Topic: Earthquake experiences?

I'm not someone who freaks out easily, but I am seriously freaking the BLEEP out right now! Last night a little after 2AM, there was a 4.7 earthquake, the epicenter 40 some odd miles southwest of me here in Tulsa. Lasted like 15-20 seconds and seriously shook my house. I'm in Oklahoma. Not California. I expect to worry about tornadoes here. Odd to say the least to experience my first earthquake, but I figured it was a fluke thing. It wasn't. About an hour ago, there was another one, even stronger. This one a 5.2. Almost knocked off a huge mirror in the house. I'm going to have to check around for any structural cracks when it's daylight. I am a bit worried about the earth opening up and swallowing me whole now. As long as no demons try to pull me in, like in "Drag Me To Hell", LOL!

Anybody else been through earthquakes, and want to share their experience? Here's the news on the most recent one which was around the same area as the earlier one. I DON'T LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!

http://newsok.com/5.2-m-earthquake-shakes-oklahoma/article/36...

Anyone else here in Oklahoma or one of the surrounding states feel it? I've read comments that it was felt in Kansas and Texas too.

Earthquakes don't always happen in California. I'm not sure where you got that from, cartoons maybe?

My parents who live in Memphis actually have earthquake insurance due to the New Madrid fault line

Actually, at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/ , you'll see that the entire state of California is riddled with dots representing quakes, mostly minor, in the last 7 days. And most times there's a major US quake, it's in California. So, no, I did not get it from a "cartoon"!

Yeah, there is no California in Friendship is Magic.

A few years ago I experienced my first Earthquake.
It was a mild one that only lasted about 5 minutes but it still scared the crap outta me.
I was sitting at my computer and the shelf on the wall started shaking. It just sounded like a big truck going by.
Later that day we had some aftershocks and I nearly wet myself.
I live in Indiana and we don't get alot of Earthquakes down here so it freaked me out.

Never experienced an earthquake. There aren't usually earthquakes in Mississippi or this part of Texas.

Now look at the rest of the country

And? Nowhere did I state MOST quakes happen in California. Yes, I see the quakes in Alaska. However, the most catastrophic, damaging US earthquakes, such as 1989 San Francisco, occur in California.

My parents were in Pasadena around the time that huge earthquake happened, I think.

I've had two in Maryland in the past year, the last one was a 6.1, I simply shrugged and went back to watching Netflix after five seconds, idk I guess they don't freak me out much

California isnt the only place in the world that gets earthquakes. Earthquakes happen when the earth plates move and shift which the Earth is made up of. I mean do you honestly think that California is the only place that these plates are?

Anyways to answer your question even though I am in California I have never been nor felt an earthquake, and I live about 200 miles away from San Francisco.

I am glad to hear that you are ok and didnt get hurt.

I never said I thought California was the only place that there's earthquakes. I said what I did in my original post to express surprise and comic effect. Then I felt the need to defend the statement because I felt patronized by another post. Guess this is what happens when I try to make a thread at Nintendo Life. Sorry for any misunderstanding. Guess I need to stick to the pony thread, for my own safety. Or steer clear of NL. I get the feeling some would like that for some reason. I've never hurt anyone here.

lz likes to troll and Tasuki is serious business all the time, so I don't think there's any reason to get worked up...

@FluttershyGuy: Sorry man didnt mean to upset you there. I guess its just the way it came out in print thats all. Just the way you kept going over and over that you are not in California it sounded like you expect only earthquakes to hit in California thats all. It would be like me saying OMG a tornado just hit my and I am in California not Oklahoma. Truthfully though the area I live in I do get tornadoes alot more frequently than earthquakes, go figure.

Nothing to be sorry about. I'm just good at getting myself misunderstood, which is one of many reasons why I'm better off simply lurking at sites like this.

Apparently there was an earthquake while I was in Japan. But I was in an elevator when it happened, so I didn't feel a single thing!

A minor 5.something earthquake occurred a few years ago where I live (South suburban Chicago) in the middle of the night. I was woken, felt the ground shaking more violently than when a train passes on the railroad near my backyard, went to my window and couldn't see a train on the tracks, so I went back to bed. A couple minutes later my dad came in my room asking me if I knew what happened, since we had similar shaking when a house blew up a few miles over 6 months prior to the earthquake. I didn't, so I just went back to bed after that.

I understand you're still freaking out over the earthquake that just happened where you're at, but come on — did you forget those earthquakes a couple months back in CO and VA? Alaska and Arkansas are also popular states for good-sized quakes to hit. :3

I was sitting in the Hall of Fame once when a mild earthquake hit. By the time I finished up and went outside with my family, it was over. True story.

Btw, it's normal for another to happen shortly after the first earthquake. That's called an aftershock.

I slept through that one