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Any guesses how large that Earthquake was?

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When was it. Didn't feel a thing out here in the sticks (Byron).



1:41:42 PM (PST) on Tuesday, March 21, 2006

It wasn't that big so I'm not surprised you didn't feel it.

(that can be taken a number of ways but in this case, it's referring to an earthquake)
My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

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I agree, USGS is a good earthquake page.

So, is 3.7 big to you? If not, how big is big? Hard to quantify, since rating it big is also a product of how close to the epicenter you are, and the depth of the earthquake.

Anybody ever think about what it will be like when a Brian Atwater size (8+) earthquake hits Seattle?


NW, were you in Seattle during the Duvall, Nisqually or any other recent earthquakes?
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I felt the Nisqually quake here in Spokane, on the other side of the state.
It was an odd feeling. Used to live in Seattle and would feel small quakes occasionally.

Vint
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It was an odd thing. I was sitting in a rolling desk chair, and it rocked a bit. My cubicle mate and I looked at each other, and then we noticed hanging plants swaying back and forth slightly. Hard to believe, but true. Can you imagine what it'll be like in Seattle when the 'big one' hits?

Vint
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“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis

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Same scenario with the west side earthquake I felt in Yakima, sitting in a rolling chair, thought somebody had bumped the wall with a forklift (I know that wouldn't account for the movement I felt, but it was the first reaction I had.)

And I can't even begin to imagine a nearby eight, well as nearby as a Cascadia fault quake can be. I was in east Bellevue, when the Duvall quake occured. Couldn't belive what that felt like, and it was what, about 5.3 or 5.5? 5.5 about 80k tons dynamite, 8.5 about 5 billion tons and a 9 is 32 billions tons of dynamite.

Wow, wow, wow. The damage from Katrina will look like childs play, compared to a biggie.

Jeff
Arch? I can arch just fine with my back to the ground.

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