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 Rank: King  Joined: 8/5/2009 Posts: 2,761 Location: lost in state of complete confusion
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I have felt soooo many earthquakes... lost count how many, but at least 10. I must be very sensitive to them, because several times I have told my husband I felt an earthquake and he said no way... then later on the news, yep, I was validated when the talking head asked "Did you feel it?"
First one I ever felt could have been serious, just for me, that is. I had been sitting in a straight-legged desk chair, with my feet propped up on the desk, and had leaned my chair back on two legs... when it hit!
My chair started jiggling one way, and when I bolted upright to grab the desk, it was jiggling the other way. 2 more degrees of tilt on that chair, and surely I would have gone over backwards and probably cracked my cranium.
Don't think I have ever tilted a chair back on 2 legs since!
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Rank: King  Joined: 10/6/2009 Posts: 4,546 Location: San Jose, Ca. U.S.A.
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 Iv'e lived in the S.F. Bay-Area my Whole-Life, so Iv'e experienced SO MANY earthquakes, it's not even funny!!  Of course, the "'89-'quake" was the only one Big Enough to write home about!! Robert K. "Moose" Puette
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Rank: King  Joined: 8/12/2009 Posts: 2,519
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Northridge Whittier SF when Nimitz freeway collapsed etc etc
Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
"Obama’s incompetence and inexperience is causing liberals to see him as arrogant, aloof, removed, conceited, suspicious of outside advice, and even lazy."
"UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS" = UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS
Our federal government should be doing its job to secure our borders rather than trying to bully and intimidate the people of Arizona
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Rank: King Joined: 6/15/2005 Posts: 951
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Evansville, Indiana is along a major fault line, so through the years, I felt some tremors.
The first one was the strongest, back about 1967 or 68. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was standing at my mom's stove to make a pot of chili on a cooler fall day. Suddenly, surrealistically, the whole house shook. I had no idea what was going on. Bad brother ran in and asked what I had done! My dad was out changing the oil in the car, and my mom freaked out thinking the car had fallen on him.
After that one, I always recognized the things.
Once, in college, I was at my desk studying. I was on the fifth floor of the dorm. Suddenly, my chair shook, and I assumed somebody from the dorm was doing it, but I turned, and no one was there. I figured tremor. At that time, the movie The Exorcist was in theaters, and college kids were kind of freaked out over it. One girl, who was lying on somebody else's bed and talking, actually went hysterically nuts when the bed started shaking. We took a long time getting her to calm down.
I've seen the little ones. I don't want to be in a big one.
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Rank: King Joined: 6/15/2005 Posts: 951
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hartman79 wrote:Northridge
Whittier
SF when Nimitz freeway collapsed
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THAT was a bad one! I remember looking at Life magazine's coverage of the early 60s Alaska quake. That one was a huge one.
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