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poet13 · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: Earthquake 8:58 PM Saturday

Slight lateral shaking for about four seconds.

Anyone else feel it?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Hell ya, I was about to post.

Dawn · Joined: 06 Mar 2004

Yes. Was about to post and ask the same thing.

Except there was nothing "slight" about it here (near Uijongbu) ...

steveohan · Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

i was about to post too!!

i felt it in cheongju.

steve.

poet13 · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

Cool. Where are you (if that's cool to ask)?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

I'm in northern Seoul...Korea University Razz

formerflautist · Joined: 30 May 2006

I felt it. I'm about an hour east of Seoul. Scared the crap out of me because I had no clue what it was.

poet13 · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:02 am Post subject:

Tell us Dawn what you felt.
My beer ws near full (almost a centimeter from the lip), and rocked back and forth to the edge without spilling.

ella · Joined: 17 Apr 2006

I felt it. I'm near Insadong. Nothing at the USGS site yet. You can check here:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php

It was gentle rocking, felt exactly like an earthquake to this native southern Californian. If it wasn't an earthquake, what was it?

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Yeah, I felt it too!

Thought something hit my apartment building!

flint · Joined: 11 Apr 2004

I was on the can, thought I broke the bowl for a few seconds.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

The last time I experienced an earthquake was in Los Angeles about a year before the riots. I can't even remember what year that was right now (Jim Beam/coke) but I do remember it being much worse than what I just felt. I woke up that morning and it felt like someone had grabbed me by the shirt collar and was pulling me up in the air and dropping me to the floor from about a foot up...

Dawn · Joined: 06 Mar 2004

Building shook enough that I was trying to decide whether it was more dangerous to stay put or to try to get out. Husband has never been in one over here before and asked what was going on about the time it stopped.

jinju · Joined: 22 Jan 2006

questions:

1. Was the epicenter in Korea? Does Korea even lie on a faultline? If not, did some place just get nailed with a huge one because Ive never felt an earthquake in Seoul, not even close to this.

2. Was it natural? i.e. DPRK nuke test?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse