innov8ion wrote:Another aftershock like 5 mins ago.. Prob a 2 something.
Actually was a 4.5
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Actually was a 4.5
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This woke me up, didn't think it was an earthquake. I thought it was a thunderstorm, but it was odd that there was no lightning. Then I turn on the TV this morning and sure enough it was an earthquake.
Last earthquake I was in was back in 2005 in Los Angeles. I was living in West Covina and the quake's epicenter was at Riverside woke me up in the morning (5:30am). Much shorter distance than the quake that occurred here, but then again it wasn't as strong, if I remember the magnitude was 4.6.
Last earthquake I was in was back in 2005 in Los Angeles. I was living in West Covina and the quake's epicenter was at Riverside woke me up in the morning (5:30am). Much shorter distance than the quake that occurred here, but then again it wasn't as strong, if I remember the magnitude was 4.6.
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I've got an all-brick Soulard house built circa 1859 and have been calling around about earthquake insurance. Seems that most will not underwrite an all-brick house. There's also a deductible so the first $25,000 would be out of my pocket anyway.
My house was rockin big time!
I have a huge brick rental on Russell. I used to have earthquake insurance included in my policy through Allstate. I got a letter about 2 years ago stating they were removing earthquake declarations from all of their policies nationwide. They also said this would eventually be an industry-wide policy. They said I would have to get it from a specialty carrier. That is BS!!! I am so paranoid now. I was wide awake this morning wondering if this was the BIG ONE!!
I maybe should call Shelter in Columbia to clarify their current rules. As of this morning, the agent told me they have a 30-day moratorium on writing new policies for earthquake.
Other companies have said that you must have a pour concrete foundation -- not rock.
Allstate also cancelled all earthquake riders a little over a year ago.
Other companies have said that you must have a pour concrete foundation -- not rock.
Allstate also cancelled all earthquake riders a little over a year ago.
Right, just saw the link on Drudge: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rec ... 8qzbw.htmlirocktheparty2000 wrote:innov8ion wrote:Another aftershock like 5 mins ago.. Prob a 2 something.
Actually was a 4.5
I woke up thinking my girlfriend was tossing and turning but noticed she was still. Went over the window and felt my condo building shaking but I thought I was just still drunk.
The odd thing is that on Wednesday one of my professors got WAY off topic and mentioned earthquakes and said that people in the Midwest worry for no reason about earthquakes. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say next week.
The odd thing is that on Wednesday one of my professors got WAY off topic and mentioned earthquakes and said that people in the Midwest worry for no reason about earthquakes. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say next week.
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i am not surprised by it- what with all this weird weather and the full moon and all but...
...that was awesome! it woke my boyfriend and i both up- he was kinda startled but i wasnt. i grew up in St Charles by the quarry and they were always exploding shiz down there so I am generally still not startled when the house shakes.
anyway, my (brick) house rattled a little but what was really weird is that the cord on my alarm clock kept hitting the dresser long after it was over "tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick....." We couldnt figure out what is was for the longest time- and I actually had to get up and touch it to make it stop. that was odd.
and i felt the aftershock here in Clayton, too. our building is 16 stories and brick and it felt like a huge wind blew through it.
i think they should send us all home early
...that was awesome! it woke my boyfriend and i both up- he was kinda startled but i wasnt. i grew up in St Charles by the quarry and they were always exploding shiz down there so I am generally still not startled when the house shakes.
anyway, my (brick) house rattled a little but what was really weird is that the cord on my alarm clock kept hitting the dresser long after it was over "tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick....." We couldnt figure out what is was for the longest time- and I actually had to get up and touch it to make it stop. that was odd.
and i felt the aftershock here in Clayton, too. our building is 16 stories and brick and it felt like a huge wind blew through it.
i think they should send us all home early
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Around 10:15, I was sitting in my chair at home working, and had the strange sensation that it was moving. But I didn't hear anything, and nothing rattled. So either it was a small one, or this building is solid as a rock.
The Central Scrutinizer wrote:Around 10:15, I was sitting in my chair at home working, and had the strange sensation that it was moving. But I didn't hear anything, and nothing rattled. So either it was a small one, or this building is solid as a rock.
It was an aftershock around 4.5 on the Richter Scale.
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So, as a good urban dweller, is it bad that, when I woke up to the earthquake and my bedroom door was rattling, my first instinct was that someone had broken into my house?
My wife woke me, had no clue what was going on... I was apparently in one of those conscious states of sleep because I remember telling her, "It's ok honey, its just and earthquake, I control it with my mind" and then I turned over and fell back asleep.... It's odd because the night before last, my cats were FREAKING OUT about something. Last night, not a peep. wonder if they have on of those weird animal senses
Ironically, the aftershock at 10:14 woke me after having slept through my alarm.... drawers were open and a potted plant had fallen off the shelf, which I still tend to blame on the cats
Ironically, the aftershock at 10:14 woke me after having slept through my alarm.... drawers were open and a potted plant had fallen off the shelf, which I still tend to blame on the cats
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I don't think so... it's not a "natural" sound we are used to here. It's not something we deal with on a regular basis. You equate it to whatever first pops in your head--I've been hearing different initial interpretations from folks at work all day. My girl thought it might be somebody upstairs and I asked "What? A giant?"stlwriterman wrote:So, as a good urban dweller, is it bad that, when I woke up to the earthquake and my bedroom door was rattling, my first instinct was that someone had broken into my house?
Why do people call 911 for things like this? Never understood that.zink wrote:Who felt the earthquake last night?
I am currently in Seattle on business and coming home in a couple hours... I get a call from the woman saying that she woke up to our building shaking pretty strongly. At first I was thinking she must have had a crazy dream, so I told her to call 911... The lines were busy, but eventually got through and yep, it was an Earhquake.
Anyone else wake up to it?
This video is kinda funny. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/200 ... n.air.wfie. "Sometimes they cycle through some trains and they have some extra cars there as well." Huh?
Aren't animals supposed to sense these things before people can feel them? Don't have any, but I always suspected that was a myth. In any case, cats really only have four looks, "What the eff is that?", "Eff you!", "Pet me", and "Feed me b*tch".dweebe wrote:DogtownDan wrote:I woke up just in time for the fun... actually, the cats bolted upright from a sound sleep and I knew something was wrong. Whammo! Two waves of pretty intense shaking in Dogtown. My first reaction was "Boy, I hope that was an earthquake and not the house."
My cat never even woke up. I walked out to the living room, told the cat she was fired and we're getting a dog. The cat gave me an "eff you" look and went right back to sleep.
jlblues wrote:Aren't animals supposed to sense these things before people can feel them? Don't have any, but I always suspected that was a myth. In any case, cats really only have four looks, "What the eff is that?", "Eff you!", "Pet me", and "Feed me b*tch".dweebe wrote:DogtownDan wrote:I woke up just in time for the fun... actually, the cats bolted upright from a sound sleep and I knew something was wrong. Whammo! Two waves of pretty intense shaking in Dogtown. My first reaction was "Boy, I hope that was an earthquake and not the house."
My cat never even woke up. I walked out to the living room, told the cat she was fired and we're getting a dog. The cat gave me an "eff you" look and went right back to sleep.
One buddy said his chihuahua wouldn't sleep on the bed last night and paced around the kitchen most of the night. A coworker said his black lab wouldn't get in the kennel and just spent the night in the garage acting jittery
My cat is just lazy and dumber than dirt.
Now just imagine, an 8.0 earthquake would be a little less than a thousand times stronger than that, and the earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 were at least an 8.0, probably much stronger.
From the PD:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/s ... enDocument
From the PD:
The U.S. Geological Survey has projected there is a 25 percent to 40 percent chance of a magnitude 6.0 earthquake along the New Madrid Fault in roughly the next 50 years, and up to a 10 percent chance during that time of an earthquake similar in strength to the ones in 1811-1812.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/s ... enDocument
I woke up, sat straight up in bed and was trying to figure out what was going on. I thought "earthquake", but then I thought "Nah, those don't happen around here". I decided to get up and find out what it was, but when I got to my bedroom door I decided to screw it and go back to sleep.
Going to a Lutheran school, the aftershock came during chapel when the whole school was in the gym. The teachers spent the rest of the time trying to keep us quiet. We were hoping the power would go out so we could go home.
Going to a Lutheran school, the aftershock came during chapel when the whole school was in the gym. The teachers spent the rest of the time trying to keep us quiet. We were hoping the power would go out so we could go home.
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jlblues wrote:Aren't animals supposed to sense these things before people can feel them? Don't have any, but I always suspected that was a myth. In any case, cats really only have four looks, "What the eff is that?", "Eff you!", "Pet me", and "Feed me b*tch".dweebe wrote:DogtownDan wrote:I woke up just in time for the fun... actually, the cats bolted upright from a sound sleep and I knew something was wrong. Whammo! Two waves of pretty intense shaking in Dogtown. My first reaction was "Boy, I hope that was an earthquake and not the house."
My cat never even woke up. I walked out to the living room, told the cat she was fired and we're getting a dog. The cat gave me an "eff you" look and went right back to sleep.
Yeah, likely not true. From here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... imals.html
American seismologists, on the other hand, are skeptical. Even though there have been documented cases of strange animal behavior prior to earthquakes, the United States Geological Survey, a government agency that provides scientific information about the Earth, says a reproducible connection between a specific behavior and the occurrence of a quake has never been made.
"What we're faced with is a lot of anecdotes," said Andy Michael, a geophysicist at USGS. "Animals react to so many things—being hungry, defending their territories, mating, predators—so it's hard to have a controlled study to get that advanced warning signal."
In the 1970s, a few studies on animal prediction were done by the USGS "but nothing concrete came out of it," said Michael. Since that time the agency has made no further investigations into the theory.
This claim probably goes in the same category as the one about violent crime increasing during a full moon which "everyone knows is true", but isn't.
Yeah, a pretty good rule-of-thumb is that: if everyone knows its true, it probably isn't, or at best, its only a half truth. You know, like how everyone knows that "the world is running out of oil"... 
If you have never caught it, John Stossel has a pretty good 20/20 segment, and a couple of books called "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity", that are a simple, but fun read.
If you have never caught it, John Stossel has a pretty good 20/20 segment, and a couple of books called "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity", that are a simple, but fun read.
I generally dont believe in super "senses" but I tell u what, My 2 cats were acting like I had never seen them act exactly 24 hours before hand.... whther its coincidence or an unknown sense, I dont know, but man.... its hard to sleep when your cats are acting like they took a big dose of speed
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Magnatron wrote:I generally dont believe in super "senses" but I tell u what, My 2 cats were acting like I had never seen them act exactly 24 hours before hand.... whther its coincidence or an unknown sense, I dont know, but man.... its hard to sleep when your cats are acting like they took a big dose of speed
My cat is still running all over the apartment at full speed, even jumped on the kitchen table and knocked over and broke some glasses when I was at work. Hes in the bathtub right now swatting the tab that switches between bath and shower. The only time hes been quiet in the past few days was right after the first earthquake early this morning, he was up against the wall in the corner of my bedroom.
Looking out the window, I noticed a few people walking their dogs in my neighborhood immediately after the early morning quake.
Here in KC, I remember waking up, but I was kinda half asleep. It sounded like a plane was flying over downtown, but it didn't have the doppler effect sound to it. I don't remember feeling it though some on the KC boards say that they had stuff knocked over on their shelves, everything looked fine in my apartment.
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jlblues wrote:Yeah, a pretty good rule-of-thumb is that: if everyone knows its true, it probably isn't, or at best, its only a half truth. You know, like how everyone knows that "the world is running out of oil"...
If you have never caught it, John Stossel has a pretty good 20/20 segment, and a couple of books called "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity", that are a simple, but fun read.
Yep, John is a skeptic. I always enjoyed his "Give me a break" segments on 20/20. Is that still on?
Anyone have any damage that has brick masonry construction? We have a rental house in the city that is brick masonry and I'm wondering if we can expect any new fractures in the brick or to the limestone foundation.
Yes, he has that and the "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity" specials (next one is May 4th), among others. Unfortunately, I think it is always on Friday nights though. I just watch them on the internets. His 20/20 website is here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/The Central Scrutinizer wrote:jlblues wrote:Yeah, a pretty good rule-of-thumb is that: if everyone knows its true, it probably isn't, or at best, its only a half truth. You know, like how everyone knows that "the world is running out of oil"...
If you have never caught it, John Stossel has a pretty good 20/20 segment, and a couple of books called "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity", that are a simple, but fun read.
Yep, John is a skeptic. I always enjoyed his "Give me a break" segments on 20/20. Is that still on?
His book should be required reading before anyone is allowed to consume any type of mass media "news" and vote in any election. Unlike most mass media, he actually provides references. Loved his section on global warming.
