Kevin's Watch

Just had a 4.0 in Alamo. Building shook good. Moose woke up. It was a quickie... shake shake shake your booty.

web monkey was in the shower.

i was in azeroth killin sunfury blood elfs when that little jolt rocked the building!!

then i got goose bumps on my arms.

then i felt queasy for a minute.

urg.

SOME ONE DIAL 911 !!!!!

I'm happy about the little tremors. If it tremors then we are releasing the pressure and staving off the biggun!

Why does this turn me on?

You're aroused by earthquake discussion? And I was in your house?

We don't get much in the way of quakes here, as you might imagine, but there is the odd little one. The last one was the biggest I've felt. Weird sensation, like being on a water bed. It wasn't so much 'shake, shake' as 'slosh, slosh'. Are they usually like that, or is the UK particularly gooey?

The UK is gooey.
Actually, I have no idea. I've never experienced an earthquake.

Some years ago when So Cal had a good one..I was asleep in my waterbed at the time. it was like quarter to six in the morning. All of a sudden the bed burst into activity. I said to myself..wait a minute,,alls I got last nite was a phone number..wtf?.. So i jump out of bed and as i am puttin on a pair of shorts.. i look out the window and there are waves in my pool, not ripples, but freekin white caps. I'm in Phoenix and ima thinkin..o oh..did the big one hit?
So i turned on the tv and it became a CNN day..

The sensation has a lot to do with what kind of foundation you're on. Gooey does not sound ideal.

The first one I consciously experienced I was lying in bed reading and the room shook but it was over by the time I realized what was going on. Another one I was sitting at my desk at work and thought some car or truck or something had hit the building. That one was one single hard wham. The longest one was when I was living at Bloodguard Bob's and it started and kept going and just as I thought ok, this is a bit scary and maybe I should move to a doorway it stopped. Today's was a good shake but not scary. It's definitely a harder shake living downtown than it feels out in sunset. The sunset district of San Francisco is all built on sand and the sand absorbs most of the impact. The harder ground of the tenderloin district shakes harder plus I think the height of the building has an effect as well. I bet Lucimay felt it more up on the fourth floor than I did on the second floor even though we are in the same building.

I've only experienced one "earthquake", more like a mild tremor. My sister and I were in our bedroom and I heard a tapping sound, so I yelled at her to cut it out. When I realized she wasn't doing anything, I looked around and noticed things were vibrating against the walls. It only lasted for a minute or two. I then jokingly told my sister there was a ghost in the room and she freaked out. It took me several minutes and a brief geology discussion with my dad to convince my sister that it really was just a very minor earthquake. Some people find it hard to believe that Wisconsin has earthquakes too.

Had an earthquake in Rome, Georgia few years ago. A few seconds long, but talk about surreal.

We had one in the UK a while back. It was pretty weird, I was in bed at the time and, like CovJr said, it wasn't so much shaky as sloshy. nothing like you see in films where everything jiggles about, just a bit of gentle rocking.

They seem to vary based on place of origin and strength. I've felt slow building rocking side to side ones as Cov described as gooey. I've also had quick hard slamming ones such as the one that felt like someone hit the building with a car and ones that are quick and jittery jerky. I was sitting on the porch out in sunset when I still lived there and the chair started jerking back and forth and me with it for a few seconds then it stopped. Felt like someone grabbed the front of my shirt and was shaking me hard. My friend Wyatt was living in LA when they had a really big one back in 1994. He was standing in the kitchen when it hit and ran outside into the backyard and laid on the ground and he said as it built the water in the in ground pool turned into a crazy tidal wave and they lost over three quarters of the water from it shaking so hard it flung the water out. It took two days for me to get in touch with him to find out he was ok. Compared to that SF's little shakies are NOTHING.

'89 was pretty memorable - no power for 3 days.

I wasn't out on the West coast yet so I missed that one. Actually I seem to have a history of missing serious natural disasters. About three months after I left for the West Coast, Cape Cod was hit by one of the worst storms in many many years and they were out of power for four days and it leveled entire forests out by my old high school.

Soo... you're planning on staying here for a while, right?

At this point I am planning on staying here for the rest of my life. You are STUCK with me Sorus. STUCK!

Nathan wrote:We had one in the UK a while back. It was pretty weird, I was in bed at the time and, like CovJr said, it wasn't so much shaky as sloshy. nothing like you see in films where everything jiggles about, just a bit of gentle rocking.

That's probably the same one I was talking about. It came at about 1am as I recall, a few months ago. The cups on my desk rattled a little, but the feeling was quite liquid. At first I thought maybe I was just tired and getting light headed. It was that kind of soft, woozy, unsteady feeling. But then I found out there'd been a quake in the Midlands. I was out here in Wales at the time, so Nathan probably felt it more than I did.