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I did a search before deciding there were no threads related solely to earthquakes...so here I am. 
I'm just wondering if any of you who have gone through earthquakes...when and where and how did you feel going through it, etc.
I've gone through a number of quite major earthquakes...first one I can remember as young as I was...about aged 8. I was watching a tv show with my sister in a mobile home we used to live in San Rafael, California -- I reckon in the late 70's. It wasn't THAT major, but it scared the bejesus out of us as we saw the fishtank we had, toppling back and forth and water sloshing all over. Funny thing was, as my family all were eating dinner...we all didn't even move at all until AFTER the quake -- sis and I ran crying to our parents. wimps...that's us. Heheh!
The most terrifying one was in 1989 although I wasn't on the road around the Bay Area when the SF 7.1 quake struck, it was felt over 50 miles north where I was living in Santa Rosa. It measured about 4.5 in Santa Rosa. I was sitting at my desk in my room, writing a story and I had just started college after graduating from high school...when the quake started. I stood in the doorway, my mum was in the bathroom in her room!
She came scrambling out of the bathroom. shifting her pants up as she ran to the doorway! 
I still can remember her expression, although we were scared at the time, I look back and laugh. :P
The next one was when I was living in Los Angeles -- the 1992 Joshua Tree quake, although Joshua Tree was quite outside of L.A. -- it was a powerful quake and it happened around 4am in the morning. Naturally, I was in bed, trying to sleep off a drug induced headache (had partied hard the day before)...my cat, Sobriety was sleeping on my chest when she suddenly took off for the livingroom. I got up to see what was wrong and realised the room was moving. Crap! Earthquake! Ran to the doorway and stood there...(there were 2 bathrooms in that apartment) the 2nd bathroom door opened and out came one of my 3 roommates, he was wrapped in a towel as he had been taking a bath -- the other one was sleeping in the other room...whilst the 3rd roommate was outside. I went to wake up my sleeping ex roommate...the moment he realised what I said to him. He jumped out of his bed...naked saved for his underwear -- zoomed OUTSIDE!!!! I had to bring out a blanket for him to wrap himself up when I found him cowering in a bush, his face red with embarassment!
Well, was wondering what everyone else's experiences were like and any funny incidents came out of it?
I'm just wondering if any of you who have gone through earthquakes...when and where and how did you feel going through it, etc.I've gone through a number of quite major earthquakes...first one I can remember as young as I was...about aged 8. I was watching a tv show with my sister in a mobile home we used to live in San Rafael, California -- I reckon in the late 70's. It wasn't THAT major, but it scared the bejesus out of us as we saw the fishtank we had, toppling back and forth and water sloshing all over. Funny thing was, as my family all were eating dinner...we all didn't even move at all until AFTER the quake -- sis and I ran crying to our parents. wimps...that's us. Heheh!
The most terrifying one was in 1989 although I wasn't on the road around the Bay Area when the SF 7.1 quake struck, it was felt over 50 miles north where I was living in Santa Rosa. It measured about 4.5 in Santa Rosa. I was sitting at my desk in my room, writing a story and I had just started college after graduating from high school...when the quake started. I stood in the doorway, my mum was in the bathroom in her room!
She came scrambling out of the bathroom. shifting her pants up as she ran to the doorway! I still can remember her expression, although we were scared at the time, I look back and laugh. :PThe next one was when I was living in Los Angeles -- the 1992 Joshua Tree quake, although Joshua Tree was quite outside of L.A. -- it was a powerful quake and it happened around 4am in the morning. Naturally, I was in bed, trying to sleep off a drug induced headache (had partied hard the day before)...my cat, Sobriety was sleeping on my chest when she suddenly took off for the livingroom. I got up to see what was wrong and realised the room was moving. Crap! Earthquake! Ran to the doorway and stood there...(there were 2 bathrooms in that apartment) the 2nd bathroom door opened and out came one of my 3 roommates, he was wrapped in a towel as he had been taking a bath -- the other one was sleeping in the other room...whilst the 3rd roommate was outside. I went to wake up my sleeping ex roommate...the moment he realised what I said to him. He jumped out of his bed...naked saved for his underwear -- zoomed OUTSIDE!!!! I had to bring out a blanket for him to wrap himself up when I found him cowering in a bush, his face red with embarassment!
Well, was wondering what everyone else's experiences were like and any funny incidents came out of it?
Oh, javapride is my babe! 
on the statistics on which natural disaster typically have a higher survival rates -- but i would think its 1 of the natural disasters that is visiable and know have time to evacuate as opposed to earthquakes
It's not Dorm, but it's cottage from CSDF.