bloody earthquakes!!

[Hayden1987]

So yea this is how most of us spent the past 9 hours here in wellington.. including me
I envy all of you that dont get quakes lol
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT20PCPV7QY&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]New Zealand rocked by earthquake - YouTube[/ame]

The ground is still shaking as i type this

 

[Poppetsmum]

I hope you are all okay. That must be so scary. I've never ever experienced an earthquake and I hope I never do.

 

[Hayden1987]

I dont think anyone was injured in this one.. last months quakes was worse... we have had over 1000 in a month.
its getting very old very quickly haha!

 

[crimson]

that's incredible!... I'm not sure if I could stand all of those let alone one!

on occasion we have earthquakes in Toronto, Canada.
The biggest one we were involved in was when my husband and I were in San Diego California, 5.6 on the richter scale, scared the bejeepers out of us!!! everything was swaying, and some things were falling, or being knocked over and everyone was running every where.
we were at an outdoor event sitting under some huge canopy tents.
My husband and I were just sitting there thinking, what's going on??? we felt the tremor but really didn't know where to run to, so we got up and started walking, every one else was running in a state of panic....I guess when you've been thru it as many times as you have, you either get use to it, or it scares you to death...I'll never forget it.

 

[JerseyWendy]

I dont think anyone was injured in this one.. last months quakes was worse... we have had over 1000 in a month.
its getting very old very quickly haha!

WHAT???? Did you add too many zeros by accident?

 

[haleybird]

Earthquakes can get pretty crazy when you live close to a fault line! (Need I say more, hailing from California? ) but I can't imagine what 1000 in a month would be like. I hope you and your fids are doing alright, and continue to hang in there!

 

[kiwiS]

I hope you are all doing okay over there! Earthquakes are the worst...I'm so glad I don't live in California anymore..I was going prematurely gray!

(i'm not saying everyone is cali is prematurely gray..i'm just really high strung and nervous regarding earthquakes...i'm a cancerian so i like to be really grounded and nothing's worst than having the ground not feel grounded..)

 

[Mayden]

I remember one time we had an earthquake (here in the UK they're pretty rare!) and I thought our windows were going to just shatter and come through, it was terrifying! Was the middle of the night and... eurg!

Keep safe! Maybe keep a hard hat lying around too

 

[SoCalWendy]

I live in California. I have definitely lived through my share of earthquakes. The 1971, 6.5 was bad, but I was a child at the time so I don't remember most of it. I lived in the San Fernando Valley (Chatsworth.) The only thing I really remember from the 1971 earthquake was having to boil our water. The worst and scariest earthquake for me has to be the Northridge in 1994, 6.7. And I lived about an hr Northwest from it. It hit at about 4:30 in the morning. My cat, who was sick at the time (I was taking her to the vet that day) was under my bed. Right before it hit like within 30-45 seconds she let out the strangest sound. It woke me up out of a dead sleep. it was the strangest sound. Thinking it was because she was sick, I tried to comforter her. I got up and looked outside, everything was so still and quite, not even a breeze. I thought that was strange. Then all of a sudden it felt like a giant rolling under my house. Everything kept rolling and rolling, I thought it would never stop and I knew it was bad. I grew up in Northridge/Chatsworth area. About a week afterwards we drove to Northridge, just getting there using the freeways was freaky. It was like a ride, up and down, up and down. I was astounded by the damage. At the Northridge Mall you could hear the wind blowing through the buildings and see right inside the debris hanging and swaying in the breeze. The parking structure, where I have parked all throughout my life had collapsed. It was so eerie, made me sick to my stomach. But the worst was seeing house after house with a big red X on them because they were condemned and the apartment buildings that had either completely demolished or the first story completely gone, they were condemned. People were sleeping at parks in tents because they were afraid to go back inside their homes (the ones that wernt condemned) the after shocks alone were earthquakes. It was so scary and devastating. People's homes were rocked completely off thier foundations. A friend of mine who had spend years developing a property they purchased to build their house on, they had just finished building it and moved in, was now condemned.

Now living here in San Diego for the last 10 yrs or so, I have felt my share of earthquakes. They say we are supposed to have a major one, it enevitble. I used to live in a part of San Diego where I was in a tsunami zone, but not anymore. The one thing I do worry about is the San Onofre nuclear power plant being affected by a major earthquake, like what happened in Japan 2011.

Here is a link: Southern California Earthquake Data Center at Caltech

The photo of the freeway, a motorcycle police officer drove off the part where is had seperated because it was still dark and he didn't know the freeway had collapsed the way it did. He slammed into the concrete below and died instantly.

 

[Mayden]

Oh wow, that's some real scary stuff. Very apocalypse type thing.

 

[Agapornis]

SocalWendy, I live 3 hours north of Chatsworth, and I was woken up at 4:30 am when that quake hit! Crazy. Very interesting that your cat sensed the quake before it hit.

Hayden, how are your birds handling all those quakes, do they feel the quakes before they hit? Are there any tsunami warnings???

 

[Mare Miller]

That had to have been so scary, Wendy! I remember that quake but lived in central Cal at that time, I remember watching the news regarding the devastation and really felt for those folks that went through that. I grew up in the SoCal desert area near the San Andreas fault and have many memories of my folks waking us up to get out of the house.

Stay safe, Hayden, I'm sorry things are a'shakin' for you right now! If you live in the quake zone, that's just part of it.

 

[SoCalWendy]

SocalWendy, I live 3 hours north of Chatsworth, and I was woken up at 4:30 am when that quake hit! Crazy. Very interesting that your cat sensed the quake before it hit.

Hayden, how are your birds handling all those quakes, do they feel the quakes before they hit? Are there any tsunami warnings???

Yeah it's amazing how the animals can sense things like this. My ex father in law was on the freeway (he lives in Simi Valley) heading towards Santa Barbara when it hit. His radio went dead in his car. Thinking it was strange he pulled over, found a phone and called his daughter in Santa Barbara. She told him about the earthquake and told him to go home. His wife was home alone, never experienced an earthquake, she ran outside naked. The neighbor saw her and brought her a robe. When her husband got him she was siting outside, on the front lawn, holding on to a card table. She was so scared, for months she couldn't be left alone. Her son or daughter in law would come over before her husband left for work so she wasn't alone. Poor thing.

 

[Betrisher]

I reckon the worst thing about earthquakes is that for months (even years) afterward, the slightest sudden noise turns your insides to water and you have a slight heart attack.

We had an earthquake in 1989 (5.6) and my strongest memory of it is that all the animals went quiet and even the birds disappeared for hours. We were lucky and only lost a few things that fell out of cupboards, but lots of people lost their homes. It's not much fun at all and I wish the people of New Zealand all the very best as they try to regroup and rebuild.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Wow Wendy, how scary!!! I can't even imagine how I would react. We had one (tiny) earthquake here, not even worth mentioning. I remember laying on the couch, trying to take a nap, and my dog came downstairs and laid in front of the couch. I told him to stop kicking the couch - that's what it felt like. :54: Not 5 minutes later my neighbor called me, all frantic, wanting to know if I felt the earthquake we just had.

My oldest son is moving to Cali in less than 2 weeks. I wonder how he'll react when he experiences them.

 

[MonicaMc]

When I lived in California, I didn't experience very many earthquakes... then again, I didn't live close to any major fault lines. Some of them did freak my birds out, and the worst one did cause one of the cages to fall over!

I now live in Nevada... it's easily a 15-20 minute drive to the California border... honestly, I didn't move far! I'm about a 30-45 minute drive from where I lived in California. Living in Nevada, the biggest concern is *not* earthquakes, but flooding and fires! Flooding because of California (rain/snow that goes into a river that goes through the cities I live in) and heavy rainfall. Fires because well, Nevada is a freakin desert... plenty of sagebrush to burn! Right now we're getting smoke from the American Fire in California and we've had some sunsets with a red sun and nights when the moon was red/orange. Sometimes, the smoke so thick that we can't even see the mountains! Any house that uses a swamp cooler pulls smoke inside the home from outside so the house ends up smelling smokier than it does outside... and if you don't use a swamp cooler or AC, then your house is going to get up in the 80's or 90° temps (F).




Hayden, glad this wasn't a major earthquake!!!! As I mentioned in another thread, I missed the 2011 Christchurch earthquake by a couple of days!!! My last night in NZ was spent in Christchurch, not too far away from the airport! The damage was devastating!

Stay safe!

 

[MikeyTN]

I grew up with Earth Quakes, Hurricanes, and Flooding. So when I encounter Tornados is what was more frightening to me since I wasn't used to it....

 

[Mama4life]

I grew up with hurricanes and flooding.... cant say I have been through an earthquake before. I was playing in hurricane Andrew down in Miami when that category 5 hurricane hit Florida. I love to experience natures wonders. I just wish no one would get hurt during it all. Hope you stay safe.

 

[Hayden1987]

I dont think anyone was injured in this one.. last months quakes was worse... we have had over 1000 in a month.
its getting very old very quickly haha!

WHAT???? Did you add too many zeros by accident?

Haha sure didnt, some of the shakes ya can barely feel but some just are down right scary!! Last months one had me flying outside as fast as i can direct from the shower! :/

 

[Hayden1987]

This is just to show how many quakes we have had over the past couple of weeks haha