So around 8:05 Pacific, I felt some rumbling in my apartment - at first, I thought the neighbors were banging the walls or something, then I realized that it was much bigger than that. I told my mom that we were having an earthquake. I checked the site that I check more often than the weather sites (out here) to see where the quake was. At first, there was just a small white placeholder square with a red x in it. I refreshed, refreshed, refreshed, nothing. Then I refreshed and BOOM, there was a big red square, kind of far away from me (I'm probably between the second c in San Francisco and the lower of the two blue squares above that). I slept through the earthquake that happened on my birthday, so this is my second.
I don't think this is "the big one", and my old boss was in Indonesia during the 8.something quake there, with those 7.something "aftershocks" (btw, those aren't aftershocks, they're new earthquakes). Sig, what was the biggest earthquake you felt?
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Was there any damage at all? I don't think I'd like earthquakes.
We had what FELT like a pretty big one about 2 weeks ago -- it was only a 4.2 or something, but the epicenter was right in Anchorage. It was the most "violent" shaking I'd ever felt. And really, all that meant was that they building swayed a little. I've felt 5's (well, low 5's -- 5.1, 5.2), but because the epicenter for those quakes wasn't in Anchorage the shaking actually felt less dramatic.
I have the earthquake page bookmarked too. :) The novelty hasn't worn off yet after 3 years. The life-long Alaskans think I'm weird. On the other hand, my former roommate was from SF and she still got excited over quakes, so...
The big '64 earthquake was a 9.2.
Damn, Alaska has big ones all the time! At least compared to the bay area. I felt the shaking and it lasted a while, so I thought that it was far away, but big. People near the epicenter reported things falling off shelves, but nothing too big. We talked about it a little at work today. My former boss (the same former boss that was in Indonesia) was easily the most terrifed of the quake - he lives on the 20th floor of an older building. The rest of us reported that it felt like we were on a ride.
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