A nice little quake!

[ghshinn]

So, I'm sitting here cutting out a Fokker Dr. 1 and the floor starts to shake, and I sliced off part of the strut.:( It was a 5.9 earthquake that shook San Diego County. Fortunately, the strut's replaceable.

Garland

[Knife]

Darn those scantily clad women--causing earthquakes everywhere . . .

[Ron0909]

Thats so weird....we had one almost the same strength here in Ottawa last week. It scared the cra* out of me! Sounds like the earth is rebelling against something or other . Glad you didn't cut yourself!

Ron

[ghshinn]

No, Ron, I didn't cut myself. I didn't know they had quakes in Ontario, but I guess no place is safe.

Garland

[Ron0909]

I spent 3 years in California without ever experiencing one. This was my first and I never want to feel it again! Really made me feel small and insignificant. Ottawa had one a few years ago but I was fortunately not living here at the time

[mbauer]

They happen all the time here in Alaska.

All over really, just so small you don't notice them.

Here is a link to check out.
Earthquakes

Mike

[Jim Nunn]

Garland,

I’m glad it was only a strut and not a finger.


For the members in the middle of the US you know why we have earthquakes in California and you have tornados. . . . . . .

















We got first choice.


Jim Nunn

[Thomas Meek]

From December 1811 through February 1812, the area around New Madrid (pronounced "New Madrid), Missouri experienced the largest group of earthquakes in U S. history. Nearly 2,000 of them, including four of the top ten earthquakes ever recorded in the contiguous United States.

These earthquakes were felt as far away as New England, ringing church bells and stopping clocks in Boston. Fortunately there were no large cities in the area of the quakes. (At the time.)

Compared to that, a few tornadoes would seem pretty small stuff.

[ghshinn]

Ron, I'm with you. I don't like them at all, but I was raised here and we tend to get a little blase with the things. Hope you don't get another one either.

Mike, I had friends who were on Kodiak Island during the big one back in '64. No one was hurt, but they were quite shaken (pun intended). Those of us who live on the Pacific rim just have to put up with such things.

Jim, I've never lived through a tornado, but my mother did, and she would've agreed with you. She was raised in Oklahoma, and survived several, one of which took her neighbor's house; she was a teenager at the time and one of her good friends was killed.

Thomas, yes, I've read about those middle America quakes in the Missouri valley. Here's wishing that it never occurs again, especially now with the huge population. They keep talking about "the big one" here on the west coast, but I doubt it would be as bad as the Missouri quakes.

Garland

[rickstef]

Hector Mine, October 16th 1999 2:45am PDT

If anyone cares to learn what a strong earthquake is, and can do, google the above.

I have lived through this

Rick