earthquake woke me up

[new_improved]

no way i'm getting back to sleep this morning... i think i'm gonna go to the gym.

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[prisonbitch]

same here dood!

[prisonbitch]

where they say the epicenter is near Evansville, is about halfway between us

[new_improved]

and a crazy 5.4! eeep. i don't want any more new madrid fault craziness O_O

[prisonbitch]

but being a west coast boy, it was probably boring for you... ;)

[paterson_si]

nasty sinusitis woke me up this morning..... what's worse? :)

[new_improved]

... i really don't know... the quake lasted 10 seconds; i think your sinusitis lasted longer than that! hope you feel better soon :)

[paterson_si]

so do I .... I want a FULL weekend! :)

take care

[filtercore]

I wish I could talk about earthquakes in such a blasé manner!! The tiniest tremor here would have me out in the street!

[new_improved]

"stalwart" is my middle name... lol actually, my heart was pumping pretty hard there for a few minutes... almost left my apartment to sleep in my car, but it was getting to wakeup time anyway.

[filtercore]

Do you get them often? I think Australia is mostly on an entire tectonic plate, so we don't see that kinda thing often at all over here...

[new_improved]

No, not often... the authorities are calling this earthquake a 5.2. The last large one was a 5.0 in 2002, which was much weaker. A 5.3 hit the area in 1968 and was felt by 23 states.

Now we're expecting many aftershocks of 2-3 which may not be felt by people, but the redistribution of stress changes may "generate another big one on a fault which is locked and ready to go" (link).

[scunnerred]

How rude of it. You should complain. :)

[new_improved]

i'm going to send it a nasty note!

[yorkieboy]

No way - you've had one now, too?!

There was that much adrenalin buzzing around it took me ages to get back to sleep afterwards.

[new_improved]

yes, now i know how you felt!