8.3 Magnitude Earthquake Makes Waves in Argentina Pool
- Thread starter DaneCE
- Start date
- Jun 22, 2014
- 47,722
- Pool Size
- 17888
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Same thing happened to me during the DC quake a few years back. After i was done rolling around my office in my chair, i ran out to the deck and there was wake in the water. Lasted almost an hour past quake. And that's all the way in South Jersey. I was floored how easy it was to toss around 700,000 gallons.
We didn't feel the Napa quake last year ~60 miles away (well, my son claimed he did after hearing about it, and the cats were a bit agitated), but when I went out later in the morning the metal skimmer cover was half off, and the concrete around was wet. I at first chalked it up to being stupid and forgetting to cover it the previous night, but after another report realized that it must have been from the quake. I wish I had seen it; pretty impressive that there was enough water movement to pop the cover off like that. I guess that's why tsunamis are so powerful; it only takes a tiny shift of the ocean/pool floor to create massive ripples.
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