[pooh]

"Feels like earthquake weather."

Watching the TV show Life on Netflix and those words were uttered by the lead character. After living in CA for so long, whether it was coincidence or not, really did notice certain conditions seemed to occur just before the earth moved....

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by pooh

"Feels like earthquake weather?"

Watching the TV show Life on Netflix and those words were uttered by the lead character. After living in CA for so long, whether it was coincidence or not, really did notice certain conditions seemed to occur just before the earth moved....

Matt Nathanson - Earthquake Weather [AUDIO] - YouTube

Never really noticed that, but I had only experienced very small quakes while I lived in CA from 9-1984 to 8-1986 and 12-1991 through about 5-1996.

It looks like dogs often know when earthquakes are coming. http://youtu.be/xMtt41NJHuQ

[pooh]

My golden did one time Tal....he woke us with his barking..and he wanted OUT of the house. Let him out into the back yard because I thought he needed to go potty....the barking continued. Got him back indoors since it was about 2AM and then the motion started. That was the only time he "warned" us. Other times we had to wake him to get him into a safe area....lol

[Jdmiata]

I lived in California for 36 years.
Earthquake weather ?........LOL. No such thing.

[redwitch]

I'd heard the term more than once and thought folks who believed it were, well, slightly off. Still do. Of course, those who believed would prove they were right since the Modesto area had very small quakes almost daily. I'll still take a quake over a hurricane any day of the week and that's after the World Series quake. (I was on the 18th floor of One Maritime Plaza could see the damage the quake had done to both Oakland and the City.)

[graciegirl]

Ah yes. Just before the earth moved.

[KathieI]

We used to say that when we had a very hot spell for more than a week, that it was "earthquake" weather. Usually it would have to be over 100 degrees for a week or more. Actually, it did come true, not all the time but sometimes.

[pooh]

One thing I noticed, for many of the quakes I've experienced....it was hot and dry.....not uncommon weather for southern CA, but it was the quiet, silence, that got my attention. No insect noise, no birds chirping, then the rumble ...you could hear it coming....

[KathieI]

Originally Posted by pooh

One thing I noticed, for many of the quakes I've experienced....it was hot and dry.....not uncommon weather for southern CA, but it was the quiet, silence, that got my attention. No insect noise, no birds chirping, then the rumble ...you could hear it coming....

Yep, I heard the rumble all the time, especially when I lived in the foothills of San Fernando Valley. It would rumble through the hills and we would know it was coming and say, OH OH,,,, here it comes. Well, maybe it helped that I lived right on top of the San Andreas fault. Yikes!!!!

[DougB]

Originally Posted by KathieI

Yep, I heard the rumble all the time, especially when I lived in the foothills of San Fernando Valley. It would rumble through the hills and we would know it was coming and say, OH OH,,,, here it comes. Well, maybe it helped that I lived right on top of the San Andreas fault. Yikes!!!!

Could have been the San Andreas Fault but some earthquakes might be caused by the founding fathers turning over in their graves!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by pooh

My golden did one time Tal....he woke us with his barking..and he wanted OUT of the house. Let him out into the back yard because I thought he needed to go potty....the barking continued. Got him back indoors since it was about 2AM and then the motion started. That was the only time he "warned" us. Other times we had to wake him to get him into a safe area....lol

We had a very small earthquake in Michigan once, in the middle of the night. It was very weak, and most everyone slept through it. But our cockatiel, downstairs in his covered-up cage, suddenly went bananas, screeching and flapping his wings and jumping all over the cage floor. We found out the next day that the earthquake had occurred at the time he was doing that.

I googled it and learned that birds are very sensitive to barometric pressure changes. He knew what was happening, and we didn't.

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by KathieI

We used to say that when we had a very hot spell for more than a week, that it was "earthquake" weather. Usually it would have to be over 100 degrees for a week or more. Actually, it did come true, not all the time but sometimes.

We used to say it in the SF Bay Area when it got really warm in the early fall - say around 85 degrees at 8 PM (normally, evenings and nights in the Bay Area are always cold; about 60 in the fall, 45 in the winter).

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