Preliminary Earthquake Report

that felt good

It felt like somebody grabbed the frame of my bed. Very brief.

felt like someone shook me up and down briefly. i recorded the exact time off this clock i have that's synched up with the atomic clock: 1:39:40, 22 secs after that report says. i guess that's how long the shock wave took to get here from epicenter?

only felt the tiniest jilt in my home, thought briefly of an earthquake, and then considered it all an illusion - thanks to indymedia, once again, for reasserting my sanity.

Version #1: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event.
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

A minor earthquake occurred at 1:39:18 AM (PDT) on Thursday, August 3, 2006.
The magnitude 3.8 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) WNW of Cherry Grove, WA.
The hypocentral depth is 12 km ( 7 miles).

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Magnitude 3.8 - duration magnitude (Md)

Time Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 1:39:18 AM (PDT)
Thursday, August 3, 2006 at 8:39:18 (UTC)

Distance from Cherry Grove, WA - 3 km (2 miles) WNW (296 degrees)
Dollar Corner, WA - 4 km (2 miles) NNW (337 degrees)
Battle Ground, WA - 6 km (4 miles) WNW (301 degrees)
Vancouver, WA - 20 km (12 miles) N (358 degrees)

Coordinates 45 deg. 48.6 min. N (45.809N), 122 deg. 36.6 min. W (122.610W)

Depth 11.6 km (7.2 miles)

Location Quality Good

Location Quality Parameters Nst= 43, Nph= 44, Dmin=16 km, Rmss=0.19 sec, Erho=1 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=39.6 degrees

Event ID# uw08030839

So it was about 15 miles away and 7 miles down. Mt. St. Helens has had a lot of 3.X quakes lately, too. If you buy into the interconnectedness theory of the universe, it's not too surprising. There's an awful lot anguish and horror being inflicted on people by other people. Sure would be a good thing if Jesus would come back, march into the White House, and kick the Satanic shit out of Bush, Cheney, Condi, etc, etc. Wouldn't be a minute too soon.

I always sleep through them...

in corvallis and you felt a 3.3??? maybe you should reexamine your sanity...

burps...deal with it

when she belches, you will definitely know it

I was present for the '89 quake in California and the '01 quake in Seattle. Once I was on the road and everybody was pulling over because they thought they'd blown a tire. Then all the radio stations went off the air because the power was out. It took me six hours to get home because a landslide closed a highway or something, there were gas lines and traffic was jammed and crazy everywhere.

The other time I was out on the street and I was afraid something was going to fall on me.

I thought this one was just a truck going by.