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:eek::eek: "You felt the earth move under your feet" :rolleyes:

SWOhio hasn't had an earthquake in awhile?

Link to this morning's event http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/...ehnw0516a.html

A link to a Wikipedia page of previous earthquakes in Virginia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_seismic_zone

We had an earthquake here in GA a few years back. It was around the same time, too.....very early A.M.. It was the talk of all the radio shows and local news because so many people heard and felt it. It woke me up and it was very unsettling until we found out exactly what it was. One man called into a radio station and said "that's the most action my bed has had for years!". :rolleyes:

Probably a good thing you didn't know what it was at the time, maryann. You certainly wouldn't have been able to go back to sleep then. Glad it didn't do any damage.

We had a 3.3 here in North Texas at around 11:30am.

We don't get earthquakes...really weird.

I've only been through two minor quakes. The first in Albuquerque, NM when I was in high school. Late at night while watching the late-nite 'creature feature' on TV. The fireplace equipment started to rattle for no apparent reason. Along with the scary movie, it was rather unnerving.

Second was in San Diego, CA. I was at a bar playing pinball and the ball seemed to take on a mind of its own. Wouldn't go where the flippers flipped it. And I had only had two beers!

Hiya Maryann,

Earthquakes can happen nearly anywhere... the big ones are near or on the fault lines ... the little ones are sometimes echos of deeper ones nearer a fault line ...

As for Virginia... years ago when I lived in Hampton Roads, Newport News to be exact, there was a very minor shake. Most people didn't know it and found out on the local news that night :)

Niko

We had a little one years ago. I felt something, but didn't realize that's what it was until I heard it on the news. Like everyone else, I thought it was just blasting at the quarry.

Personally, in that area, you ought worry more about the blasting. ;)

So......does this mean that a larger earthquake near the fault line is eminent? Where is the fault line, anyway? Seems like the smaller earthquakes are spaced out all over the U.S.

This is the second time in recorded history of earthquakes in this area. The last one was last October.

Lots of specualtion about all the recent oil drilling in the area causing the change.

I've felt tremors before. The weird thing was, they were from earthquakes that were happening on the coasts (The east and west coasts of the U.S.) I live in Nebraska.

One was an earthquake that happened in either North or South Carolina in the late 1980s. I was at the local mall here in Omaha. Sitting on a seat. I felt a tremor in the square bench I was sitting on. My friends that were with me felt it also, and we were wondering what it was. When we got home, we found out that there had been an earthquake in one of the Carolina's.

The other one happened in 1989. The Loma Prieta earthquake in San Franscisco. I was working in a McDonald's here in Omaha, and was on break out in the lobby. We had these benches that were attached to the wall of the building, it went down that entire wall, and had plate glass windows behind it, and there was a line of tables that went the length of the wall.

I was sitting there, eating my Big Mac, and all of a sudden the bench was wobbling. There was just me, one customer and my boss sitting on that bench at the time. I remember feeling the shaking, and looking up at my boss and that customer, and we were all like "what is that, making the bench shake??". Our store had tv's on the wall, but I cant remember if the tv was on, or if it was the store radio, but we heard the announcement about the earthquake in San Francisco at about the same time as we felt the shaking of the bench. I was all excited that I'd felt it and could actually connect the time to an earthquake somewhere else.

Both times I felt the shaking like that, was weird. It was just enough shaking that I could feel it...the one in 1989 was a lot stronger than the first time I'd felt anything like that tho. But it wasnt anything more than the bench vibrating for several seconds.

We had an earthquake here in Nebraska in the mid-90s. It was along the Humboldt Fault and I think it was a 2.0 or close to a 3.0. I cant remember exactly what year it was tho. I did feel that one. It knocked over a stack of videotapes that I had on my tv stand. (tall stack of tapes. Think I had 10 to 15 tapes stacked on top of each other)

[quote=braingonebad;511315]We had a little one years ago. I felt something, but didn't realize that's what it was until I heard it on the news. Like everyone else, I thought it was just blasting at the quarry.

Personally, in that area, you ought worry more about the blasting. ;)[/quote

I bet it's the same one I remember 'cause we had one in Toledo years ago and nearly scared the puddin' outta me!

I thought it was the duPont plant exploding because of the chemicals!! DH was on the way home so I knew he was safe but I was worried about the others at work. :confused:

Thank goodness it was just a lil ole earthquake...wait...earthquake!!
YIKES!!! :eek:

I was in college going places during our break and a friend and me went to San Francisco, A 5.4 on the Ricter scale hit, we both drove behind a bed. Trying to be cool (we were like 19), called the front desk, got a hysterical clerk who yelled "get in the street". Then it was over. 32 years later we still talk about it sometimes.

I've lived in Utah for around 35 years -- we're still waiting for The BIG One!!!

DH and I were on the couch in the basement when we had an earthquake. I immediately stood up to go upstairs to balance the load in the washer! DUH! :o

About 3 years ago (before MS diagnosis) I would wake up of a morning and feel subtle movement of the bed and think it was a minor temblor. Later I decided it was just ME. Is it hot in here?

YIKES!!!! Glad to hear no damage or injuries!!!

Let me get mah gun maw...i be right thar. :cool: Venison is good eating!

Cross-bow?

Here's a link from the US Geological Survey. Quake info. by state:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/

Niko:cool:

Nope. Maybe a sling-shot.

You can feel an earthquake anywhere on the planet. (except for when you're flying in an airplane)

I'm not so worried about a big earthquake happening here in Nebraska, even tho I've felt the little ones occasionally. I'm more worried about the super-volcano in Yellowstone National Park. If the super-volcano in Yellowstone decides to blow it's top, it'll put a nice big hole in the middle of the country. Omaha will probably get scraped off the map by the blast.

The Yellowstone volcano usually pops off about once every 600 thousand years. It's been 600 and forty thousand years since the last eruption. It's overdue.

I want to take a trip to Yellowstone someday. It's too expensive of a trip for me tho.