Earthquake - in North Carolina

[NCGolfer]

I've never been to California and never felt one before, but we had a few recently.

My wife and I were at an opera (no jokes please) last night and the entire place shook. That was just a short, small 2.4 centered a few miles away. I can't imagine what a larger one would be like.

It felt like a large rumble of thunder or a train going by.

[Rafcin]

...My wife and I were at an opera (no jokes please) ...

no jokes needed, it's a joke on it's own

but seriously - yea, that's some scary s..tuff. About 12-13 years ago while living in Germany I experienced pretty decent one ( the epi-centrum was in Turkey or northern Italy...) It sounded like a HUUUGE truck was driving by or a huge cargo plane flew right over the house. The lamp was rocking, books flew out of shelfs and I woke up scared shitless I guess since it happend middle of the night it was even worse - I needed some time to figure out what was going on. Something is happening... first Hawaii, now NC... wonder what's next.

[Everardo]

Good thing it didn't happen over the weekend during the cup. Scary stuff but glad to hear you and the Mrs. made it though the opera

[Thrash13]

Yeah, that's crazy news. I would never imagine an earthquake in North Carolina. We have had a few here in Oklahoma, but most of those were more than 50 years ago. There have a been a couple in the past decade, but they barely even registered on the Scale.

Dave, were the in-laws freaking out? I'm glad to know that everything is ok though, that's what is important. It's just crazy that we were all just there three days ago.

[NCGolfer]

Dave, were the in-laws freaking out?

Not really. They woke up the other morning when the first one hit. I, of course, slept right through it. The second one was small - 1.5 - but closer to us. They said the dogs barked but they didn't feel anything. The one around 9:11 that hit they definitely felt...they said the house shaked a bit.

It was really freaky sitting in the theater though. The third act had just started and the entire place shimmered. The music and performers kept going but there was murmuring throughout the crowd for a few moments. Like I said, I can't even imagine what a large earthquake - lasting more than a second - would be like.