OT - my first earthquake

I have a teacher/earthquake for you Kay. DD was in 5th grade and they had a student teacher. She was near the end of her stint with the class. There was a fair sized earthquake and they were in a portable. All the kids were ok but the student teacher ran around in a panic and dropped a few cuss word bombs. Student teacher failed.

I have lived all but about 14 m> Sitting at the computer in my classroom after school. Thought the waste

There was an earthquake today? I'd better watch the news!

Sitting at the computer in my classroom after school. Thought the waste management people just dropped the dumpster -- a loud boom and the building shook. Then the walls started to sway back and forth. My knees were like jelly for a couple of hours.

I was in Cincinnati during the 1968 earthquake but never felt anything.

Get thyself down to the hardware store and buy those Bed Seatbelts. Can't find them there--tell them to call a hardware store in southern CA--they'll be happy to send one to you.

Butterfly (still have ours packed away. Sure glad and relieved you are ok. Shaky legs and watery knees are better than injury)

Oh my, Kay! I'm glad you're okay, other than the jelly knees. My first (and only) earthquake was just a few months after we moved here, but it wasn't as severe as yours.

Now that got me to laughin'!

They've been having these little earthquakes almost daily just west of downtown Reno. They measure in the 2's or maybe 3's. Two today were in the

4's. Those two were felt north and south of the city. I guess my school is about 12 miles as the crow flies from where the earthquakes have been occurring. I only live about 10-15 minutes away, but I wasn't at home for these this afternoon.

I remember my first tornado in Cincinnati. Few kids were in the school because we were having parent conferences. The tornado went up to the side of the school, around the building, and zoomed off the other side of the playground. No damage to the school but it leveled two houses in the subdivision. That was in 1974. It was Hilltop School (appropriately named) in Reading. My task during tornado drills after that was to go up on the roof and watch for tornadoes in the Millcreek Valley.

Too bad there can't be earthquake watches. I felt like I was on a boat and needed to get my sea legs.

I didn't hear about another one in Wells today. Looks like northern Nevada is just unstable right now.

I remember a 7-Up commercial a few years ago. It showed a basketball star "on the beach" in Nevada after an imaginary "big one" in California. That commercial doesn't seem so funny now.

I've been through 2 earthquakes, the first being the worst about 5.5. (Google "Newcastle earthquake 1989" to find out what happened.)

I Googled. Newcastle was not an area where earthquakes would have been thought of. Kind of like where I used to live in Cincinnati, I suppose. "Luckily" for me, Nevada is the third most seismically-active US state behind California and Alaska. So the Reno area has been prepared for years. In one school where I taught here, there were even instructions for earthquake drills. Duck, cover, and hold on is pretty much the procedure.

It's all still new to me. I don't like anything waking me up just before midnight. Back in September it was 2:00 AM when the noise in the park woke me up soon enough to see some kid fire two shots. I didn't like being awakened then either. Gangs and earthquakes -- two things I've never encountered before.

Apparently, after they checked back through 'old' newspaper reports, Newcastle has an earthquake about 80-90 years apart. Far enough apart that there were very few around to remember the previous one.

My Grandma was in the Workers club, she got out but had to leave her handbag behind. When they found it there was concern that she was still in there, but she had made her way home with Grandpa and was safe and sound at home - I belive she got her handbag back.

My parents house only had cosmetic damage - cracked gyprock, etc and only small aomounts at that.

Wow, that's amazing! That's a feel-good kind of story. The Workers Club just fell right in on itself. There was a video where people were trying to move even little pieces of debris. I think maybe they were in shock and didn't realize how massive the damage was.