NEW Earthquake just hit my house.... WOW
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Where was the epicenter? Prauge again?
My local news station says that some people are reporting they felt it in some parts of Wi.
Is that even possible???
Is that even possible???
I hope everyone is ok!
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hope everyone is alright.
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same here in hominy. then I ran out side to see if my bike was still up.it was ok
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I’m glad everyone’s alright. The farther east you go the harder they feel. Ca has bigger ones all the time but because the tectonic plates are so shattered out there they don’t feel very big and don’t travel as far. As you move towards the East coast the ground turns to slate and the plates are solid so the shock waves travel farther and “fell†more powerful. A 4.0 quake on the East coast feels like 7.0 quakes out West. I know because I’ve lived in both places and been through quakes on each side. The California people were laughing at Washington DC folks a few months ago when they had their quake but I guaranty it “felt†bigger than any quake CA has had in a while.
The difference between East and West cast quakes was best described to me by a geoscientist when he said imagine you are standing in the sand at the beach and I drop a bowling ball 6’’ from your feet. You would feel it but if I moved 12’’ away you would feel it even less, move 2’ away and you wouldn’t even feel it anymore; that would be the shattered tectonic plates of the West coast. Now imagine you’re standing on a solid concrete slab and I drop the same bowling ball from the same height (thus creating the same size quake) you would feel it more, I could then drop that ball from 10’ away and you would still feel it. The shock waves travel much further and “feel†stronger out East. That it is why the quake in DC was felt in OH and VT, and it was only a 5.8 or something like that.
The difference between East and West cast quakes was best described to me by a geoscientist when he said imagine you are standing in the sand at the beach and I drop a bowling ball 6’’ from your feet. You would feel it but if I moved 12’’ away you would feel it even less, move 2’ away and you wouldn’t even feel it anymore; that would be the shattered tectonic plates of the West coast. Now imagine you’re standing on a solid concrete slab and I drop the same bowling ball from the same height (thus creating the same size quake) you would feel it more, I could then drop that ball from 10’ away and you would still feel it. The shock waves travel much further and “feel†stronger out East. That it is why the quake in DC was felt in OH and VT, and it was only a 5.8 or something like that.
Glad to hear your OK Captain... Felt that one here as well, my son came running upstairs as everything was shaking in the house! His teenage mind/Halloween had him thinking the place was haunted. Everything is back to normal now, but I'd expect there will be more of this to come in the days ahead.
Whew.... 45 seconds must have felt alot longer. Glad you and the Fam are OK...
You have it way worse than we do bro. They werent bad, we just never get them so its different when we do. Kind of like we think tornados are no big deal.
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