Ever experience an earthquake?

jacksie66

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kneemos

There's been a few down around the SE.Somebodies tea cups rattled once I think.

gramar

In Bangladesh a few years ago lying on the bed when it started to shake. Lasted about 10 seconds and frightened the bejaysus out of me. I thought i was having some kind of fit. In the morning I saw in the paper there had been a minor tremor. Only about 8 lines about it on page 5 or 6. I cut it out and still have it somewhere.

Menas

The earth has moved for me a few times all right.

Colser

Menas wrote: »

The earth has moved for me a few times all right.

Did it last long?

LuckyGent88

jacksie66 wrote: »

Got a big one here in Christchurch New Zealand today. A 5.7. Scared the ****e out of me. Whole house shaking, cars and trucks in the drive being tossed around and **** falling down around me. Aftershocks all day long as well.
Pretty serious one with liquefaction and cliff collapses. Anyone else experience one?

Lived in Christchurch for a year in 2014 and experienced a number of them. Nothing above 5 though.

The first one was 4.5 and had just put off the light in bed when it hit. I freaked out and then the remote fell on my head from the shaking.

Phone was full of messages this morning from my mates still there. They were evacuated from the cinema and riccarton mall. The pictures of sumner beach are pretty scary.

jacksie66

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Kidchameleon

Years ago (in the 80's) I felt one in Drumcondra

bear1

Rome 2012 I believe it was or 2011. Went to a friends party in one of the tower blocks.
Sat down for the meal when the building started to sway.
At first I thought it was the alcohol but when car alarms starting to sound and the lights started swinging everyone knew what was happening.
Lasted maybe 15s but it was strangely exciting.

Testament1

Christmas Eve last year in Christchurch, think it was a 4.0 according to GeoNet at the time. I was on holidays from Sydney visiting a friend living in Christchurch and had only landed 2 days before it. Caught the tail end of a magnitude 6 one in Arthur's Pass while we were touring the South Island about 2 weeks later.

I've a couple friends who were in Christchurch the time of the 2011 quakes.

r93kaey5p2izun

Yes in Greece in around 15 years ago. It was 5.3 if I remember correctly. I found it exciting at the time, it was fairly short lived and I wasn't really sure what it was even. No damage to my apartment or anything nearby but the bars had lots of broken bottles and glasses. It was kind of surreal as it just comes out of nowhere without warning and a little hard to believe what's happening. The locals just treated as a run of the mill thing.

Andre 3000

I left on the immersion one time and I nearly fell out of bed hearing the mother storming through the house towards me with wooden spoon in hand.

corner of hells

Would this count ?

As seismologist Alice Walker told the 1999 BBC documentary Young Guns Go For It:

"On the 8th of August 1992, the police phoned the British Geological Survey, and they said that people had been phoning in saying that there had been an earthquake in London. They had described some effects like heavy lorries passing outside. People were frightened. Tower blocks were being evacuated because people thought the tower block was going to fall down. It was an intensity of about five. When I told the police that I thought the cause of the disturbance was a Madness concert at Finsbury Park, they didn't believe me at first. I got a phone call the next night from the police who said exactly the same felt effects had occurred - and so they did believe me after all. So my reputation as a seismologist still remains intact!"

cdeb

Another one for Christchurch here - a 4.3 in 2012. Was like a giant invisible hand rocking the room like a cradle. Was actually kind of cool. I think there was a 5.0 a couple of days after I left as well. Wouldn't like to experience one with liquefaction though!

The city just seems doomed at this stage.

Zaph

kneemos wrote: »

There's been a few down around the SE.Somebodies tea cups rattled once I think.

There was a 5.4 earthquake in north Wales in 1984 that was felt in Dublin and along the east coast. I slept through it and was quite disappointed to have missed it.

Whispered

There was one the year before last that could be felt here in Kildare. Obviously really mild but I felt it. They wouldn't believe me the next day in work until it was said in the newspaper.

Testament1

cdeb wrote: »

Another one for Christchurch here - a 4.3 in 2012. Was like a giant invisible hand rocking the room like a cradle. Was actually kind of cool. I think there was a 5.0 a couple of days after I left as well. Wouldn't like to experience one with liquefaction though!

The city just seems doomed at this stage.

NZ as a whole is massively prone to strong earthquakes given its geology. The Quake City museum in Christchurch is very interesting to wander around for a few hours. Liquefaction is the big danger in Christchurch.

The majority of deaths in the 2011 quake came from the collapse of the CTV building. There's a big scandal over that since the structural engineer was found to have never designed a building of that scale before. This was coupled with developers insisting on a minimum cost design to barely satisfy the building regulations and pressure put on council officials to approve a structure they had reservations about.

There's fears that Wellington could suffer similar devastating effects when the expected big quake from the Alpine Fault hits.

I find geological events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions fascinating. Shows the power of the natural world.

cdeb

Testament1 wrote: »

NZ as a whole is massively prone to strong earthquakes given its geology.

True. Though I think at the moment Christchurch is particularly bad as the earth is still settling from the previous quakes? Something like a 5-year series of aftershocks basically?

What surprised me (maybe it shouldn't) as well was the contrast between the centre of town - in ruins, and often closed off - and the park, which was pristine, as if nothing had happened.

Many times, usually little wobbles but only occasionally enough to have made me stop what I'm doing and think about standing under a doorway.

It's a bizarre, powerless feeling.

catbear

One went off when in SE Asia, didn't feel it as sound asleep.

Did just luckily miss out on being on KoPhiPhi when the Tsunami hit. We were in Bangkok thinking of going there for xmas but when talking to other backpackers we were turned off by the idea of the influx of tourists so we opted instead to head east into cambodia.

A few months later we actually bumped into one of those backpackers who arrived in Pluket the morning of the disaster. As he told us what happened the goosebumps were coming up all over his arm.

Thargor

Andre 3000 wrote: »

I left on the immersion one time and I nearly fell out of bed hearing the mother storming through the house towards me with wooden spoon in hand.

Wow what fresh and original material, where do you get your ideas?

deirdre_dub

There was a big earthquake in Turkey in August 1999 that I felt in north-east Bulgaria. I was just about to fall asleep when I felt the bed gently sway. I thought it was my imagination until my room-mate, who was sitting out on the balcony, said they felt their legs sway.

tritium

Yeah in Peru in 2008, everything was shaking for about 10 seconds. I ran under an archway and thought a big one was going to hit. Said it to the hotel concierge a few minutes later and he just shrugged his shoulders like it was only a little one and no big deal

sentient_6

Had just landed in Christchurch 2 days when the big one hit in 2011. Went back last year on my honeymoon, great to see the recovery, we're already planning another trip in 5 more years to see how they're coming along!

osarusan

Yes, loads of times in Japan. The three that stand out are, firstly, the one that happened when I was playing pool, and had just missed a shot and left it right on the edge of the pocket. While everybody else was on edge, I was hoping for an extra strong shake that would wobble it into the pocket.

Secondly, one that happened at about 5am and was the only one that seriously made me think about getting out of the flat. The strongest one I have ever felt, and the epicentre was very close to my home. It was the only one that knocked/shook stuff off the table and walls.

Thirdly, one that happened while I was in class with three students. When it happened they all watched me to see my 'foreigner' reaction, and I silently decided I wouldn't be the one to rush and open the door (should be done so nobody is stuck in a room with a door jammed shut by a buckled wall). There was a bit of a showdown until one of them jumped up to open the door.

So i haven't ever experienced a huge one. I wasn't in Japan for the huge March 2011 quake that did damage to where we lived, even though it was hundreds of kilometres away from the epicentre.

One of my early students, who later became one of my closest friends, had lost his wife and 3 kids in the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Comhrá

CCTV Footage Of Christchurch Earthquake 2011

Conall Cernach

deirdre_dub wrote: »

There was a big earthquake in Turkey in August 1999 that I felt in north-east Bulgaria. I was just about to fall asleep when I felt the bed gently sway. I thought it was my imagination until my room-mate, who was sitting out on the balcony, said they felt their legs sway.

I was on holidays in Kusadasi for that one. I think there was more than 20,000 killed in it but where we were it was just like a lorry had driven by the apartment, the windows shook a bit but that was it. We went to Ephesus the next day and no one really knew that there had been an earthquake at all.

Valentina

Yeah once in Tokyo (2007) and once in Seattle (2001). After the Tokyo one there was a tsunami warning which was pretty scary considering what had happened in 2004.

LordSutch

jacksie66 wrote: »

Ever experience an earthquake?

Yes, well more like a tremor than an earthquake!

Dublin, early-mid 1980s with an epicentre off the North Welsh coast I think?
Something woke me up early one morning, slight shaking maybe? so I looked out the window to see if a big lorry was passing by, but it wasn't. Heard about the tremor a few hours later on the radio, and that was that.

wexandproud

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Years ago (in the 80's) I felt one in Drumcondra

it was 83 or 84 iirc . i was in bray at the time, living near the railway woke up and saw bottle shaking across locker , i just thought it was a train until i turned on radio

TheLastMohican

Twice. Once in Hungary about 25 years ago. Overnighting in a hotel and just heading for bed. Things in bathroom began to rattle. Clothes quickly back on and downstairs to the bar PDQ. Then about 3 years ago here in the US. Standing on a marble floor ........ it felt like living over a Tube route in London as the train passes ..... but stopped as quickly as it started.

About 30 years ago in Pakistan, the strangest thing was watching the fridge "walk" across the room!

metaoblivia

Yes! I moved to California in 2014 and have felt a few earthquakes. Most have been small, but one was a 6.0 at its epicenter, which was a few cities away. It hit around 3am, so I was in bed. My upstairs neighbors' washing machine was right above my room, so whenever they had it on it would vibrate my room a bit. Anyway, I woke up and first thought, "Really? Laundry at 3am???" and then I realized it was medium-sized earthquake, so I just pulled my covers up and went along with the ride. It was more of a roll, like you were on a boat in some choppy waves, than a jolt.
There was no major damage in my area, but there was a lot in the city nearest the epicenter.

Kiwi in IE

I'm from Christchurch, NZ! Lived there all my life until I moved to Ireland in 2010, a couple of months before the earthquakes started. I remember one small quake from the entire 32 years I lived there. We felt one when we were back home in 2013, I thought OH was kicking the mattress. Every time I get particularly homesick and start making plans to move back, another earthquake happens and puts us off.

Cookie_Monster

Dozens a year here in New Plymouth that you can feel but only half dozen or so that moved stuff around and I think only 1 that has caused damage in the last 5 years.

Kiwi in IE

There were small quakes when I was living back home but I only clearly remember the one. The rest I didn't notice, was asleep/driving or something, but they did happen from time to time. Nothing like the recent quakes though.

jacksie66

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Donald Trump

jacksie66 wrote: »

That one yesterday was huge. And I was on the toilet for a 4.2 aftershock last night..

Hmm I know they say that correlation does not necessarily imply causation but in this particular instance I have my strong suspicions.

H3llR4iser

Being from Italy, have experienced plenty of earthquakes of various kinds (there are plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_earthquake ) since early childhood - one of my earliest memories, from when I was two or three (my brother, 4 years younger than me, wasn't born yet) is about standing in the door arch with my mom with bits of the wall plaster falling down around us. For some time in the early '80s, it was nearly a daily occurrence.

In more recent times (about 1-2 years ago), I was visiting my parents and sitting on the couch when the familiar "shake" happened - small one for once.

It's an odd feeling indeed - an earthquake triggers a completely ancestral part of our mind, an hardwired reaction. You don't really get used to it, every time it's the same - your heart rate rises even if you are relatively calm, and you just wait and hope it doesn't get too strong...

postitnote

In late 2007 I was enjoying a tipple or two in a bar in Queenstown, NZ when the bar started to shake. Being quite drunk, the thought in my head was "Hmm, must be one of these moving dance floors that some places have."

It was the bar staff trying to hold on to all the glasses and bottles behind the bar alerted me to the fact it was an earthquake.

Here it is, a bit of a biggy at M6.7, but thankfully the epicentre was in a remote enough area:

http://info.geonet.org.nz/display/quake/M+6.7,+George+Sound,+16+October+2007

The next morning, sitting in subway terribly hungover, I shouted at my travel buddy who I thought was kicking my chair. Turns out it was an aftershock of M6.2

We had been staying in a flat in Wellington for a fair chunk of 2007, so you occasionally felt the odd shake now and then.

Funnily enough, the first one I felt I again blamed my travel buddy, who I thought was hiding behind the sofa and shaking it. It took my other housemate to jump and shout "earthquake!" before I could even contemplate what was going on.



Turns out I'm useless at identifying earthquakes.:pac::o

anto9

Yes in Chiang Mai ,North Thailand ,maybe 3 years ago .My house shook and the floor was moving .Scary experience but no damage done .

Kivaro

I experienced an earthquake while a funnel cloud passed overhead before forming into a tornado. Originally I thought that the storm was causing the apartment building to shake, but it was reported as an earthquake.

It was even better fun because I was on the top floor of the building, so the shakin' and rattlin' was more pronounced.

blastman

I lived in Manchester when the Bishop's Castle quake hit, the effect was amplified by the fact I was on the top floor of an eight storey building at the time!

topper75

Used to be a segment in the Science museum in London where they shake the floor to recreate a Japanese supermarket aisle during the Kobe quake.

Timistry

Yes In Bali a few years go for my birthday. Didnt notice as I was drunk as a skunk. Only heard about it the next day....

Captain Pancake

I'm from San Francisco, and have experienced many earthquakes. The best outcome was in 1989, during the big Loma Prieta earthquake, when all the kids gathered on the streets and I met the new girl in the neighbourhood who then became my girlfriend. All the other smaller earthquakes seem like experiencing turbulence on an airplane.

InTheTrees

I was in the 7.1 1989 earthquake in San Fransisco. I was living a few miles from the epicentre in Santa Cruz County.

The aftershocks were the scariest aspect in the 24 hours afterwards they were almost constant, every few minutes. and they went on for weeks afterwards. Over a hundred quakes over level 3.0 in the two weeks afterwards.

Then I moved to Seattle, just in time to experience the 6.8 quake in 2001.

Fun times.