We just had an Earth Quake!

[Beach66Bum]

The whole house swayed! Was a 4.9 just 9 miles away from us! Crazy!! The last one that I remember that shook like that was in the 70's. ( South Vancouver Island. We live in Sidney.)

 

[smokey]

We had one here a few years ago. First one we I ever experienced and was like WTF was that.

 

[O'Rattlecan]

That's crazy! I've never actually noticed or felt one. How long did it last?

Ryan

 

[fatherdoug]

That's scary! But you are part of the Circumpacific Orogenic Belt, or more commonly known as the Ring of Fire, which surrounds land masses around the entire Pacific Ocean.

 

[Beach66Bum]

That's crazy! I've never actually noticed or felt one. How long did it last?

Ryan

About 5-8 seconds. Woke up a lot of people, postings on FB were immediate.

That's scary! But you are part of the Circumpacific Orogenic Belt, or more commonly known as the Ring of Fire, which surrounds land masses around the entire Pacific Ocean.

Yes, right under the Straight of Georgia. Was scary for me. The last few would only rattle the windows, like a big truck coming down the road. Going to check the 'Quake Kit" Been years since I've checked it.

 

[CowboyBilly9Mile]

...the Ring of Fire...

You beat me to it, lol.

That familiar sound, like that of a freight train coming your way and getting louder and louder, or like the last round/swarm of very shallow quakes where I'm at now, making the sound of an explosion, one so big you'd swear an office building was full of nat gas and blew up.

 

[SuperCab]

I fell into a burning ring of fire once

 

[fatherdoug]

This is something that Preparation H won't solve.

 

[kiwi f150]

I fell into a burning ring of fire once

Stop Eating That Dam Chilli

 

[kiwi f150]

The whole house swayed! Was a 4.9 just 9 miles away from us! Crazy!! The last one that I remember that shook like that was in the 70's. ( South Vancouver Island. We live in Sidney.)

Hope everything is all good Roy ......that one we had here in Christchurch nearly 5 years ago was a killer one.

 

[CowboyBilly9Mile]

Crazy thing is, there were profuse tremors and rumblings at my place occurring about every 5-10 minutes and over a 2ish hour period that registered 6 - 8 on the richter (sphincter) scale last week; surely Roys house being ~ 400 miles from mine was swaying like a storm door in a tornado, and he slept through all of it.

 

[Beach66Bum]

Hope everything is all good Roy ......that one we had here in Christchurch nearly 5 years ago was a killer one.

No damage Mark, wasn't powerful enough. Really good eye opener though! Wife and I remember the Christ Church quake. My mother-in-law has friends there.

 

[Beach66Bum]

Crazy thing is, there were profuse tremors and rumblings at my place occurring about every 5-10 minutes and over a 2ish hour period that registered 6 - 8 on the richter (sphincter) scale last week; surely Roys house being ~ 400 miles from mine was swaying like a storm door in a tornado, and he slept through all of it.

Was hard to sleep through the quake Bill with 2 cats clinging to the top of my head! Lol!
(House did a good swaying)

 

[Beach66Bum]

I fell into a burning ring of fire once

Oh great! Now I will have to dig up the old Johnny Cash album...hahaha!