Brit Reacts To EARTHQUAKES VS SWIMMING POOLS CAUGHT ON CAMERA!

[@briankirchhoefer]

Its not traffic lights , its buildings you really have to worry about falling on your head.

[@joepike1972]

I live in California. It is not that bad. Like thunderstorms, fires, or traffic accidents sure damage is done, but generally it doesn't happen to you. You likely have experienced what it is like to feel a minor earthquake if you have been in you house when a large dump truck has driven by or felt a sonic boom of an air plane. Things shake. You just get under some kind of support structure like a door way or a table if it is shaking for a while.

[@TDHSFV]

Wednesday was the 30th anniversary of the 6.7 Northridge Earthquake. I live a few miles from the epicenter. I was almost 4. Living in Los Angeles, I’ve experienced many earthquakes. The majority of them have been small and quick that weren’t really scary. It’s the ones 6 and above that you dread. I’ll be 34 in February and have lived in LA my whole life.

[@rocknroller77]

As a native Californian, ive been in plenty of earthquakes of varying sizes. But the first one i remember, i was 5. I was playing outside when all of a sudden a huge earthquake started making the street/asphalt, wave. It was scary and mesmerizing all at once. Experiencing asphalt waving like water is extremely bizarre.

[@cinderseedwarner9794]

Born and bred in California. The first big quake I can remember was the ‘71 Sylmar quake. The 1994 Northridge quake was really crazy though!

[@thebyrd433]

I was 8 years old in 1971 when I was in the Sylmar Earthquake. It struck at 6:00 AM, and I woke up to my bed moving on its own across the room. Everything was shaking and I could hear things falling and breaking in the kitchen. It's not something you ever forget. As far as the actual sensation of it goes, it's like standing by the side of the road when a big truck goes by. The ground shudders a little under your feet. Make it A Whole Lot More intense, and that's similar to what an earthquake feels like. In fact, small earthquakes feel exactly like that.

[@peterkozak9212]

I lived in California during the 1989 earthquake and it was terrifying! I had lived in California off and on my whole childhood,but in 1989, I was 32 and the mother of two very young children. When the quake hit, it was different than any other quake I had ever experienced in my lifetime. It was a rolling type affect, the hanging lamps in our living room were swinging, the pictures on the walls shifted, so we ran outside. Usually they tell you to get under a doorway or large table, bout the entire back part of our home had sliding glass doors and we feared they would buckle and shatter. When we went outside it was even stranger, the truck across the street was actually bouncing in the driveway and water in the gutter was splashing up onto the sidewalk. This was the quake that caused a span of the Oakland, California Cypress structure to collapse and a portion of the Bay Bridge to collapse. It caused massive damage in the San Francisco Marina district and widespread damage all over the Bay Area all the way down past Monterey Bay Area, where we lived at the time. I don’t ever wish to repeat that experience!

[@loisfreeman1646]

Was that the one on San Francisco, California that brought so much destruction to the bridge?

[@kellyoehlschlager6985]

Glad you got through that safely. I hope your home was not damaged.

[@rubymimosa]

I experienced that quake too! Normally you can’t tell the earthquake from a dizzy spell but this earthquake I was up in Davis, CA. I remember seeing that bridge collapsed on the tv and I burst into tears. My then boyfriend tried telling me I was confusing the bridge and they were showing a single story bridge. I pointed at the tv and kept crying. We drove down to Sunnyvale, where my parents lived, and an aftershock hit and my now husband watched it roll down the hallway towards us. It didn’t frighten me but my other half was surprised at the roar before the rolling started.

[@RowdyRuth]

I was there too! The World Series game three was about to start. It was scary. The earth rolled like and ocean, trippy!

[@davidtullis2810]

My mom was on the Bay Bridge going towards San Francisco and had just passed the section that collapse

[@revgurley]

I agree with you. As a native Floridian, I've lived through very scary hurricanes, close by to tornadoes (luckily never directly hit). But I cannot imagine the terror of the ground beneath your feet shaking. Even a "small" one.

[@LauanaSimmons]

I have been in three earthquakes one when I was a child . The house started shaking and lamps were falling over. Everyone ran outside. Then as a grown up I was outside. Another occurred at night while I was asleep. It woke me up as the bed was swaying.

[@dianefiske-foy4717]

I slept through an earthquake once in the early 1970’s. Couldn’t figure out why my alarm clock was on the floor, until my sister told me about the earthquake. And I slept through a tornado once, also in the 1970’s. My friends asked me how I could sleep through that. I just said “I don’t know. But I slept through an earthquake once too.” And I’m not even a heavy sleeper.

[@LadyLizanna]

Most earthquakes kind of feel like you're on a waterbed with the 80s/90s motel "magic fingers" massage bed function set on the maximum random option. You go up, down, front, back and side to side all at once while also trying to dodge falling objects that have the same horrifyingly weird accuracy of toddler throwing a tantrum. Then you have the big ones and those are just terrifying.

[@carriemilito2851]

The New Madrid earthquake was a massive quake that shook the eastern US. There were a whole series of quakes that led up to the biggest one. There is a rift deep underground in or around the Tennessee/Kentucky border area that was the cause. If I remember correctly, church bells rang as far east as the Carolinas due to the shockwaves. The eastern geology allowed the earthquake waves to spread much farther and cause more damage.

[@Belleplainer]

There are actually several deep faults that run through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois. It's been estimated that throughout history a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake hits that area about every 80 years. But it's been well over 100 years since the last event of that size, which happened in 1895. The scary thing is that the longer it takes for an earthquake of that magnitude to hit, the more powerful it's likely to be as the stresses continue to build. This is from Missouri's State Emergency Management Agency: "The highest earthquake risk in the United States outside the West Coast is in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Damaging earthquakes are not as frequent as in California. But when they do occur, the destruction covers more than 20 times the area due to the geologic differences between the two regions. The Great New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 were a series of over 2,000 seismic events, which occurred for approximately five months, beginning December 16, 1811. Several of those earthquakes are believed to have been magnitude 7.0 or greater. There were reports of church bells ringing in Boston and of shaking being felt as far away as the Caribbean. The town of New Madrid was destroyed. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquakes caused ground warping, sand eruptions, fissures and landslides along river banks. They are believed to be the largest earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains in the history of the U.S."

[@moe92870]

I grew up in Southern California and have been in dozens of earthquakes. The rollers are more fun than the quick jolt style quakes. I think the different type earthquakes depend on how far you are from the epicenter. Where I grew up, I could hear the quake before it hit, because of the proximity of my house to the fault that ran up my street.

[@joepike1972]

3:18 actually high flows would get it worse since building codes demand buildings be flexible so they don't crack when when the earth starts moving.

[@touchstoneaf]

I went through a few small quakes in Southern California in my childhood before I moved out of the state. They were scary enough but they were all five and under. It's still an intense and wild feeling to have the solid earth under you start moving around and throwing you all over the place. In the biggest one felt, I remember somebody in the house yelling, "head for the doorway, head for the doorway!" and they meant it as in, "brace yourself there", but my friend just ran right out the door and down the street, LOL. You don't really think clearly when something like that is happening. Shortly after we left, the Northridge quake hit and my grandparents were caught in it. We called and called and called but the lines were tied up and we didn't know if they were all right for 5 days. All we could do was watch the news & hope. Pretty terrifying.

[@loisfreeman1646]

Many many years ago, like in the early 70's, my Dad & I were visiting my Brother in California. When going up the stairs to their apartment on the 2nd floor, everything started shaking but it was very mild. That was my 1st experience!

[@jeanine6328]

The guy was mistaken about feeling the earthquake more on lower floors than upper floors. You definitely feel it more the higher up you are in the building. This is because the building flexes . It has to or it would be stiff making it more likely to come down. It’s kinda like on an airplane. How you can feel the turbulence more when you’re rear of the wings. The plane has to flex and bend or it would fall apart. When it’s really bad, from the very back you can actually see it bending, it’s extra scary when you add lightening. 😱 The buildings will continue to sway after the quake stops until it reaches equilibrium.

[@michellecasey5752]

I was in an earthquake in California in 1986 and my daughter was in an earthquake in Japan in 2018. We both agreed, the earth doesn’t shake, it feels more like a slide. Then we saw that pool that moved more like a whirlpool and wondered if maybe some feel like a slides back and forth like a swing, or if some actually shake the ground , which would cause more of a whirlpool.

[@sallyintucson]

The skyscrapers in California are built to sway during earthquakes so they don’t snap. You’ll feel a lot more movement on higher floors than on the lower ones. If a quake happens where building codes are not made to withstand quakes, that’s where trouble happens.

[@cripplious]

I have been in california for 45 years. And each earthquake feels different. THey can be a jolt then shaking or a rolling feeling. you have to be in one to really understand the feeling

[@michelebossoletti]

I have lived in Southern California since I was 3 years old. I have felt every earthquake there is to feel even all the small ones. And I am now 67 years old. January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST a 6.7 magnitude EQ hit my town. Imagine you, your spouse sleeping naked. It was so violent that it threw me into the air and to the floor. On my side of the bed was a 65 gallon fish tank which proceeded to slosh and dump on me. Still naked and adrenaline pumping I run to get my children. Bump into my husband, also naked and then my eldest son in the hallway. My youngest, unbelievably did not wake up and I literally just dragged him out by the blanket he was on. You are so pumped full of adrenaline that you don't realize that you have been injured until it is over and you start feeling pain. You don't even know what hit you on the way out. The two things that I still refuse to do is sleep naked or past 4:30 am EVER again. Let me tell you, Kabir, that you would probably s*** yourself if you were in a real MAJOR earthquake. Add to that if you have a family to protect.

[@waynesimpson4081]

Different earthquakes feel different. For minor or distant, it feels like you're dizzy or losing balance; only by swaying items can you know it was an earthquake. Sometimes it's quick and sharp like a sonic boom. For some you can actually feel a rolling under foot, like you've stepped on a rolling pin. ...but it really doesn't feel anything like in looks in movies or on TV, or at least I have felt one like that yet. (Another poster said "slide", that's a good description.)

[@violetpup4272]

I was in the 89 earthquake in California, DC in 2011, and dozens of smaller ones. It all depends on how the earth moves. In 1989 it was waves but 2011 was jolting. I have been in ones that are more sound almost like a truck backfired and ones that felt like someone was shaking their foot on the back on my chair. My mom skinned her knee in 89 and we heard it before the shaking started. We couldn’t stand up. By the time on DC I was so used to them I was going to the bathroom and seriously went through this through pattern “oh, it’s an earthquake, wait I’m not in California, well… if it hasn’t stopped by the time i’m done I will be concerned” 😂 The experience kinda warps you.

[@m2hmghb]

That 89 quake was a bitch.

[@mmmangel1985]

Was in Monterey for the ‘89 quake and felt one that hit Hampton Roads around 2011. The ‘89 quake was horrible. I was at work for the VA quake… I was the only one at that job that knew what it was.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

I felt a quake once. Felt like the floor swaying side to side and it stopped pretty quickly after that.

[@moreanimals6889]

Accurate.

[@colleenmonell1601]

Having lived in San Diego, CA my whole life I can say that I have experienced a number of earthquakes, from small jolts to larger rolling quakes. Depending on the size you will have different reactions. One that hit up in Northridge, LA rolled down our way and woke me out of sleep and got me scurrying for cover. After that you have only Adrenalin running through you and an immediate need for information. We have not received any in my area that have dealt us any major damage but we are always reminded that one could happen at anytime and to be prepared. We are not far from the San Andres fault and if that slips then we have problems.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

Earthquakes are not that big a deal if you are in somewhere like California where most of the buildings have been retrofitted for large earthquakes. I wouldn't want to go through one in a Third World country. What always annoyed me was their inconvenience - they hit too frequently in the middle of the night when I tried to sleep.

[@mark37724]

I experienced one minor earthquake whilst sitting on the toilet. Turns out it wasn't something I ate.😂

[@prettybullet7728]

I experienced one brief earthquake when I was a kid. One minute I was swinging on a swing set and the next minute I flew up in the air and then face planted in the backyard. The swing set was never anchored properly and that's probably why that happened.

[@ashleydowney1222]

My biological mother was swimming in a pool. During the last big earthquake in Kentucky. It was on July 27, 1980. She was 14 and it was after church on Sunday. She and her foster parents were swimming after it had stopped raining. It was a 5.2 on the Ritcher scale.

[@xenotbbbeats7209]

I was at work in western Washington when the big Nisqually earthquake hit back in 2001. I was designing in a small office located in a very big warehouse with high ceilings containing assembly workers and shippers. Suddenly, I felt abrupt bumping and looked up at the ceiling where there was a generator. I thought it was acting up and cussed out loud. The hard bumping turned into rolling. That's when I realized it was a pretty strong earthquake. I got in the doorway and yelled at the panicking crew to get under the heavy reinforced tables, but they just scattered. Most didn’t speak English. I saw stacks of clothes falling off of shelves that rose several feet up the warehouse walls. For some reason, I started hooting from all of the excitement. I figured I might as well enjoy the ride. What a funny sight that must have been to see a warehouse full of people screaming and running in terror, and 1 designer laughing and yelling, "Whoohoo!"🤣

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Having lived in So California for my first 60 years…I experienced both the Sylmar and Northridge quakes… It is terrifying! During the Sylmar Quake, I was trying to get to my 2 year-old son… The ground doesn’t just shake beneath you…it violently throws you in different directions… We were without running water for 2 weeks… We had no electricity, initially… Our home was not severely damaged, but houses nearby were “red-tagged” and declared uninhabitable… We slept in our cars for quite a few days… Dishes fall out of cupboards, appliances can move away from the walls, things fall over…and the water in toilets sloshes out onto the floor… There are so many things happening all at once… Your main focus is the safety of the people you love and your safety… I remember our front door creaking before an aftershock and wondering just how big the coming aftershock was going to be? I was driving on an overpass during an aftershock, and my car was moved, violently, into another lane…

[@ScottyM1959]

When I lived in New Jersey I was out in my car with the radio cranked up and the car started to shake like it was going to stale out, so I gunned it a few times. When the light changed we drove back to my house and everyone's kids asked if we felt the earthquake? We just looked at each other and nervously laughed looked at each other and hugged each other because any of the utility poles and traffic lights could've fallen us.

[@moreanimals6889]

I am from San Diego and live in Oceanside, CA along with many of my relatives. I remember the last Earthquake that is mentioned in the video. I was 10 minutes away, at my Aunt's home. We had all just gotten up, to head to the dining room table. Suddenly, the chandelier began swinging gently, then more and more violently. Anyone who was in the kitchen, rushed outside through the sliding glass door. I tried to hold onto the chair to stabilize myself. The ground rolled beneath me for a minute or so. It was a memorable Easter. A few of my relatives were near the couch and hopped on real quick. and held on. My cousin's kids were pretty young at the time and were very surprised. They weren't sure what to think. No one was hurt.

[@angiepen]

I lived most of my life in California, and I've been in a bunch of quakes, including the '89 Loma Prieta quake in the Bay Area, but most of them were small. There are two kinds of quakes -- jolting quakes and rolling quakes. Jolting quakes are one, or maybe a few, short, sharp jerks, with a bit of rumbling before and after, but not a whole lot. They're over pretty quickly. If you're inside, it feels like someone whacked your building with a huge hammer. Hanging lamps and plants and such start swinging, things might fall off the walls or tables and such, but the main action is that instant jolt, or maybe a couple of them as techtonic plates jerk, catch, jerk again. Rolling quakes are what it says on the tin, a longer, more regular movement. I think the plates are grinding past each other in a more steady way, rather than jolting and catching. Most of the ones I remember lasted like five or ten seconds, something in that area. I'll admit, though, that it seems longer when you're in the middle of it. :) The '89 quake lasted longer, more like twenty or maybe thirty seconds? On topic, a guy I worked with in '89 said that when he went home, his neighbor's front yard across the street was a complete swamp, and their backyard pool was empty. Nobody saw it, but looking at the aftermath, the rolling harmonics, coupled with the size and shape of the pool, seemed to have been just right to send all the water in the pool *over* the house and onto the front lawn. I'd have loved to have seen that. O_O

[@mildredpierce4506]

There was no opening in the fence where the man was thrown through into the pool.

[@F.O.Cause.U.S]

I live in Alaska we have over 100 earthquakes a day here. Some can be felt some can not.

[@melindaburch4318]

I’m 79 and have been in many CA quakes. It’s of the movement. It’s the noise-rattling, roaring etc.

[@Phoenixphyre001]

I'm a native Californian, and I grew up with earthquakes through the 60s - until I moved in the early 2000s. They never really phased me until the 1994 Northridge earthquake. I lived near the epicenter, and I thought we were going to die. It woke us up from a dead sleep and didn't phase us at first. Then it kept going, and it tossed up up in the air, then went side to side. It sounded like a 2x4 was slamming against the walls. There was a lot of structural damage, and a ton of homes were red tagged and uninhabitable. Scary stuff!

[@elciniak2225]

Living in California, I have a warped perspective on Earthquakes. If we ever had “the big one” I’d be as scared as anyone else. Living here though, I tend to chuckle at anything under a 4.0. I had a 4.0 strike a mile from me years ago. Woke up wondering why someone was jumping on the bed, then remembered I lived alone, said “oh earthquake” to myself, and went back to sleep. The strongest I ever woke up to was a 5.2. That kept me awake but didn’t really scare me. It was just enough of a jolt to get me out of bed.

[@tomhalla426]

I was in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Watching a light standard do a four foot arc back and forth, with the arm swinging out of phase. I helped my landlady deal with her former collection of Depression Glass, with a scoop shovel. I

[@randykillman6475]

In the 1989 earthquake in northern California, I saw 10 gallons of water dump onto the floor from a 20 gallon fish tank. Other effects were dishes coming out of cabinets onto floor breaking into pieces, all sorts of other items come out of cabinets, furniture sliding all over the place, light fixtures coming down from the ceiling and the chimney tumbled down onto the roof. A big mess to clean up. Especially home made jam in jars as the sticky jam stuck the broken glass to the floor.

[@m2hmghb]

Those poor fish :(

[@randykillman6475]

fortunately non ended up on the floor but remained in the tank @@m2hmghb

[@katinacarson-hunwi7297]

I live in Ohio and our State is on a fault line. Every once in a while, certain parts of the state will have tremors. When I was a child and I can’t remember if it was the late 70s or early 80s, the town I was born and raised in, felt a tremor. It was a little scary.

[@-.-4]

Yes, an open area. In thunderstorms, cows tend to go under trees and get killed by lightning that hits the tree.

[@JonathanH1253]

Ive been in one very small earthquake, just felt like my house was vibrating and the noise can best be described as what it sounds like when someone has really loud bass in their car. I live in Maine, all we get is small earthquakes, because we dont have any major fault lines near us.

[@l.p.864]

I remember the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Southern California. 6.7 strength. I was asleep and remember being woken by the bed shaking and my oldest brother almost breaking the door down as he ran to me. My mom's headboard mirror broke just after my brother grabbed me out of bed. I've been in many others, not quite as strong. To me one of the strangest things is that you can actually HEAR the earthquake coming. If you've heard it before, the sound is unmistakable. It's only a couple seconds, but you can actually hear the Earth moving/shaking closer and closer as it approaches you. I now live in tornado alley, so instead of earthquakes and wildfires the dangers are tornadoes and the current icy roads. 🤷‍♀️

[@andreakitajo4516]

I lived in Misawa Japan from 1991 - 1997 and experienced a couple of major earthquakes. I lived on the 8 floor of a 10 story apartment building. These buildings were in an X formation & the structure was built to move with the earth. So when a quake hits the buildings would still be swaying for several minutes after the earthquake stopped. I remember thinking that this must be what it feels like standing on a surf board riding a wave as I tried to stand during a quake.

[@jasonmims5057]

I feel so sorry for the people on the street by the building with the roof pool because on top of being tossed around during the earthquake you'd have water pouring on your head nearly drowning you. That's just awful

[@tofersiefken]

I live in Alaska, along the ring of fire, and we have earthquakes on a fairly regular basis. Most of the time they are barely noticeable, but it is still a weird feeling. I've not been close to the epicenter of a high-magnitude quake, but since I'm on the Alaskan coast, we still get tsunami warnings just as often as earthquake tremors.

[@JoeVideoed]

I lived in Phoenix when the Mexicali earthquake happened. Was working in a call center & initially it felt like the PC screen was wiggling around. I thought I was losing my mind & then looked up and saw the lights swaying up above me. It was quite the topic of conversation there. Once I got back home the TV news was full of people who'd recorded their pools going nuts like in this video & yet we were hundreds of miles away from the epicenter. Crazy stuff.

[@ramonalfaro3252]

I was in Sequoia National Park during the " Hurriquake " last year.

[@sabliath9148]

Worst quake I was in was while I live in California. My family had a weekend cabin in the San Bernadino mountains (basically right on top of the San Andreas Fault, for those unfamiliar with the area). It felt like the entire mountain was being rung like a bell. As other have said, smaller earthquakes feel not much worse than a large truck train thundering past, just somewhat prolonged. Just last year, I was in a smaller quake, occurring around 4 AM. it was enough to wake me up, but not much more severe than that.

[@momclg]

It’s a rolling motion, been in a lot of earthquakes, lived in California since 1958

[@anorthosite]

The damage you see in Turkey underscores the importance of proper building design/construction in seismic areas. Most of those collapsed buildings were brick/block and mortar, or unreinforced masonry. In Charleston, South Carolina, you can see numerous old brick buildings that have decorative-looking medallions on their outer walls. Many/most of those are anchors for tie rods, retrofitted into buildings that survived the magnitude 7 quake that happened there in 1886.

[@Momsbasement354]

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay we’re used to earthquakes but the ‘89 one was a big one. I was walking across my room to greet our friends who had just arrived from Oregon and boom, I was thrown to the ground in the middle of my room. I quickly got to my door jamb and braced. I could see our pool shaking and throwing 3-4 foot waves out either side. At the Academy Of Sciences in SF has an earthquake simulator and is fun for us locals to watch people try it for the first time.

[@RamblingRose08]

There used to be an Earthquake simulator at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, but that was before the museum was moved to Pier 15. It is most likely at the new location as well, I just haven't been there.

[@kimberlyarmstrong2929]

We lived in California and have experienced several quakes, including the Northridge quake. My least favorite, I was at work on the 5th floor. That was very unsettling for me. However, apparently not unsettling enough, as every time I passed my supervisor in the hall afterwards, I would sway back and forth as a joke to freak her out. 🤣🤣🤣 We even get occasional tremors here in Montana. I'm not a fan, especially since you never know how long they will last.

[@jerrishook7783]

I was at a friend’s house in Walnut Creek, California during the 1989 earthquake. She had a built in swimming pool that buckled violently during the quake. Her young children were in daycare so I drove her to pick them up encountering huge cracks in the asphalt. Walnut Creek is about 30 minutes from San Francisco. That’s the one that had freeways collapse on victims.

[@spinalobifida]

I don't remember feeling shaking when an earthquake happened off the west coast of Florida. My stepmom felt it in central Florida. The land is porous, so it would shake things from a long distance away.

[@kellyoehlschlager6985]

Note - outside is not always best. If you live in an area with multi level buildings around you, if you go outside, you will be hit with falling glass from windows and other debre that could injure or kill you. So, always do what local emergency departments say is the best response for your location.

[@brendaclark8344]

An earthquake in 1811-1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward and it produced a 18,000 acre what is now known called Reelfoot Lake in the Northwest corner of Tennessee.

[@jtoland2333]

The worst part was hearing the cries of the frightening kiddos. Thankfully, they didn't get hurt, but their cries broke my grandma heart.

[@FrankRowell-db7xq]

Around the year 1995 Mexico City was the largest, most populous city in the world.

[@dwh58]

My family in Canada played Rummy, Spades, Euker, Bridge, Go fish, Snap, Memory with a deck of 52 cards. Cribbage , Yahtze, Monopoly, Trouble were big also. Spades and Yahtze were probably played the most though. Good video, have watched this guys cookout video at least 4 times. Cheers from Vancouver, BC.

[@dawnprice6914]

Back in 2003, here in Northwest Ga we had one. We are on the fault line that made the Mississippi River flow backwards. Living in California, I knew what it was, but I had no clue there was a fault near us. My husband was at a store and he called me and asked if I felt anything? You mean the earthquake, I asked? Is that what it was. He said the cashier hit the floor because she was scared someone had set off a bomb. I could hear him telling her " My wife said it was an earthquake " and people laughed. Then they got messages on their phones.

[@juliaelrod2154]

I've probably been through 30 earthquakes in my 56 years that I could feel. Only 3 truly scared the hell out of me. We had one last summer where I live in the Northern California coast that was a 6.2. The walls in my old apartment looked like they were going to collapse like a house of cards. I had to crawl to my front door. Very powerful.

[@cherylmarquez2645]

I lived in Santa Maria,CA about 7yrs ago & the plates slipped about a mile from the house, it sounded like a bomb going off & then the shaking started. Scared the hell out of me!

[@ghosthunter1083]

from what I remember it can be a rolling feeling to a wave-like feeling

[@angelagraves865]

I live in California and have been in many earthquakes, some of them fairly big, and it's a rush no matter how small it is. You never know if what you're feeling is just ramping up to something bigger or not.

[@dubbleplusgood]

Went through a 5.0 earthquake once while in a store. Some stuff fell off the shelves but overall it was tame. I'd never want to experience anything greater than that though. Another time I woke up in the morning to find out there was a quake overnight lol.

[@Lill2895]

The last notable one in Cali that I recall was maybe 5 or 6 yrs ago. We were next to get on a ride that swung you in the air at 6 Flags Magic Mountain. It was the evening and ALL those rides started creaking and swinging and we had to hold the rails in line. The way the people who were getting strapped in were screaming 😩 And we were worried about people running and trampling. Luckily it wasn't worse, but I've never seen such a large themepark shut down so fast. I know the people on the coasters thought they were about to meet their maker.

[@luxleather2616]

I've been in quite a few earthquakes....some just feel like a soft roll on a conveyer belt & some feel kinda jerky like you're on a boat thats hit a rough wave & some feel like you're in a violent funhouse....I live in Yuma which is near Mexicali & I remember that earthquake....it wasn't as intense by the time it hit us....best advice make sure you are away from falling ovjects....open areas or under something solid & stable to protect your head....sit down....don't stand up....don't panic they don't last very long at all

[@cripplious]

yes for earthquake safety they have 'homes' that get shaken to simulate the quake

[@MaggiLou22]

I was in high school when the 2001 Nisqually earthquake hit western Washington. Walking outside between classes, the ground looked like waves rolling. Strangest thing I’ve seen. Damaged part of our high school. You don’t really realize growing up all the earthquake drills you do in school aren’t standard for everyone around the world. Pretty crazy.

[@janetmoreno8909]

My niece moved to California, stayed there about a year before moving back to the east coast, she said she didn't like the sensation of the earth moving under her feet.

[@davidv3827]

I was 11 at the time of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. At the time I was getting ready to watch the Giants vs. A's world series game just like everyone else. I was watching the game and next thing i know the ground started shaking. It was terrifying as i was home alone at the time. I went outside and watched the light poles rocking back and forth as well as waves in the streets. It was very scary

[@thelizziest4317]

I’ve only experienced 3 earthquakes living in IL. The bigger one was in the middle of the night & woke up to my bed rolling back & forth hitting the bed. I had watched a scary movie that day & thought it was something paranormal because earthquakes are rare here lol I felt sea sick the rest of the day because it threw off my equilibrium.

[@geeemm8028]

I've lived in California my whole life, two hours south of San Francisco and about 20 miles from the San Andreas fault. We have earthquakes all the time, weekly I'd guess, but most are too small to feel. There are different types of earth movement, so some quakes feel like sharp jolts, some like rolling waves. My house usually creaks, so I'll look up to see the lamp shade moving or the chandelier swaying. During the big 1989 Loma Prieta, I was sitting in my car and I thought a coworker was jumping up and down on my bumper, looked in my mirrors, but no one was there. I love that you mentioned the Ring of Fire. Marine biology and geology were my absolute favorite subjects in school. You can check out USGS's recent earthquakes map and UC Berkeley's Seismology map to see what's shakin'. I must say, the only sloshing pools I've seen were on cruise ships during rough seas. Nothing horrible, but it's quite something to see the water moving on its own.

[@kellyoehlschlager6985]

The only earthquake I have experienced was the 2011 Washington, DC 5.8 quake - the epicenter was in Mineral, VA. I live in Northern Virginia just outside of DC. I was on my lunch break with my boss at a restaurant. It started off as a rumble and I thought a big truck was driving by. I looked out the window and I could see another building's windows moving weirdly. Then the rumbling got louder and more intense, the floor underneath us rolled. Kind of like being on a raft in a wave pool. The drop ceiling was flapping up and down and all the glasses in the bar were rattling loudly. It didn't last long. I knew it was a quake but was doubting myself. Our area only gets quakes like this once every hundred years or so. I knew we were over due for one but still couldn't believe it happened. My boss says "I think that was an earthquake." And I yelled to the bartender "turn on the news!!" and it was already all over the TV. It did mostly minor damage. The Washington Monument and the National Cathedral had a lot of structural damage. I know the side of a brick building in Virginia, closer to the epicenter, collapsed. Where I was, it was just a neat experience. I cannot image being in a big, life-threatening one. Funny note. My husband's shared office didn't have windows. When the quake started, his co-worker yelled "TORNADO!!!" and they both ran out to go to the basement. When they got to the hall, they saw it was a beautiful day. By that point it was over. My husband is still disappointed that he did "experience the quake" because he thought it was a tornado.

[@jasonlmeadows]

I grew up in the Central Valley of California where one of the most active fault lines is located, the San Andrés. I have experienced many earthquakes of 6.0 or greater and one that was 7.2. Depending on the type of fault that generates the quake you will get a different type of energy release and a different feeling of motion in the quake. The San Andres I believe is called a lateral slip fault. One plate is pushing north, while the other is moving south and they get hung up on each other. The quake comes when the part that is hung up slips free and the two plates move and the released energy is the quake that you feel. Now I live in Washington state on top of another large fault called the Juan De Fuca I believe. It’s what is called a subduction fault. Basically in this case one land mass is being forced down under another land mass. As with the other fault when there is movement of the two sides of the fault that energy gets released and is what is felt as an earthquake. Given the range I’ve experienced my reactions have been “hey, did you guys feel anything odd?” to “HOLY F**K, we’re going to die!”

[@davidtullis2810]

I was in San Francisco for the 89 earthquake. I was on solid rock on a hill . It felt like I was on a small boat in the ocean

[@md_vandenberg]

Think of the sensation of walking over a bridge and a large truck (lorry) or bus was to pass by. The shaking would be similar to a quake, more so the start of the quake. It just speeds up from there.

[@WhodatLucy]

Anchorage Alaska has tremors everyday, as a child we just scooted back up to our desks .. the tremors would vibrate us away from our desk

[@nancystanton955]

I have been through two earthquakes. I live on the east coast so they were minimal ones. In October 1963, I was 6 and my family were moving to St. Louis, Missouri due to my dad's work. The moving van had already left but Dad, my older brother and sister and I were at the house making sure nothing had been missed. I remember this low rumbling noise and my dad grabbing me and running outside then handing to my sister. He and my brother then ran to the cellar doors and went down there. They came back up and said the furnace was okay. Dad had thought it had exploded. We found out later there had been an earthquake. In 1986 we were living Ohio (Dad's job again, same company) and there was an earthquake. I had the day off and was visiting my mum. About noon I looked up and the heavy cast iron chandelier was swinging voilently. I called Mum's attention to it. She turned on the noon news. They broke in before noon and said that all Ohio had felt the quake. Dad came through the door for lunch and asked if we had felt it.

[@dreesexton4269]

My first earthquake was a nice small 3.5 Heard it first and thought it was a low flying, large plane. Then felt the floor moving and saw fixtures swaying.

[@m2hmghb]

Fun fact Kabir, Bull sharks have been found up the Ohio and Mississippi rivers - over a thousand miles inland. I was in a 4.2 earthquake - honestly I just thought my balance was fucked for a couple minutes.

[@moreanimals6889]

If you want to see what an earthquake feels like, when you happen to be in bed, get in bed and have another person do "CPR" on the mattress at different strength levels. That's what it feels like, specifically when you are in bed at night. Obviously, if it is too violent, you can't replicate it very well. If you are standing up and at street level the ground suddenly feels liquid and behaves like the ocean. You can't stand up. If you try to stand, the earthquake will violently throw you to the ground. You can maybe try and crawl to something to hold onto. It really depends on how big or small the earthquake is. If it is small, you can stand there and it feels like a mild shaking similar to what you might experience in a fun-house.

[@squeegybe]

born and raised in Southern California. The ground rolls not shakes

[@lnytita6763]

In California, I had just gotten relieved from an overnight duty-shift in the barracks (aka I had been awake for 24 hours) and was just about to doze off in bed on the third floor when an earthquake struck... it wasn't too bad, I looked out the window and saw nothing unusual, and I just closed my eyes and went to sleep. Many years later, I was on the 10th floor of a hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, about to fall asleep for the night, but this time, the bathroom door began swinging open-shut, the drawers opened on the dressers and cabinets, and the curtains came away from the windows at least a 45-degree angle as the room swayed side-to-side >> I got dressed at military speed, flew down the stairwell, and waited outside away from the buildings for about an hour before going back in after checking for an all-clear/all-safe from the staff. It took a while to get to sleep, for sure.

[@4potslite169]

If you’ve ever been on a bridge while a large truck moves past and felt the bridge flex, that’s what a very small earthquake feels like.

[@jacenjustice]

We don't normally have quakes in D.C, so when we had one like a decade ago I woke up and thought I had a poltergeist. 😂 I don't even believe in that, but it made more sense than a quake in D.C..

[@Boodieman72]

There is an earthquake simulator in London, I think at the science and natural history museum.

[@mildredpierce4506]

You can’t describe or imagine the sensation of being in an earthquake if you have never been in one. Also an earthquake can feel differently depending on the size and magnitude of the earthquake and what you are doing or where you’re located at the time. For instance if you’re driving your car during an earthquake you may think you have a flat tire and not realize it’s an earthquake. sometimes it can feel like there’s a heavy truck driving by. Some earthquakes are just quick but hard jolts. Others can feel like a wave on the ocean. I was on the 12th floor of an office building once when there was an earthquake. Because the building has rollers to absorb some of the shock of an earthquake, you can almost feel A slight swaying. Some earthquakes are only a few seconds long while others, like the Northridge earthquake of 1994, seem to last forever. I was in the bed sleeping because it was 4 o’clock in the morning and had time to get up out of the bed, walk to the doorway, stand there , and then walk across the living room to see how my daughter was doing and the earth was still shaking. That was a long earthquake. I think it was over a minute long if I’m not mistaken. There was absolutely no damage in the building I was in fortunately.

[@monicapdx]

There was a 5 point something with an epicenter about 30 miles away that rocked our entire apartment building. It woke us up in the middle of the night. At first there was just a lot of creaking that sounded like it was from the roof. We were puzzled; they'd been up inspecting the roof prior to patching and re-tarring it in the next few days, and it sounded exactly like they were walking around up there again. At 3 a.m. or so? Then the building started to move, and we realized. Our neighborhood is on an ancient floodplain a few miles from the banks of a big river, with god only knows how many hundreds of feet of alluvial soil beneath us, before bedrock or the local lava plain. So it got a pretty good sway going, along the long axis of the building. Thankfully it stopped in only about a minute or less. But that's one of the movements that brings buildings down if it goes on too long. Or it can cause liquefaction of the soil, if the soil is loose enough, and open big holes. It wasn't bad enough to cause either. It's the most scared I've been in one, though. I've usually felt the rumble type, like a truck going past. Not swaying like on a boat!

[@cortneyperfume_madness480]

I've barely experienced one. It was far away from us but it shook our windows and things on shelves. I live right next to a national cemetery my grandparents are buried there and I just thought about 100,000 bodies rumbling.😶

[@tinagarcia3571]

They feel different depending how close it is to the surface. Jelly to slamming into a building feel. Been in many I'm originally from northern California.

[@annajosullivan]

I live in Texas and the first time I was in an earthquake I didn’t realize they caused a loud boom and I was in my bedroom and I literally thought a truck ran into my house and that was the noise and what was caused the shaking. I ran up to check and was surprised to see there was nothing was there. So I looked it up and found out we had just had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake.

[@9jhfbyrg]

I was in the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. I lived in the suburb of Dublin Ca

[@mandarinlearner]

A large earthquake in 1812 caused by the New Madrid fault caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards for days

[@jenniferrowland1339]

I was in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It was like standing up on a roller coaster. At least it was only 15 seconds. But unfortunately enough to kill all those on the Cypress Structure in Oakland.

[@DelightfulDisappointment]

My mom used to work in San Francisco pretty high up in a highrise. During an earthquake she said the building swayed about 3 ft from side to side. No thank you 😅