My first earthquake

[sue71]

Ok, so we just had an earthquake in LA (I'm downtown). MSNBC is reporting a 5.6 magnitude. It was rolling pretty good (no damage/injuries in my office) and a bit freaky for this Jersey Girl. Everyone in LA/SoCal ok?

Sue71

[CameronBornAndBred]

My first earthquake


Three words I never hope to say.

Glad your fine.

[TillyGalore]

Ok, so we just had an earthquake in LA (I'm downtown). MSNBC is reporting a 5.6 magnitude. It was rolling pretty good (no damage/injuries in my office) and a bit freaky for this Jersey Girl. Everyone in LA/SoCal ok?

Sue71

Are you okay?

[tommy]

Ok, so we just had an earthquake in LA (I'm downtown). MSNBC is reporting a 5.6 magnitude. It was rolling pretty good (no damage/injuries in my office) and a bit freaky for this Jersey Girl. Everyone in LA/SoCal ok?

Sue71

I'm downtown too. Our building is on rollers, so we felt it pretty good up high. It was one big jolt followed by 30 seconds or so of rolling. Not that bad for earthquake vets but scary for the newbies. We were due, and it's good when we get these, so long as nobody is hurt of course, as it is thought to extend the time until TBO hits, as it relieves pressure. Supposedly.

[77devil]

Ok, so we just had an earthquake in LA (I'm downtown). MSNBC is reporting a 5.6 magnitude. It was rolling pretty good (no damage/injuries in my office) and a bit freaky for this Jersey Girl. Everyone in LA/SoCal ok?

Sue71

Welcome to the club. Glad your ok. When you wake up in the morning and notice that all the pictures hanging crooked on the wall, that's freaky.

[EarlJam]

Wow. Watching on the news now.

I echo everyone else's thoughts: GLAD YOU ARE OKAY!

-EarlJam

[DukieInKansas]

Glad to hear that you are all ok. I hope the other Dbr folks in CA are fine also. You never forget your first earthquake.

[Bob Green]

Earthquakes are scary no matter how many you've experienced. Hopefully, everyone is okay and this little one let off a lot of pressure.

[sue71]

We're all fine here. Native Californians were amused by it. I was a little shaken up (literally & figuratively). It was more of a rolling quake where I am. But like I said, no damage or injuries. Just my "initiation" I suppose.

[Fish80]

Glad that you are okay. And I can't resist . . .

"I felt the earth move under my feet
I felt the sky come tumbling down . . ."

[wilson]

I'm actually sort of jealous. I want to experience a moderate one, if only to say that I have. I remember my mother calling me one day during my junior year at Duke to inform me that there had been a noticeable quake in the Atlanta area, and I was genuinely sorry I missed it. She also told me that, like lots of people say, her dogs really did freak out throughout the several hours before the tremor.

I am not glad your OK (your OK what?;)). I am, however, glad you're OK. The Grammar Police have several citations to issue in response to this thread alone.

[2535Miles]

I'm actually sort of jealous. I want to experience a moderate one, if only to say that I have. I remember my mother calling me one day during my junior year at Duke to inform me that there had been a noticeable quake in the Atlanta area, and I was genuinely sorry I missed it. She also told me that, like lots of people say, her dogs really did freak out throughout the several hours before the tremor.

I am not glad your OK (your OK what?;)). I am, however, glad you're OK. The Grammar Police have several citations to issue in response to this thread alone.
San Diego is your place wilson! I felt the quake in my office in Carlsbad, about 80 miles south of the epicenter. We got a good jolt and then 20 seconds of walls, desk shaking; my chair even rolled a smidge. I told Sue this was my third (of this magnitude) in four years.

[wilson]

San Diego is your place wilson! I felt the quake in my office in Carlsbad, about 80 miles south of the epicenter. We got a good jolt and then 20 seconds of walls, desk shaking; my chair even rolled a smidge. I told Sue this was my third (of this magnitude) in four years.

Wow! You're 3rd quake in 4 years? I'm sure your getting to feel like they're just another day at the office. Your lucky to have so much action in you're place of work. I'm glad your not injured, and I hope that you're family members are likewise safe.

[hc5duke]

I'm actually sort of jealous. I want to experience a moderate one, if only to say that I have. I remember my mother calling me one day during my junior year at Duke to inform me that there had been a noticeable quake in the Atlanta area, and I was genuinely sorry I missed it. She also told me that, like lots of people say, her dogs really did freak out throughout the several hours before the tremor.

I am not glad your OK (your OK what?;)). I am, however, glad you're OK. The Grammar Police have several citations to issue in response to this thread alone.

I've been in the bay area for ~1.5 years now. There have been about 3 quakes that I'm apparently supposed to have felt, but didn't feel any of them. My wife swears she's felt 2 of them, so maybe it's about time I lost some weight...

[2535Miles]

I'm glad your not injured, and I hope that you're family members are likewise safe.
That made me smile (emphasis added).
We get a few every year that make the windows rattle, really no worse than say a dump truck screaming past your window at 60 mph. The really scary one was a few months after the big tsunami hit. There was an earthquake off shore of San Diego, strong enough to shake windows and dishes in the cabinets, and the local media/weather service freaked and issued a tsunami advisory. Not cool.

[wilson]

That made me smile (emphasis added).


Well, I'm glad that at least your picking up on my sarcasm if nobody else is. I appreciate you're acknowledgement. Some of the posts in this thread are making me cringe.

[Lavabe]

Wow! You're 3rd quake in 4 years? I'm sure your getting to feel like they're just another day at the office. Your lucky to have so much action in you're place of work. I'm glad your not injured, and I hope that you're family members are likewise safe.

Wow! William Safire's Gotcha Gang is alive and well!!

[wilson]

Wow! William Safire's Gotcha Gang is alive and well!!

Thank you, Lav. It's always good to have at least one other died-in-the-wool nerd around. I'm glad your one of them.

[2535Miles]

Well, I'm glad that at least your picking up on my sarcasm if nobody else is. I appreciate you're acknowledgement. Some of the posts in this thread are making me cringe.
I offered to pay a coworker for each correct time he uses "your" and "you're" in an e-mail and/or chat. He refused. I guess it's just too hard of a habit to break.

[wilson]

I offered to pay a coworker for each correct time he uses "your" and "you're" in an e-mail and/or chat. He refused. I guess it's just too hard of a habit to break.

No, it's not a habit. It's a matter of speaking the language properly. I can not stress this enough (and no, "cannot" is not a word). My students will always lose points for transposing words like your/you're and their/their/they're. Period.
And I dare anyone to ever hand in a paper to me containing the word "ur". As in, "ur shirt is nice."

[Fish80]

No, it's not a habit. It's a matter of speaking the language properly. I can not stress this enough (and no, "cannot" is not a word). My students will always lose points for transposing words like your/you're and their/their/they're. Period.
And I dare anyone to ever hand in a paper to me containing the word "ur". As in, "ur shirt is nice."

According to Wiki, "Ur" was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia . . . :D :D

I'm not sure if the people of Ur wore what we consider shirts, but if they did would they be Ur shirts? :D :D

[DukieInKansas]

Wilson - you made me go back and check my post to be sure that I had my your and you're correct. I think I passed. Whew! ;)

[Lavabe]

No, it's not a habit. It's a matter of speaking the language properly. I can not stress this enough (and no, "cannot" is not a word). My students will always lose points for transposing words like your/you're and their/their/they're. Period.
And I dare anyone to ever hand in a paper to me containing the word "ur". As in, "ur shirt is nice."

Depending on your style guide and dictionary, "cannot" exists. For example, see Webster's New World College (4th ed). I believe Grammar Girl had a segment on it. Then again, I don't give in on split infinitives, but many grammarians say it's perfectly fine.

Likewise, "publicly" is the preferred spelling in Webster's New World; I have also found some dictionaries that allow your use of "publically."

Have fun grading the its/it's at Emory!!

Cheers,
Lavabe

P.S. Fish80: Emory's Carlos Museum had an exhibit of the treasures from Ur.

[rasputin]

That made me smile (emphasis added).
We get a few every year that make the windows rattle, really no worse than say a dump truck screaming past your window at 60 mph. The really scary one was a few months after the big tsunami hit. There was an earthquake off shore of San Diego, strong enough to shake windows and dishes in the cabinets, and the local media/weather service freaked and issued a tsunami advisory. Not cool.

That wasn't a dump truck, it was a series of tubes.;)

[hc5duke]

No, it's not a habit. It's a matter of speaking the language properly. I can not stress this enough (and no, "cannot" is not a word). My students will always lose points for transposing words like your/you're and their/their/they're. Period.
And I dare anyone to ever hand in a paper to me containing the word "ur". As in, "ur shirt is nice."

not sure if you're joking, but I've always learned that "can not" is incorrect (or less preferred), and it should always be written as "cannot"

[Johnboy]

"cannot" is not a word

This is the first time I have ever heard anyone claim this. I think you're wrong about it, but I'd love to hear your explanation as to how or why "cannot" isn't a word. Isnot, maynot and couldnot I agree are not words. Yet I have never heard anyone (or is it any one?) make this claim. Google a bit and you will find yourself in the minority on this one - and "cannot" apparently dates from the twelfth century (scroll to last comment) (http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000876.php)- so it's an old word.

Ur is the city (http://www.bibleandscience.com/bible/books/genesis/ur.htm) where Abraham was born.

[Fish80]

not sure if you're joking, but I've always learned that "can not" is incorrect (or less preferred), and it should always be written as "cannot"

Both "can not" and "cannot" should be banished from our lexicon. :mad:

We are DBR. We are "can" people. :D

Yes we can! :eek:

[rsvman]

Sorry to threadjack the established grammar threadjack, but on the subject of earthquakes, I have been in so many that I remember at one time being mostly annoyed because I was trying to write a letter and it made it hard to write!

I lived in Japan for almost three years. They have tons of quakes. Only two of them scared me severely. In one, I was on a platform at a train station. The plaster from the overhang was falling down like a gentle snowfall as the platform moved what seemed to be 3 feet in one direction, then back again. Finally, a sign about 10 feet wide by 6 feet tall and about 9 inches thick came off its moorings and crashed down onto the platform, sending up the plaster in tidal waves on all sides. Shortly thereafter, the shaking stopped. It was deathly silent for what seemed an eternity.

On another occasion, I was working in the nursery at a hospital in Tokyo, in a room easily 20 feet tall, located on about the 14th floor of a big building. One entire wall was nothing but plate glass windows. When the quake began, all I could see in my mind's eye was the glass raining down on the newborn babies in their bassinets. I pushed as many as possible together and then draped my body over them to the best of my ability and waited for the shards. The windows made lots of noise, but held up, and the shaking eventually stopped.

[sue71]

Almost forgot, thanks to everyone for the thoughts!

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

I am not glad your OK (your OK what?;)). I am, however, glad you're OK. The Grammar Police have several citations to issue in response to this thread alone.

You're my hero, Wilson.
Love, Ima

[billybreen]

This thread is just asking for a throatyquake.

[JulesInLA]

We were rockin' and rollin' here too! Nothing broken or damaged, and all is well.

...sure has scared those folks coming into town on Friday though!

[DukePA]

I'm glad everyone is okay. How about you DukeMomLA?

[wilson]

I suppose I stand corrected on "cannot," but I have had multiple English instructors over the years tell me to avoid it like the plague. At the very least, it's an either/or kind of situation.
But "your" never right when you compose sentences like this.

[hc5duke]

I suppose I stand corrected on "cannot," but I have had multiple English instructors over the years tell me to avoid it like the plague. At the very least, it's an either/or kind of situation.
But "your" never right when you compose sentences like this.

ur just jealous u don tlk like, idk, my bff jill? ㅋㅋㅋ

(/hijack) Supposedly people could feel the quake in San Diego, and as far away as Vegas... crazy stuff. While we're in Nevada, have those quakes in Reno from earlier this year stopped? I'm wondering if those could be related, but since I know nothing about seismology and geology, that could be a really stupid question.

[cato]

ur just jealous u don tlk like, idk, my bff jill? ㅋㅋㅋ

(/hijack) Supposedly people could feel the quake in San Diego, and as far away as Vegas... crazy stuff. While we're in Nevada, have those quakes in Reno from earlier this year stopped? I'm wondering if those could be related, but since I know nothing about seismology and geology, that could be a really stupid question.

Yes, you could feel it quite distinctly in San Diego. Here's a very helpful website (http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/) that I go to whenever I feel a quake/tremor. It may have an answer on the activity in Reno. That said, I suspect that there would be little to no connection, since the faults are very far apart from each other.

[2535Miles]

ur just jealous u don tlk like, idk, my bff jill? ㅋㅋㅋ

(/hijack) Supposedly people could feel the quake in San Diego, and as far away as Vegas... crazy stuff. While we're in Nevada, have those quakes in Reno from earlier this year stopped? I'm wondering if those could be related, but since I know nothing about seismology and geology, that could be a really stupid question.
Definitely was felt in San Diego. I was in Carlsbad and it shook my office chair with me in it, that's quite an amazing feet! :D I also have a friend that works downtown and she felt it too. Fun day!

[JulesInLA]

... it shook my office chair with me in it, that's quite an amazing feet! :D

Ha! Good one!

...that was intentional...right?

[emphasis added]

[Fish80]

I'm listening to an investor call, and the CEO just said " . . .this remains a top priority for myself as well as the rest of the management team . . ."

I'm a numbers guy, but it seems better to say ". . . a top priority for me". Was his use of "myself" incorrect? :confused:

Appreciate ur thoughts, wherever ur at. :D

[HaveFunExpectToWin]

My sister-in-law lives in LA and reported that she didn't have any damage to her place. She did note the amusing comments in the LA Times.com story on the quake. People wrote things like, "I felt it as I woke up"... or "it shook me out of bed." Keep in mind it happened at 11:42 a.m.

[dukemomLA]

This wasn't an EARTHQUAKE that mattered an iota. It was a drop in the bucket, a piece of cake.

A 5.4 is just a little rock'n'roll. No property damage anywhere, no lives lost, perhaps a painting or two needing re-adjustment on the walls.

Should this even have made the news either locally or farther afield? NOT.

Ridiculous! Give me a great 6.0, or even bet a 7 -- and then we can talk.

It was interesting here in SoCal that "news" of the "quake" was reported non-stop on most channels for hours. Must have been a slow new day.

[Lavabe]

It was interesting here in SoCal that "news" of the "quake" was reported non-stop on most channels for hours. Must have been a slow new day.

You mean there weren't any celebrity/police car chases?

You mean Andruw Jones didn't hit a single?

You mean Manny wasn't being Manny?

Cheers,
Lavabe

[77devil]

This wasn't an EARTHQUAKE that mattered an iota. It was a drop in the bucket, a piece of cake.

A 5.4 is just a little rock'n'roll. No property damage anywhere, no lives lost, perhaps a painting or two needing re-adjustment on the walls.

Should this even have made the news either locally or farther afield? NOT.

Ridiculous! Give me a great 6.0, or even bet a 7 -- and then we can talk.

It was interesting here in SoCal that "news" of the "quake" was reported non-stop on most channels for hours. Must have been a slow new day.

I hope you are joking because I've been in a near 7.0 in the Bay Area and no way would I want to experience it again

[dukemomLA]

Dear Devil 77,

I apologize for listing a 7.0 quake, or something near that in my earlier post. I was also in SanFran (attending a SF Giants baseball game) when that quake occurred. And yes, quite scary.

The Northridge Quake in L.A. also caused much damage. The water in the pool sent many gallons of water into my house. Such 'fun' and lots of mold to follow. Stupid me for leaving the back sliding doors open at night. And my morning visit to our ice company yielded surprising results as they were giving away bags of cubes and block of ice free-of-charge. My power was restored even before I returned from my "Ice trip" but it allowed me the opportunity to supply ice the many friends who weren't so lucky.

But again a 5.4 should not have merited hours of media coverage. No loss of life and no damage to property.

I hereby lower my past estimate of scary quakes: Let's settle upon a 5.9 or above.

[devildeac]

Wow! You're 3rd quake in 4 years? I'm sure your getting to feel like they're just another day at the office. Your lucky to have so much action in you're place of work. I'm glad your not injured, and I hope that you're family members are likewise safe.

speaking of the grammar police...;)