The dogs barked first and then the shake and a long roll....
We are about 20 miles from the epicenter.....
My sister, who just had the emergency with her grandson in Africa, was right spot on in the epicenter. She slept in her hallway where there are no windows or shelves....oh my
Anyone else?
Posted by hiker53 (Member # 6046) on :
Oh dear! I had not heard there was an earthquake. I hope no one was hurt and no damage done.
This is about two weeks after a stronger quake hit off Eureka, in northern CA, 6.9 on the scale. A long way from LA, but makes you wonder what will happen next.
That earlier one is not far from I used to live and where I got lyme disease.
Posted by GretaM (Member # 40917) on :
Glad you are ok.
Eyes are blurry for article.
I hope no one was hurt.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Glad you are OK!! Scary stuff!!
Posted by surprise (Member # 34987) on :
SO glad I don't live in the earthquake zones in CA anymore-
We are up in the hills now. I love CA. Went through the '89 quake in Bay Area, never forget it.
Also glad damage on this one minimum. Stay safe.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I didnt realize my daughters house was so close...about 60 miles south of la
She lives in nyc now and has the ca house rented...i wonder if there was damage
We have bad weather up here...but i understand it...i DONT understand earthquakes!
Posted by Dogsandcats (Member # 28544) on :
My poor sis says they have been having aftershocks all day. She is afraid to go to sleep....
There is no way earthquakes can be predicted, that is the creepy part.
I remember living thru them as a kid. Our dachshund would bark a funny bark right before an earthquake. At least I had a little warning!
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Good thing not much damage - it's much better to have smaller quakes than anything huge...glad you're ok, dogsandcats -
Animals hear a low sound, so I'm told - cats, dogs, cows, etc - they get the warning first -
Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :
Yep. I am with surprise. I don't miss the rocking and rolling.
The aftershocks after a big one got to me...very unnerving.
I also couldn't tell if it was an earthquake or lyme when I first came down sick and would be out in my power chair.
I finally began to figure things out...if people are joining you out in the street it is an earthquake.
If you have the symptoms and people are not evacuating their homes...it is lyme. Posted by poppy (Member # 5355) on :
Maybe you didn't mean this to be funny, kam, but I got a laugh out of it. Black humor, lyme style.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I laughed too. We have to.
"where are my glasses ...where the h$?! are my glasses? where are they"...oh(sheepishly) they're on my face...
Thanks kam.
Posted by faithful777 (Member # 22872) on :
If you have ever been through one of these, you won't forget it. Before I left VA, I experienced one. Funny that I never knew that VA was active that way. We lived there for over 30 years.
The epicenter of this quake in VA was West of Richmond VA. Turns out there is an active area there that affected my area and all the way up the east coast. My dogs knew it was coming.
Hope everyone is okay in CA.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
That was funny, kam and Kayak!
I live in the Midwest.. not that far from a huge earthquake in the 19th century that changed the course of the Mississippi River! That's how big it was.
There have been a few in our area, but always so small you don't even notice.
One day ..
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by kam: [QB]
I finally began to figure things out...if people are joining you out in the street it is an earthquake.
If you have the symptoms and people are not evacuating their homes...it is lyme.
I too had to look to the outside once to figure something out about a quake. I was riding in a train, I felt a bump, thought it might be something like a shopping cart, the train stopped, they announced there'd been an earthquake and we all had to get off.
So a couple hundred people get off the train and cross through a used car lot, and the manager was having apoplexy because all the parked cars had hit each other!
That's how we realized there'd been a QUAKE. That was the '89 one.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Tutu you and ak have to watch out for sink holes...thats what the weather channel said last night. Mo,al,ky,tn and pa as nd fla
Posted by surprise (Member # 34987) on :
First earthquake I went through (before the '89 one)
was in the middle of the night, and the SOUND woke me up. The earth was roaring, and I couldn't figure it out to save my life.
Everywhere we live there will be something: tornadoes, winter storms, fire threats, floods, etc.
I will take my near daily sunshine state with flowers blooming nearly all year in incredible diverse landscape, no mosquitoes, no snow, no humidity, hands down, rolling or not :-)
From MN to CA = heaven.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Wherr r there no mosquitoes?
Posted by Razzle (Member # 30398) on :
Yup. I remember the lack of mosquitos in Cali... Moved North and met those nasty blood suckers for the first time...got the scars, too...
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