Ted
Before we discuss this further we need the following
information:
Just how many cupcakes had Linda had?
What was in the cupcakes?
Perhaps the USGS could buy this recipe from her and
finally predict earthquakes???

Enjoy life!!!
Pete
--- tchannel1@............ wrote:

> This is a new story:   My wife Linda (IMMG Museum)
> came upstairs from our basement last night and said
> she was sure she felt the earth move!  I was
> standing in front of the fridge, looking at the last
> two cupcakes,  "Should I eat the two cupcakes, or
> have some nice carrots?  Let's see, if I choose the
> cupcakes, I could eat just one, at 250 calories=30
> mins on the treadmill, or I could eat 20 carrots,
> and save that 30 mins?"  Just as I was pouring a
> glass of milk to go with the two cupcakes, she
> grabbed my arm, nearly spilling my milk, and
> proclaimed, "I just felt what I thought was an
> earthquake!"
> 
> Here it is in her own words:
> 
> But first, the timeline, and these are fairly
> accurate and true:
> 01:12:00 Linda felt the earth move.
> 01:12:15 Linda got up and walked up to the
> helicorder and noted the time, but saw no earthquake
> signal.
> 01:14:00 Linda walked upstairs to tell me.
> 01:16:12 I put down my cupcakes and walked
> downstairs and saw the earthquake begin; about 12
> seconds of the signal were already traced on the
> screen.
> 01:16:01 The P wave arrived in Boise Idaho.
> 
> Linda writing:  "I was sitting on the couch in the
> basement when I felt ever so slightly lightheaded
> and the couch felt as if the ground swelled a tiny
> bit underneath it about 5 or 6 times.  The movement
> was nearly undetectable (I'm sure if I had been
> standing or moving around, I would not have felt
> it), and the ground swells passed at about the same
> rate as a heartbeat.  I am confident I really felt
> something because I thought to myself, "Huh, how
> strange this sensation is . . . I wonder whether
> that was an earthquake . . . weird, I thought there
> would be more distance between waves . . . they are
> actually pretty close together, exactly like ripples
> spreading out in a pond when a stone is thrown in;
> it kind of feels like when we used to sit in our
> sailboat when the wind was quiet and feel the water
> gently rock the boat." 
> 
> Is there any kind of wave I would have felt before
> the P wave actually arrived?  Yes, I was awake, not
> dreaming!
> 
> Linda and Ted



       
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