10 Thoughts to “3.7 Earthquake hits Area @ 5:04 am”

  1. Alanna
    July 16, 2010 at 8:51 am

    Did anybody local feel anything?

  2. Moon-howler
    July 16, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Censored, her husband and her pets felt it, Alanna.

    Correction. TV is now saying that it was a 3.6 and its epicenter was Germantown, not Gaithersburg.

  3. Rez
    July 16, 2010 at 10:45 am

    Well, having lived in CA and surviving both the Whittier and Northridge quakes, my wife and I slept through it kinda. We noticed that our little dog jumped off the bed. To us, a 3.6 is like a washing machine on spin cycle so we didn’t notice it. I miss those fun times with the earthquakes–scary for 30 seconds and then everyone acts like they were charged with electricity.

    I am sure that people that were not used to it, it was probably pretty scary and exciting.

    1. Moon-howler
      July 16, 2010 at 11:17 am

      @Rez,
      People who have lived in earthquake regions just don’t have the same feelings about them that we easterners do, I guess.

      I have been to Yellowstone a few times, Mt. St. Helens a few times, Mt Hood, Mt Rainer…I have never felt an earthquake. I feel left out.

  4. Posting as Pinko
    July 16, 2010 at 11:14 am

    I didn’t feel anything, but my dog crapped all over the floor around that time. Does that count?

  5. Rez
    July 16, 2010 at 11:32 am

    Well, Wolfie, imagine Kings Dominion for FREE. I remember that I employed a new secretary from Ohio (she was there 1 week) and the Whittier quake hit. We were on the top floor of the building (and it was built on rollers so that earthquakes wouldn’t damage the steel and glass structure). Well, we in southern california feel that if you survive the first 45 seconds, you are probably okay. Well about 45 seconds in, a second larger jolt hit and even we experienced ones were concerned.

    I was trying my best to bring the computers down to protect them and my secretary was nearby bearhugging a huge structural column. I asked her what she was doing and she said that she was told to get as close as possible to a structural piece of a building (like a doorway, etc). I kinda laughed and told her that we were on floor 6 of a six floor building and that when it was over, we might be on the 2nd or 3rd floor and we will have scratch marks all the way down the column. I reminded her that since we were on top, we would probably not have to worry much but people in the bottom 5 floors did. Well as the end of the story, the next day she came in and resigned and headed back to Ohio.

    I did not mean to sound like an uppity Californian by the way. 3.6 is pretty significant for this area. We have an old saying in So. California “never trust air you can’t see (smog) or ground that doesn’t move”.

  6. Moon-howler
    July 16, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    Too funny, Rez. I like that old saying.

  7. Moon-howler
    July 17, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Rez, I think I am an anti earthquake person. All those places I have been…that have continual earthquakes…and I have never felt one. I feel cheated.

  8. Wolverine
    July 18, 2010 at 12:29 am

    Earthquake?!!! Balderdash, Pinko. Your dog crapped all over the floor because it probably got ahold of one of RingDangDo’s chalupa chupacabras!

    1. Moon-howler
      July 18, 2010 at 10:02 am

      Oh Dear God, Wolverine, you are killing me. bwaaaahahahahaha

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