Do I have a special power or was it a coincidence?

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On Saturday night I went to bed downstairs, instead of my usual upstairs room, because it was so cold that night. I slept soundly through the night until 5:30 a.m., when what I immediately thought was an earthquake woke me. It was short-only a few seconds, less of an earthquake and more of the earth readjusting itself-and it didn't wake my roommate. I got up and washed my face and looked around and checked the clock, 5:34 a.m., then went back to sleep.

When Lxy woke me at 10 the first thing I told her was that I thought I'd felt an earthquake, around 5:30. I jumped in the shower and she got online. When I got out she showed me this:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/uw12171317.php#details

Okay, I live in Seattle, at least 80 miles away from this, and it was a 1.8, micro, and almost 8 miles deep.

I've always felt a hippy's love for the earth's crust, and after two years in Japan feel pretty highly attuned to earthquakes. One more note, not that I really believe in this stuff: my family has a house less than 5 miles from the epicenter (none of them were there at the time).

Is it possible that I felt this? And I woke up about 15 minutes after it occurred. How fast do these things travel? Amazing atttenuation or a sucker for coincidences?

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

― lxy, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link

i was able to split this thread with the power of my mind

― jergins, Monday, 3 November 2008 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

can you put it back together now?

― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link

i felt a 5.4 earthquake from 300 miles away in april 2008

― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link

but that's over 1000 times stronger than your 1.8 so maybe you do have a special power

― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link

i was thinkin baout this just now. it's way more than 1000 times right? u would have to use logs to figure it out though and i forgot how

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link

oh nm

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link

5.4-1.8=3.6
10^3.6=3,981

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link

the earthquake i felt was 3,981 times stronger (in amplitude) than the one jergins felt.

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link

u r smart

― te,he (tehresa), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link

doing these calculations is in the same category of behaviour as cleaning the shower grouting with a toothbrush to avoid studying.

― estela, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link

u figured me out u_u

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link

it made 251,188.643 times more energy than jergins's quake too

― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link

*retort re: torts*

― estela, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

my sister just had an earthquake shake at her apartment!!

― te,he (tehresa), Friday, 24 July 2009 05:19 (fifteen years ago) link

hmm i didn't feel it

― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 24 July 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

i made my car horn honk with my MIND

― jergins, Friday, 14 May 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link

it wouldn't stop, 15 seconds or so, freaked me the fuck out. i kept looking at the wheel, my hands above it

― jergins, Friday, 14 May 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link

dumdum prius driver deserved a honk but not like -that-

― jergins, Friday, 14 May 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link

was it telling you something in code?

― jaq, Friday, 14 May 2010 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link

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― unregistered, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link

..-. ..- -.-. -.- -.-- --- ..- .- ... ... .... --- .-.. . .. -.. .-. .. ...- . --- -. . - --- ---

― jaq, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:12 (fourteen years ago) link

-.. .- -- -. --..-- / ... --- -.

― unregistered, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link

.-- .. - .... -- -.-- -- .. -. -.. .... .- .... .- .... .- .... .-

― jaq, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link

i thought something was wrong with my browser so i scrolled over that code and scrolled back then i realized

― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 14 May 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link

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