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