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Luckily, I've never really felt an earthquake but have felt a few hurricanes. Ike was the worst and was pretty much in the middle of the eye which lasted 45 minutes. First little bit of a breeze that started back up said time to go back inside. Just before making hard landfall, it was a cat 5 but by the time it was partially on shore, it was losing wind speed and we decided to stay. Felt some 100 mph gusts and that made me wish we had left lol. It surprised the snot out of me that it went from a 5 to a strong 1 in such a short time frame.
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in my defense, she plumped up a bit AFTER I married her 
They always do Dubb!
...starting to sound like a scam in the making....
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My stepfather Bob was stationed up their at Fort Richardson, ArmyGood Friday 1964, Sixty years and one week ago... Now that was an earthquake....
outside of Anchorage when that happened
he said it was violent & kept coming several big ones after it too
a lot of clean up
From 4th street & C street west to the coast in Anchorage
basically sloughed off almost liquified into Cook Inlet
he had some cool photos of it
I wish I had
I was born that day.
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a 4.7 EQ is nothing, that's a reg. deal out here
eat them for breakfast
funny how people see these things or panic & worry
when they don't get them/experience them regularly
barely get ya' out of bed here
we had a 7.2 - 7.4 (?) last spring or spring before 2022 or 2023 IIRC (?)
up here at Dardanelle Res.
like 7,000+ ft elevation, up hwy 108, some 20 or so miles
& we felt it for damn sure
not much up there but granite walls, a killer pristine lake & fish,
the bears, mountain lions, critters, got a good shake
very few campers/tourists, the ones there were freaked out
it was sort of funny to see on 'the news'
Here it was like the house was doing the Hula,
got my *** up to see what was going on,
emptied a few shelves in the garage, **** strung all over
thank goodness nothing hit the Dakota or the RR
& in the house, nicknacks & classes were shaken all over
I don't remember any real breakage (?)
straightened out some of the crooked doorways, from the org. builder crap
who didn't know how to use a level or square & messed up the floors some,
squeaky SOBs now, the 1-1/4" plywood sheets/floorboards, popped a few nails
have to pull the carpet up someday & fix all of it, more annoying than anything...
I'd hate to see what'd happen without all the building regs/precautions
& strong-ties, H2 clips & sheering we have in all of our housing here NOW
a few brick structures were damaged, nothing major that I remember
it's pretty rural here, in Tuolumne Co. not highly populated...
The people as far East as Reno Nv area felt it supposedly...
we are on a bunch of granite & clay
even up here on all this damn granite, it was still crazy
the 89 Loma Prieta they claimed 6.9 Richter scale
seemed way worse it's soft ground all around the bay
that quake was a roller big time, lots of big aftershocks too,
5s & 4s ranges, 100's of them
Lots of lost lives too, out Berkely & Oakland even down in SF way
liquified ground in (south) SF outside the stadium,
& it screwed up traffic for well over a year...
We all had to reroute all the time, if you needed to get west of the bay anywhere...
Bay Bridge had a section collapse, people died...
Hwy-17 super-structure north of Berkely collapsed/fell down
trapped & killed a bunch of people, it was a horrid site
& it was months before they could get everyone out...
True Hardship & serious loss of life, not just a few wine bottle broken...
boo ho...
I was on my couch sick/flu (IIRC), in Pleasant Hill some 40 or so mile east
of SF watching the start of the "Bays" World Series
the epicenter was way down by between
Santa Cruz (coast) & Los Gatos (inland),
but it screwed up mostly stuff up north on the fault
& damn near shock me off the couch, on a slab foudation home
went outside & saw all the trees wiggling like crazy
There was a big Quake, says it was 5.8 (I can tell ya' it felt 'a lot bigger')
in Livermore 1980, when I was like 20-21-ish...
Me & my bother Tim were driving to a job doing window washing
on big store fronts, Safeways & Albertsons, our attempt at a new business...
While driving in his 73 Camaro RS/SS resto-mod/hot-rod type
The car was acting like the wheels were falling off, so
we pulled over to check them, got out & saw all the light-posts
& telephone poles rocking & rolling, sort of laughed it off
just another EQ...
IIRC a few brick building were damaged...
1906 SF was a brutal one too, don't remember the Richter scale level
looked it up 7.9, destroyed 500 city blocks, lots of fires
& 250k people homeless, my Great Grandfather lived thru it
the stories he could tell...
True hardships not just a few broken bottles...
3.4 Richter this morning allegedly in SF
eat them for breakfast
funny how people see these things or panic & worry
when they don't get them/experience them regularly
barely get ya' out of bed here
we had a 7.2 - 7.4 (?) last spring or spring before 2022 or 2023 IIRC (?)
up here at Dardanelle Res.
like 7,000+ ft elevation, up hwy 108, some 20 or so miles
& we felt it for damn sure
not much up there but granite walls, a killer pristine lake & fish,
the bears, mountain lions, critters, got a good shake
very few campers/tourists, the ones there were freaked out
it was sort of funny to see on 'the news'
Here it was like the house was doing the Hula,
got my *** up to see what was going on,
emptied a few shelves in the garage, **** strung all over
thank goodness nothing hit the Dakota or the RR
& in the house, nicknacks & classes were shaken all over
I don't remember any real breakage (?)
straightened out some of the crooked doorways, from the org. builder crap
who didn't know how to use a level or square & messed up the floors some,
squeaky SOBs now, the 1-1/4" plywood sheets/floorboards, popped a few nails
have to pull the carpet up someday & fix all of it, more annoying than anything...
I'd hate to see what'd happen without all the building regs/precautions
& strong-ties, H2 clips & sheering we have in all of our housing here NOW
a few brick structures were damaged, nothing major that I remember
it's pretty rural here, in Tuolumne Co. not highly populated...
The people as far East as Reno Nv area felt it supposedly...
we are on a bunch of granite & clay
even up here on all this damn granite, it was still crazy
the 89 Loma Prieta they claimed 6.9 Richter scale
seemed way worse it's soft ground all around the bay
that quake was a roller big time, lots of big aftershocks too,
5s & 4s ranges, 100's of them
Lots of lost lives too, out Berkely & Oakland even down in SF way
liquified ground in (south) SF outside the stadium,
& it screwed up traffic for well over a year...
We all had to reroute all the time, if you needed to get west of the bay anywhere...
Bay Bridge had a section collapse, people died...
Hwy-17 super-structure north of Berkely collapsed/fell down
trapped & killed a bunch of people, it was a horrid site
& it was months before they could get everyone out...
True Hardship & serious loss of life, not just a few wine bottle broken...
boo ho...
I was on my couch sick/flu (IIRC), in Pleasant Hill some 40 or so mile east
of SF watching the start of the "Bays" World Series
the epicenter was way down by between
Santa Cruz (coast) & Los Gatos (inland),
but it screwed up mostly stuff up north on the fault
& damn near shock me off the couch, on a slab foudation home
went outside & saw all the trees wiggling like crazy
There was a big Quake, says it was 5.8 (I can tell ya' it felt 'a lot bigger')
in Livermore 1980, when I was like 20-21-ish...
Me & my bother Tim were driving to a job doing window washing
on big store fronts, Safeways & Albertsons, our attempt at a new business...
While driving in his 73 Camaro RS/SS resto-mod/hot-rod type
The car was acting like the wheels were falling off, so
we pulled over to check them, got out & saw all the light-posts
& telephone poles rocking & rolling, sort of laughed it off
just another EQ...
IIRC a few brick building were damaged...
1906 SF was a brutal one too, don't remember the Richter scale level
looked it up 7.9, destroyed 500 city blocks, lots of fires
& 250k people homeless, my Great Grandfather lived thru it
the stories he could tell...
True hardships not just a few broken bottles...
3.4 Richter this morning allegedly in SF
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I was in Anchorage for the 64 quake... 9.2-9.3 depending on who is telling the story... Either way, it rock & rolled pretty good for nearly five minutes.. Houses on both sides of us suffered severe damage, we had neighbors living with us for months... When it struck my folks were at the base commissary, stuff was flying off the shelves (literally) people were panicking, the main doors were a bottleneck so people couldn't get out, my dad opened a large stock door & dozen of people followed... Just as they got outside the warehouse across the street collapsed....
So the quake was Good Friday.... We had aftershocks that were bigger than what most consider big earthquakes...
The stuff below is a cut & paste from Wikipedia...
There were hundreds of aftershocks in the first weeks following the main shock. In the first day alone, eleven major aftershocks were recorded with a magnitude greater than 6.0. Nine more struck over the next three weeks.
Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in the world..
So the quake was Good Friday.... We had aftershocks that were bigger than what most consider big earthquakes...
The stuff below is a cut & paste from Wikipedia...
There were hundreds of aftershocks in the first weeks following the main shock. In the first day alone, eleven major aftershocks were recorded with a magnitude greater than 6.0. Nine more struck over the next three weeks.
Lasting four minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in the world..
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