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I just watched a few of the videos Brew posted and was shocked to see that it only lasted less than 10 seconds. I haven't felt one that short in many many years. The 64 quake was 5:31 minutes. The last decent one was 37 seconds. Less than 10 seconds just seems weird to us up here. Not trying to minimize the seriousness, just strange to me.
Don't think you're minimizing at all. The Nova program on the one in Japan showed security camera footage where it just went on and on and then the Tsunami came. There's a salt water lake there now from the Tsunami and it's that's like 20 miles from the coast. Some boats the size of the ones on the crabbing tv show were found miles inland.
The big one was about 30 seconds, and then we got several waves for a good 2 or 3 minutes. I've been told that Utah is built differently than other states with the layers of the earth. This particular quake was only 6 miles deep, which made it feel much stronger in some areas. My sister was in CA on July 5th for the 7.1 that they had, and she said this 5.7 was much more violent. My DVR at work was shaking so bad that it didn't record anything for about 3 minutes. I have a black line in the timeline of the earthquake because the shake was not allowing it to write to the HD.
Last edited by white89gt; Mar 20, 2020 at 03:33 PM.
I just watched a few of the videos Brew posted and was shocked to see that it only lasted less than 10 seconds. I haven't felt one that short in many many years. The 64 quake was 5:31 minutes. The last decent one was 37 seconds. Less than 10 seconds just seems weird to us up here. Not trying to minimize the seriousness, just strange to me.
Yea that was an excellent link. Around vid #12, it showed a parking lot of vehicles during the quake. A crane company in SLC. Vehicles were moving forward and back between the parking paw hard. I've never been in a quake. Surprised I guess, I didn't know they shook like that.
Worst place for me would be stuck in high rise during all that. Can't imagine how they would flexing back and forth...terrifying for sure! I see why the brick faces were falling off the buildings...now anyway.
Where my office is located in the building, I am over the top of a loading dock.... so no walls or anything beneath me. I am sure that exacerbated the situation some. The building is only about 5 years old, so it's built to withstand some serious shiz. My Boss was in my office, and he had to hold onto the door frame or he would have fallen over for sure. I hurried and got my butt under my desk. It was quite strange to walk outside in the black, alarms going off all over the place..... and then also making calls to make sure my family was all OK.
And to top it all off, somehow the quake has also jacked up one of our nodes where I have VM's running. It was down after the quake, and I got it back up yesterday.... then got a call at 5:30 this morning that it was down again. I wasn't supposed to work today.... but here I am .
Besides high-rise buildings, I also will not stop under an overpass or on a bridge if I can help it. If I come to a stop light I will stay back behind the possible fall range. It tends to **** off people behind you but you catch right back up. They weren't here in 64 for the 9.1, but I was. After that mf some like me over time learned to not take smaller quakes too serious. In 18's quake, I just got up off the bed and held the flat screen from falling. LOL. My kitchen looked like the SLC grocery store they posted. Crap everywhere. Broke the new Samsung flat panel in the living room. I have since earthquake proofed the new one. It has a dual chain on the back so it can't fall off now, unless the house get's flattened LOL I don't think I'd worry about the TV at that point. rofl
