Felt it at 0904L this AM. And confirmed here: M 3.7 - 4 km ESE of Capulin, New Mexico
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Not my first one, but my first one at home.
Congrats on losing your home-earthquake virginity! However, a M3.7 is a loaded UPS truck going past the house. Unremarkable. When you get maybe a M5.1 then you’re in the game.
– 31 year California resident who lived through Loma Prieta and later experienced a M6.1 epicentered five miles from my house.
Wimp.
A 3.7 doesn’t even register around here. Hell, there was a 4.7 this morning about 60 miles away and nobody has commented at all.
I lived through the 1971 San Fernando, the 1983 Coalinga, the 1992 Landers, and the 1994 Northridge quakes. I think the 71 quake was the scariest, as I looked out my bedroom window in the middle of the quake and saw half the water in the neighbors pool tsunami-ing down the back alley. The aftershocks of the Landers quake were scarier than the main quake was, mainly because they were a lot closer to home.
But hey, you made it through your first “home” quake. That calls for a beer or three!
That’s what we thought it was at first. But then my wife mentioned that the bookcases were shaking, and I thought, “Shit, that’s one heavy-assed UPS truck. . .”
Did I ever mention the time I slept through a 6.something in Afghanistan? T’was the holiday season in '05-‘06, and in the middle of the night, I woke up and the whole B-Hut was shaking; it felt like someone had their foot on my bed and was kicking it to wake me up. I learned later that there was a 7.somethin’-else in Pakistan that happened. I asked others, and they corroborated–I wasn’t crazy.
We normally don’t get earthquakes around here. If it weren’t for the USGS site, I would have suspected that one of our fire-breathing, radioactive lizards had gotten loose again.
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Gimme some credit; I’m living in the pyroclastic path of a dormant volcano.
Yeah, getting a quake in an area not known for them can be a little…off-putting. Wonder how all those Native Americans felt when the New Madrid quake let rip?
Enlighten me what does a real earthquake feel like? I always hear the thing about the floor feeling like liquid. Serious question, not being sarcastic.
I’ve slept through 2 earthquakes and was in one in California where I didn’t notice. I looked up from what I was concentrating on and wondered why people were under desks.
If I’m in one that I actually notice, everyone is probably in serious trouble.
Well @pool, today was kind of strange because at the moment it happened, I was bouncing down the hardwood flight of stairs on my way to get a cup of coffee. My wife hollered from the upstairs bedroom-office, “Honey, was that you??” I thought it was at first, but then she said the bookshelf was shaking. Basically, I didn’t feel much today because I was already on my feet and bouncing.
That Afghani-quake, though, that felt like the whole world was shimmying under my bed.
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I remember it clearly, like it was yester-decade.