Just felt a small earthquake about 5 minutes ago where I live NW of Everett WA about 20 miles. Not sure where it was centered but definitely a shaker.
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3.47 magnitude right across bay east of us. Not big enough to get excited about.
Hell, I lived through the 6.8 Nisqually earthquake without a scratch.
Last edited by Borderland; 11-16-2023 at 08:26 PM.
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I went through one in Portland. Then in WNY, a few months ago we had a 3.8, gave the house a strong shake like an impact. Everyone thought a truck hit their house. Rare here.
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Slept through a 5.4 in Mexico City. Didn't even know it happened until I woke up the next morning.
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My very distant brush with a big one....
My first trip to Japan was January 1995. On the night of my arrival in Tokyo, I was awakened by what felt like an earthquake, at about 3AM local time. First time I felt one happening (we had a few when I lived in upstate NY that were in the news, but, I never felt them) I looked out the small hotel window, checked the hallway. Nothing. When I arrived at work the next morning I asked my colleagues if they had felt the quake. The Americans (myself, one from Atlanta, 2 others from Seattle area) all said yes, the Japanese all said no. LOL. We confirmed later that day it was a 3.4 quake some distance from the city.
Of course I stayed the weekend to check out the city and flew out Monday via Chicago to NC. By the time I landed in NC, Kobe had been devastated.
I did feel a 4.x here in FTW some years ago with an epicenter in OK. Was laying on the couch watching TV when I felt it rolling from my feet to my head (North to South)
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If I had been asleep I would have missed it also.Originally Posted by TGS
A house on my block (two doors up the street) caught fire in the middle of the night and I knew nothing about until I drove past it on my way to work. House was mostly destroyed.
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That one did some damage. I remember seeing the buckled freeways on the news.
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Interesting comparison. I did some work near a bombing range in S. CA. The shock waves hit us from the exploding ordnance about a mile away. Earthquakes can be like that.
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Some 12 years ago, I was staying near Cuernavaca in Mexico and the room began to move right as I was sitting still, It was a very weird experience of about ten seconds.
Somewhere around three on the scale, I think?
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