[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Are you going to grump about them all, or is this it?

Kari can be our human richter scale. She has lots of experience from her wild and wooly Alaska days. I don't think I've felt one yet here in Oklahoma. Of course, anything below 4.5 or 5 isn't worth mentioning.

That 2/22 quake was at 3:43 in the morning? Geez, Kari, you were really up late that night.

Magnitude 3.2
Date-Time

* Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 09:43:07 UTC
* Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 03:43:07 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 36.350°N, 98.103°W
Depth 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region OKLAHOMA
Distances

* 4 km (3 miles) SSW (196°) from Lahoma, OK
* 8 km (5 miles) ESE (123°) from Meno, OK
* 8 km (5 miles) NW (313°) from Drummond, OK
* 109 km (68 miles) NNW (332°) from Oklahoma City, OK
* 413 km (256 miles) NNW (343°) from Dallas, TX

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Are you going to grump about them all, or is this it?

Not all of them, just the ones that show up when I check weather Underground for the local temps and the site is smeared all over with "earthquake!"

At least OK doesn't have to worry about tsunamis.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by karibear

At least OK doesn't have to worry about tsunamis.

I never did like raw fish...........

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

I never did like raw fish...........

Not exactly raw fish.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmAYeGf1-gk

[Alaskapat528]

Originally Posted by karibear

Did not! I left them all in Alaska!

That's ok Kari LOL...my family here in Ohio accused me of bringing the Alaskan winters with us. Been cold down here and lots of snow which not normal for this particular area. Earthquakes....Yipes...AK is #1 State for them; went through about 3 of them up there...scared the heck out of me.

[nightbird47]

Originally Posted by karibear

Earthquakes are funny. I was in one once when I worked for the school district in AK, and the room we worked in rattled like crazy and all the shelves - heavy industrial-type ones that held correspondence study materials - rattled and swayed and the quake made a noise like a freight train going through. But just up the hall in a different wing that pre-dated the one where I worked, no one felt or heard anything. Then much later I was in the Nisqually quake in WA, and it didn't do a thing to the house, but we could watch the road 20' away rippling. I just prefer my terra to be firma.

Unless a quake is huge, the safest construction is a one story wood frame building. It can sway with the ground. On cement slabs like in California you get a lot of shaking and things fall off, but the building has enough "give" it holds together. Even if there is damage it isn't as likely to collaps on your head.

If its huge, well, just hope and pray and get under a strong table or cover yourself with pillows.

Yeah that rippling pavement. I was just slowing down to park once and the ripple literally sent the car flying up and down.

And I did not bring them with me either. Absolutely. Promise.

But geesh I move here and find there are quakes and grass fires, guess you can't every get away.

[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by nightbird47

And I did not bring them with me either. Absolutely. Promise.

But geesh I move here and find there are quakes and grass fires, guess you can't every get away.

Well, they are following you now.

MAG DATE-TIME LAT/deg, LON/deg, DEPTH-km, LOCATION MAP
3.3 2009/02/25 04:14:15 34.734 -96.036 5.0 5 km ( 3 mi) SE of Ashland, OK

Where is Ashland?