6.3 Magnitude Earthquake by Nevada / Utah border.

Pt314 · Senior Member

6.3 Magnitude Earthquake by Nevada / Utah border.

Duke of Mirth · Profuse Pontificator

That is a huge earthquake even by California standards. I hope everyone is ok.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I didn't feel anything either. But the kids sure slept lousy last night.

Just what I've heard on the radio some buildings were damaged and a truckstop was evacuated for precautionary reasons, in case of a gas leak.

LoudmouthMormon · Profuse Pontificator

Ahh, Wells. Just a bit further than Wendover, which has the closest casinos to the poor downtrodden gamblers forced to live in SLC. I spent much time in the lobbies of those casinos, sitting on a barstool, watching my dad at the craps table, and learning the art of looking sad so coctail waitresses would have pity on me and give me free coke. It sounds very Oliver Twistish, but I had a lot of fun on those trips.

Well, I trust the overnight guests were all in their rooms resting up from the previous night's labors. For the early risers, I suppose the worst thing that befell any of them was a power outage that ruined a winning streak, or maybe having to watch their drink fall off the little shelf of the slot machine. A brief rise in the normal levels of profanity, quickly forgotten.

LM
[waxing nostalgic - what better way to celebrate 300 posts?]

-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 10:06, 2008-02-21

Jen · Senior Bucketkeeper

Downgraded to 6.0. Looks like there's a good amount of damage, but our news isn't reporting any major injuries. Could have been a lot worse!

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

*filling up more sprite bottles with H2O*

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

dilbert felt it at work. I didn't, durn it. Earthquakes are fun. Kinda.

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

Very near the Wine Cup Ranch where we once were part owners.

arbilad · Head Chef

I experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake in California almost 20 years ago now. So, after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake everything else feels like kid's stuff.
Granted, buildings in California are earthquake hardened, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. And We were luckier than most. We had power on almost immediately and telephone soon after that. Still, I'll never forget that feeling, of everything shaking around you, seeking shelter under a sturdy object, etc.

Duke of Mirth · Profuse Pontificator

arbilad wrote:

I experienced the Loma Prieta earthquake in California almost 20 years ago now. So, after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake everything else feels like kid's stuff.
Granted, buildings in California are earthquake hardened, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. And We were luckier than most. We had power on almost immediately and telephone soon after that. Still, I'll never forget that feeling, of everything shaking around you, seeking shelter under a sturdy object, etc.

That was a pretty good one. I was watching the world series on T.V. when it happened. When the freeways colapsed and the Bay Bridge I could hardly believe it. The one that happened in the Los Angeles area a few years later was really bad too with freeways colapsing along with buildings. We had one in a part of our stake back in the 80s that was pretty bad. http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_mode=exact&selection=Coalinga+Earthquake+1983%7CCoalinga%7CEarthquake%7C1983

1000 people in the town were left homeless and this was not a very big town. Law enforcement closed down the town and people could not get in our out. It was pretty scarry. No phones, no power, and many people could not go into their homes. The power company's substation crumbled and collapsed. http://www.seismo-watch.com/EQSERVICES/NotableEQ/May/0502.Coalinga.html

It happened in the late afternoon so I can only imagine the fear and anxiety people must have felt as the sun went down and the city was completly dark, no communications, and over 1000 people without their homes and severe damage to many of the others.

arbilad · Head Chef

I remember reading in the paper not too long after that earthquake about how Jose Canseco, one of the players in the World Series, was really put out because driving home from the stadium he could only find an open self serve gas station and he had to pump his own gas. And I remember thinking that that was pretty arrogant. A lot of people went through a lot worse in that than having to pump their own gas.
My mom left work early that day. Which is good because if she had left at her normal time she would have been on the Bay Bridge when it collapsed.