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10/05/2025 1:36 pm
A couple minutes after 9 AM this morning a 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit us. We're in the county outside of the town of Maryville, TN. The epicenter was due south of us by about 6 miles, in between the Cherokee National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
My house is a tri-level and my computer room is on the second floor. It shook pictures and small items to the floor and 9 lighter, 1/43rd models. The models were attached to their bases and none were hurt, but four cases were badly damaged.
I've lived in Tennessee for 36 years, 31 of those years in Maryville. Of the 4 earthquakes I have felt, this one was the strongest, yet classified as 'light' on the Richter scale. Be prepared.
10/05/2025 1:42 pm
Oh man Tony! I'm glad that your models were protected; it obviously could have been much worse.
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10/05/2025 1:52 pm
REALLY! Looking at the stats - the most severe quake, here, was 4.7. I have a 36" computer monitor and had to hold onto it as other items around me were falling. It was a rumble that felt like the normal freight train passing a mile down the hill but intensified with a small bang and shake, then one shake about 10 times that level then...nothing.Oh man Tony! I'm glad that your models were protected; it obviously could have been much worse.
Here's the room that I am in and none of these 1/24 Vette's were damaged - thank God!
10/05/2025 1:58 pm
Tony, glad to hear this goods news, which obviously could've been much, much worse - in which case (no pun intended ) models would've been the least of your worries. 👍 👍
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10/05/2025 2:03 pm
How VERY true Chris! It was scary. I was last stationed in San Francisco in the Army and have since spent time in California where I felt worse quakes, but here it isn't as normal and scares the crap outta ya!Tony, glad to hear this goods news, which obviously could've been much, much worse - in which case (no pun intended ) models would've been the least of your worries. 👍 👍
10/05/2025 2:11 pm
Glad you are okay and that your models survived the earthquake. When we lived in St. Louis we were more prone to earthquakes than in the south where we now live. You just never know or think these things can happen to you.
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10/05/2025 2:19 pm
YES. Absolutely true Bob!Glad you are okay and that your models survived the earthquake. When we lived in St. Louis we were more prone to earthquakes than in the south where we now live. You just never know or think these things can happen to you.
10/05/2025 7:36 pm
When I lived in Fairbanks Alaska in the 50’s and 60’s earthquakes were often a part of the weather report.
David Vandermeer
Corinth, Texas
10/05/2025 7:48 pm
I never thought of earthquakes as a model destroyer, not living in an area general subjected to such problems. It must have been quite a shake. Your displays look very well built, Tony. You survived the quake well with only that case damage.
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10/05/2025 9:46 pm
Whoa, that was quite an experience and plenty of people have said (including a good friend in California) that an earthquake with not even the ground beneath you being solid and stable, is among those events qualifying as a truly scary experience.
Many years ago at the family home in Riverside, IL near Chicago, my Mom was on the phone with my Dad who was on the 40th floor of the New York Hilton when he exclaimed, "The chandelier is swaying in the room !" and at the same time my Mom told him in Riverside that the upstairs room shook slightly. I was on the top of my bunk bed and I thought a younger brother was trying to play a prank on me, lol !
No one was hurt anywhere then, but in 1812 and 1813 near New Madrid in Southern Illinois, the situation was CONSIDERABLY different. Luckily, the area was pretty sparsely settled !
11/05/2025 5:41 am
Tony, you were fortunate, could have been a lot worse. Beautiful collection, BTW.
John Bono
North Jersey
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11/05/2025 6:47 am
Thanks for the responses fellas! David, the displays on the walls really ARE solid; the cased 1/24ths didn't move much at all. Smaller items on them, did fall - FM coins, scale gas pumps, etc. But the 1/43rds on top of other things around the room were the ones that fell. As John says...Could have been a LOT worse.
11/05/2025 7:57 am
Tony, glad that you faired well. We felt the earthquake here in Spartanburg, SC. I was out in L.A. back in the early nineties when the big one hit there. I remember the house we were at rolled 4 different times. Not something I want to go through again.