I think that was an earthquake.

I'm pretty sure we just had an earthquake. Not certain, but pretty sure. Made the house rattle and my monitor sway on my desk. I've never felt one before so I can't be sure. Almost like it came toward the front of the house, passed through it and moved on through the back yard. Weird.

Grabboid.

Sure enough we did. It was a 2.4, 9 miles from my house. Pretty strange.

Oh, and it did come from the front of the house. It's bizarre that you can feel it move through the earth. That was actually pretty cool.

Weird! We feel them every blue moon in north GA too.

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I was standing in the back yard (in Northridge) during one of decent rolling aftershocks (probably 4+) of the Northridge quake. It was pretty strange, I could literally feel the ground move around under my feet.... dirt surfin' USA...

Those used to wake me up all the time when i lived in san diego. Nothing more unsettling than the ground moving beneath you.

Toyman01 wrote: Oh, and it did come from the front of the house. It's bizarre that you can feel it move through the earth. That was actually pretty cool.

The one I experience was the same way. It was early & I'd only been up a few minutes. I was standing in the kitchen and felt it move from the front of the house through the back. Very weird, and at that early in the a.m. I really wasn't sure what it was.

We had a pretty good shaker (high 3's?) up here a month or so back. Kinda cool, but I thought at first it was ice sliding off the roof.

I wouldn't know what an earthquake feels like. I've slept through three of them.

In reply to Curmudgeon:

The one in Edgefield was originally reported as a 4.4 and then a few hours later after the USGS folks reviewed the data I think it was downgraded to a 4.1.

Toyman is in the prime location for the next big one in SC. Right near the epicenter for the big 1886 shaker. I think that one was centered near Summerville.

glad to be in upstate New York In the low threat zone:

aircooled wrote: I was standing in the back yard (in Northridge) during one of decent rolling aftershocks (probably 4+) of the Northridge quake. It was pretty strange, I could literally feel the ground move around under my feet.... dirt surfin' USA...

I was living in Thousand Oaks when that one hit. Mighty impressive.

Central Oklahoma got bumped with 4 of them today! 3.4 was the biggest 2.9 was the little one.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

We had one here a couple of days ago because my mom called and woke me up. The Northridge quake was my first earthquake experience

Well, they bumped this one up to a 3.0. I can't even imagine what a 7 would feel like.

I haven't been close to a 7.0, but I was about 10 miles from the epicenter of Loma Prieta (a 6.9) in 1989.

That's what she said!

Two days later and no one's posted this guy's photo yet?

The Ancient Ones are getting restless.

Curmudgeon wrote: We had a pretty good shaker (high 3's?) up here a month or so back. Kinda cool, but I thought at first it was ice sliding off the roof.

That's the one I felt all the way here in Atlanta.

A little beating around the internet turns up some video of big grown up earthquakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI1quH8IT_4

That's simply amazing.