing for me.. as long as it happens before I write the 10 page paper that is due in 10 days.

No! Not until I take my vacation!

DaffyKD · #15 08-23-2011, 07:26 PM

Talked to my daughter this afternoon. She was at work on the 14th floor of a building in Boston. They felt some rocking. She said it was so mild she did not think anything about it while people were freaking out and running into the halls. One young man was panicking that they were going to get hit by a tsunami. Daughter said she was laughing and then gave lessons to everyone about the faults and ocean plates and explained why things were not going to be bad. One guy responded, "you're not afraid only because you come from CA where there happen everyday. Now, everyone lets get prepared for the tsunami like the one that hit Japan." She went back to her desk laughing harder.

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