Northridge was a 6.7 (or thereabouts) but it was real shallow, so it felt bigger. Way bigger. Scary as hell at 4:30 AM bigger.
But yeah, I wouldn’t worry until it gets above a 5 or so. Wimps. 
The Stars Are Right. The Stars Are Right.
- THE STARS ARE RIGHT !!! *
Me either. However, if you listened to the radio this afternoon it was the Big Story, full of Doom and Gloom for everyone. A sign of the apocalypse according to good ol’ WTOP.
Eat Me First!!
::whine:: No fair! I want an earthquake!
(No, not really…well, kind-of. A small 4.5 one. But I’m in Illinois, so it’s probably New Madrid-sized or nothin’)
4.5?
And you used exclamation points? Rookies.
I’m in Richmond too. Having experienced a California earthquake once, this time I thought my dog had eaten some Beef-a-Roni or something because only a cosmic level fart could make the foundation of my house shake.
Wow, what a month for Richmond. First our most respected defense attorney represents Malvo. Next we learn David Paymer owns this town. Now we have an earthquake.
I went through an earthquake during my short time in LA. I was driving OVER THE EPICENTER, and when I got to my destination, all my coworkers (who knew I’m midwestern) asked how I liked my first quake.
I didn’t even feel it.
At what level of earthquake should I put my infant son in a rocket?
Yes, we’re rookies here in the earthquake department. Still, it was a pretty odd feeling. I don’t think I’d like to experience one on the order of magnitude of those you folks out in CA get.
I was half expecting to see a line of folks at Ukrops* getting a loaf of bread and milk - that’s the native response to any sort of “event” here.
*local grocery store - if a snow flake falls, there’s automatically 20 people in the express line at Ukrops buying a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread
God, I love it when I get these jokes.
I expected the same response, too. I hate Ukrops with a passion, and I’d actually rather starve than go in there in bad weather. I’m surprised people weren’t buying them out for the ‘end of the world.’.
Ava
And toilet paper. Don’t forget the toilet paper.
Someone in Opal’s thread wondered if people who bought these three items weren’t actually planning on making french toast and having diarrhea.
My relatives stocked up on toilet paper for Y2K ( 
), I visited at the end of 2001 and they still hadn’t used up the their TP cachet.
When the apocalypse is at our doorstep, some buy bread and water. My family buys TP.
We’ve got great survival instincts.
Your eyes say “NO NO!”, but your tendrils say “Yes Yes!”
You mean, you had two?
[blue’s clues]
We just had an earthquake
We just had an earthquake
We just had an earthquake
Wonder if it’s done?
[/bc]
I didn’t feel it at all and didn’t even find out about it until this morning.
I was driving at the time and I didn’t feel it at all.
Just north of DC and I didn’t feel it at all.
I’m in Hampton, and didn’t know about it until I saw it on the news…
Don’t let them kid you. By far the vast majority of our earthquakes are 3 or less. We have several (more than two) of those weekly where I live.
And don’t be all that surprised about eathquakes in Richmond. I think that the whole plate moves and an earthquake can happen anywhere on the plate. It’s just that at the boundries the strains accumulate faster and our San Andreas and associated faults are at a boundry between plates.
I guess we’re just lucky.