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spyder
08-22-2011, 17:35
Ok, so, we just had an earthquake here in Trinidad. [Beer] Did anyone else in the neighboring area feel it? All of my neighbors went outside to find out what happened. That was kinda weird, first one I have ever felt.
SideShow Bob
08-22-2011, 17:57
Well,
The wife said she felt the earth move last night...[LOL]
spyder
08-22-2011, 18:00
Well,
The wife said she felt the earth move last night...[LOL]
Were you home while this happened?[ROFL1]
jplove71
08-22-2011, 18:03
Were you home while this happened?[ROFL1]
Oh snap!
Bailey Guns
08-22-2011, 18:13
Were you home while this happened?[ROFL1]

Dayuummm!
Graves
08-22-2011, 18:14
Were you home while this happened?[ROFL1]

LMAOSHMSFOAIDMT
jmg8550
08-22-2011, 18:21
LMAOSHMSFOAIDMT

???[Desert]
Graves
08-22-2011, 18:25
http://www.picshag.com/pics/022011/lmaoshmsfoaidmt.jpg
Scanker19
08-22-2011, 18:27
LMAOSHMSFOAIDMT

you owe me a computer, that was funny.
BPTactical
08-22-2011, 18:57
I wuz gonna say I had Taco Bell last night but I will step aside for the "Earth Moved" crowd.





Outstanding volley gents![Beer]
Play on-




BOT- want to see something scary? Look at a USGS fault map of Colorado, it looks like a broken windshield. Unbelievable amount of faults run through our state, something on the order of 10,000 IIRC. One of the geologists at work said one of the most capable of serious damage and overdue to move is the Dakota fault. You know, the same one that makes up Dakota Ridge- the hogback just west of Denver.
Nice
SideShow Bob
08-22-2011, 19:22
Were you home while this happened?[ROFL1]

Let us just say that unlike the most of you all, I didn't have a Dusty Johnson this morning.

" And that's all I got to say about that !"
mcantar18c
08-22-2011, 19:22
One of the geologists at work said one of the most capable of serious damage and overdue to move is the Dakota fault. You know, the same one that makes up Dakota Ridge- the hogback just west of Denver.
Nice
So in otherwords, there's still hope for the Denver area? [Tooth]
TriggerHappy
08-22-2011, 19:25
I've been through a lot of quakes, being from Alaska. It's a strange feeling sleeping on the ground in a tent and It sounds like a frieght train from under water.

Sorry for the derail, on with the banter...
[M2]
rondog
08-22-2011, 19:25
Every time I look at our mountains I wonder about the seismic forces that made 'em heave up in the first place. Especially the Front Range. I sure don't want to be around for the next time!
Bailey Guns
08-22-2011, 19:37
Let us just say that unlike the most of you all, I didn't have a Dusty Johnson this morning.

" And that's all I got to say about that !"

Is that some kind of omelet?
rockhound
08-22-2011, 19:50
i read once that colorado has about a hundred small quakes every year.

and no i don't want to have another one like they used to have around here.
hammer03
08-22-2011, 20:42
I slept through the northridge quake, I'm not so worried.
spyder
08-22-2011, 21:12
...I didn't have a Dusty Johnson this morning.

" And that's all I got to say about that !"
Well I'm glad you didn't have a dusty johnson this morning. If you float that way, more power to you. So anyway, does that mean that you weren't there for the earth shaking then? [ROFL1]
Monky
08-22-2011, 21:17
Spyder... I might be down in Trinidad sometime this week! Not sure if i'll have time for a beer though.[Beer]
spyder
08-22-2011, 21:20
Well shit man, if you have time, let me know! Oh, and bring the Ferrari too. [Coffee]
BlasterBob
08-22-2011, 21:41
Yeah, we also are in Trinidad and the wife felt it too. Apparently I was happily dozing in my recliner about three feet from the Mrs., and did not feel even one tiny tremor.
I attempted to make this post around 6:30 this evening but the internet was down and out here in Trinidad.
Graves
08-22-2011, 21:56
Spyder... I might be down in Trinidad sometime this week! Not sure if i'll have time for a beer though.[Beer]


Well shit man, if you have time, let me know! Oh, and bring the Ferrari too. [Coffee]

I can see it already.

http://arrogantass.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/reunited-t2.jpg
Monky
08-22-2011, 22:12
I can see it already.

http://arrogantass.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/reunited-t2.jpg
Don't be jealous! [Coffee]
spyder
08-22-2011, 23:57
Well damnit, there was another one just a few minutes ago. My fan that I have perched above my bed (plastic little white one) shook enough to fall on my head and wake me. [Rant1] I figured out what makes them especially bad in this fucking house... All of the panneling is slightly loose so when it shakes, it sounds like someone is hitting the fucking walls all around you. [Mad] Ok, time to calm down the kids and go back to bed now...
theGinsue
08-23-2011, 00:04
About 10 minutes ago (~1155) something sorta shook me house (not bad, but I'm by the front window and it rattled enough to scare my cat [and me]...I went outside to see who was screwing with my house).
spyder
08-23-2011, 00:09
Well at least you felt it. The first time today when it happened I thought someone was backing a big truck into the side of my house. I didn't think for a second that it was something natural like that. I grabbed my 1911 and headed for the door. I put it down as soon as I saw the other neighbors standing out in the street wondering what the hell was going on also. Damn ginsue, I thought you would have given me a little warning about shit like this happening here![Beer][ROFL1]
theGinsue
08-23-2011, 00:15
Every time I look at our mountains I wonder about the seismic forces that made 'em heave up in the first place. Especially the Front Range. I sure don't want to be around for the next time!
Revelation 6:14 (NIV)
The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

Revelation 16:20 (New Living Translation)
And every island disappeared, and all the mountains were leveled.
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:20
i felt this second one, was kinda confused as to what happened now i know...thanks guys
lead_magnet
08-23-2011, 00:22
The wife and I felt two tonight, the second one was way stronger and lasted longer, lol...huh huh huh...longer....huh huh

Pretty cool.
spyder
08-23-2011, 00:23
i felt this second one, was kinda confused as to what happened now i know...thanks guys
I guess from what I have been reading, it was the third one in the last 24 hours and the worst at a 5.5. The first one was a 2.9 just before 8 in the morning (which we didn't feel), the second at 5:30 was a 4.6 which we did feel, and of course the one that dropped the damn fan on my head was a 5.5. What the friggen hell?
spyder
08-23-2011, 00:25
The wife and I felt two tonight, the second one was way stronger and lasted longer, lol...huh huh huh...longer....huh huh

Pretty cool.
I was sleeping part of the way through the second. It is kinda neat in a completely defenseless ride it out kinda way. Maybe I'm just tired...
theGinsue
08-23-2011, 00:26
Damn ginsue, I thought you would have given me a little warning about shit like this happening here![Beer][ROFL1]

I've lived here since '95 (with a 2.5 yr incarcerated in MA - okay, I was stationed there with the USAF, but it was against my will) and this is the first time I've ever noticed it.

I honestly thought someone was standing on the plant box outside my front window peaking in and fell into the window. Of course, none of my neighbors came to check things out. While I didn't exit the house with a gun, I did have my 120 lumen SureFire to check things out (last time I went outside with a flashlight and an ASP I was almost arrested for "felony menacing with a firearm".... notice how I never mentioned me having a firearm with me in that case? Because I DIDN'T!). Of course, I have a .45 just inside the door!
Faeleigh
08-23-2011, 00:26
Theres been 4 in the last 24 hours, Ive felt two of them so far being in Trinidad. Found this site.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/36.38.-106.-104.php

We've had the largest on here in the US in the last week. Creepy.
theGinsue
08-23-2011, 00:26
The wife and I felt two tonight, the second one was way stronger and lasted longer, lol...huh huh huh...longer....huh huh

Pretty cool.
Niiiiiiiice!
Irving
08-23-2011, 00:27
Spyder, I'm laughing so hard at the fan landing on your head while your house was clapping. I would have loved to have seen that on video.
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:29
Theres been 4 in the last 24 hours, Ive felt two of them so far being in Trinidad. Found this site.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/36.38.-106.-104.php

We've had the largest on here in the US in the last week. Creepy.

nice the best at something
spyder
08-23-2011, 00:32
Spyder, I'm laughing so hard at the fan landing on your head while your house was clapping. I would have loved to have seen that on video.
Nice way to look at it stu! [ROFL1]
spyder
08-23-2011, 00:34
So, any takers on if it's going to happen again? Ah shit, a glass fell off the counter... K, I'm going to go clean it up and then get my ass to bed, classes in the morning...
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:35
Spyder, I'm laughing so hard at the fan landing on your head while your house was clapping. I would have loved to have seen that on video.

now that a good description of it[ROFL2]
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:37
So, any takers on if it's going to happen again? Ah shit, a glass fell off the counter... K, I'm going to go clean it up and then get my ass to bed, classes in the morning...

have fun goin to class
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:37
i will go with a guess of no...because that has the higher odds
theGinsue
08-23-2011, 00:39
I'm going with a guess of yes...at least a few more!
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:43
well unless they are big-ish like the last one i bet i dont feel it
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 00:50
I'm going with a guess of yes...at least a few more!

i thought about going that way but well i didnt[Beer]
Sharpienads
08-23-2011, 05:38
Ok, time to calm down the kids and go back to bed now...

An earthquake strikes in your area. Quick, what do you do?

A) Go back to bed

B) Make sure your family is OK

C) Post a rant on CO AR-15 Forum about how the quake knocked your fan from its perch which subsequently hit your head, make sure your family is ok, and then go back to bed.

And the correct answer is....

[Abused]
BPTactical
08-23-2011, 05:51
well unless they are big-ish like the last one i bet i dont feel it

This statement has so much potential........................... [Muaha]
patrick0685
08-23-2011, 05:58
Sometimes its like slow pitch you just throw it up there and see what happens
Bailey Guns
08-23-2011, 06:06
That's pretty dangerous with this crowd...
SAnd
08-23-2011, 11:59
Have one of you guys down there been dumping stuff down a well lately?
spyder
08-23-2011, 12:26
An earthquake strikes in your area. Quick, what do you do?

A) Go back to bed

B) Make sure your family is OK

C) Post a rant on CO AR-15 Forum about how the quake knocked your fan from its perch which subsequently hit your head, make sure your family is ok, and then go back to bed.

And the correct answer is....

[Abused]
It's a good thing you are only talking about the second quake and the possible answers and not the first also...

D) Grab a gun and ready yourself for a confrontation with whatever is outside your house trying to shake it to its foundation while your family is in it (not knowing it's an earthquake).
Gunner
08-23-2011, 12:35
I felt nothing and I'm on the south side of pueblo
spyder
08-23-2011, 12:37
That's because you're too tall. If you were closer to the ground like the rest of us, you would have felt it.
Mobat555
08-23-2011, 12:47
Seems like it hit many places (http://gizmodo.com/5833640/earthquakes-shake-entire-united-states) in the US.
SuperiorDG
08-23-2011, 12:54
Just got a call from my Mom in North Carolina. Her house was shaken by the quake and my uncle lost some China. Strange day indeed. Is 2012 or what?[Help]
sniper7
08-23-2011, 13:43
BOT- want to see something scary? Look at a USGS fault map of Colorado, it looks like a broken windshield.

is that why we get some many cracked windshields here?
sniper7
08-23-2011, 13:45
well unless they are big-ish like the last one i bet i dont feel it

I imagined your avatar saying that[ROFL1]
trlcavscout
08-23-2011, 14:50
Just got a call from my Mom in North Carolina. Her house was shaken by the quake and my uncle lost some China. Strange day indeed. Is 2012 or what?[Help]


I thought we had till like dec 21 2012 [Bang]
generalmeow
08-23-2011, 15:42
About 2:00PM yesterday I got a weird nausea and pressure in my head, out of nowhere. I hadn't ever felt anything like it before. I could function 100% but I just didn't feel right. Little bit dizzy. I had it all night.

Woke up this morning and it was gone. Now I'm wondering if I have some sort of built in early warning system.
tmleadr03
08-23-2011, 16:43
My wife told me she felt the earthquake.



Of course she is in VA at the moment.
Mtn.man
08-23-2011, 18:47
I heard that it spilled 3 beers and turned over a lawn chair.
DSB OUTDOORS
08-23-2011, 19:31
I heard that it spilled 3 beers and turned over a lawn chair.
NOOOOOO? Thats beer abuse and someone should be held accountable!![Rant2] [Beer]
Scanker19
08-23-2011, 20:52
I heard that it spilled 3 beers and turned over a lawn chair.

http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy123/jordanls19/5e743937.jpg
BPTactical
08-23-2011, 21:03
http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy123/jordanls19/5e743937.jpg


Now that is funny......................
spyder
08-23-2011, 22:14
I heard that it spilled 3 beers and turned over a lawn chair.
Don't forget that the late one dropped a fan on my head. [Beer]
Gunner
08-23-2011, 22:15
Ha I can't believe I fan fell on you!
Gcompact30
08-23-2011, 22:17
But I thought I felt something but can't be for sure......it could have bee a dream.....
spyder
08-23-2011, 22:20
Ha I can't believe I fan fell on you!
Your post kinda scares me a little gunner... [ROFL1] put the bad thoughts out...
spyder
08-23-2011, 22:25
Don't forget that the late one dropped a fan on my head. [Beer]
This is what I looked like after...
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlB6uGEaH9kZYPmRrPRdaPeWQKWLiip rdv7R9I0_v-Cju4o7Q-
It hurt, it really friggen hurt...