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?
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i was able to split this thread with the power of my mind
can you put it back together now?
i felt a 5.4 earthquake from 300 miles away in april 2008
but that’s over 1000 times stronger than your 1.8 so maybe you do have a special power
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
oh nm
5.4–1.8=3.6
10^3.6=3,981
the earthquake i felt was 3,981 times stronger (in amplitude) than the one jergins felt.
u r smart
doing these calculations is in the same category of behaviour as cleaning the shower grouting with a toothbrush to avoid studying.
u figured me out u_u
it made 251,188.643 times more energy than jergins’s quake too
*retort re: torts*
my sister just had an earthquake shake at her apartment!!
hmm i didn’t feel it
i made my car horn honk with my MIND
it wouldn’t stop, 15 seconds or so, freaked me the fuck out. i kept looking at the wheel, my hands above it
dumdum prius driver deserved a honk but not like -that-
was it telling you something in code?
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