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Shook this house in Staten Island and scared the sh*t out of me!
Dad was out with the dog so I ran into the kitchen and pushed this poor, near-crippled woman out the door! Doesn't seem to be any damage to anything but my heart.
Talked to my Mom a few minutes ago and said, "NOW do you understand why I want emergency provisions in the basement!!!!!" LOL!
I think I may have convinced her to put some extra effort into it!
A 5.9 quake is respectable in anyone's book. If you've never experienced one before, I'm sure it was MOST disconcerting (to say the least)! How far away from your house was the epicenter?
As a Southern California resident since 1988, here's a word of caution from me to you. A cellar is a great place of shelter and refuge from storms; not so much for 'quakes. If your house is brought down or rendered unsafe by 'quake damage, your supplies down in the basement might as well be on the Moon.
I keep my family's emergency gear and supplies in the garage, along the outside wall near the door, so that I can extract them quickly from the house if need be. Even if the garage roof caves in, the supplies are still much easier to extricate than they would be in the basement.
Shook this house in Staten Island and scared the sh*t out of me!
Talked to my Mom a few minutes ago and said, "NOW do you understand why I want emergency provisions in the basement!!!!!" LOL!
Interesting. After an earthquake you want to put emergency supplies in the basement. Where exactly do you think that the house would end up, should a quake big enough to cause it to collapse happen?
The above comment is not intended to deride or disparage, but your experience provides an interesting learning tool for the rest of us as to why the brain is the most important survival tool. I'm sure that in a couple of minutes you'll realize how much of a non sequitur your statement to your Mom is.
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook southern Colorado late Monday, waking some people up and startling hundreds of others in a sparsely populated region near the New Mexico border.
The quake — the largest to strike Colorado in a decade
So a quake hits the east coast (http://www.ketv.com/r/28951692/detail.html - broken link) -and- CO within a half a day time span? Interesting.
Last edited by FreedomThroughAnarchism; 08-23-2011 at 02:56 PM..
Whats funny about this quake in Virginia as opposed to the quake that happen last night in Colorado is the Virginia quake showed up on the PNSN site ( Pacific Northwest Seismic Network) PNSN - Webicorder Records (http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html - broken link) that has monitors on Mt Baker and Mt Rainer. Its odd that a closer quake, similar in size and depth didnt register.
And here I sit in the middle, we didn't feel a thing... too far northeast for the Colorado one, too far west for the VA one. Guess that's why we're a flyover state... nothing much happens here.
I know, ****, Granny! LOL
I DO keep my stuff in the basement. Of course, we have a solid concrete exterior walkout to the back yard from the basement. (You can see the scars of the machinery where milk was brought directly into the basement to be cooled and processed from the outside barns.) We worry more about tornadoes, straight line winds of 60+ mph, and hail than earthquakes here, though. If the house goes, the basement is probably where we'll live til we get a new house built... it even has an old (blocked off) chimney from where the woodburning heater was once located in the basement!
100-year-old houses. Can't beat 'em nowadays for building strength AND ingenuity!
SC, the last quake I felt was the Nisqually quake that happened in '01 in Washington state. It was around 7.?. I was in Portland, at a motel with my daughter and her two teenage friends, all three still in giggle fits after the backstreet boys concert from the night before. The quake started out slow, and progressed to a long, rocking 45 sec. It was the gentlest one I have been in, having been in a few in Cali when I was a child. We spent the rest of the day driving home listening to the radio for any info we could get.
Shook this house in Staten Island and scared the sh*t out of me!
Dad was out with the dog so I ran into the kitchen and pushed this poor, near-crippled woman out the door! Doesn't seem to be any damage to anything but my heart.
Talked to my Mom a few minutes ago and said, "NOW do you understand why I want emergency provisions in the basement!!!!!" LOL!
I think I may have convinced her to put some extra effort into it!
LOL good for you.
East coast rock is a whole other matter. A 5.9 here feels worse than a west coast same by a lot, so I read somewhere. I don't pretend to understand it, I simply read a few geology reports, since I live up hard to a east coast fault, ending in the non-magnetic pluton which is the Ossipee Ring D i k e. (nannied word around heya')
If any one wishs to see a topo map, on line, and see this ring d i k e. seach 03886 and back out, some, move the map 6 miles south.
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