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Tex
9 Jan 2009, 4:10am
Crap!!! I got my first serious one. and it wasnt close. It was a 5.0 in San berndino. I am in Riverside in a 3 story house and I thought a car had run into the house it shook so bad.

Everyone is laughing running out of their rooms drinking and toasting each other.

Skeered the crap out of me.

Tex
NiGHTS
9 Jan 2009, 4:22am
Looks like it was a rolling one, those are always fun. ;)
RADA
9 Jan 2009, 4:30am
Yup we felt it up here in Apple Valley. Loudest quake I've ever heard in my short time in CA.

Sounded like a car hit our house, dog was barking like some was someone was breaking into the house by going through the wall!!
Leonardo
9 Jan 2009, 5:54am
Get a lot of them up here. I hate them!
tmh88
9 Jan 2009, 7:46am
PA/OH are stable. We're doing fine over here on the whole earthquake thing.
Snarkasm
9 Jan 2009, 3:07pm
Wisconsin, too, is startlingly earthquake-free. Now snow, on the other hand...
MrBill
9 Jan 2009, 3:38pm
Tex, I thought you were going back to Colorado. How did you wind up in California?
McBain
9 Jan 2009, 5:06pm
Tex, I thought you were going back to Colorado. How did you wind up in California?

No kidding...

I felt a little motion in my ocean down in south OC...3rd story apt. Nothing too major, but the beach cities are a long way away from San Bernadino....
Lincoln
9 Jan 2009, 5:15pm
PA/OH are stable. We're doing fine over here on the whole earthquake thing.
We had a 3.0 in Lancaster while I was home for holiday. I'd never felt an earthquake before (in 24 years of living in PA); we thought someone had hit the building. It was front-page news the next morning.
Nomad
9 Jan 2009, 8:52pm
My brother and I both recall a small shockwave from an Earthquake in Ohio when we were about 10-12.
GnomeWizardd
9 Jan 2009, 10:09pm
yep I felt that one too keebs, Scared the poop out of my wife!
Crazy Joe
10 Jan 2009, 4:13am
My brother and I both recall a small shockwave from an Earthquake in Ohio when we were about 10-12.

I remember a couple of them from back then. Florida is also quake free...
Tex
10 Jan 2009, 4:19am
Tex, I thought you were going back to Colorado. How did you wind up in California?


I was mending barbed wire fences and chasing horses 7 weeks ago in the Rocky mountains I bailed right before the serious snow hit.

I am in Riverside California waiting for another computer contract job to hit. Had a friend here that said come hang for a while somewhere warm for the winter and I bit.... Getting skeered the economy is so bad for doing what I do. Seems a little better after the new year. Starting to get more hits but still....
MrBill
10 Jan 2009, 5:41pm
I was mending barbed wire fences and chasing horses 7 weeks ago in the Rocky mountains I bailed right before the serious snow hit.

I am in Riverside California waiting for another computer contract job to hit. Had a friend here that said come hang for a while somewhere warm for the winter and I bit.... Getting skeered the economy is so bad for doing what I do. Seems a little better after the new year. Starting to get more hits but still....Ah, makes sense. Sunny California vs the snow covered Rockies...tough choice. ;) Good luck grabbing that next contract job.