Earthquake

Dolly · #1 (**permalink**) 6th March 2009, 08:34 PM

Did anyone else feel the earth move last night? (insert inuendo here LOL).

Earthquake shakes Victoria - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Had us perplexed for a while.....never experienced anything like that before. The whole house shook, probably lasted for about 10 seconds.

Dolly

Halo · #2 (**permalink**) 6th March 2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dolly

Did anyone else feel the earth move last night? (insert inuendo here LOL).

Earthquake shakes Victoria - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Had us perplexed for a while.....never experienced anything like that before. The whole house shook, probably lasted for about 10 seconds.

Dolly

Nope....... Not us

interplanetjanet · #3 (**permalink**) 6th March 2009, 10:55 PM

Yeah, I started a thread about it last night, but nobody replied. We definitely felt it. I actually haven't felt anything that strong in awhile, and I'm from California!

British Kiwi · #4 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 12:17 AM

I was at the cinema in Ringwood and didn't feel a thing, but Darren said he felt it, he thought it was like a cannon!

Dolly · #5 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 12:35 AM

It was quite surreal really.....didn't quite sink in at first what had happened. My OH was making a cuppa and he had to hold on to the kitchen counter as he saw his tea swishing around in his cup!

It was quite loud, and I thought something was just about to crash into the house - plus at the time we were watching the story behind the shuttle Challenger and why it blew up a minute after take-off, so made me even more edgy thinking it could be a plane. All these scenarios were going round my head in a split second. An earthquake didn't even come into the equasion. But then reality set in and nothing crashed into the house so an earthquake was the only answer! ABC news (radio) commented on it about 10 mins after it happened.

Dolly

Dolly · #6 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by interplanetjanet

Yeah, I started a thread about it last night, but nobody replied. We definitely felt it. I actually haven't felt anything that strong in awhile, and I'm from California!

Sorry, didn't realise you'd already started a thread on it!

It probably wasn't as bad as those felt in San Francisco and surrounding areas. I do remember though visiting friends in SF and they had supplies and bottles of water ready in case a big one hit.

Dolly

interplanetjanet · #7 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 01:01 AM

But that's the thing...even in SF a 4.7 is a decent size for an earthquake; it's not a big one but a substantial one. I don't think we had one in the last few years I was living there stronger than a 3.5. The strongest one I've ever felt was the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 that destroyed Santa Cruz and the Cypress structure and part of the Bay Bridge in SF. That was a 7.1, and THAT was shocking.

Chile beats California hands down, though. Back in 1960 they had a 9.5! That is mind-bogglingly huge. The scale is logarithmic. I can't even wrap my head around how big that is.

scottishcelts · #8 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dolly

Did anyone else feel the earth move last night? (insert inuendo here LOL).

Earthquake shakes Victoria - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Had us perplexed for a while.....never experienced anything like that before. The whole house shook, probably lasted for about 10 seconds.

Dolly

WOW 3.4 is a good un Dolly - i hadn't heard anything about it.

Halo · #9 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 02:59 AM

People - The Richer scale is logarithmic so a 3.4 a a NON-event

Please read Richter magnitude scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

interplanetjanet · #10 (**permalink**) 7th March 2009, 03:35 AM

I'm not sure where ABC got their information, but it wasn't a 3.4. It was a 4.7.