Earthquake!
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03/31/20 08:03 PM
03/31/20 08:03 PM
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Neil
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Just got a decent sized earthquake here!
6.5 near Challis, which is in the middle of the state. Not sure what it was here in Boise, but I could hear the wood in the house being strained and all the lights were swaying all over.
Last edited by Neil; 03/31/20 08:20 PM.
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Re: Earthquake!
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03/31/20 11:16 PM
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On 2/28/2001 I was in Duvall WA pulling a new ADSL line into a ladys back bedroom. It was a single wide mobile home. I was half way under and could see my fish stick rod in the floor. Then the 6.8 Duvall Earthquake hit. I was flat on my back when the rollers started. Then the mobile home started swaying and bouncing on the cinder blocks. I rolled out to the skirting and kicked it out to get out from under the house. The lady thought I was somehow damaging her home and came running out the door just as I kicked the siding out. The ground was still shaking. I have not been able to crawl under a house since.
Today, we did not feel this Idaho quake here.
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Re: Earthquake!
[Re: Neil]
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04/01/20 08:48 AM
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There seems to be more quakes in Idaho than normal. This is the 2nd or 3rd I have heard about in the last month or so.
I wounder if Yellowstone is getting ready to pop in the next decade or so. The experts say its overdue.
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Re: Earthquake!
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04/01/20 01:01 PM
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Good friends moved to Boise from South Dakota in the past year to help plant a church. They all posted on facebook about the adding an earthquake to the bucket lists.
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Re: Earthquake!
[Re: Neil]
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04/01/20 08:00 PM
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Luckily, it sounds like you are ok with minimal damage.
My wife and I are Univ. of Idaho grads and lived in Moscow from 1990-1995. Even with all the geomorphology classes I took (learning about the Great Missoula Floods, etc.), anything seismic related in Idaho was pretty much glossed over.
With that being said, I am a Santa Rosa, California native, and my earliest memory was riding out the 6.0ish earthquakes up there in 1969. Even though these were "only" at that level, they caused severe levels of damage in the S.R. downtown due to the city being built on a sedimentary basin. As a two year old, I still remember my dad having to navigate his way over all the broken glass downtown as we made our way in the family Mercury to his business on 4th Street so that he could check to see if everything was ok.
I've since experienced many earthquakes since that one, including several big ones in Japan. They never fail to get your attention by making you go over your mental emergency checklist.
Good luck, and hopefully it isn't a foreshock for the Yellowstone Super-volcano!
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Re: Earthquake!
[Re: Neil]
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04/02/20 01:14 PM
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I felt it up here in Spokane. I was in the basement at my computer. My chair started moving back and forth. Freaked me out a bit till I realized what it was.
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Re: Earthquake!
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04/02/20 06:48 PM
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Neil, felt it up here, also felt as far north as Bonner's Ferry, which is near the Canada border. Kinda of a "roller", felt like being rocked in a cradle; probably wouldn't have noticed it if I was driving. Seemed to last about 15 seconds, give or take. Prior to that, it was snowing like crazy.
Felt it here in Southern, BC. Definitely agree that it was like being rocked in a cradle. I thought my blood pressure was going weird because it felt like.... you know when you have a throbbing headache and your whole body bobs to the rhythm of your heartbeat? That's about what I felt. It wasn't until an hour or so later that some friends of mine south of the 49th started posting about an earthquake that I put two and two together.
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