Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Eatrhquake.
About three minutes ago. Felt 10 seconds of rocking and rolling. Wasn't sure about it, because I'm short on sleep and long on coffee, but the little hanging sculpture in the living room verified it. Swinging back and forth, then stopped. Lots of people posting on SpokaneNews about it.
Update a few minutes later: The responses at S-N have already reached 2400. Some from Montana and Pullman. Later: Epicenter in Lincoln, Montana. 5.8 Richter.
Later: I like to play games with fonts and such, but I wasn't trying to imitate the quake with the jumbled letters above. I was just jangled and jumbled. Vestibular system still off balance 30 minutes later.
Here's a playing-with-fonts representation of how it felt:
By contrast, the quakes we had in 2001 were mainly thumpers, not rollers:
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The intelligence of the vestibule is amazing. In terms of raw physics the motion of the earthquake was near zero. 10 seconds of walking moves the head FAR more in all directions. Or I could rock back and forth in the chair for 10 seconds. Neither of those actions would bother the vestibule at all. The system knows when a motion is caused by self and when it's external and abnormal.
By contrast, the quakes we had in 2001 were mainly thumpers, not rollers:
= = = = =
The intelligence of the vestibule is amazing. In terms of raw physics the motion of the earthquake was near zero. 10 seconds of walking moves the head FAR more in all directions. Or I could rock back and forth in the chair for 10 seconds. Neither of those actions would bother the vestibule at all. The system knows when a motion is caused by self and when it's external and abnormal.Labels: Heimatkunde
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