My first earthquake [Archive] - The Shania Forums

Hardy

11-02-2007, 8:15pm

ShaniaKoukla

11-02-2007, 8:17pm

Hmm well I'm glad I have never experienced an earthquake. Glad you are okay. I can't think of anything I've added to my life this week besides a lot more doughnuts in my stomach LOL

SevenUp!

11-02-2007, 8:31pm

Never been through an earthquake up here....awake or otherwise!! :p

I have nothing to say about what was added to my life this week.

kathrynag

11-02-2007, 8:34pm

Hmmm....
The new thing for me this week was going to a haunted bridge on Halloween and later finding out that the ghost may have actually been there.

Paul

11-02-2007, 8:36pm

We don't get many here in the UK, but one night I was lying in bed and there was a cracking noise from the roof and I felt really really strange...like something wasn't right but I couldn't think what it was, I can't describe it. Then on the news the next day there had been an earthquake at the same time. It was such a strange feeling, nothing shook where we were but there was this feeling of unease, like my brain knew something wasn't right...I can't imagine being in a big full scale quake, must be terrifying.

Troll

11-02-2007, 10:26pm

That is interesting Hardy.

goinUP

11-02-2007, 10:36pm

This week, I went parachuting from an airplane and landed in a tree.

I'm lying!

:p

shadowita

11-02-2007, 10:43pm

I was 7 years old when I had my first earthquake.
I was in Pordenone, Friuli (Italian region).
6 May 1976.
The earthquake was magnitude 10 of Mercalli scale.
Very desctructive.
Fortunately me, my family and my parents were all safe.
Just few damamages.
But a lot of fear!
What I made this week that I had never done before?!?
Im replying to a superstar! :D:p

StarryShania

11-03-2007, 12:02am

Hi Hardy !

I myself have never experienced an earthquake, and am glad too. I think it'd be pretty scary. I'm glad that you and everyone is okay and that it didn't do any damage.

I don't think I have added anything this week to my life that I never have done. I'll get back to you on it.

shania megafan

11-05-2007, 5:56am

Oh, I'm glad to hear you're okay Hardy. I've experienced an earthquake a few times, even though we don't get so many of them in Rome. When it happened I was a kid and I got really scared, and this stayed with me. I'm now so scared of earthquakes!

ELEANOR MAW

11-05-2007, 9:26am

When I was eighteen I went on holiday to Rome with my Husband, when we got up one morning in the hotel the electricity was out and there where a few things that had fallen on the floor overnight, there was also a big crack on the patio outside the hotel, I felt a little freaked out that we had a small earthquake overnight.

tonyme

11-07-2007, 4:53pm

I experienced one when I was a child... Can't remember how it felt... But more recent earthquakes occurred while I was in the car

Jasmin

11-08-2007, 7:30am

Hi Hardy! Earthquakes are scary! I´ve experienced one before...the funny thing is that I just came home from L.A. a few days before the earthquake and as we were always thinking about how L.A. is "known" for it´s earthquakes and when we left the city and were lucky that we haven´t felt one, we had one in Vienna! :o
Glad to see you around here on the forums, I hope you´re doing fine!
Jasmin

taniashain

11-08-2007, 12:06pm

I experienced an earthquake in Toronto when I was 16.:eek::shocked: It was so strange to be sitting still when it seemed like the world was shaking. :huh:The curtains were swaying and the lampshades too. My mother and her friend were flipping out while I was screaming into the phone to my friend. He didn't feel it. It only lasted maybe 15 seconds and was maybe a 4, but it still stands out in my mind. I heard there was a fault line under Lake Ontario, but don't quote me on that;):smirk:

As for what's new for me, well, I've had a visitor from the Forums, Stevie, from Scotland, come and visit me for the past week or so. I've been showing him around Toronto, seeing my city through his eyes.

Next time you're around Hardy, I'd be more than happy to show you around too:D It would be my pleasure:D

mcjessica

11-09-2007, 2:34pm

There was an earthquake here a few years ago but I barely felt it and it didn't last long. It seemed to scare my guinea pig though :p. The only reason I knew something actually happened was through the news the next day.

This week wasn't very exciting...I did a math problem I haven't done before? hahaha I actually can't think of anything I've done in the last week.

dreamer

11-10-2007, 4:34pm

oh gosh I had quite treatment for my anorexia around the 2nd.....thank god I had Shania through that whole time or I would've given up and let myself die, on a lighter note I am trying to find a way to thank her in person so I am going to listen to nothing but Shania starting at 1 pm today until her next ablun comes out!

faithfully

11-15-2007, 12:08pm

As for what's new for me, well, I've had a visitor from the Forums, Stevie, from Scotland, come and visit me for the past week or so. I've been showing him around Toronto, seeing my city through his eyes.

Next time you're around Hardy, I'd be more than happy to show you around too:D It would be my pleasure:D
Aye ya wee swine you would have to wouldn't you:p

Well my week started off pretty good, hanging out with an amazing lassie Terri (Taniashain), but I had to come home to Scotland away from her and that lovely city Toronto:( I miss them both:( her the most. It was so nice to meet up with a fellow Shania Twain fan from the other side of the world:love:

faithfully

11-15-2007, 12:13pm

As far as earthquakes go I had nothing really;) just a small tremor about 10 years ago. All I can remember was the bedroom shaking a wee bit:cool:

Roger

11-15-2007, 12:59pm

Oh dear! I can't think of anything that I added to my life this week that I have never done. But I think that is the case for most people most of the time.

But I can relate my experience of an earthquake. I have been through a few but like Hardy I slept through almost all of them. The one in question occurred right here in Ottawa in November of 1988. This is not an earthquake zone - we geologically too old. But we do get the odd very mild one. This quake was centred in Quebec somewhere. Here in Ottawa it registered as a 5.8.

Well, it was late one November afternoon. My wife was preparing dinner. We both were enjoying an alcoholic drink (can't remember now what but anyway). I had been bending over the stereo putting in a new tape. Then when I stood up, the whole room swayed. Whoa! Did I drink my drink too quickly? Am I coming down with some illness? But then Kay shouted in the kitchen and I realized the whole room really was swaying! There was a roar outside. It was much like a huge heavy truck was passing by. I walked over a moving floor and looked in the kitchen. The cups were swinging wildly on the cuphooks. At this point we knew we were in an earthquake and we both ran outside. Then it ended as abruptly as it began.

It turns out that the type of ground we live on intensifies earthquakes so that 5.8 was experienced more like a 6.8. It is leda clay. I checked the house for cracks the next day and I never have found any. This is because the whole house moved together on this rubbery leda clay.

Since then we have holidayed many times in California, often right on the San Andreas fault in Palm Springs, but apart from a small quake that we slept through in San Francisco, we have never experienced any quakes there.

Brit_girlAmanda

03-07-2008, 6:03pm

I knew what it was instantly, because I remember the one that hit the epicentre which was Dudley, West Midlands, back in September 2002. I could feel everything around me moving and it sounded like a fast train.

UllaCountryGal

03-07-2008, 7:11pm

I have felt several earthquakes. I dont even remember when I felt my first earthquake, I have experienced that many of them. So that is nothing new for me.
The biggest earthquake I have been in was 6,5 and lasted 20 seconds. It wrecked some houses (not in my town though) and it wrecked the main highway around the country.
No lives where lost, because it happened to be the National holiday and everybody was outside celebrating and enjoying summer sun.

Here are some important rules on what to do in an earthquake. All kids here know this.

If you are inside while an earthquake occurs:
-Go to an open doorway and stand in the doorway
-Crawl under a table
-hide in a corner with two out-walls, if you live in a concrete house. If in a brick or timber house do either of the above.
-stay calm

If you are outside when an earthquake occurs:
- Avoid tall buildings, electric lines, or mountains or hills where rocks can fall down
- Find the shortest way to an open area
- If you are in a car, you must stop the vehicle in a save spot

As soon as the earthquake has passed, you should turn the radio on, to a reliable station

Shaniabomber99

03-08-2008, 5:47am

I am glad you are ok

03-15-2008, 9:53pm

Hi everyone,

I've been told for years that I had been through earthquakes, but for some reason I never felt one of them. Usually I slept through them.

We can change that now. I was actually sitting in my living room on Tuesday night, watching TV, when it hit. It went for about 12 seconds and turned out to be about 5.6 on the scale. Everything shook.

Fortunately, nothing nasty happened. Nothing broken. I even stepped outside to see if I could see any neighbors, and no one was there. What the ....???

I am adding to one more thing that I have done in life. What about you?

What did you add to your life this week that you had never done? Let me know. If you want to be private about it, send me a private note, but I dare you to share!! ha

Your curious friend,
Hardy

When Hardy speaks, the earth trembles. Or is it when Shania speaks?

Had one earthquake reported in Lansing, Michigan in the quarter century I've lived here. It was a few yrs ago. I thought it was a truck hit the curb.

My life is not like Roger's, related to your question, even though we're alike in many other ways. New things happen to me frequently.

I've been trying to tie up the loose ends on research for my 2nd book. It's about my 87 yr old uncle's life during WW II. He was in the OSS, forerunner to the CIA.

Last week, I sent an email to a former US ambassador. His father and my uncle were friends working together in Secret Intelligence in Cairo and elsewhere. Asked him if he knew of another OSS associate of his father and my uncle. I also complimented him on his fine PBS interview on the Lehrer News Hour, the night before about the Kosovo-Serbia conflict. Due to his family's long and respected experience in this region, he was called out of retirement to represent the US in those negotiations the last year or so. To my surprise, he responded very promptly, saying regrettably, he didn't know the person.

So I thanked him for such a prompt reply, and asked if he'd like to see a copy of the book when I got done, and if he would consider offering a quote for the back cover. He replied again, very promptly, and said he would. Then I saw they burned the US Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia that very night. The news services were all abuzz. And I was embarrassed to be taking up his time, when he obviously must have had his hands very full.

Oop! That was last week. It doesn't count. So you'll have to suffer thru one of the things that happened this week.

I've been making arrangements to do research in the National Archives in Washington DC. They have some declassified records there, about my uncle and his associates in the OSS. They'll be hard to find, but I have some good prep work and good leads.

The first two ladies I called at NARA couldn't wait for me to ask a question before they started giving an answer, no matter whether it was on topic or not. I was more than a little concerned that maybe all of NARA's staff were so unable to focus. After being transferred unhelpfully and getting conflicting information, I finally left a message at a 3rd number. This was for someone with a gravelly, somewhat slurred voice, who left at noon every day. So I was not especially optimistic of the result.

You never know how things will turn out on any given day. Next day, this fellow returned my call. I was nervous as all get out, that any more bad relations with this humungous gov't facility, could ruin closure on my book research, and put a bad caste on all the work I've done in the last 14 months.

He spoke kind of strangely, and seemed to pause a lot before saying anything. But as we worked thru the reason for my visit, and the nature of my question, I found he was just about the best person on the planet for me to talk to about this. He was 87 yrs old himself, same age as my uncle. And he'd been working there with OSS records since about the time my uncle left the service in 1946. He doesn't talk or think a million miles an hour, like some folks seem to these days. But he focuses and pulls together what's needed, in a way that makes him feel like a hero to me. He's been working with volunteers all these years, to make a bit of sense out of the mountains of gov't records shipped to their site, typically, without much useful organization.

And when some Shania Twain fans near Washington, found out I was coming, they began arranging a get together, of old, special friends, the night before I leave back for Michigan.