Have anyone felt an earthquake?

Have you felt an earthquake?

  • yes

    Votes: 20 57.1%

  • no

    Votes: 15 42.9%
  • Total voters
    35
I felt probably twice...once in Reno, Nevada in 1990 or 1991. I was laying in my bed and was going to sleep but something was going on....I told my adopted mom it was earthquake and she didn't believe me! Next morning, I got newspaper and showed it to her! I was right...ha! It was VERY VERY light...I was too relaxed and can feel it!

2nd one was in ... Arcadia, California back in 2000 just right before I moved out of California (probably about a month before). I was working graveyard at California home for the deaf....I was checking on the resdients to be sure they are okay...somehow I was at 2nd door and felt something's wrong with my leg...yes I was in the doorway when the earthquake hit! I thought it was too funny!! Anyway waited for like a min or two and ran down the hallway to turn main light on and saw the blinds were moving.....ahhhh earthquake! My heart beated too damn fast! So I checked again on them to see no damn heart attack! So everyone was fine...some did slept thru it. So it was quite experince...

I was suppose to feel 3rd one but we left on Sept 8 (it was Saturday night) and got home on the 9th (we flew on red eye). My mom emailed us that they had earthquake on the next day! My bf said ohhh damn!!! :-o He never felt one.

That was excatly 48 hours before 9/11 happened...we were grateful that we got home in a time or we'll be stuck in LA for next few days. ICK!
 
I havn't felt an actual earthquake, but I have felt little tremors. I live on the New Madrid fault line in Missouri. They say that if we ever have an actual earthquake that it will be devastating. I believe I'm going to move as soon as I finish college.
 
Never feel it before.. THanks god but feel sorry for other people. WOnder is that same as Washing Machine shaking? ha ha
 
Oh No...

mlkshkgrl said:
I havn't felt an actual earthquake, but I have felt little tremors. I live on the New Madrid fault line in Missouri. They say that if we ever have an actual earthquake that it will be devastating. I believe I'm going to move as soon as I finish college.
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*packing mlkshkgrl up* you move, dont want to think of a world without you ;) LOL...hope that thing does not go off anytime soon. I have never felt an earthquake and I really dont ever want to. After seeing what one can do, I will stick with these stupid tornadoes we get around here...OH WAIT...they are almost as bad....well atleast you have a better chance of avoiding one of those LMAO Earthquake...you are stuck! LOL
 
LOL. I haven't felt a real one...BUT....

Whenever my dad puts Jurassic Park on for my son to watch - he'll crank up the sound and make it REEEEALLLLY loud...he loves his stereo system. You wouldn't know the difference between the T-rex's roar and an earthquake.
 
I read all of ur stories about the earthquakes, thanks for sharing with me! I enjoyed reading the stories and some were funny and some were scary. ;) keep on going! :)
 
:eek: @ 'Gatsu
Wow. I still remembered the news that covered the 1994 earthquake. I was just 9 years old. I think we did get aftershocks... we always do with LA's earthquakes. :)

I live in San Diego-- we get aftershocks all the time. But so MINOR. Only for once in my whole life, my elementary had to evacuate the students because it was significant greater than a "minor earthquake". I remembered it-- I was in third grade, in my art class... we were playing with clay then all suddenly the tables shook-- and we all knew what it was-- we dove under the tables while watching our clay pieces falling onto the floor!

That is the only ONE earthquake that was a real big deal.
Many times I would wake up early in morning, spotting my mirror shaking violently then suddenly stopped. "Ah, just another earthquake." And went back to bed. Whenever we hear the news saying that we just have an earthquake, we looked around and asked, "did you feel it? No? Me neither."


Yeah-- we got pretty used to it. Most of the times we get the magntiudes of 2.0 or below...
Two weeks ago, A town appx an hour east of us got an 4.6 earthquakes. We didn't get the aftershocks but we were surprised at the magntiude so close to us.

in San Diego county alone, we got a lot of faults-- San Andreas being the major (like two hours northeastern of us) and Rose Canyon Fault in heart of San Diego... It is believed that every 300 years, RC Flt gives out a MAJOR earthquake... and it was appx 250 yrs since the last RC earthquake so... :Ohno:

....Shit I am supposed to remember all other faults for my geology exam..
there are five... San Andreas, Rose Canyon, Elisnmore.... J something... and... somewhere in the north county.
:doh:
(looking at her notes) Aha! Elsinore Flt, San Jacinto Flt and Imperial Flt are the remaining three. They all are WAY out in the country.

To learn all about earthquakes-- here is my Geology lessons available online! (Shockwave needed to view)
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/visualgeology/geology101/geo100/earthquakes.htm
I need to study!
 
The newspaper clipping I saved from the earthquake in Ecuador:
 

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i felt it once last year june 2004 while i was in waukesha (near milwaukee) in wisc... i think it was more of aftershock or something... it was very freaky experience for me. I was on computer when suddenly everything shook... i was like WTF WAS THAT?!? so later when i calmed down i went on internet and found out it was actually an earthquake. a weak one mine is light blueish area in milwaukee... I think... hard to tell from the map itself

it was more stronger in Illonis that time.
 

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Nope, never have! Sorry for those of you who did went through it though.
 
As a Californian native - been through quite a number of quakes throughout my life. 2 major ones that is forever etched in my memory: the 1989 SF quake (7.1 on ritcher scale) and the Joshua Tree quake in '92 (near L.A.).

The one in SF - I was supposed to drive to Fremont to help sister celebrate her 17th birthday, but waited until father got off work. Felt the quake up in Sonoma County, thought it wasn't too bad til we arrived to San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland area - realised how serious it was.

In L.A. - was sleeping as it happened around 4am in the morning. Pretty scary, ha.
 
Never went through an earthquake, and I hope not ever.

I don't think Victoria's anywhere near the fault line but then I don't know.

I remember there was a bad earthquake that shook Newcastle in 1989 or something.
 
I felt many quakes. But the Sylmar Feb 9, 1971 quake takes the prize! I lived in Burbank that time. And at 7.1 on the scale, it was a good ride for me being only 9 yrs old!

Richard
 
R3na3Blyth3 said:
As a Californian native - been through quite a number of quakes throughout my life. 2 major ones that is forever etched in my memory: the 1989 SF quake (7.1 on ritcher scale)

The world series game quake!

and the Joshua Tree quake in '92 (near L.A.).

I remember that one. My roommate ran outside buck naked!

The one in SF - I was supposed to drive to Fremont to help sister celebrate her 17th birthday, but waited until father got off work. Felt the quake up in Sonoma County, thought it wasn't too bad til we arrived to San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland area - realised how serious it was.

In L.A. - was sleeping as it happened around 4am in the morning. Pretty scary, ha.

The Northridge quake.
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And many more!

Richard
 
I have felt earthquakes several times (I couldn't remember how many). I raised in southern California. Very common for California have frequently earthquakes in any minor or major magnites. I remember I felt earthquakes in California is more like quick and sharp, and sometimes soft and sharp. Aftershocks, I didn't feel it. I lives in WA, there is a quite different, it's more like long and soft even if it's slight shakes can still feel it but aftershocks, can still feel it if there is no earthquakes. I have a quite experiences on different kind of earthquakes.
 
Safari said:
I have felt earthquakes several times (I couldn't remember how many). I raised in southern California. Very common for California have frequently earthquakes in any minor or major magnites. I remember I felt earthquakes in California is more like quick and sharp, and sometimes soft and sharp. Aftershocks, I didn't feel it. I lives in WA, there is a quite different, it's more like long and soft even if it's slight shakes can still feel it but aftershocks, can still feel it if there is no earthquakes. I have a quite experiences on different kind of earthquakes.
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I never realized that earthquakes are a bit different place to place. The last WA state earthquake was soft and more shaking, not a sudden jolting type kind. The quakes in WA state tend to be very deep underground where the shifting occurs, mostly 20-30 miles deep. The quakes in California are shallow and it's more damaging.
 
I never feel an earthqauke before in my life....but I remember someone was telling me that we did have very small earthquake in Alabama a couple of years ago.
 
Sorry, I never rode on earthquake...
But i was vacation in CA from 1998/99 and stayed friend's place for few wks.. Somehow My friend told me, Already earthquake but not seriouis. I said.. Oh aw.. please don't be silly being con me... Let me guess.. noth'n feel thing at all.. I still never rode on earthquake anyway!
 
sequoias said:
I never realized that earthquakes are a bit different place to place. The last WA state earthquake was soft and more shaking, not a sudden jolting type kind. The quakes in WA state tend to be very deep underground where the shifting occurs, mostly 20-30 miles deep. The quakes in California are shallow and it's more damaging.
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Correct. California has many structures to earthquakes but in WA don't have many structures. Maybe a few. (sorry, off topic a little- I have been to Seattle alot of times, yes, beautiful city in the night lights.)
 
sequoias said:
I never realized that earthquakes are a bit different place to place. The last WA state earthquake was soft and more shaking, not a sudden jolting type kind. The quakes in WA state tend to be very deep underground where the shifting occurs, mostly 20-30 miles deep. The quakes in California are shallow and it's more damaging.
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You are right, earthquakes are different in each area.

The earthquake that I felt in Ecuador was a slow rolling motion.

The earthquakes that we have experienced here in SC have been sudden boom crashes. The first time it happened, I thought a large tree fell in our yard. I ran outside to look. I noticed all our neighbors, up and down the street, were doing the same thing! No tree. Later, on the news, we heard that it was a confirmed earthquake. We got a small crack in our brick foundation.
 
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