Anyone else feel that after shock?

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Um. Why the loopback to page 1?

Anyway, yeah, 5.4 is a respectable earthquake. Glad to hear that there's no major damage. Us native Californians have our emergency kits ready for 7+, though. Remember that the Richter is a base-10 logarithmic scale, so each step is ten times bigger than the one before it. I always enjoy seeing California visitors or recent immigrants in public when a strong-ish quake hits. Lots of freaking out. You can always pick out the long term residents because they keep sipping their coffee or reading or whatever.
 
Um. Why the loopback to page 1?
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That was a link from a dupe thread that the mods merged over to this thread. I was guiding them here. My edit also explains that.
 
You can always pick out the long term residents because they keep sipping their coffee or reading or whatever.
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Yeah then the ceiling collapses on them. Ahhh complacency, what would we do without it.
 
It was a bit after 4am here when I felt it....

It was funny, my boss two other guys and I were stading in a telcotype concreete gear bunker in Roxanna Illinois about 20-25 minutes away from N.St. Louis County...

We were standing there b.s.ing with the two big service doors open as it was decent night/morning...

All of a sudden the floor started to wobble and ripple a bit... My boos gets this crazy look on his face and goes *** was that... He said, OH ****, that truck is rocking too... We peeked out the door and it was rocking on its own like crazy... I noticed a few of the liht fixtures and things over heard were wobbling a bit... I said, that had to be a tremor or small quake as we can see no big trucks went by...

A few seconds later some guys in our Network Operations Center (NOC) hit us on IM and said, Did you guys just feel that.... Then my Mom called in a panic and said, you all right.... They had a bunch of pictures, candels and small crap fall over...

My wife and daughter slept right through the whole thing...
 
Keep in mind that these things can happen in chunks, we're theoretically due (funny, they haven't been talking about it on the tee-vee a lot...) for another tick of the main New Madrid fault... Last time it went rodeo was 1811, and was over 8...

Be a nice idea to keep guns and basic survival gear in a vehicle, NOT parked in your garage...
 
Anyway, yeah, 5.4 is a respectable earthquake. Glad to hear that there's no major damage. Us native Californians have our emergency kits ready for 7+, though. Remember that the Richter is a base-10 logarithmic scale, so each step is ten times bigger than the one before it. I always enjoy seeing California visitors or recent immigrants in public when a strong-ish quake hits. Lots of freaking out. You can always pick out the long term residents because they keep sipping their coffee or reading or whatever.
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Just as I, from Colorado, feel about visiting folks driving their cars off of cliffs on their way up the mountains or sliding at 5mph into intersections and into oncoming traffic.

"Yeah bud, probably shoulda seen that comin'..." :)

The last time I was in California (I lived in Kansas at the time) I met this girl who said:

"Have you ever been in a tornado?"
"What? They roam around every once in a while..."
"But have you ever been in one?"
"Like sucked up into a tornado?"
"Yeah."
"No..."

:scrutiny::uhoh:
 
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