And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking

[geminigirl]

An earthquake Here!

A 6.0 centered in the Gulf of Mexico, which we felt here in our living room.

And, thanks to mactavish, I knew that I could report it here.

We felt the shaking, looked at each other and said "Nah, it can't be an earthquake." I went to the USGS website to see if it was, and Cayne went to the front window to see if there was anything like a truck that might have made the rumble. The first time I checked, the USGS website didn't have it up yet, but when I refreshed shortly after, it was there, and we filled out the form.

What I said to Cayne is that the earthquakes I've felt feel more like side to side shaking whereas trucks or trains feel like up and down shaking.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, lordy. If it wasn't enough that you have to endure hurricanes, now you're having earthquakes, too? Time to stock up on emergency cat food! :)

[geminigirl]

You know, I just asked Cayne this morning whether we needed cat food or not. :)

[3-black-cats.livejournal.com]

YOu know, now that I start thinking about how earthquakes feel... some of them are side-to-side, and some of them are up-and-down. Some of them are really violent (but short) and others are like a gentle roll. But what always strikes me, no matter what the movement is like, is the NOISE.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

A lot of how the shaking feels depends on local geology and how far away you are from the epicenter. Local quakes on the Hayward fault, when I've been near the epicenter, have felt like a truck hit the house, and when I've been almost on it, have felt like someone picked up the house and dropped it about three inches. The Loma Prieta quake, for which the epicenter was about 60 miles from where I was at the time, felt like rolling waves. It was huge, though.

In the SE United States, medium-sized quakes can be felt a lot farther away than we tend to feel them in California, because of underlying geology. The Charleston quake was felt in Chicago.

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

If you are getting earthquakes, I guess we should watch out for hurricanes!

[chiefted]

Got a call from daltong this morning saying she felt it (she is over on Siesta Key or how ever you spell it) and wondering about tsunami warnings.

Think it is up on the USGS site now.

[3-black-cats.livejournal.com]

According to CNN, it wasn't strong enough to trigger any tsunamis. Thank goodness.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/10/gulf.quake/index.html

[geminigirl]

We reported it on the USGS site shortly before I made the original post. I haven't heard anything about tsunami warnings yet-local news has been showing the buoy information, and there were no high waves.