"Oh really yeah no fake? We kind of had that feeling when the ground began to shake!"
But animaniacs songs aside...
We had an earthquake here last night. A couple minutes before midnight a 4.1 earthquake hit centered just 14 miles north east of here. I was lying in bed, listening to the final chapter of harry potter and the order of the phoenix when I hear a noise that sounded kinda like a jet approaching, then BOOM! it was enough to shake me back and forth in the bed. I jumped up and went and looked out the windows, because at first I thought it might be a sonic boom from a jet... then I realized I'd heard the "jet" before the boom, and that doesn't happen. Anyway, once I realized it was a quake... Awesome! Just thinking about how much energy is release in even a smaller one like this. I mean, enough that a 30 mile area of granite bounced around like that. Rock! :-)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/usdrad.htm
QuoteA QUAKE! A QUAKE! from the Yakko's World album
Music and lyrics by Randy Rogel.
Music adapted from The Happy Farmer by Robert Schumann.
Yakko: It's a quiet, peaceful night
The moon is shining bright
Giving not a hint of what's in store
A few hours before morning
Without a single warning
Something strange begins to move the floor
A quake, a quake
The house begins to shake
You're bouncing 'cross the floor
And watching all your dishes break
You're sleeping; there's a quake
You're instantly awake
You're leaping out of bed
And shouting "Oh for heaven's sake!"
I ran outside with neighbors
Their faces full of shocks
That's because I'm standing there
In nothing but my socks
W+D : Oops!
Yakko: A quake, a quake
This must be a mistake
Just feel the ground
Go up and down
Won't someone hit the brake?
A quake, a quake
Oh, what a mess they make
The bricks, the walls
The chimney falls
Destruction in its wake
I did not have insurance
I called them from the scene
And suddenly I'm listening
To an answering machine
Say "Too late, too late
You shouldn't ought to wait
'Cause now you're stuck
We wish you luck
Here comes a six-point-eight!"
Whose fault, whose fault?
Blame it on the fault
'Cause Mister Richter
Can't predict her
Kicking our asphalt
Seismologists all say
Tectonic plates are in between
An encroaching crustal mantle
Yeah, so what the heck's that mean?
It means a quake, a quake
W+D : Oh really, yeah, no fake?
We kind of had that feeling
When the ground began to shake
Yakko: And so we wait
Resign ourselves to fate
Because our lawn
Is sitting on
A continental plate
We shivered through a blizzard
Went swimming in a flood
Then we blew off a hurricane
And now we hear a thud
Of a quake, a quake
How much more can we take?
We thought that we had seen it all
But this one takes the cake
The dirt, the rocks
Those crazy aftershocks
It's just the planet
Moving granite
Several city blocks
*YW+D: Now the town is falling down
* While the ground
* Moves around
* We won't let it get us down
* Get beneath the door frame
Yakko: A quake, a quake
It's time to pull up stake
Dot : The worst is over
Y+W : We don't buy it
We're fed up
We can't deny it
We just want some peace and quiet
YW+D : So we're moving to Beirut!
* - sung to "London Bridge"
I had to hit Quote to read your post.
Quakes are awesome. You get tossed around and there is nothing you can do about is. A real E ticket ride.
Xeph, you rock.
There was a quake here once... well, not here, up slightly north near Richmond (I live near Raleigh, North Carolina). Couldn't exactly figure out what had happened (I was sitting in a tech class when it shook and a few mice fell off desks) until the news came on that night talking about the earthquake.
I got so excited when I learned that we're due for an earthquake around here. My roommate thinks I'm nuts cuz I want to experience one.
my family moved out of san fransisco in 1987... so my parents knew all about earthquakes and such.
when the '88 world series game got cut off (or was it '89? it was one of the two) because the tv screen told us, "there's been a minor quake," both parents knew it couldn't just be minor... no san fransisco ballpark's electronic system would be rendered unable to transmit signals because of a "minor" quake.
also, fun fact few people know about earthquakes: the scale they use? it's logarithmic, not linear. a 6.0 quake is a full ten times bigger than a 5.0, and a 9.0 is ten times bigger than an 8.0. the tsunami last year was 9.1.
*the more you know*
Bahahaha, I totally heard the theme music too!