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friend said today she wouldn't bat an eyelid if 5.8 happened here. Hmm...im waiting for my first one with trepidation...i had earthquake training yesterday!!!:unsure:

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Oh, I am quite serious, sir, quite serious. Just today, on the Tom Martino* show, there was a lady who called from Golden, CO, who takes pictures of the clouds and studies said pictures on her oversized monitor. She sees faces in the clouds gazing down. Apparently these are angelic beings and the End Times are upon us. She also photographs translucent spheres and UFOs. It is written in the Bible that God will have two witnesses, and she is one of them. So, I guess we'll be kind of famous, here in Colorado and all.

* This was strange because Tom Martino's show is a consumer affairs show. This is no Art Bell.

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I live on the first floor. I didn't feel a thing.

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If you did pop round I apologize for the alocohol-induced coma I slipped into last night shortly after my last post...

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Well then it must be true then :blink:

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The only earthquake so far that I have experienced that made me nervous was the easter 2010 quake, never experienced one of that size before.

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This is the longest period between earthquakes I have gone since moving to California 4 years ago, normally feel something every couple of months or so, but the last one I remember feeling was November time. Maybe they aren't as frequent in No Cal as So Cal:unsure:

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Mate said there was a 6.0 in northern Japan last week and with NZ still feeling after shocks, glad we don't get them as bad over here :/

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Actually, the USGS has determined that the epicenter of the VA earthquake was, in fact, a graveyard just outside of DC. The cause appears to be all of our Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves....

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In Alaska we call that Tuesday :lol:

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I watch the Alaska Earthquake Information Center (AEIC) site, there have been regular quakes around 4.0 - 5.0 off Honshu Japan since the big quake. Also off the coast of Chile and Vanuatu / Fiji.
Alaska has been quiet of late with lots of small 2.0 or less quakes but nothing of any note, this should be comforting but strangely it isnt. I have a feeling theres another larger one just around the corner.

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That's just how I feel living in CA

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I certainly didn't like that one either - it was only my second earthquake!

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There was a 6.8 in Pucallpa Peru, the jungle area, at about 1:30 ET or so today, that rattled Lima and shook my apartment building. I was napping when the swaying started, stayed there and ignored it but by then I was awake. Damn it. That's the third time the building has been shaken by a tremor in a little less than a year. It is completely normal here. That said, something like 6 or 7 of the strongest quakes ever, have occurred in the fault around Chile and Peru. Four of the strongest (including the strongest on record) in Chile and two in Peru. Not looking forward to one of those someday, especially on the 11th floor.

As an aside, there was a quake directly under Cusco in the 50's that resulted in more than 60% of the city having to be rebuilt. And not a single structure that had been built by the Inca more than 500 years earlier suffered even the slightest damage, not even the small stone houses. Those folks knew how to build with stone, without mortar of any kind.