OT: Earthquake

[jpw]

A life first. 1 am this morning and a 5.2 magnitude earthquake woke me from my slumber. Really quite strong and a little bit unsettling. A weird experience. No damage, but now I appreciate what it might be like in a big one :eek: - absolute terror.

[bozman]

where are you?

[jpw]

where are you?

Raleighville

[bozman]

thanks. I was just curious. I have a sibling in L.A. and one in San Fran and there was no mention from either this morning of an earthquake in either locale. Glad you are ok.

[Bill Bove]

Raleighville meaning the U.K.?

[TimD]

When you move in right up close to me
That's when I get the shakes all over me

Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in the knee bones
Shivers down my thigh bones
Like I'm
Shakin' all over

That's what happens when you say goodnight to me
Bring this feeling all inside of me
Quivers down my backbone
I got the shakes in the knee bones
Shivers in the thigh bones
Like I'm
Shakin' all over

[jpw]

meaning the U.K.?

A lateral thinker :beer:

[Bill Bove]

I spent a couple of years stationed at Upper Heyford in the Midlands. A nice place. The Midlands, not the RAF base, now closed, does that mean we did a good job?

[Karin Kirk]

An unusual location for an earthquake, not a lot of active tectonics happening in that part of the world.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

More info: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

jpw, you are encouraged to fill out a report of your experiences - this data is very useful to geologists.
The form is here: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008nyae/ciim_form.html

[dvs cycles]

A life first. 1 am this morning and a 5.2 magnitude earthquake woke me from my slumber. Really quite strong and a little bit unsettling. A weird experience. No damage, but now I appreciate what it might be like in a big one :eek: - absolute terror.
After living in California since 1963 I don't even wake up anymore unless it is over a 6.1. ;)
Now tornados would be terrifying although some day I want to see one close enough to want to get the hell away. :beer:

[davids]

Glad you're OK. I've heard a few first-person accounts of larger quakes, and they have been harrowing!

The only quake I've experienced was a much smaller one in the late '80s in New England. My wife and I were eating lunch at the time, and the water in our fishtank abruptly started sloshing back and forth. I felt no sensations myself - it was very strange to see the water rolling back & forth. It was only the next day that we saw a news report on the earthquake nearby.

[julia]

An unusual location for an earthquake, not a lot of active tectonics happening in that part of the world.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

More info: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

jpw, you are encouraged to fill out a report of your experiences - this data is very useful to geologists.
The form is here: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008nyae/ciim_form.html


it is indeed!

goon show, jpw? from "the greenslade story":

-------------------------------------
Bloodnok:
Never mind these naughty winds light to variable! What about some earthquakes in East Acton?

Seagoon:
What about earthquakes in East Acton?

Bloodnok:
What about...? I've been training at this school for six years to say "earthquakes in East Acton."

Seagoon:
So what?

Bloodnok:
Well, they never have one!

Seagoon:
Ah, ah, yes! But at the slightest tremor, I'll write to the BBC!

Bloodnok:
Oh...

Seagoon:
I will indeed! Now then, keep up your morale, man! Say after me "Earthquakes in East Acton."

Bloodnok:
Earthquakes in East Acton.

Seagoon:
There you are, how about that eh?

[GregL]

I remember two "local" earthquakes: the first was in October 1983. I was in college in the Albany area and remember waking up early one morning, but then going back to sleep. When I got up again a short time later and turned on the news, I found out I had been awakened by a small quake.

The second was in April 2002 (http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/04/20/new.england.tremors/index.html). That one woke me up just before 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning. I knew right away what that one was!

[jpw]

I spent a couple of years stationed at Upper Heyford in the Midlands. A nice place. The Midlands, not the RAF base, now closed, does that mean we did a good job?

Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire. Well, we didn't get bombed or invaded, so yes you did a good job. :) The Fourth Protocol was an interesting book/ film.

Other well known RAF /USAF bases here have included Lakenheath (F-15 fighters), Fairford (B2 stealth bombers, and space shuttle emergency landing runway), but my favourite is Fylingdales in Yorkshire;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/FylingdalesRadomes.jpg
- golf anyone? The landscape is the one you see in the film An American Werewolf In London, but the early scenes not in London.

Every culture leaves a mark here;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/S7300095.JPG :)

I remember being on a train from Raleighville to London in the eighties and two warthog tankbusters came swooping down on a training attack run. Quite impressive. I was pleased it was just training.

The most interesting base today is a little known one in Scotland, RAF Machrihanish. Said to be the super secret Aurora plane staging base.

[jpw]

An unusual location for an earthquake, not a lot of active tectonics happening in that part of the world.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

More info: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/last_event/world_united_kingdom_cy.gif

jpw, you are encouraged to fill out a report of your experiences - this data is very useful to geologists.
The form is here: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ous/STORE/X2008nyae/ciim_form.html

Form filled. USGS reports a 4.7 but the British GS reported 5.2. Umm, odd.

[maunahaole]

There is a similar radome on a barge that is in an out of Pearl Harbor every once in a while..low level x band something or another. I can see it from my office window when it is in. Now the F-15's that climb vertically out of Hickam are another thing altogether.

[slowgoing]

A life first. 1 am this morning and a 5.2 magnitude earthquake woke me from my slumber. Really quite strong and a little bit unsettling. A weird experience. No damage, but now I appreciate what it might be like in a big one :eek: - absolute terror.


An earthquake in an area with a lot of unreinforced masonry is a big deal.