Since February 28, 2008, our area has been stricken with over 350 earthquakes (earthflakes as Tea calls them).
This is a great link to the local earthquake map. It only goes back a week, but what a week it has been! If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on List of Earthqaukes on this map, you get a line by listing of the happenings around here. The ones over 3.0 are in red.
We were hit by two successive quakes last night at 11:39 and then 11 seconds later. The first one was a 3.3 and the second was a 4.7. The kids and I were still awake and it scared us, to say the least. The epicenters for these quakes are about 6 miles west from us, so these strong ones were really felt.
We had another one at about 12:29 that was 3.7. That's when the phone started ringing. My sister lives about 4 miles west from us and they sustained damage. Their toilet tank broke, things fell off the walls and shelves and broke. The falling things broke other things. They have a lot of drywall damage, nail pops, etc. and a new hump in their front yard.
My parents live about a mile to the north and they do not appear to have any damage. We have a couple of new cracks and stuff fell off the walls, but we are all okay. Thank goodness for that.
There were some houses that sustained major content damage - we saw a picture on the news of a house that had all of its kitchen cupboards come open and everything fall out and shatter. So sad.
This is a great link to the local earthquake map. It only goes back a week, but what a week it has been! If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on List of Earthqaukes on this map, you get a line by listing of the happenings around here. The ones over 3.0 are in red.
We were hit by two successive quakes last night at 11:39 and then 11 seconds later. The first one was a 3.3 and the second was a 4.7. The kids and I were still awake and it scared us, to say the least. The epicenters for these quakes are about 6 miles west from us, so these strong ones were really felt.
We had another one at about 12:29 that was 3.7. That's when the phone started ringing. My sister lives about 4 miles west from us and they sustained damage. Their toilet tank broke, things fell off the walls and shelves and broke. The falling things broke other things. They have a lot of drywall damage, nail pops, etc. and a new hump in their front yard.
My parents live about a mile to the north and they do not appear to have any damage. We have a couple of new cracks and stuff fell off the walls, but we are all okay. Thank goodness for that.
There were some houses that sustained major content damage - we saw a picture on the news of a house that had all of its kitchen cupboards come open and everything fall out and shatter. So sad.
