OK Earthquake 2011

I'm not THE Bubba Fernandez, but that's probably the funniest name ever.

I've lived in OK (Tulsa thereabouts) for a few decades now and I can say I've never once actually felt an earthquake here. Common knowledge (whatever that's worth) is that OK doesn't "get" earthquakes. I certainly thought as much, considering the one a few days ago as strange as a tornado ripping through Hollywood. I guess there's lots of "little" quakes but I imagine most of them only show up on highly sensitive equipment. Not this one, I felt that sucker. I actually thought it was a huge burst of wind at first, because again, I never think "earthquake" when something shakes. Maybe the ones you can actually feel happen more often in OKC?

This guy is the best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXjK0jMeWY&feature=player_embedded

I was in the bath tub.

My only reaction was to roll my eyes and think "Oh great. Dead, wet and naked under several tons of brick and busted two by fours."

At least it was not a tornado, right? As a native Alabamian, I have been through one earthquake, which was something like a 4.9 or another. I slept through the damn thing. I imagine my response to one would be much like the guy in the video above me.

The one that hit Illinois a few years ago also had me thinking "tornado!" I'm only used to hearing building rattles and creaks from high winds. Which is still our bigger risk out here; use wind-resistant construction and build tornado saferooms, folks!

I hope Arnie wasn't rattled for long.

It isn't that only the west coast gets earthquakes; we just get LOTS of them, and everybody else only gets a few. That's "few" on a geologic time scale, not a human scale. Don't doubt that you don't have lots of faults; it's just that they aren't inspired to move very often.

Killer quakes (which a 5.6 is not) are possible away from the west coast. They're inevitable on the west coast.

Abbie, sorry I was trying to rock your world. That new lipstick drove me crazy!

Any ideas on the PGAs? (I.e. idea of what the shaking was like)

Christchurch is my hometown. Don't live there now, but I was near the centre of the Boxing Day aftershock so I've a bit of an idea. That was on the smaller end of the bigger aftershocks they've had, but it still ripped all the ceiling lighting out of the shop I was in.

At least Arnie didn't go walkabout. That has apparently been one of the themes of the atershocks in Christchurch - some pets, some dogs in particular, seem to take off and take a while to return home.

Big, scary, "dangerous breed" dog hiding under the covers, hehehehe.

Glad you survived. We had a little earthquake (m4.6) here in North GA about eight years ago, which was a first for pretty much everybody. I was very interested in the way people reacted to it, and noticed a distinct difference between males and females - males tended to notice it and be frightened by it, while females mostly slept through it (happened about 5:00 am local time) - I hope I am not making a "sexist" observation. It scared the heck out of me, with my entire house making popping and creaking sounds and my bed (which I was laying in) sliding around a little.

Abbie might want to consider what Tori Amos was talking about when she named her first solo album "Little Earthquakes".

So, what youre saying is ERV wont need no c-section.