Earthquake!!!

[Maru Kitteh]

19. I would personally find it difficult to mistake an earthquake

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.