Earthquake!

voltz · February 2016

I was listening to Van Morrisons * MoonDance * and my lazy-boy recliner started shaking...thought surely there isn't enough bass in the song "Stoned Me" to wiggle my chair...

So I look up and my TT lid is shaking and get up and walk over there and it shook for a 20+ seconds then stopped.. Earthquakes in Kansas are something new but this had to have lasted for awhile..

p.s. my TT is up on isolating blocks and never skip a beat!

gce · February 2016

You're not supposed to have earthquakes. They're for Californians.

Glad everything is ok!

voltz · February 2016

check this out: looks like 7= in the last 7 hours in Oklahoma
http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/kansas/recent

Mikey081057 · February 2016

Glad you are OK... Fire up some AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long

voltz · February 2016

If the house is Rockin, don't bother knockin just come on in

wish I could blame it on my sub

dkfreebird · February 2016

We've been having quite a few In Irving Tx where I work for the last couple of years.They don't last long but they shake the building pretty good .

motorhead43026 · February 2016

Those darned Frackers.

BlueMDPicker · February 2016

It's the end of the world as we know it.......

voltz · February 2016

they up to 32 quakes in the last 24 hours in Oklahoma with a 5.1 being the highest. most are in Fairview OK.

F1nut · February 2016

voltz wrote: »

they up to 32 quakes in the last 24 hours in Oklahoma with a 5.1 being the highest. most are in Fairview OK.

Might be time to get out of town!

Dennis Gardner · February 2016

That 5.1 was 39 miles east of me. It was the first one I've ever felt in my town. Big enough for you to know what it was. Lasted for around 5 seconds. Didn't feel the other half dozen throughout the day.

afterburnt · February 2016

5.1 will get your attention for sure. I can't remember the last time I felt one that big, probably won't have to wait long.

markmarc · February 2016

As a kid I remember the small earthquakes in Denver during the late 60's. All caused by the pumping of crap into wells on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near what is now DIA. The downside of fracking!

[Deleted User] · February 2016

My family in OKC told me about the earthquake earlier today.

Funny. This has absolutely nothing to do with fracking.

jeremymarcinko · February 2016

This is the first I heard anything about it...kind of interesting, although I hope no one was hurt.

Nightfall · February 2016

I've still never experienced an earthquake. I wouldn't mind a small one just for the experience. Small as in nobody gets hurt nothing destroyed. Just imagining the entire ground shaking... Wow. Mother Earth is very powerful.

afterburnt · February 2016

@Nightfall, dude you don't know what you are missing! I like earthquakes like I like being shot.

MrBuhl · February 2016

Very startling Voltz! I remember the one here in DC a few years back - in fact I will never forget it - very disconcerting for sure.

Dennis Gardner · February 2016

Most of the increase around us is trying to be linked to waste water disposal. Whether or not there is a direct correlation is still to be decided, but when counties that had many quakes a couple years ago closed their sites, the neighboring counties that took the waste water started having the increase in tremors. It has simply moved across the landscape.....central OK. quakes are now decreasing and western counties are increasing.

msg · February 2016

Yeah, MrB - I think we felt that one down here in Virginia Beach as well!
I remember being out at lunch, casual conversation toward the end, and then this odd rocking/shifting, forcing pause in conversation, and we all realized it wasn't just in our heads and... did we just have an earthquake? We don't have earthquakes!

It's a neat experience as long as there's no damage and no one gets hurt. Kinda feel the same way about weather phenomena as well.

D - great way to test your tt setup! Good job!

afterburnt · February 2016

I remember one here in CA, it looked like a scene out of the Exorcist, the walls were breathing and individual books were shooting out of the bookcase and pictures flew off of the walls. I stood in an open doorway and damn near got smashed by the door.

gudnoyez · February 2016

We got woke up by one a few years ago it happened in Illinois but was felt here in eastern Iowa, come to find out there's a fault line going through Illinois. Things back to normal in Kansas yet?

afterburnt · February 2016

Darryl you should have recorded it so the next time it happens you can blast it 180 degrees out of phase and cancel it out.

westmassguy · February 2016

voltz wrote: »

they up to 32 quakes in the last 24 hours in Oklahoma with a 5.1 being the highest. most are in Fairview OK.

You're welcome to come north Brother. We're freezing out giblets off though

txcoastal1 · February 2016

Hey Darrell you still planning to come on down to LSAF....Lightman's coming down to water the bushes

voltz · February 2016

Thanks to the Isolating blocks I got from Bruce my TT held up just fine!

if it shook my house I could only image what Dennis felt.

Hey Ron, I going to put in for vacation to make sure I can make it to LSAF this year and I'll bring the Omega's and be fun to see both Russ's

Dave, with all the snow you got last year a earthquake there would start a avalanche!

I like my Martini's shaken not stirred so everything worked out okay!

MrBuhl · February 2016

msg wrote: »

It's a neat experience as long as there's no damage and no one gets hurt. Kinda feel the same way about weather phenomena as well.

Yea - I was in my subterranean office thinking the hotel was going to come down around me - in the end no damage but I'll never forget a co-workers words as I tried to figure out what was going on (as you said, you just really can't believe it's an earthquake here on the east coast) I was like, did something hit the building? He looks at me dead-pan and says "Mr Ed, you see that wall? (shaking brick and mortor wall over 3 feet thick) only God can move this wall".

Amen brother, amen!

scubalab · February 2016

We felt that Virginia/DC quake up here in central PA a few years ago. I'll never forget the feeling. It was like nothing I've ever felt before. It started with cubicle walls in the office creaking and swaying. Everyone stood up like prairie dogs. Then the whole building and everything around started moving slightly. Kind of like everything was on a creeper dolly being moved slightly side to side. I remember feeling the office chair rolling a fraction of an inch back and forth. Even though we had never experienced an earthquake before, we all knew instantly what it was. Never take Mother Earth for granted!