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Rainstorm5
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19 Apr 2008, 11:16 pm

Strapples wrote:

our bathroom is not accessible so ill park in the livingroom doorway

That's a good place to be. Wide doorways in living rooms and such have a foot-thick, laminated king-beam over your head that supports the roof, so if you go there, you'll be fine.

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20 Apr 2008, 1:58 am

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I grew up in California, earthquake country. and this is what we were always taught. Don't go outside during a quake, either. I made that mistake during the Landers quake, a 7.2 that hit in the middle of the night. Things were rocking and rolling so bad that a long, steel parking lot gate swung around and slammed into me, knocking me down and cutting a deep gash in my leg. Things can fall on you, too, like high voltage wires and so on.

That's so cool! I mean, yeah, I know people get hurt and all kinds of horrible things happen, but I can't help but be in awe of a natural event like that. I can't wait to experience one! Uh, in a doorway or bathroom, that is.

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20 Apr 2008, 9:44 am

Gee, I wonder if we should have earthquake drills at my work. We just had a tornado drill the day before. I'm in southwest Michigan too, and geologically that's not too far from New Madrid/Wabash. Let's hope that one doesn't let go because it will make 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina look like Sunday School picnics. I'm serious, nobody in this part of the country thinks about earthquakes much at all. So there is zero preparation.

There was an aftershock about 11:15. I was at work and I felt a slight trembling, a few other people noticed too, but there is a lot of construction going on site so we are kind of used to that sort of thing.

Does anyone know if it was 5.2 everywhere or just around the epicenter?

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20 Apr 2008, 2:00 pm

I'll just copy and paste what I wrote about the earthquake on another thread:

We had that same earthquake here in central Indiana. I was barely awake when it started (around 5:30 AM) and it lasted for about fourty seconds. My entire bed was shaking (it's not a small bed either!). At first I thought I was having a seizure until my mom ran down to my room, wanting me to stand under the doorway. That earthquake was a 5.2. We had a rather large aftershock around 11:40 AM earlier that was a 4.5. And we've been having a lot of tiny ones as well. Ironically, we had a tiny one as I was typing this message! (I'm not kidding!) I've only been in one other earthquake here in Indy and that was back in 2004. It was a pretty small one, but it was enough to wake me up.

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20 Apr 2008, 2:03 pm

how come i didnt feel anything! im in arlington heights IL area...

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