Current Events > Have you ever felt/been in an earthquake?

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If so how big was it?
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Never felt one, but apparently I should have since there was only one earthquake here ever. July 2011, I was on the first floor and my brother was on the second, there was a tiny earthquake in my area and my brother felt it, but I felt nothing
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Ye, a few in the 5 range.

When I lived in northern Japan I was in a pretty big one. I don't know the richter scale number but it was enough where stuff was flying everywhere, stuff broke and we had to get the insurance involved. Sometime between 1996-1998.
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No. Thank God for that
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One I can remember in my life, in New Jersey, about 2012. Ish. I was in my office going over some stuff when all of a sudden my desk started vibrating, the fish tank was sloshing around a bit, and the light fixture was moving.
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Felt minor shockwaves, but nothing fell or anything. It's pretty calm where I live.
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Not sure how big it was but it woke me up at like 7am. Weirdly enough it was in upstate NY where there aren't any faults or anything. It was enough to knock some small things off the shelf.

There have been like 3 since I moved to SoCal but I haven't felt any of them.
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2 small ones in PA.
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No but apparently my neighborhood was in the epicenter of a small one a few years back. Didn't feel a thing.
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One cracked and ruined my grandparents underground pool in 86 but I was too young to remember any of it.
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I knew a kid that said he was born during the 89 quake in San Francisco and he had serious Tourette Syndrome and I never knew if he was serious about whether it caused his Tourettes or not.
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Many. I'm from Los Angeles and lived in Japan.

7.3 is the biggest I remember (Landers quake 1992). Also a 6.7 (Northridge quake, 1994). Most are in the 5.0 - 6.0 range. Anything less than 5 isn't worth mentioning to a California native.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Landers_earthquake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake
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Yes. Im in the area of Alaska that has numerous quakes. Most are around 4 magnitude.

Most recent in the area...

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000gc5e#executive

Plus this 6.8 quake way up north

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak20076877
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Many. Hundreds of small quakes, a handful of 4.0-5.0s. I lived in L.A. and then Reno, though, so they weren't really a surprise
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I've lived in the bay area and I've only felt one that I was like "that was definitely an earthquake" it was 5.9 or so like 10 years ago. usually sleep through or just straight not notice them
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The only one that's hit my state in decades.


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ProfessorKukui posted...

Ye, a few in the 5 range.

roughly same here

Dozens since I've lived in the Bay Area my whole life. The biggest was the 6.9 one in '89. I was young at the time but I remember the ensuing chaos well. It went on long enough for everyone to stop what they were doing and make a run for an open doorway, only to realize after a while that it wasn't going to stop and we had to get out of the house, and then it finally stopped as we were exiting the house. Lots of broken glass, etc. Everyone was scared to go back inside in case there was another one.
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Nope.
Plenty of tornadoes though
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SauI_Goodman posted...

When I lived in northern Japan I was in a pretty big one. I don't know the richter scale number but it was enough where stuff was flying everywhere, stuff broke and we had to get the insurance involved. Sometime between 1996-1998.

there was a ton of Earthquakes when I lived in Japan (I was there from '94-'01)
You could feel them ALOT more if you lived up on the higher floors of the towers that are on the bases since the towers are on rollers and they sway instead of just crumble

https://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.28643.1351261657!/image/338640899.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_900/338640899.jpg
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Never, thankfully. I live in the Midwest and Im not really sure if we get many earthquakes.
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Several.
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Tons of small quakes, couple medium sized ones, and one larger quake. The magnitude was 6.8 on the larger one. I remember when it happened some of the older buildings in my area sustained some damage, and some roads cracked apart. But other than that, nothing else major happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake

AbstraktProfSC2 posted...

SauI_Goodman posted...

When I lived in northern Japan I was in a pretty big one. I don't know the richter scale number but it was enough where stuff was flying everywhere, stuff broke and we had to get the insurance involved. Sometime between 1996-1998.

there was a ton of Earthquakes when I lived in Japan (I was there from '94-'01)
You could feel them ALOT more if you lived up on the higher floors of the towers that are on the bases since the towers are on rollers and they sway instead of just crumble

https://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.28643.1351261657!/image/338640899.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_900/338640899.jpg

I remember those towers. My friend lived on the highest floor and he would hang off of the balcony. I'm afraid of heights so I never even left the living room to get to the balcony.
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Yeah, a moderate one sometime in the late 90s in Bellingham, WA. I was suspended from school for biting the shit out of a bus aide so I was at home doing homework when the apartment I lived in started shaking and things started falling a little. My grandma took me to the bathroom to brace ourselves in the door frame, and then it stopped.

Then, sometime in 2011 or 2012, I was in the library studying when the bookshelf behind me started shaking. I ran out of the library so I wouldn't be crushed by books and stood in an open hallway. Turns out it started in Virginia and went all the way to my part of Pennsylvania. I immediately called my relatives that live in Virginia and they were ok. Coincidently, a stray tire rolled down from a parking lot at a higher elevation down to the parking lot of the place a good friend of mine worked and slammed into a car.
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Last year in November. The most devastating Earthquake in 32 years. Happened literally on the same date, a couple hours after the whole country did a drill in memoriam. My city was pretty much paralyzed for a week.
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I lived in North Cali in 1989. I think it was 6.8 or 6.9 cant remember. All I really remember is that it was during the World Series between the Giants and the A's.
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Yes, fairly weak ones happen every few years in Tennessee, or close enough in a neighboring state. It's mostly like a "what was that" moment.
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A few hundred. Not much worth mentioning (above 6)
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was in a 6.3 in new zealand that killed 180 or so back in 2011.

I live in So. Cal., so yes, yes I have.
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A couple of minor ones.
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NZ, so frequently.

That's just how we roll.
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Yes and it was small and weird because I was fixing to go up on an escalator in a department store in CA. Stuff like that happens to me.

No, but I live in an earthquake zone now, so I should probably get a kit for that or something.

No, never. On the east coast we are known for having Blizzards, as well as having the most days of precipitation during a year with around 210.

So no, thankfully we will never have to deal with Earthquakes.

@Ivany2008 posted...

No, never. On the east coast we are known for having Blizzards, as well as having the most days of precipitation during a year with around 210.

So no, thankfully we will never have to deal with Earthquakes.

I'd rather deal with an earthquake than my power going out for weeks.
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yep, bay area, frequently
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yea in michigan a few years ago. i think we've had 2 in the past like 5 years but both were real small. the 2nd i didn't feel but the first i was in a basement and felt it and was like "wtf was that?" wasn't till after that i seen people on facebook post about an earthquake.

Lonestar2000 posted...

@Ivany2008 posted...

No, never. On the east coast we are known for having Blizzards, as well as having the most days of precipitation during a year with around 210.

So no, thankfully we will never have to deal with Earthquakes.

I'd rather deal with an earthquake than my power going out for weeks.

It doesn't get that bad fortunately. Most I've dealt with is about 3 days, though other parts, in the more rural areas have theirs gone for weeks at a time.

Nope. Been painfully close to tornados tho.
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Only 3 mild ones and if I were in my home country during the last 3 weeks, the numbers would rise up to 10+.
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I slightly felt that one 2011 Virigina earthquake. I didn't know it was an earthquake until I started seeing news about it.
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Yes, grew up in SoCal so you kinda can't avoid them.
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Been in, yes. Felt, no.

I slept through it. The ones we have in Alabama are pretty much undetectable.
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7.2 Easter Earthquake 2010. Live about 13 miles from where it originated. Going back also felt the Landers Earthquake but I was around 9 at the time

southcoast09 posted...

Never, thankfully. I live in the Midwest and Im not really sure if we get many earthquakes.

Generally the only quakes the Midwest gets are those caused by fracking
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