I swear I just felt an earthquake.

Where can I go to see if we had one?

At first there I could feel the house tremble...then, I started gently rocking back and forth in my chair.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

dude you too!

holy **** i thought i was trippin on these wal mart kettle cooked chips

Larry

http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/

apparently their was one.. 253 miles SSW of Apalachicola, Florida

i reported what i felt at 10:58 and stuff

Last time I felt one, I was still living in michigan...I was moving sideways on a couch that I was sitting on.

I think the quake back then was centered halfway between Mi and Fl, and a little to the right.

Definitely a weird feeling. Glad I don't live in Kaliforniah.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

im still not sure that was an earthquake.. ive never been in one.. it was really odd.. im sitting here trying to read a post and i cant keep my eyes on the screen because my chair is wobbeling so i put it back on 4 legs( i was leaning) ..weird..

At first I heard/felt a low rumble. Then the house creaked a bit (as if getting hit by a shockwave/close sonic boom), then I started to sway laterally. the swaying faded slowly, and after about 10-12 seconds was pretty much gone.




I just checked that website after submitting my own report. Some folks down in Naples felt it too.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

my neighbor to my right felt it and two houses down didnt feel it .. but he is now rembering what he was doing so he will report back.... my parents werent home and now they are like.. your full of it

bay news 9 has the lil news ticker on the bottom reporting it.. the epicicenter was west of fort meyers and 250 miles west of bradenton beach

Show them this: http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/cus/STORE/Xslav_06/ciim_stats_1.html Those reports can't all be fabrication.


It reports the epicenter being 253 miles SSW of Apalachicola

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Uhhh...if it was a 6.0 as stated on that site, should we be worried about a tidal wave / tsunami?

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

i think we should.. but how long would it take the waves to travel 253 miles to the coast? dude im still amazed


one of our friends about 1/8 mile down the street was on his couch and felt it..


---update---

no signifacant tsunami activity, they are saying it wasnt strong enough for the creation of a tsunami

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/

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Up to a certain point it's not so much the strength but as any real estate issue will inform you, it's location, location, location.

If that earthquake had occurred beneath one of the canyons south of the Mississippi River mouth, there could be catastrophic tsunamis. The sediment deposited by the river exceeds the angle of repose for that sediment. There are several cubic miles that could easily shift. When it shifts, depending on the velocity of the shift, it could forcefully displace several cubic miles of water. It's like the difference between slowly moving you hand in bath water and forcefully moving your hand. One barely raises a swirl and the other sloshes across the basin.

B

If there's earthquakes in Florida does that mean there will be hurricanes in California?

Hurricanes are uncommon in California, but not unheard of. I believe there was one in the late 30's or late 40's that hit the Californian coast as a hurricane. Interestingly enough, I found an old Hurricane track from 1967 of a Hurricane that went up between Mexico and the Baja Peninsula over the water up into Arizona. The name of this storm was..... Katrina.

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