What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Omega]

7.1, under Christchurch.

At about 25 to 5 this morning.

Woke me up, and I'm 500km away. Well, more like 400, but the point's there.

[Jessie~the~Singer]

Yikes. We don't get much bad stuff around here, mostly thunderstorms, so I've never been through one.

[Omega]

It's the worst quake here in terms of damage for about 80 years, they're saying.

But quakes are not uncommon, we have a big-ish one every 5-10 years. And it's a rare year that goes by without me feeling one.

[Lamp Post]

X_X My dad's currently pulling up pictures people've based here have taken of the damage - my favourite book store is horrid. x.x

Generally everything looks astounding, though. o.o

[Omega]

It's actually not as bad as it could have been. There are no reports of anyone dying, which is really, really good. There are some damaged/unlivable buildings, and the power's mostly out, and the water and sewage is totally fucked, but it'll probably be back on within a couple of days.

[o0_flying high_0o]

o.o

We've had a total of two earthquakes in my lifetime (and pretty much ever), and they've been like... 3.something. Really little. I couldn't imagine one that big...

[Omega]

You Aussie!

We're sorta used to quakes. I woke up to the shaking, but it wasn't all that bad here. My bed moved away from the wall about 5 cm, and the house creaked a bit.

[nathan_p]

Whooooa.

I've experienced precisely two earthquakes. And one of them I slept through.

[Omega]

I've experienced precisely two quakes this year.

I would have thought that the Rockies were active enough to have quakes??

[Contradiction]

The Rockies aren't volcanoes. O.o

[nathan_p]

Seismic activity in North America is mostly limited to the West Coast, along the... whatever the fuck it's called fault where the main North American plate smashes into the little plates in the northwest and the big Pacific plate.

Thus, California has a shitton of quakes, and unless we get something crazy like the quake that happened in Mississippi in the 19th century, Colorado never will.

[Omega]

Volcanoes =/= earthquakes.

Usually, however, mountain ranges = tectonic activity, which means quakes. Huh. Weird. I would have thought you get 'em.

And yes, tectonic activity can lead to volcanoes.



I think it's the San Andreas fault.