Earthquakes!

[jod23]

Anyone ever been in one.

I just experienced my first while on holiday in the UK. Bloody scary. All i heard was a large rumbling noise and then it felt like a huge gust of wind slammed into the house, shaking it. It went for 4 or 5 seconds and it's pretty bloody scary. My heart was racing. But it was all over as quickly as it started.

Travelling... i love it. Experiencing things ive never experienced before.

 

[Mr P@H]

Didn't feel owt, you up in The North?

 

[mark73]

*Herbert Mullin board*

Just don't try to save anyone by killing them.

 

[jod23]

Didn't feel owt, you up in The North?

You didnt? Im in Leeds. You see it on the news right? I felt it. 1am... it was crazy.

 

[martyTHOMAS]

I've never felt a big one, just little ones that just shake the ground for a minute or so.

 

[Mr P@H]

You didnt? Im in Leeds. You see it on the news right? I felt it. 1am... it was crazy.

Was speaking to some friends in the midlands, 5.3on the richter scale, big one for the UK

 

[mick13]

It's teh end of teh world!!11

Srs.

 

[jod23]

Was speaking to some friends in the midlands, 5.3on the richter scale, big one for the UK

Yeah... biggest earthquake in the UK in over a quarter of a century. Was pretty crazy.

 

[de_LICA_ish18]

I was in a big earthquake in LA in 1994 (the last big one in the us). It was a 6.6 or 6.7. About 60 people died. The 10 freeway collapsed. It was about 4.00am so it was lucky that there wasn't more people on that road when it happened.

It was huge, my hotel was swinging ferociously with a really loud rumble. It was like being in a snow globe when someone shakes it. That day there was hundreds of smaller aftershocks.

All was not lost, I got a tshirt that they were selling on the streets a couple of days later.

It read "the earth was a quakin and I was a shakin"

I thought it was a bit of fun (except that people died). At least when you are travelling you only have to worry about yourself and not your house.

 

[raskolnikov]

I lived in Taiwan for a couple of years where they have regular earthquakes, usually relatively minor but a few big ones. The first one I experienced was a couple of days after I arrived. I had just moved into my apartment and was sitting on the toilet. The toilet started to sway from side to side. First I was thinking, "Gee this toilet bowl is loose". Then I realised it was an earthquake.

The biggest one was when I was at a Chinese friend's wedding. The groom was just about to put the ring on the bride's finger when the whole church started shaking. Tiles started falling from the ceiling. I ran outside but it wasn't much better as things were falling down everywhere. It was a feeling of utter helplessness as there wasn't really anything you could do to escape it, just wait til it had passed.

 

[Kingpin]

That'd be an awful feeling Raskolnikov
I've only experienced two earth tremors in my life, both this decade, both here.
One was about 7am on a Sunday morning about 6 or 7 years ago when my bed started wobbling from underneath (I was laying back in bed reading the paper), things started falling off tables and my cup of coffee started getting wobbly vibratory lines on the top of the drink.
Heard this roar hit the roof (like when the wind gusts hit it) but then I realised it was dead still outside, then faint cracks appeared in the plaster on the wall which was a bloody nuisance because I'd only replastered them a couple of years before that.
Went up the shop and quite a few people were talking about it, so I knew it wasn't me imagining things.
It was a pretty big one that happened up in the central midlands that could be felt all the way down here.
The second one I was actually posting on BF late one night (and mentioned it in the thread I was posting in).
Happened off MacQuarie Island (south of Tasmania) and we could feel it quite noticeably up here, things shook quite heavily and for longer than the previous one - it was only a day or so before that huge tsunami hit overseas.