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First Quake

So I haven't made a front page post in a while and I am procrastinating on an extremely busy workday (part of my new leaf, today is review day and we've pretty much been informed that bonuses and raises will be extremely minimal) so I thought I'd throw something up here.

This morning at 4:36am I experienced my first earthquake! I'm kind of oddly excited about it. I woke up because I heard something like a rumble and wondered what was going on outside. It seemed to quiet down almost instantly but my bed was kind of shaking. I thought the cat was on it like, vigorously cleaning himself or something, but I looked down and he wasn't there and yet the bed was still shaking. I looked at the clock, saw it was 4:36, kind of looked around wondering why things were shaking and considered texting someone to be like 'what's up, my house is shaking' but decided that I shouldn't wake anyone up. Then it stopped and I went back to sleep. In the morning I wondered what the hell it was or if it had been a weird dream. Then I heard we had an earthquake. I was like, 'Wow! I was in an earthquake!" But it was only little.


[ posted by meredith at 04/18/2008 10:42:58 AM ]
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art [email] said at 10:58 AM 04-18-2008:
Cool! I was in NYC back 5 years or so and woke up thinking it was a train going by, but no - it was an Earthquake

    meredith [email] said at 11:03 AM 04-18-2008:
    Yeah yeah! I remember thinking that it was a train! Then I remembered I didn't live in the house I grew up in anymore where trains used to go by and rattle the chime on my windows!
john [email] said at 11:09 AM 04-18-2008:
I didn't feel it. I must have been sleeping pretty hard. But I felt a few of them out in San Diego. One time while watching a movie, I thought someone was kicking my seat behind me. One time walking through a parking lot, about 50 car alarms all started going off at once. And once I woke up thinking someone was breaking into my room because the blinds were shaking hard against the window. All earthquakes. Why was there one here in Chicago? There are no fault lines here right?
josh [email] said at 11:43 AM 04-18-2008:
i heard about this on the radio today... kinda cool to experience it as long as it doesnt start happening all the time
max [email] said at 12:58 PM 04-18-2008:
I love earthquakes. Not the mass destruction ones, just the shake the bed around for a while ones. I get really excited, like I've witnessed something rare.
rick [email] said at 6:20 PM 04-18-2008:
One of the most severe earthquakes that ever occurred in the US happened somewhere in Missouri in the Eighteenth Century (which was unfortunately before the creation of the Richter scale); supposedly, it was so strong it rang church bells as far east as Pennsylvania. The person who related it to me, said it was the North America's failed attempt to split into.

I would suppose tsunamis and earthquakes are the two natural disasters I have yet to experience. Actually, most of them I have yet to experience except a lot of them are theoretical and/or so rare as to be bordering on theoretical.

myriam [email] said at 9:48 PM 04-18-2008:
Aww, I didn't feel it. I love earthquakes. Or at least, I did once 5th grade rolled around and we learned what was actually happening during the earthquake--then I couldn't WAIT to get one, and I'd sit there feeling the ground and trying to figure out it was a rolling quake or a jolting quake... ahhh, fun times. Until that though they scared the shit out of me. Earthquakes are not as much fun when you are a child.
    myriam [email] said at 2:01 AM 04-19-2008:
    Actually this is totally true but for the vast majority of my life, every time I have taken a shower at some point the thought would cross my mind : what would I do if there were an earthquake while I was in the shower? Should I run out naked? Or stop and take the time to wrap a towel around?

    It took me years of living on the east coast before I actually got used to a sense of security about the ground. I used to go to bed at night as a child panicking -- with heart racing -- that when I woke up, it would be during an earthquake (they often strike in the early morning hours and no one knows why); I would try really really really hard not to go to sleep, as though staying awake would keep the earthquakes away. I still remember how odd it felt when I went to college and I would have that occasional mini-panic feeling in bed at night until my brain finally kicked in and I would sort of marvel at the fact that there wouldn't be any earthquakes because there aren't any to speak of in Pittsburgh. Weird!
      john [email] said at 8:02 AM 04-19-2008:
      One time whilst staying at a friend's house in Fresno, his mom looked out the window and said, "that's earthquake weather...look at those clouds". I thought she was strange because how can you tell if there's going to be an earthquake by the weather?
julie [email] said at 12:42 AM 04-19-2008:
One of my earliest memories is of being in an earthquake in California. We all huddled under this long steel mess-hall table my dad had pilfered from the ship yard, since it was the sturdiest thing in the house. A picture fell down off the wall, I can still see it, some small matted print of a renaissance-era girl in a hat and white dress with a pink sash. I had to be 2 or 3, cuz we moved away when I was 3...

I've never experienced an earthquake as an adult, I'm jealous!


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