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1 month ago
3.2 on the richter scale
3:30 pm PST 15 mile from epicenter
Very short, too short to react.
How to experience an earthquake
It made me 
"If you like being in control, you won't like being in an earthquake"
How I did it: I have lived in the Ring of Fire for all but two years of my life, so I have been through a lot of earthquakes.
The first earthquake I was in was when I was two years old. I was watching the Mickey Mouse club on our old black and white set. I remember my mom grabbing me and standing in a doorway, and watching a crack form on the ceiling while she was holding me.
The last major quake I was in was the Nisqually Quake. I was in the upper floors of a skyscraper downtown, about to give a presentation. I went under a table when the quake hit, with three people from the audience. The building swayed for a long time after the earthquake was over, making it seem to last longer than it did.
Lessons & tips: Don't panic
Be prepared
Discuss emergency plans with the rest of your household
Practice drills
Resources: USGS links
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11 months ago
It was the strangest thing thats ever happened to me.
I was in my dorm room in Kenosha Wisconsin when it happened. I thought I was just sleep deprived (it was three in the morning) and I didn’t understand why everything was shaking.
It wasn’t at all severe but it was amazing to know that it was an earthquake
woo!
14 months ago
it was 150 miles away from the epicenter but we still got a bit of a rumble!! i loved the experience
So that's what it feels like.
14 months ago
There was an earthquake that went through Illinois and surrounding areas this morning that registered as a 5.4 (but now we’re hearing it might have been 5.2?). I was at work and felt the floor rumble beneath my feet for a few seconds.
I’m sure this is nothing compared to the trauma that someone in the middle of a big one could go through, and I hope I don’t have to experience that. At least I now know what one feels like.
A minor earthquake
16 months ago
About half an hour ago I’m tapping away at my computer, minding my own business when it dawns on me that I’m rocking in my chair, yet my feet aren’t touching anything to propel me. And the tea in my mug is rippling, Jurassic Park-style. I thought my mind was playing tricks on me until I saw Louise seconds later (who’d gone to bed an hour earlier) who’d been woken from her sleep. Early reports from BBC say the earthquake (or earth tremor… when does a ‘tremor’ become a ‘quake’?) was in the Midlands, but it was strong here too.
I don’t think I’d want to experience a proper earthquake, that was creepy enough for me.
Last night
17 months ago
At 11:15pm, there was a 5.4 earthquake epicenter-ed about 40 miles from my house. Followed by a few jolting aftershocks. It was the first earthquake that I really felt (sleeping through others).
At first I though a train was going by or a large truck was passing, then the house starting swaying left to right. It lasted for 15-20 seconds, and nothing was damaged. I wasn’t scared but if it would have been stronger, I probably would have been.
Across the border in Mexicali, they lost power, cell phone coverage, and shut down factories.
This was the biggest earthquake in the area in a number of years, so I’m hoping it provided the plates some relief a a long while.
Living in southern California
17 months ago
earthquakes are fairly normal. It’s been a while since the last one, but I’m ok with that. They used to really freak me out when I was a kid but they don’t so much anymore.
Why
17 months ago
anyone would want to do this is beyond me. I have experienced 3 earthquakes in my lifetime and none of them were any fun.
