Earthquake this morning -- WooHoo!

[Kuron]

We got a 3.6 Earthquake this morning just about 45 minutes ago

[kernadec]

ih
latitude? longitude? times?
tanks
bye

[Kuron]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 76_eqs.php

[Mohawk70]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 76_eqs.php

Not too far from where I grew up.
Too bad for those in the area that prefer their martinis stirred not shaken

[Rook Zimbabwe]

They got Earthquakes in MD???

We only gotta worry about Hurricanes and asteroid impacts in Texas! (Last time we had the asteroid even wasn't so good for the Dinosaurs but it flipped the entire crust of Texas upside down (at the time it was 80% under water! and made the gulf of mexico look like it does today!

[Kuron]

They got Earthquakes in MD???

You pretty much "can" have them everywhere in the USA. Although this is the largest one I have experienced on the East Coast, I have experienced several smaller ones in Maryland & Virginia and one in Florida. I went through a couple of larger ones in California during the 18 months I lived there. Throw in the hurricanes and tornadoes we get on the east coast and we pretty much get the same stuff other parts of the country gets.

I do miss the old days of hurricanes in Florida. When one would be on its way, me and my buddy would sit in some lawn chairs in the back yard with a cooler filled with ice and beer between us and cheer the storm on and stay out there until it was over. Kinda sucked as we got kissed by some hurricanes (didn't come ashore but got the winds and rain), but those that actually hit land were downgraded by the time they hit land. So we never actually got any hurricanes that hit Florida during the 7 1/2 years I lived in the Tampa/St. Pete area, just some wicked strong tropical storms.

We have actually had some hurricanes hit here in Maryland since I have lived here, but I can't interest anybody in a hurricane party. I don't drink anymore so that kind of takes the fun out of it anyway. I still try and get out and enjoy them, though. Everybody should experience mother nature unleashing her fury

[Mohawk70]

I do miss the old days of hurricanes in Florida. ... I can't interest anybody in a hurricane party.

Those were always fun in Cocoa Beach, FL ! I remember an earthquake or two in the 80s early 90s in SE Pennsylvania also !

[GWarner]

I do miss the old days of hurricanes in Florida.

Not me!

I remember hurricane Elena back in '85 it was my first real hurricane threat and was exciting hanging on every bit of news about it that I could get, but being a major storm at category 3 it was worrying as well. IMO anyone that hopes for a direct hit where they are is just plain stupid, its about the same as hoping a tornado comes along and destroys your home.

Then came 2004 when Florida got hit by five hurricanes, I was ordered to evacuate my home four times so I can tell there's nothing so unsettling as leaving your home not knowing if it will still be there when you return.

[Kuron]

I remember hurricane Elena back in '85 it was my first real hurricane threat

I moved to Florida right before Elena. Elena never hit land in Florida, it just kissed Florida. The storm surge and flooding did minimal damage. It was interesting seeing the flooding in Tampa and literally seeing the USS Requin floating upside down. I can remember some of the damage along the Courtney Campbell Causeway (around the Ben T Davis Beach area) still had not been cleaned up 7 1/2 years later when I moved from Florida. But since it was only big chunks of broken concrete sitting off the side of the road that had been drug up from the beach area, it was not a major issue.

IMO anyone that hopes for a direct hit where they are is just plain stupid, its about the same as hoping a tornado comes along and destroys your home.

No, not hoping for one. But since you can't change what is going to happen, you might as well experience it.

I was ordered to evacuate my home four times so I can tell there's nothing so unsettling as leaving your home not knowing if it will still be there when you return.

More like hoping your belongings are still there since you are abandoning your home and leaving it unprotected from looters.

[Mohawk70]

I do miss the old days of hurricanes in Florida. ... I can't interest anybody in a hurricane party.

Those were always fun in Cocoa Beach, FL ! I remember an earthquake or two in the 80s early 90s in SE Pennsylvania also !

I was speaking about the hurricane party - NOT the hurricane itself. I lived in FL 2004-2008 when the BIG ones hit.

[GWarner]

I moved to Florida right before Elena. Elena never hit land in Florida, it just kissed Florida.

True but that kiss lasted 12 hours as the storm just sat 50 miles off the coast and pounded us with winds and rain enough to do over a billion dollars in damage. The worst part was nobody, not even the meteorologists had any idea which way the storm would would go when it started moving again.

The scariest storm for me was hurricane Charlie in 2004. I lived in Clearwater in Pinellas County at the time and until six hours before it would have made land fall it was headed directly for us. But it took a sharp turn to the northeast, crossed the state and went back out into the Atlantic, all we ended up getting was a few wind gusts and some rain.

No, not hoping for one. But since you can't change what is going to happen, you might as well experience it.

I can understand that but only to a point. If the storm was only a category 1 or 2 and I was on high ground so I didn't have to worry about the storm surge, which is what causes the most deaths in a hurricane, then yeah, I might stick around to experience it. But if the storm is a category 3 or higher or I'm in a low lying area where the storm surge or flooding is a real threat, I'll leave and go someplace a lot safer to wait out the storm.

More like hoping your belongings are still there since you are abandoning your home and leaving it unprotected from looters.

Not really, looters generally target stores where the pickings are easier to come by, breaking into a home has no guarantee of them finding anything they can turn into cash. A looter would have to be pretty desperate and likely not interested in cash to start looting homes and you'd likely only see that in devastated area and in that situation they'll be looking for things to help them survive, like food, water, etc.

[Rook Zimbabwe]

I have lived in Houston for 99% of my life so I have had all the Hurricanes we had here... no so bad... Not even Katrina/Rita or Ike (though we were without power and water from Ike for 2 weeks!)

I got shipped to Beaumont and then New Orleans after Katrina and saw stuff I still have nightmares about!!! SIGNAL CORPS personnel shuld NOT have to preform GR DETAIL!!!!!

I assisted in evacuating the Superdome and in GR... Then I got stuck with what we called Geraldo duty... Making sure Geraldo Rivera did not make an ASS out of himssef on national TV (as the Marines fluffed up and let him steal a womans dog and force her on to an airboat and spent the rest of the "event" on national TV talking about how he "rescued" a woman.

When I lived in Mazataln we had a couple of earthquakes... I thought (at first) it was a poltergeist... I woke up and the bed was shaking like crazy and (sadly) I was alone... Then I realized the entire world was shaking and that was worse!!!

[Kuron]

pounded us with winds and rain enough to do over a billion dollars in damage.

It is important to keep that number in perspective. After Elena, it came out that much of the roof damage was done because several builders were not securing the roofs to the homes properly in the subdivisions they were putting up.

The worst part was nobody, not even the meteorologists had any idea which way the storm would would go when it started moving again.

They never do. I remember one hurricane during the time I lived in Florida that went back and forth a couple of times in the Gulf before it decided which direction it was going to finally go in.

I have lived in Houston for 99% of my life so I have had all the Hurricanes we had here... no so bad... Not even Katrina/Rita or Ike (though we were without power and water from Ike for 2 weeks!)

Katrina was a textbook definition of a CF. Evacuate people into stadiums so your wives and daughters can be raped, and people in general can be harmed by falling debris from a structure that was never designed to deal with those types of sustained winds, or evacuate people that should not have been evacuated and clog the highways. In Katrina, the storm did little actual damage, the devastation came from the flooding because of levees that had been improperly maintained. Generally, the worst thing you can do in any natural or man-made disaster is listen to the government.

Then I got stuck with what we called Geraldo duty... Making sure Geraldo Rivera did not make an ASS out of himssef on national TV

Better you than me. I would have put a bullet through his head without a second thought. I have a buddy in the 101st Airborne that would love to do the same.

[GWarner]

Though I doubt I'd shoot the guy, I've never liked Geraldo Revera and thought it was hugely funny when his Al Capone's Vault show turned into a complete bust. I thought, couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

[Kuron]

It has been 13 months, I guess it was time for another one. 5.8 this time and it was really shaking our building to the point where you weren't comfortable staying in it.