Awwww, look at Maine and its cute little earthquake
 

The area near Portland, Maine was hit by an estimated 3.9 earthquake today.

http://knbc.nbcweatherplus.com/weath...66/detail.html

I know, being someone with a phobia of quakes myself I shouldn't make fun...but I just love reading quotes like this about a measly 3.9.

Teehee. Silly Mainers.

There was a 6.0 in the middle of the Gulf this summer. It woke a friend of mine up. I didn't feel it.

I guess it's a bigger deal when you didn't grow up in CA.

Wow, a 3.9 here would not even make the art on the wall crooked.
Amazing slant on perspective here.

The title of this thread really gave me the giggles!

Don't get too cocky about how we wouldn't overreact. There was a 3.8 up in Santa Rosa (about 60 miles north of San Francisco) a few months ago and the local news covered it like the world was about to end. They even interrupted the TV show I was watching to report that shampoo bottles had fallen off shelves at salons.

Well, FWIW, remember that back east they have masonry construction. Brick.

That's not known to hold up to shaking too well. Remember, stuff's built different out here, our wood frame houses can move with the ground a lot better.

And don't forget the largest earthquake ever recorded in the continintal USA was not in Cali. It was in the East at a estimated magnitutde of 8.0

I didn't feel that one either and I live on the west coast of Florida. I was out working in the yard and when I came in for a water break they were making a big deal on the news about it. I just sat there thinking of how all my California friends would laugh at us.

Maine... pshaw... so far away and pointy...

Perhaps it finally knocked off some of the barnicals...:D

Maine has its high points. They were, after all, the first people to realize (and do something about it) that living in Massachusetts sucks.

When I was 10 and living in the San Fernando Valley we had the 1987 earthquake. I finished tying my shoe before getting under a doorframe.

3.9 is fun, like a mini-coaster ;)

While Charles causes more shaking when jumping on the bed than a 3.9 I have to agree with Morrigon about the potential construction destruction problems of the East Coast. When I travel to the East of Midwest, I am always amazed my the amount of brick buildings that exist. You ust don't see much of that in the West. However, brick construction is not the most reliable in an earthquake. A 4.0 could have far more devistating effecs in the East than in the West.

Too true, when I moved to VA, I was amazed at all the brick, it is everywhere! And the first thought I had was, whoa, if there was an earthquake this would be a real mess!

I'm still amazed at many of the brick structures in SF, most retrofitted with those ugly things on the outside of the buildings, but I expect sometimes half of Chinatown to crumble in the next big one.

I was starting to get a little paranoid about that one creating a tsunami. Yes, totally unrealistic, but not knowing how well the pumps really have been refurbished, it's a concern. I then read/heard that the gulf is to shallow to really get a good wave going, which makes real sense, and I felt much better about it.

Well, from what I've seen of the Gulf, I imagine a large wave would be no worse than a decent surfing day at the Atlantic coast. The Gulf is eerily still. I love it.