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StarryNite
(11,900 posts)bamagal62
(4,208 posts)brooklynite
(96,882 posts)SoFlaBro
(3,693 posts)Maru Kitteh
(30,840 posts)for anything else. Video doesn't really capture what it looks like and it's very difficult to describe what it feels like (at least for me) but I'll give it a go.
It starts with just a general, disconcerting "hair-going-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck" feeling. Sometimes you can hear it coming? The last one I was in was out in the wilderness and it was more like a vibration too low to actually hear but felt from inside. I don't know if it's because of vibrations inside your eye or because some things you think of as solid become liquid in an earthquake but when you look around you, it's like you're looking across a dark tarmac on a hot day. Everything looks like it's rippling. Walls, trees, people. Nothing looks solid.
When I ran out of the cabin in my underwear, I was acutely aware of the fact that my feet didn't feel like they were landing like I expected them to. Everything just felt weird. I've only been in two earthquakes, but they didn't feel anything like anything else I've ever felt.
VMA131Marine
(5,107 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)James48
(5,008 posts)3.9, located 2.2 miles nne of Millbrea, CA
Igel
(37,159 posts)Millbrae.
I lived in LA. Wife and I had van packed and car on trailer and around 3 a.m. I woke up and immediately checked my watch (this was '90s) and started counting. A jolt had gone through the apt. It woke her up, too.
When the surface wave went through I told her, "Don't worry, 3.7 [ or whatever ], located a few miles away in Santa Monica Bay. Didn't know there was fault there, but it's no biggy. Go back to sleep."
KNX in the morning said I was off by a point or two and a few miles, and nobody knew there was fault line there. You adapt.
Russian proverb: Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas. Updated for me: "Hang out with astrophysicist grad students at UCLA, walk away an ubernerd." I mean, these were students that when the nice lady from Caltech came on the tv during commercial breaks corrected her and were more often right than wrong.
Note that I was seriously *not* calibrated for the Northridge quake, at 7.4, and just sat there and wondered if my studio apt. would collapse on the cars parked underneath.
musette_sf
(10,431 posts)RockRaven
(18,184 posts)JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)imanamerican63
(15,549 posts)Hope everyone is okay!
BigmanPigman
(54,146 posts)I have experienced many in San Diego and I usually feel them if over 5.5
DemocraticPatriot
(5,410 posts)Did you pass out ?
Hope all is ok...
RandySF
(78,585 posts)It was a 4.1 in the San Francisco area.
Wounded Bear
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RandySF
(78,585 posts)usonian
(21,735 posts)
They hit pretty hard when close by.
I am not.
Fiendish Thingy
(21,063 posts)Wouldnt take much to trigger liquefaction in the soil.