Went through a few. The biggest being the 94' Northridge quake and many aftershocks.
The oddest coincidence was. I never wore my day clothes to bed. That night I had slept with my clothes and shoes on. On top of my sheets. As though I was ready for it.
What's interesting was all the earthquake drills in school worked. There was a brief crack and shudder. In an instant I was awake, knew what was happening and flew to my door. Just as the main wave of the quake hit. I was already wedging myself into my doorway. I tried to turn on my lights but the power was already out.
Amidst the roar of quake and the interminable violent shaking. I looked from my doorway upon the blackness of my room. Light still flashed outside. Which I can only assume was transformers being blown. Creating a glow of light through my blinds. Across which were various silhouettes of unknown objects in my room falling from my shelves. Including my cat's figure flying through the air.
That poor cat was shaken for weeks. Not even trusting the ground she was walking on. Slinking low to the ground everywhere she went.
I lived in California all my life. I've experienced lots of earthquakes. Many of them were minor but a few really shook. Fortunately, I was never in danger. I never panicked.
I'd rather put up with the rare earthquake than annual hurricane and tornado seasons.
I'm not really much concerned over the possibility of quakes, especially where I live now, in foothills with granite below.
Much of earthquake danger depends on what kind of ground is beneath you. If you're over rock, you're safe. If you live on deep soil like a dry lake bed or something, the ground can shake like Jello and actually liquify. That's when shit can get real.
I've experience so many earthquakes. Well more, like five or six. It got to the point where when I'm sleeping I feel like my bed is shaking even though it isn't. We also have three empty bottles in my kitchen at home that are flipped upside down on top of the counter so we know when there's an earthquake.
Many times actually. But none of them were too major. I remember having to drop everything and run out of our apartment building many times as a child. One time our neighbour complained about being in the middle of taking a shit when he had to run out the building which made all the tenants laugh.
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Ya, me and my sister were on vacation at my grandma's in Navada sleeping in our camper , I'm at my end she's at hers. the camper shook at random times when we were in it. I blamed her for keeping me awake at night and she blamed me for the same. 😅 . Did it during the day too but didn't really pay attention to it. Only later did we find out through my grandma that it happens a lot. we are from Minnesota so never had even thought of a minor tremble being part of a earthquake. It felt so weird.. nothing I've ever felt before , not like a wind feeling against the camper , not like sound , not even like a semi truck from afar not even us moving in the camper felt like that. It's like a sleeping monster that growls lowly at you at random. Cool but weird
yes on a bridge in San Fran, level 3-4. car started shaking like couldn't handle the car. very odd. Also had them in ohio when grew up, stuff fell off walls.
Damn "global shaking"... we gotta do something about it, like stop drilling into the earth? joking.
I've experienced a few 6s and 7s. Just enough to be entertaining usually. I live in Seattle where we're way overdue for a 10. That's going to be nasty.
My first earthquake was "the big one" - the Northridge Quake on at 4:30AM is on MLK Day, 1994. I was living in Hermosa Beach at the time.
It changed my life forever and I was very edgy for months whenever I heard any kind of squeaky sound.
Many - I live in California! You are not a true Californian if anything less than a 5 on the Richter scale wakes you up.
Yes.
I live in Nebraska so there are NO earthquakes here.
Sleeping in one Saturday morning when I was awakened by the bed barely shaking. I thought it was my daughter playing a prank on me and pushing the end of the bed trying to wake me up. I woke up, yelling QUIT when she was not in the room, infact also being woken up by the same earthquake.
We have found out that it was aftershocks from something in Oklahoma.
I'm just curious as to how many seconds notice the warning system gives you for earthquakes? Of course it depends on how far away the center is.
Yes here where I live I've experienced earthquakes. Nothing real severe.
A lot.. I experienced this earthquake last year, luckily my home didn't take any damage but in total 116 people died, and I knew one of them in person.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FZkjtuoG1_0
I have. The last major one I experienced was the San Francisco quake of 1989. Kind of hard to erase my memory from my brain.
Yes I have been in several earthquakes in my lifetime.
I live on the west coast of the United States. I've been through several in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Whenever they happen, I just shake, rattle and roll with them. 😎
I experience them everyday. Most are too small to feel though. We had a particularly nasty one about 3 years ago (7.0). I remember that one because my lamp fell off my dresser and hit me in the head.
Yeah I’ve felt some since I live in California but they have been little, like one time when I was at my aunts house in the Bay Area I was laying on the couch and it shook a little bit but I’ve never been in a serious earthquake
Yup, we get hundreds a day where I live.. can’t feel most of them, but I’ve been in some big ones lately, mid-7’s.
Yes I have. It felt like the building went up and down.. i was so scared staying inside afterwards and I stayed awake outside for the whole night
I've lived in California for most of my life, so, yes, many times.
I have experience a 8 level earthquake when I was in school, 20000 people died in that quake
Yes, and it's one of the things I don't like about living here in Mexico aha.
We had two earthquakes last year but I couldn’t feel it because I lived near a train station and was used to rattling and shaking earthquakes aren’t very powerful here anyways
No I don't think so. At least not anything that I noticed
A few small ones.
Lima Peru.
North Carolina.
Los Angeles.
All under 3 I think.
Just enough to shake the bed and wake you up.
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