Now, I wouldn't say I'm lazy, but...

[ReaperFett]

Last night we had a Tremor/Earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale, about 20 miles from us. The entire house was shaking. I didnt move, as I was watching Casino and didn't want to miss any :)



Like I said, not that I'm lazy :)

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

:lol

[ReaperFett]

BTW, for those who know Casino, it was at the scene where



De Niros car blows up

















Might not have noticed:)

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

ah...cool movie though.....

[ReaperFett]

Oh definately :)

[Oriadin]

:lol

Thats pretty funny actually, because Ive just bought '24' on DVD this weekend just gone and was getting very stuck into it (watched about 4 hours worth, straight). the earthquake went off, I wondered what the hell was going on. I paused the DVD and just sat there for a few moments. It stopped. I assumed it was an earthquake and then just continued to watch the DVD.

Ive heard stories of people comming out of thier houses and all sorts. Cant be doing with that. Also, a lot of people phoned the police. Erm, what exactly do you expect them to do??? Strange experience, kinda scary but hey, '24' is cool! Cant imagine what a really big one would be like though...

Cheers for the heads up on this link fett.

[ReaperFett]

24 rules :)




I had to link it, you were closer to Dudley IIRC :)

[Oriadin]

IIRC??

So where abouts do you live fett?

[Levi Argon]

IIRC - If I remember correctly.

You know, I didn't feel it at all and so many around here did. Very peculiar and I wish I had felt it. Rather exciting considering it's been a decade since the last one apparently.

[Oriadin]

Actually, I think weve had a few since then but they are all too small to bother mentioning. This is the biggest one weve had for 10 years.

[Zatania Duvall]

We had a small earthquake about a few months ago here. We haven't had one in a long time, so it was awesome! lol I never felt an earthquake before that one. Thank god it was just a small one. I forget what it came up as on the ricter scale though.

[Diego Van Derveld]

I didn't even know England had earthquakes. I bet there were a good many old folks around who thought it was the Blitz all over again. I know if the ground started shaking here, the last thing that would cross my mind would be the thought of an earthquake. Its just unheard of.

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

honestly despite what ppl think about Cali having lots of earthquakes, we haven't a big one in about 10 years or something like that.....

[Diego Van Derveld]

Everybody's used to their own local flavor of disasters. I know that LV, her sis, and LW were horror-stricken when the December 2000 tornado ran through Tuscaloosa and flattened part of the town. They thought I died or something. It was a close call, but I'm pretty used to funnels. We even get the occasional errant hurricane. But I'd freak out in an earthquake. There's nowhere to go for safety. At least in tornadoes, I can McGuyver my way into a makeshift bunker.

[Severen Morkonis]

Actually it was the biggest the UK's every had, i heard Sonning ( a town a bit up from us) felt a light shudder...and Sonning is only 5 mins away from me....damn i wouldaloved to have felt that....:(

[ReaperFett]

Little fact for you. A 4.0 quake is the equivelant of a small nuke. As in, if you felt a slight shake, Youd feel that. So I know how a bit bigger Nuke would feel ;)


And Ori, I live near Leicester

[Diego Van Derveld]

WOW, Fett hints at his place of residence! :eek

And whats funny is that the sorority house next door to my house was hit with a molotov cocktail 3 weeks ago. Happened around 4AM. The closest person to the scene of the crime, apart from the perpetrator and the victim(s) was me, and I slept through it all. Didn't even find out about it till the next day, as I was coming home from class, and saw the Delta house cocooned in crime tape.

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

:lol slept through a few earthquakes myself and it's funny since I'm not a heavy sleeper......

[Sene Unty]

I visited Cali a couple times in my live (half my family lives there) and I have never felt an earthquake. I was sitting in my Grandma's house when I was 10 watching TV and my mom comes running in saying "did you feel that." I hadn't felt a thing because I was watching the television to intently. Oh well. :D

I did sleep through Hurricane Andrew though. That was weird because it was so bad. I guess I can sleep through anything. :D

[ReaperFett]

WOW, Fett hints at his place of residence!
Damn, you're right! :)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Earthquake didn't even touch Newcastle :( Would have been an interesting experience

[ReaperFett]

Noone would dare shake Newcastle ;)

[Dasquian Belargic]

Aye, wouldn't be stupid enough :D

(btw, 2 - 0! :D :crack :D *flips the bird to the non-existant Sunderland fans*)

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

:lol

[Diego Van Derveld]

Yeah I remember Andrew coming through. It was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hit Birmingham. Nevertheless, we got a good 2 feet of rain from it!

[ReaperFett]

Shall I make you a SUnderland fan? :)

[Diego Van Derveld]

The only thing I know about English soccer teams is from that Monty Python skit, where they had a quiz show with Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Chairman Mao as contestants, and they were asking questions exclusively about it.

"Coventry City last won the English football cup in what year?"

...

"No? I'm not suprised you didn't get that. It was infact a trick question. Coventry City have never won the English football cup!"

[ReaperFett]

lol :)

[Sene Unty]

I live in Miami so I got the brunt of Andrew......scary stuff.

[Leeloo Mina]

Thats kinda sad Fett :lol
If we have tornado watches I usually just sit on my PC or keep watching tv, getting mad at the flashing thingy at the bottom.. My mom freaks out and sometimes she'll make me get up or something.. but it's not like we have tornados every day here.. but we do get alot of watches for them certian times of the year.. so I dont even worry.

Thankfully we never get earthquakes here. that would really freak me out.. Tornados are okay, but the ground shaking beneathe my feet? o_O

[ReaperFett]

SAD? :(












:)

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

meh, most of the earthquakes around here just shake stuff a bit but they aren't that bad.....

[Admiral Lebron]

I camped threw hurricane Andrew and Hugo ...both on the beach. And thats 2 out of 3 times I've ever camped on a beach.

[Seerrasseei Tsseerra]

o_O :| odd....who would wanna camp when there's a hurricane?

[Admiral Lebron]

I don't really remember Andrew much, just like glimpses and what not. But Hugo was fun in the streams and massive puddles with high winds!

[Daiquiri Van-Derveld]

I only live a few miles from the New Madrid fault, which is the fault that caused the Mississippi river to run backwards and the Liberty Bell to ring, many years ago :eek

We usually have a tornado every other year or so but a lot of watches during the spring, summer and fall.

[imported_Callista]

Only been in an earthquake once...when I was little...and the point was far away so it didn't do much other than shake the house a bit. Now LD is gettin' all the rumblin' with Hood possibly about to errupt...It was all peaceful when I lived there :p

We get tornados in Wyoming....Not a whole heck of a lot, but some...and blizzards! Oh and hail storms...like the one we just got that dropped grapefruit sized hail and caused millions of dollars of damage.

Friend of mine said she had all these dead birds in her front yard after the hail storm :x

[Gia Van Derveld]

Loma Prieta Earthquake, California's Bay Area, 1989. I was a year removed from England, where, as mentioned, the ground never moves.

Then I get hit with a 7.1 during dinner. I bawled afterwards, wanting to go back to England where such awful things never happen!! Of course, I was nine.

There was the Northridge quake in so. Cal in...1995? I can't remember the date. I wasn't in that one, thank God. The last one I was in was a couple years ago, a 5.5 in CA......had a few others at school, but nothing worth mentioning. 3s and some 4s...

And now I live here with a volcano! The west coast is the WORST for natural disaters!! :cry

[ReaperFett]

Then I get hit with a 7.1 during dinner. I bawled afterwards, wanting to go back to England where such awful things never happen!! Of course, I was nine.
They dont happen though :)

[Arya Ravenwing]

Yes but I no longer cry about wanting to go back.

Wait..

:cry I want to go back to England! :(

[Marcus Telcontar]

Wouldnt know what an earthquake was.

KNow lots about drought, fire and floods tho

[Severen Morkonis]

The only weather or earthly experience i had was a real tropical storm when i went to Tunisia...you think England rains?...man it rained so hard and the wind blew so hard the building (a hotel) was creaking around us and as a British guy who sees rain and wind everyday..that scared me O_o..There was a cat outside getting drenched so i had to go out and save the poor little bugger...

[Oriadin]

We are pretty lucky here in the Uk when it comes to Natural disasters...

Never get bad eathquakes... no volcanoes... no tornados/hurricans... just rain... and cold... and snow...

We have a few floods and stuff but usually its nothing that causes loads of people to die or anything.

[Diego Van Derveld]

England has more or less gradual, steady rain.

Here, every 48 hours or so, you get 5 minutes of absolute monsoon, in the afternoon. It'll put down inches of precipitation in nearly no time whatsoever. Its much worse in that regard, because the stuff just stands on the ground, and the rest of the day, works to become steam in near-100 degree weather. Sucked this past saturday, cause it almost ruined my afternoon with the family visiting campus. We couldn't participate in hardly any of the activities on the quad.

[Gia Van Derveld]

Alabama is HOT AND WET.

Wow that sounds...so wrong....

[Sene Unty]

I've been through alot of Tropical Storms......they're nothing much really. I guess its a good excuse not to go to school. Hurricanes on the other hand scare the crap out of me. My mother was almost killed in Andrew after it tore a hole through her apartment. She went rushing into her closet and she says it sounded like a train was rushing by right outside. Oh she lived in Homestead at the time, and if you know Andrew at all, that was where the eye passed over. Everytime a Hurricane gets close to Florida I get scared. I never want to go through one again.