Community Chat

[Sushismom]

I was about 5 miles from the epicenter of the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake, one of the reasons small ones just don't bother me. 

[Lindsays Grandma]

I lived in the San Fernando Valley for 40 years so I experienced every earthquake from the time I moved there until I left.  The last big one was one I will never forget.  There is nothing you can do until it stops but hang on and hope for the best.

I remember that one like it was yesterday.  It happened in the wee small hours of the morning, no electricity so you can't see anything but you sure can hear what is happening.  You can hear the loud rumbling and things falling while your bed is shaking every which way.  I reached for my nightstand where I keep a flashlight but all I felt was air, the night stand was no longer in an upright position!!

As much as I missed CA when I moved I sure didn't miss those unannounced, uninvited earthquakes.

[January121]

WOW .... glad you are safe ..... may God watch over you 😃

[gardenman]

My local earthquakes (there's a fault line about a mile from me here in South Jersey) tend to be the "Bang" type of earthquakes with minimal shaking just a big bang. They tend to be smaller also. The only shaking/rolling earthquake that I've felt was the 5.9 that hit south of Washington in 2011 and damaged the Washington monument. We felt that all the way up here. That was totally different from our "normal" earthquakes.

Geologists say that our fault starts in the Appalachian mountains and runs up into South Jersey. At some point, we could get a big earthquake, but most of ours have been around 3.0 or so. You notice them but they don't really do much.