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eruthros ([personal profile] eruthros) wrote2010-06-23 02:16 pm
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... okay, that was weird.

I was just sitting here when I suddenly felt something that felt an awful lot like an earthquake. It wasn't a truck going by, it was an actual earthquake.

So, knowing how poorly made my house is, I went and stood in a doorframe for a while, looking quizically at the bookshelves that were rolling a little. Because it was long for an earthquake.

And it took a while for it to show up on the USGS page -- I guess that's what happens when you have an earthquake in New York -- but yes, it was indeed a 5.5 earthquake 60 km from Ontario.

So! My very first earthquake outside of California or Nevada! It's extremely weird to be standing in a doorframe in New York wondering if anything is going to fall off a shelf. (By the time it got here, it was a pretty mild rolling on the scale of earthquakes-I've-stood-in-a-doorframe-for, but I understand it had more side-to-sideness up in Ontario.)
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[personal profile] toft 2010-06-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG! I totally felt it too! We experienced the same earthquake!
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[personal profile] chagrined 2010-06-23 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa moving bookshelves! You didn't mention that before. O__O
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[personal profile] egret 2010-06-23 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought maybe I was just *really* dizzy until I saw the water splashing around in the glass on the table.
In my limited experience, earthquakes always seem really long and creepy even when it is just a few seconds of tremor.
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[personal profile] sineala 2010-06-23 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I felt it. Sadly, I have lost all my good Californian instincts and pretty much just sat here. Next to, you know, the windows. Not that the one interior door is very sturdy anyway. (Fail, loft apartment, fail.) It wasn't much from way over here and I don't think I'd have noticed if I didn't know what earthquakes feel like. ([personal profile] lysimache, standing next to me, totally missed it.)

(Is this where we go DUDE THAT WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO LOMA PRIETA?)
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[personal profile] thingswithwings 2010-06-23 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I just read about that! There was an earthquake in my old hometown that was felt all the way down in my new hometown! WEIRDNESS. I am kind of sorry I missed it. Glad that nothing broke, though. :)
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[personal profile] livrelibre 2010-06-24 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
And I was at lunch and totally missed this!
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