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Wow just had nice earthquake here in central ca.
I was a fun shaker. Trying to find out were the epie center was.

It felt like about 10 -15 seconds. Weeeeeeeeeee
 





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We hardly ever get them in the UK , the last one was about 8 years ago, it woke me up in the middle of the night, it must have measured no more than 1.1 , but I thought the world was ending!
 

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Never felt one at all. Although earlier this year I was close to a pretty large 5.6 quake, and I did hear the windows rattle and the TV drop out for a few seconds, but didn't actually feel it.
 
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Oh you 2 are missing out. I have been throgh few over my lifetime. Some of the best was 1980 we had a long string of them. I think they were mamoth lakes/pools? We felt them down in the valley. I remeber eating breakfast and one started and we all ran outside me with plate of food in hand.LOL
That was a big one. The sidewalk was going up and down like the ocean.
 

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Ya, some people felt it all the way up here in the bay area ( i didn't)! though it was significantly less than where epicenter was
 

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We get them every few years here in the Ottawa Valley area, rarely above 5.0 though. The small ones are really cool, hope we don't get anything too big though. :p
 

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I remember when a decent size earthquake hit Ottawa a couple years ago, we felt it all the way up here in Timmins.
 

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I remember when a decent size earthquake hit Ottawa a couple years ago, we felt it all the way up here in Timmins.



Yeah, that was a really cool one. Was quite close to the city. A few windows broke downtown and some people panicked.


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Lol had one in Montreal a few weeks back :p

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That's actually all that happened :p not even, but it was a 4.5, apparently went all the way to Gatineau, Ottawa also but not as powerful, all it did was startle me :p
 
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I've been through a few here in BC.
Most of the time they don't seem out of the ordinary occurrences and I find out much later that it was another earthquake.
Usually they come across as the low rumble of a large truck idling outside, or other construction related type of sounds/feelings.
EXCEPT the Mount St. Helen's explosion back in the 80's.
I had been drinking the night/morning of it and had only been in bed for a couple of hours when a deafening BANG made me jump out of bed. Would have sworn it was the sound of a car hitting the house but everything was so still and quiet afterwards. No bird songs or any sounds from outside either for a while. (Always sleep with a window open a bit and spring time can be very bird noisy.) Creepy feeling having it suddenly dead quiet.
 




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