Quake
There was a nearby earthquake yesterday, which neither of us felt, but we suspect Moby did, because he jumped up into the dryer, loudly, at the correct time. Nothing impressive, no real damage. Cat is a bit tetchy today, currently in the Fortress of Solitude.
"I kinda like it in here, it's private."
(Cat quotes Jamie Hyneman.)
I have been in one, long ago, living in Detroit in a rickety third floor apartment. All the items on top of the fridge started to rattle, and I thought there was a malfunction of the fridge itself. Then I realized the whole apartment was shaking. It didn't last long, but left a distinct impression on me. Something on the Mississippi fault, I have not been able to find record of it online, from around 1982-3, can't precisely recall the year. Still, not a part of the country where one expects such earthy shenanigans.
D has never felt one, despite living in a city on a faultline all his life. There is a park right on the edge of it, now called Faultline Gardens, it used to just be Faultline Park, and has always had swings and playground equipment. A level bit on a fairly steep hill, the linked photo flattens the terrain. An apartment complex lies just below.
Warm and windy today, with loads of tree pollen.
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Posted by Zhoen on Friday, April 16, 2010
5 comments:
The Faultline Gardens look more like miniature rock mountains in that photo than, well, what one assumes gardens to look like. But given the prevalence of so much pollen everywhere this season, I vote for more rocks than trees and bushes just now.
Hope Moby leaves the fortress soon.
That looks like a great fortress!
Rain here, 7C forecast high.
I've never felt an earthquake, though here in Montreal we have had them sporadically throughout my life. I think the one I would have felt the most happened when I was in high school and I was riding the train at the time.
Unless the earthquake is severe (which it never has been here), I don't think one could feel it while riding a train.
Alembic,
I may hike up to the Park in question, try to get my own photos. That was the only one I could find, and was in no shape to go walking yesterday.
RR,
We'd had the bed a long time ago, but he wasn't much into it. Likewise the top of the tree. Until I put the bed up there while vacuuming, and didn't take it down to save space, and THAT was Interesting.
Phil,
Yeah, a mild earthquake would be indistinguishable from train movement.
I was living in Nantlle in Gwynedd, North Wales when we had an eathquake there (1980s)
The old slate quarry near the village is 600 ft deep (half full of water) and acted as a loudspeaker. So we heard the tremors before feeling them.
Then I had a large metal mixing bowl on a windowsill, and even though we didn't feel some aftershocks the bowl went "Ting Ting Ting" as it resonated to them.
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