Just had a earthquake in Buffalo (WNY)

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

11 minutes ago, klos63 said:

Were you going to shoot the survivors of the plane crash?

 

10 minutes ago, co_springs_billsfan said:

Like a horse with a broken leg

Worse.  'Donner Party'.  

[Not at the table Karlos]

19 minutes ago, klos63 said:

Were you going to shoot the survivors of the plane crash?

 

Have had many break in attempts. Any bump in the night the shotgun comes with me. 

7 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

 

Worse.  'Donner Party'.  

I do need to go shopping...

Edited February 6, 2023 by Not at the table Karlos

[NEBranch]

Anyone excited to sit in the upper decks at Highmark?

[muppy]

I have been through several earthquakes. The closer you are to the epicenter the stronger you will have felt it.  My house sits on rock so for me to feel one it has to be fairly close proximity. Mostly the windows will rattle is all here so far. Knock on wood.

 

there is a thread in Off the Wall also.

Edited February 6, 2023 by muppy

[US Egg]

Wife heard something, said she thought I dropped over in the house, she had a funny look when she woke me.

 

Got up and walk around inside and out, nothing, thought all is good here, went back to bed. No problems here.

Edited February 6, 2023 by I am the egg man

[Blainorama5]

Great!  Now there's a major fault line under the new stadium.  Good planning!

😉

[RyanC883]

2 hours ago, Big Turk said:

 

Turkey just had a 7.8 magnitude one this morning and it collapsed buildings and killed at least 1300 people from the reports...

 

They have a lot of major ones there...remember my Mom telling me when she was there they had one and she thought she was going to die because the entire room shifted to one side of the house. My Dad grew up in Istanbul and told me some crazy stories too...

That’s horrible (today) and crazy (parent story).  If you have any family still there I hope they are okay.  
 

I always thought your user name was a reference to the candy bad “Big Turk” from Canada.  

22 minutes ago, muppy said:

I have been through several earthquakes. The closer you are to the epicenter the stronger you will have felt it.  My house sits on rock so for me to feel one it has to be fairly close proximity. Mostly the windows will rattle is all here so far. Knock on wood.

 

there is a thread in Off the Wall also.

where do you live?

 

We had one in Pgh about 10 years ago, I felt nothing as I was driving, but my wife was in a big building and it was swaying all over (as they are designed to do from wind, etc).  

[Big Turk]

3 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

That’s horrible (today) and crazy (parent story).  If you have any family still there I hope they are okay.  
 

I always thought your user name was a reference to the candy bad “Big Turk” from Canada.  

 

Yeah, they have them pretty often there...nobody injured that I know of, it was more central southern Turkey, most of my family still there lives near Istanbul. Nope...Big Turk is because I am Turkish(my Dad is from Istanbul) and I have been a gym rat for a while so I have some pretty decent size...it was actually a nickname given to me by a friend that stuck so now a lot of my friends call me that...

Edited February 6, 2023 by Big Turk

[I'm Spartacus]

I live close to the epicenter in West Seneca. My bedroom is above my garage. Heard a loud "booming" noise. I thought a car or maybe a deer smashed into my garage door. Very weird noise, lasted a few seconds.

[Augie]

3 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

Sounded like a plane was falling out of the sky. Never heard that noise before an earthquake. Like in movies when bombs or a plane is gonna crash. I thought a plane crashed into my house. I grabbed my med kit and shotgun and ran outside in my underwear. Was prepping myself for what horrors I was gonna see when I got outside.  Could hear my neighbors screaming. The people driving down hertel prob thought I was nuts. 

 

That must have been quite a sight!!! 

[MWK]

Perfect. We can use the earthquake as one of our many excuses when we lose in the playoffs again next year. Start the list up!

[I'm Spartacus]

Former Bill Earthquake Enyart is back in town! He's the fullback we've been waiting for.

[nucci]

25 minutes ago, MWK said:

Perfect. We can use the earthquake as one of our many excuses when we lose in the playoffs again next year. Start the list up!

and just wait till it snows again

[WhoTom]

I thought the thread title was a metaphor, so I opened it expecting an Earth-shattering announcement from OBD.

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

17 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

I thought the thread title was a metaphor, so I opened it expecting an Earth-shattering announcement from OBD.

 

'OBD Hears the Fans' Voices: Beane Out, Whaley's Back!'

[Nextmanup]

1 hour ago, I'm Spartacus said:

I live close to the epicenter in West Seneca. My bedroom is above my garage. Heard a loud "booming" noise. I thought a car or maybe a deer smashed into my garage door. Very weird noise, lasted a few seconds.

There was a low 3 point something earthquake in WNY many years ago, I think in the '80s some time.

 

I was in my house in the T of T and I have always described it exactly as you did.

 

Back then, people thought there was a gas main explosion and fire trucks were dispatched to find the fires, etc...until people realized it was an earthquake.

 

It sounded and felt like a giant oak tree got cut down and slammed into the outside of the house.

 

 

[JohnBonhamRocks]

Shot up out of bed to see if a car hit the front of the house this morning here in Elmwood Village!

Seeing people posting their Ring doorbell videos makes me wonder if there is footage of the lake and if the quake caused ripples.

[BillsFan4]

Yeah we felt it and heard it here. I didn’t know what it was at first. I heard a loud noise and the whole house shook. I thought a big machine was driving down the street or a plane was flying super low over head at first. Then realized it was an earthquake a minute or two later.

[PBF81]

5 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Holy crap my house was just shaking 

 

It's fun, isn't it.  :/  

[coloradobillsfan]

 

[zow2]

Sheesh,  i heard about this on the national news this morning. Is there another small city in the U.S. that gets more publicity for weird/bad sh*t than Buffalo?!?

It’s bad enough the region has to name all the devastating sports losses over the years.

[Jauronimo]

 

 

@Not at the table Karlos in real life

[Draconator]

The epicenter was near the corner of Mineral Springs and Indian Church Roads in West Seneca. 

 

What made this so widespread is that it was only 3km down. The further down an earthquake, the more localized it is. 3km is extremely shallow for an earthquake.

 

It felt like something hit your house because the fault lines here are not long, and tectonic plates will generally slam together, instead of sliding along each other which will cause the rolling, 30-second earthquakes. I felt an earthquake exactly like this in Culver City, CA in 2003. That one was only a 3.1. The biggest earthquake I felt was on January 1st, 2002. That was a 4.8 and the resort we stayed at in Anza Borrego, CA was directly on top of the epicenter, 8 miles down. It sounded like my wife at the time and I were having really awesome sex with the way the headboard was hitting the wall. 

[BIGFOOTspaceman]

5 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Season technically not over. Let’s add earthquake to the 2022 season.  
 

Zombies are definitely coming.

Nah, The Bengals already took care of the zombies in Buffalo

[Draconator]

Just now, BIGFOOTspaceman said:

Nah, The Bengals already took care of the zombies in Buffalo

Well Eli Apple helped with his aggressive cigar smoking

[US Egg]

1 hour ago, coloradobillsfan said:

 

My stomach rumbles louder.

[Call_Of_Ktulu]

The Earths core stopped spinning, strange things are happening 

[LittleSammy]

2 hours ago, BIGFOOTspaceman said:

Nah, The Bengals already took care of the zombies in Buffalo

McDermott wishes the quake happened the morning of our playoff game with Cinc'y. Then he could use that as the reason he didn't have the team ready to play the Bengals.

[Buffalo716]

5 hours ago, I'm Spartacus said:

I live close to the epicenter in West Seneca. My bedroom is above my garage. Heard a loud "booming" noise. I thought a car or maybe a deer smashed into my garage door. Very weird noise, lasted a few seconds.

Yea I heard a massive noise and my bed literally was literally shaking up and down 

 

I thought a massive vehicle ran into my house or something… And a minute later I realized it must’ve been an earthquake

 

And I was like holy *****

7 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:

I lived maybe a quarter mile from a quarry on como park. They would blast everyday at noon. This was quicker, stronger and louder. 

My father’s property backed up to the rock quarry in Bellevue.

 

Spent many days dangling my feet off the edge lol

Edited February 6, 2023 by Buffalo716

[hondo in seattle]

732 earthquakes in the past year - mostly little ones - where I live.  The biggest one - 5.1 - made me wonder if a truck just crashed into the house.   Then I remembered I live in CA.

[Wacka]

On 2/6/2023 at 7:34 AM, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

I think it was Wacka taking a dump.

That was  on Saturday. No really, I plugged up the toilet on Saturday.  I was still awake laying in bed because I had gotten up to pee a few minutes earlier.  It was 2.1 miles south of me.I'm on the second floor. lasted a few seconds and the windows rattled. I had lived about 20 years in the SF area, so I knew what it was immediately and didn't get out of bed. 

In  California, I lived 2 miles from the Calavaras fault  (~20 % chance of having a big one in the next 20 years). There were microquakes which were unfelt every couple of days.  The biggest I felt were two 4.2 quakes about 2 miles away under the Chevron HQ. One hit at 4 AM and woke me up. Could tell which direction it came from as it rattled pictures in my room, then the  glass shower doors and then the pictures in the hall.  The other was in the afternoon and I was on the floor  (slab on grade) in my living room. The whole building moved back and forth probably about 5 feet  (like the glider you would sit on on the porch) for about 15-20 seconds.  The patio door vibrated and there were hairline cracks  in the upper corners of the frame around it.  After another one there that was probably a 3.5, iI went outside and saw the street lights (all metal) still vibrating. For smaller ones, I would see pencils in a cup on my desk  move or the venetian blind  cords sway.

[ChasBB]

So, must we now consider seismicity when the new stadium is constructed?

[Freddie's Dead]

You lost me at "a".

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

10 minutes ago, ChasBB said:

So, must we now consider seismicity when the new stadium is constructed?

It's the final nail in the coffin for the 'we want a dome!' movement.  "Can't have a roof!  It might fall on the fans!"

*
😁

[coloradobillsfan]

7 hours ago, ChasBB said:

So, must we now consider seismicity when the new stadium is constructed?

This is sound advice even without the earthquake.

[Punching Bag]

On 2/6/2023 at 6:27 AM, Buffalo716 said:

Holy crap my house was just shaking 

 

Just is relative.  Please include date in subject.

10 hours ago, ChasBB said:

So, must we now consider seismicity when the new stadium is constructed?

 

There will be a campaign that domes are more structurally sound in earthquakes by the d00mers.

[Chicken Boo]

Had one years ago here in D.C.  For a second I thought the building I was in had been bombed.  There's still cracks in the stairway walls.  

 

My house has hardwood floors that used to be relatively quiet.  They creak now in certain areas.  

[sonyab1974]

On 2/6/2023 at 6:27 AM, Buffalo716 said:

Holy crap my house was just shaking 

Are you okay???? 😢

[Talley56]

Me just seeing this post: I should follow the news more.

 

Me realizing this was posted on Monday: Whoa, I REALLY need to follow the news more.