So THAT'S what an Earthquake feels like

[HUSKER 37]

Anyone else feel the quake ~3:45 this afternoon?

 

 

I was trying to call my Mom in Lincoln, so she could wish my Son an early happy birthday, when all of a sudden the indoor windchimes that I had hanging from an air vent started making some noise..I wondered about the last time I'd turned on the AC or the Heat,(Two months?) then noticed the ceiling fan swaying back and forth..

Still not suspecting a quake I stepped outside to make sure there wasn't a UFO hovering above my house again, or a low flying plane floating over my house like last night.

 

Then googled it and saw where there were already reports of a 7.2 (6.9 at the time) around Baja and the gulf of California.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/04/20100404arizona-feels-baja-earthquake.html

 

This may have been my first..

 

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[muzicman0]

yep...biggest one I have felt since moving to SoCal in 2003.

 

mm0

[HUSKER 37]

The news blurbs are saying it might have been the worst ones felt in the PHX area in over thirty years...

 

Yet I still feel a little gypped.

[HUSKER 37]

Hope all you Husker fans in S.Cal are doing allright.

[rawhide]

some of the women folk kinda squirted a little but other than that right there.

 

really glad I wasn't a safety dispatcher yesterday. whooooooo

 

eleventy billion calls in 10 minutes

 

just kinda rolled around for about 30-40 seconds which to some seemed like 5 minutes

 

GBR

[rawhide-jr]

Yeah, Sr. and I were still sitting in our chairs eating Easter pie, while everyone else ran outside and huddled in the yard....

[HUSKER 37]

The local (Phoenix) news sources tried to make it sound as big as they could..Even showed several backyard "Pool Tsunamis" where the sploshing of people's cement ponds caused havoc to the surrounding decks...Someone could slip and put out an eye.

 

Makes me wish I'd sprung for that kiddie pool for my Siberian Husky last weekend so I could get some of that

POOL TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND

[knapplc]

We felt a tremor when we lived in California in 1999. The wife and I were sitting in our living room on a rare day off when everything suddenly moved about three inches to the right. We stopped, looked at each other and said, "That's it?"

 

When we sold our condo the next year we went to the coast during the open house and while we were gone there was a 4.0 that shook everything up pretty good. Our Realtor was all freaked out when we got back, but we didn't feel a thing.