# I think I just felt an earthquake!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 23, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255 "2010-06-23T17:57:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/61 "2010-06-25T04:17:11Z")

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_(looks at calendar)_

Let’s see. Errrrrm, no, I’m afraid the locusts are not due to arrive until next Tuesday at the earliest. However, the temp agency is sending over 10,000 frogs. I guess that will have to do.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/62 "2010-06-25T06:00:18Z")

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> [@horsetech](#):
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> _(looks at calendar)_
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> Let’s see. Errrrrm, no, I’m afraid the locusts are not due to arrive until next Tuesday at the earliest. However, the temp agency is sending over 10,000 frogs. I guess that will have to do.

Sorry, there’s been a mistake. Those frogs are intended for [del]the fake lake at the G20[/del] restocking Crown wetlands. We’ll be sending over a dust storm instead, as soon as we get it uncrated.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/63 "2010-06-25T08:04:00Z")

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They evacuated office buildings in Dayton Ohio.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-just-felt-an-earthquake/544255/64 "2010-06-25T17:51:25Z")

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> [@Magiver](#):
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> They evacuated office buildings in Dayton Ohio.

My impression is that a lot of these building evacuations were a result of better-safe-than-sorry responses to alarms triggered by the quake, not because of actual danger from the quake itself. Is this likely?

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