mrv3000 | I now feel a bond with the people across the pond!

hahaha. I totally agree. The only earthquake in my memory that scared me was the Northridge Earthquake which was around... 6.0 on the Richtor scale. Also, I was 6 years old. Ah earthquakes. Such is the price for beautiful southern California weather.

Wikipedia informs me that the Northridge Earthquake was actually 6.7.

And my family's house is like... 10-ish miles from the epicenter. Good times.

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Huh. That's so...unusual. Seriously. Strange. But interesting. I'd be curious to hear comments from people who felt it. They were probably...panicking. But you're right, 4.7 wouldn't even get me out of bed. LOL. It would make me go, "Ack! earthquake!" And then I'd roll over and go back to sleep. That is...assuming it would even wake me up.

Thats why my bed shook, scared the crap out of me.

I felt it, my bed shook, was really odd.

It's pretty epic for England :O

That was my first thought too...how odd it must be for people who felt it. I've met a lot of non-Californians who come here and are really worried about feeling earthquakes, and the reaction to the thought of one here makes me wonder how they'd feel having to live with it wherever they're at. So actually having one in the UK, which I'm pretty sure isn't on any plate boundaries or fault zones, is a bit of an oddity. It's POSSIBLE, as y'all just learned, just really, really rare.

i was freaked out!

4.7: "Do I get out of bed? Do I? Eeeerrrrn. No."

Isn't that the truth. Seriously unless it's a 5.5 or greater, and by now most of us in CA can probably tell without having to look it up or wait for the news, I sort of just stay put and wait for it to go away.

Thanks to the Northridge earthquake, which is the only big one I remember, I've learned where to arrange all of my stuff in case of another earthquake.

Seriously though, glad it wasn't bad.

Most definitely.

Growing up, whenever there was an earthquake at night, my dad would usually wake up (what can I say, he's British) and sometimes I would too. My mom and sister usually slept through them. But my dad and I would go out and check the CalTech website to see how big it was. And then I'd go back to sleep.

Although now, in my dorm room, I'm a bit more freaked about earthquakes because I live on the third floor and I have the top bunk. So if "The Big One" happens, I'm convinced that I'll fall like three stories or something.

My first and only earthquake was a 4.5! It was so weird. Not scary, but... weird. I mean, it was Northern Virginia. What the hell.

I was like... 5 or 6... for the Northridge Earthquake and for a long time afterwards, I was scared that my ceiling lamp would fall on me in an earthquake and like break my legs or something. haha. Which is dumb. Because my ceiling lamp really wasn't all that large.

Eh, don't worry. As long as your building is well enforced you're probably fine.

I took an earthquake class last spring in college (because I have a sick fascination with them...a result of growing up in California), and I really took great sarcastic joy in learning that the apartment I lived in when I lived in LA was absolutely the worst possible of building to live in if you're living in the San Fernando Valley (due to lack of reinforcement). Gotta love getting the knowledge later. At least there wasn't an earthquake when I was in LA.

4.7? That shouldn't even count as an earthquake.

Heh. I was born and raised in the Valley. And my family's house in West Hills survived the Northridge Earthquake with absolutely no damage, but my aunt and uncle's house was like 2 miles from the epicenter and it got yellow tagged. And then the retirement home that my great grandma was in was redtagged and she had to come live with us for a while. And I had to share a room with my sister. This was clearly the greatest tragedy of the Northridge Earthquake. hahaha.

Now I'm living the dorms at UCLA. And I'm assuming that they have to be built reinforced. haha. I mean, I know practically and logically that it's safe. But I remember being a kid after the Northridge quake and seeing an apartment building partially collapsed. It scared me as a kid, so I guess it's still an irrational fear that I have.

I can totally understand the fear of having things fall on you. So definitely not dumb cause I've also gone through that.

I think I was 9 when Northridge hit and for sometime afterwards I would continually wake up at the slightest movement - even if sometimes I knew it was me who was moving the bed - and/or waking up at or around 4:30am.

It took a while but I was finally able to get a proper night's sleep.

4.7 is a tickle to be sure but for them it's scary.

I remember living in California and waking up to earthquakes. So.Much.Fun. It's not the earthquake that's annoying but the stuff falling off your shelves.

Wonder if their pets all freaked and they were like "WTF is Fluffy being strange?"

LOL. Kind of an amusing account of the Northridge quake. I'm from the Bay Area, so I actually was here for the Loma Prieta quake, and then moved down to the Valley for a few years in my 20's. So I didn't experience Northridge, but when I moved down there and realized how CLOSE I was to Northridge I did a bunch of research into the quake.

UCLA probably has you guys taken care of ;) I'd trust them. Anyway, in a big dorm building like that you're probably safer on the 3rd floor than on the bottom. The biggest problem with skyscrapers in earthquakes often is weak bottom floors. And everyone above is cool.

I have only ever experienced one earthquake. Of course, I am from ONTARIO, so this is normal. But once when I was in Ottawa, there was one. Silly us...building our capital on an active fault!

4.7: "Do I get out of bed? Do I? Eeeerrrrn. No."

It really is one of those "Oh, Earthquake. Huh ::promptly turns over to fall asleep again::" moments isn't it?

Here earthquakes are quite common. and my hometown has the dubious honour of the worst one EVER.

poor british people. there was a wonderful post on metaquotes about it.
how it endangered knick knacks and table cloths or soemthing.

We felt that earthquake down here it was that huge. That was a bad one.

MEEP! Yeah, that's something that would stick in the memory.

I've never heard of an earthquake happening over there before. I mean, I'm sure it's happened, but it's gotta be super rare.

Those middle of the night ones can really get the blood going. You wake from a dead sleep to "WHAT WHAT?"

I now feel a bond with the people across the pond!

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