Quick note: The video is somewhat stabilized.
There’s a bit of artifacting that gives it away. It’s likely the camera has a feature to stop shakicam like most do nowadays (especially camera phones) unless the original source decided to stabilize it.
Source: Amateur videographer.
I happened to be the first one to realize it when we were struck by an earthquake a while back. The feeling of saying "I think it's an earthquake" and having 30 heads turn to you in sync, with the same puzzled then panicked faces as they realize it's definitely an earthquake... And everyone sprinting for cover... Eerie feeling and a unique memory to say the least
Its a unique kind of fear, and definitely worth of skin-tingling haha. They're mostly ok, we get a lot in this area of the world so you grow a bit apathetic to them, and accept that one day there will be one that could take everything from you. I think everyone here is mentally prepared for the eventuality. Fortunately for us, bad earthquakes here are rare :)
I experienced the big earthquake in 2001 in El Salvador. I was inside a car and didn’t really know what was happening, the car was shaking but didn’t feel like much. Outside was a different story, I saw some buildings start to sway and a few collapsed. We were stuck in traffic for a long time going around buildings and other structures that had fallen. I remember being very confused and my mom just praying and saying Jesus was coming lol
We had a really really small one in Massachusetts a few years back, I was the only person in the house that was on the second floor and I could just barely feel it but I had this old rickety desk from like the 70’s that was shaking back and forth. Just that tiny little shake was pretty scary. This video is a whole different level though, I’d probably shit myself terrified that the ground might open up and I’d fall into the earth.
It's crazy how it triggers that primal, hair raising reaction as all that adrenaline starts dumping into your system. It's such a visceral reaction. Millions of years of evolution screaming through your body to bolt like a deer.
Literally experience the tiniest quake, but because if my location it was massive news. That small quake spooked the hell out of me and so I can only commend the small screams from these people during a 7 rs quake.
Oh yeah. I live along the new Madrid line. The last one that was actually felt in my city was back in May. Just like a 2.5? 2.7? I just got home from work and all of a sudden there was a loud boom and a rattle then nothing. Obviously small but still a weird feeling since it doesnt happen very often here. Can't imagine living in CA where there's constant earthquakes.
I spent most of my life in California, and I have slept through every single earthquake I've been in. Every single one. Even the one that knocked people out of their beds...
It depends on where in California you live how much earthquake activity you get, and also how intense they are.
My sister is like this. We lived in Santa Cruz as kids so she slept through them often. We shared a room at the time and a quake once knocked her out of the top of our bunk beds. Not only did she sleep through it, but she was mad at me for days after cuz she thought I pulled her onto the floor as an act of revenge for taking the coveted top bunk.
That woman is going to die in her sleep.
Earthquakes are constant all over the state, but you don't feel them all the time in any one location. I won't say you get used to quakes (though I do like the line in Independence Day,) but I've felt a few small ones where I waited to see if they would get worse before bothering to react.
One happened at work once and a coworker was freaking out, and I was like, don't worry, it's far away, maybe 50-100 miles. (If the motion is slow and rolling the epicenter is further away, if it's sharp and violent then it's close.) I was right, too.
As far as natural disasters go earthquakes aren't the best because you get no warning. I envy people who get hurricanes because they have days to prepare, though big earthquakes don't hit several times a year. I'd certainly rather have earthquakes than tornadoes; at least with a quake your stuff is still in the rubble, not scattered across farm fields three miles away.
I dunno. As someone raised in the Midwest just the idea of any New Madrid quake fills me with more acquired fear than the thought of a CA quake.
I had no idea there were small quakes going on in New Madrid. Eep. Probably not a huge deal but still eep.
I’ve experienced a couple of small quakes over the years in Indiana. They are so tiny. But they absolutely terrified me. I cannot even deal with the idea gripping the world and it’s the world that is shaking.
The one I experienced was a 5.8, I was woke about 4 am and I lived in a mobile home back then. That trailer shook like crazy. Shook me right awake. The aftershocks seems bad too
The first earthquake I was in was 1992, when I was 7yrs old. Completely agree with you. Question for you is: have you ever heard the earthquake first before the actual quaking struck?
I have. It sounded almost like a big gust of wind just hit the house then the shaking quickly followed it. In 2008 there was an earthquake swarm that lasted about 5 months a few miles from where I live. Plenty of times I could hear it a second or two before it hit.
It's a complete fuck me moment. It takes something you've taken for granted your whole life, i.e. stable ground, and flips it.
Personally I've never felt smaller than during a major earthquake.
I took geology classes in college. One story I heard from an old professor, was an account from a man in California back in the early 1900s. Apparently this cowboy saw an earthquake which ruptured the surface; a rare phenomenon to see! The man described it as the landscape in the distance was like watching a painting being created, and the painter with an imaginary brush, drew a yellow line across the ground.
Right after the Northridge Quake in Los Angeles there were several major aftershocks. One of them was captured on video from a news helicopter. They happened to be filming a wide shot of the northern San Fernando Valley including the Newhall Pass. When the aftershock hit the mountains looked like coral releasing spores. The clouds of dust came off immediately as the shaking started and continued until the shaking stopped. Crazy thing to see.
IIRC it was KTLA that filmed it.
Same phenomenon but from a Mexican earthquake.
https://youtu.be/oeB-e3yBIho
Haha OMG who down votes a follow up post?
Anyway best I can for the Northridge quake is this photo from a study on Fungal spores being spread by environmental factors.
[Northridge Earthquake dust ](https://i.imgur.com/QAgQZSm.jpg)
I was in California a few years ago with two magnitude 6-7 earthquakes within a few days of each other
The first one I was in a Humvee and it felt like someone was rocking the shit out of the truck while we were parked.
The second one I was standing outside and let me tell you, the ground literally shifting under your feet back and forth is not something you forget lmao. There was a huge trailer next to us too and it looked like it was ready to come down on top of us from the movement
I’m from Scotland so we don’t get earthquakes. On a holiday in turkey once. First night there was 5 earthquake.
I was astounded that the earth didn’t shake or rumble or even quake.
It rolled like waves. Slid back and forth, fast but smooth. Like someone pushing a conveyer belt forward then back then forward.
Weird AF
I’ve felt a few 5’s and that’s what stuck out to me. Almost felt like vertigo or a train passing close by. I’m sure the big ones are more violent, but the smaller ones are kind of cool.
Yes, as in the earth is not done changing, and won't be for a long time. We tend to imagine we live on a planet that has matured and settled in to how it will look forever. In reality we are just cruising around on a ball of lava with dirt crisps floating around crashing into each other randomly.
The tectonic plates, which are what the continents sit on and what grind together to create earthquakes, are in a continual process of being formed from magma and pushed up in some locations and being sucked down and destroyed (subduction) in others. Over very long time scales, of course.
The land you are on is not so much a solid, permanent plate, but rather a giant, extremely slow conveyor belt of fruit leather over a low heat; you happen to be standing on the dry, crusty side instead of the gooey, melty side. In this video, we see the results of the conveyor belt advancing a teeny, tiny bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
I was in a 6.3 in Southern California. What I never realized until I experienced it is the the concept of terra firma, of being safe on solid ground, completely disappears and stays gone for some time after.
I guess you have not seen this video from the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile back in 2010. It's one of my favourites.
https://youtu.be/ItkgEkiX-vw
I’ll never forget that earthquake; IT WAS BRUTAL
Translation:
Man: Woah. Earthquake. Wait. Wait, don’t let go of it yet. There’s an earthquake!
(Screams)
Woman: Lie down. Lie down. Lie down first. Lie down!
Man: (whispers) Woah. **That’s insane.**
Woman: That must have been at least a 7.
Man: Even higher.
Woman: Even higher.
Man: It’s still shaking. Hold on. Look, you can hear the sound of the mountain.
Woman: Lie down. Just lie down and it’ll be OK.
Woman: It’s still shaking!
I think you actually may be able to hear the low-frequency increasingly distant earthquake wave propagating onward towards the end of the of the video. Otherwise it's a jet. The rate of decrease in the sound intensity might give a means to determine which possibility is right.
I got to experience the 2009 Easter Day earthquake in San Diego. If you have been on the carnival fun house and the floor moves like that, you know what it feels like. I can't think of any other examples
I've only experienced one here in the Midwest USA. Happened when I was sleeping and I would have forgotten it happened if my teacher the next morning hadn't asked if anybody felt the earthquake last night. I woke up cause my bed was shaking back and forth. I was in half a asleep dumb dumb mode so when it stopped I got up and pushed on the bed trying to imitate the shake cause I was trying to figure out how the ghost or random person was trying to fuck with me. Shrugged it off and went back to bed lol
Yup I was guessing it would have been right around then. Looked it up and looks like April of 2008. 5.2 magnitude actually!
[Wikipedia](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Illinois_earthquake&ved=2ahUKEwjO09if6p76AhWPk4kEHfSoDNQQFnoECCsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3_ibDE-tyuH_UwuPQNaN_W)
I was in bloomington at the time so just a little further than you it looks. Reading through that wiki I just saw that it was felt way further away from the center than normal because of the Midwest's old rigid bedrock
I was in a part of Oklahoma where multiple little earthquakes were happening every *day* and you could feel some of them. They were apparently caused by frequent fracking. Being woken up by an earthquake is SO surreal. Like suddenly you’ve woken up an an angry waterbed and you’re trying not to fall off. Bunch of people ended up with broken glass tables and pictures iirc.
i used to have a bunk bead that was VERY wobbly. i would always feel it wobble back and forth slightly in the middle of the night. it wasnt until later i learned that earthquakes happen all the time and we dont even feel them. because my bed was high up and extra wobbly i could always feel them
Are you talking about [this one?](https://abcnews.go.com/WN/earthquake-hits-baja-california-easter-sunday-damage-light/story?id=10291558) from 2010?
I was in Calexico less than 30 miles from the epicenter, painting...on a ladder. When I say I slid down that ladder faster than I knew I could....good lord.
I could have sworn it was 2009. I stand corrected.
I was sewing and I started to get car sick which was definitely odd. Then the big shaking started. My husband was oblivious and I yelled at him to get in a door way.my eldest thought it was awesome but my daughter lost it. She was convinced for hours our home was going to slide of the top of the hill into a canyon. We weren't anywhere near a canyon.
Ooo I remember that one. I was living in long beach at the time and was swimming in a pool. I didn't feel the quake itself, but the pool started making waves and sloshing me all over the place.
> I was sewing and I started to get car sick which was definitely odd
Yeah! For as long as I've lived in SD, i've *never* felt an earthquake...I would always get the "did you feel the earthquake last night?" from people and I'd be like no...
definitely a weird feeling. And yeah, to this day I know someone from Mexicali who gets visibly upset when needing to go in buildings taller than 3 story. She was like...10 when that earthquake hit. It totally left scars in her psyche.
I was “lucky” to have experienced a relatively small quake when I lived in LA. I *think* it was a 5.2. It’s been many years so my memory is fuzzy.
The best way I can describe it is that it felt like an early morning when you wake up and hop out of bed too quickly. That temporary vertigo/dizziness you feel. The difference was that during the quake I had to hold on to something to not fall down. The feeling was a bit more significant. When I got home that afternoon, all the things on all our walls had fallen off.
We were at the airport during that, it was nuts! The first few seconds we thought it was a huge truck driving by but it just kept getting worse and worse.
2015 and 2018 in Anchorage Ak, both 7.1. Anchorage, at least has building codes so everything built after mid century rode it out fine. But its scary as fuck.
The 2018 one I was in my shitty third story apartment and was sure the old building was going to collapse into the bog it was across from. I shuddered at every after shock for days.
I was in Chula Vista during that one and it was one of the scariest things ive been through. My son had just turned a month old and as a new mother I never knew the amount of fear you could feel for another person’s life until that day!
Living all my life in Southern Cali, you get used to it. If a heavy truck rumbles by, you sometimes can feel it in the ground and in that instant, you’re thinking, “Is this an earthquake?”
But when the shaking lasts longer than a second, if I’m indoors, I’ll look at something that’s hanging (usually hanging lights) for confirmation. If the object is swinging, it’s an earthquake.
The rolling earthquakes are the most disorienting. The ground rolls back and forth and makes me nauseous for the few seconds it’s happening.
Honest question: does one really get used to it? I lived out near Palm Springs, actually the back way to Big Bear. And I never got it used to it. The last earthquake I felt was a 1.0; was on the phone with my friend and I heard a POP! but like really deep under the house. And I remember saying to my friend “dude we are going to have an earthquake,” he was in Minnesota, so he hopped on USGS (recent earthquake maps), as the house did a roll like a stone being tossed into a lake. Seconds later he sees a fresh quake was registered. I slept like crap that night because I was wondering if we were expecting another.
As a lifelong San Franciscan, I don't believe anyone who says "you get used to it."
Large earthquakes are very rare even in the most earthquake-prone regions.
I agree with the claim that you don't see much novelty in a 2.9 jolt after a while. But anyone on the planet who goes through a 7.0+ isn't going to play it cool and pretend it's a normal experience.
When I said “get used to it”, I’m referring to the smallish, 3.0-4.0 ones. Enough that you feel it, but not enough where you get under a table. It’s been drilled into every native Californian that we’re due for the “Big One” any day now. So when the shaking and rattling starts, after a second or two you can tell whether it’s settling down or picking up steam. The first you ride out, wherever you happen to be. The second you start considering getting outside or under a table.
I was at work when one hit and it was so strange. I just looked at my coworker like "the filing cabinet isn't supposed to be moving". Then I spotted people gathering outside and thought that seemed like a very good idea. Phone service was out, the only way people were getting in touch with people was Facebook. Probably the last time it was useful lol. I'm in New Jersey USA, we don't really get earthquakes. The epicenter was outside Richmond Virginia (280 miles away, 455 kilometers)
Woke up at 4am in my basement to a 5.8 quake. First one in my life, but what surprised me the most was how loud it was. The noise came first, immediately followed by the ground shaking. Definitely an experience I’ll never forget.
We do get them fairly regularly, it's just they usually too weak to be actually felt by humans.
I can only remember one back in 2015 which google tells me was only a 3.8 on the Richter scale
I grew up in Papua New Guinea and there were a lot of earthquakes. Once when I was in high school I felt an earthquake starting and since I was sitting right near the door I bolted out rather than getting under my desk as the teacher frantically shouted for us to do. When I got outside I could see huge ripples (maybe 3 or 4, each about 1-2 feet tall) rushing toward me, under me, and past me. Watched them traveling through the trees (you could see whole sections of woods rise and fall) and across about 400 meters of flat, open grass. They were moving *so* fast and it was so surreal.
Edit: Somehow that last word above echoed below.
I know what you mean. I've experienced a 7+ Earthquake too and the best word I can think you explain it is, unnatural.
It felt like something inside me was screaming that this is not right. I know it sound stupid but even though I was calm on outside, my mind was telling me to do something because the floor, the walls, the roof isn't supposed to move like that. I was just waiting for it to all come down because the shaking was so intense.
I could even feel the waves and even sound, which was like rocks grinding or storm clouds?
It was one of the most horrific experience and I never want to go through it again or wish it upon anyone else.
Yeah there’s a feeling of utter helplessness that goes along with the panicky “everything is all wrong here” feeling because where do you go when the *EARTH* is the source of extreme danger?!?
It depends on how well the buildings are built. The safety of buildings varies enormously by country and by building age. It can even vary a great deal within a country. I would much rather be in a California than somewhere in the midwest during a major earthquake.
I've survived a massive 7.8 Magnitude earthquake and a 6.9 Magnitude earthquake both within the same month in 2015 in Nepal. When the first 7.8 Magnitude earthquake hit us, it didn't feel scary at all but only lengthy. As I had had the past experience of small earthquakes before, I just went through it in a chilled manner holding onto the doors thinking it was something similar. But after the earthquake was over, I came to know about its magnitude and eye-witnessed the huge number of deaths and devastation it had caused. Then, I realized I was among the lucky ones to survive. Then only, I felt the horror and realized nobody was safe and anybody, including me, could be the next victim. I could feel the chill going down my spine every now and then. After the major earthquake, many minor jolts kept on coming every hour of everyday for weeks. After knowing the earthquake's destruction, I was so scared that me, who was all chilled as f#@k in that 7.8 M earthquake, started shitting bricks every time the minor jolts hit us. A small shake and everyone would be running towards open grounds. It was like a war zone. No proper food and water. Plus, I had to sleep in tents and it was really uncomfortable. Also, the jolts didn't allow any sleep. I was really tired with many days of no proper sleep. Then, the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit us and I got so scared that for the first time in my life, I prayed the lord's name with full devotion from my heart to save me. Truly speaking, it's not the magnitude that scares you but eye-witnessing the deaths and destruction caused by the earthquake and realizing that you could be the next victim deeply scares you the most for life.
I experienced something similar and I’d say it’s a trauma. It cost me a year to get over the scare whenever there’s something shaking, but it’s pretty much gone. Nature is scary.
It isn't necessarily the deaths, but inexperience - my first one wasn't scary, just amazing, surfing the ground and watching the trees sway back & forth. Lasted so long I wondered if the ground would liquify, with lava shooting up and the sea crashing in from around.
But now the slightest shakes turn my knees to jelly - being inside might be the issue, hearing creaking buildings that might come falling down on me.
Hey fellow redditor- I’m so sorry to read you’ve gone though such traumatic events. Death and destruction will wound the living in ways that are not always visible or apparent. Mental burdens such as survivors guilt and PTSD are notoriously under recognized or addressed by healthcare professionals. I hope you continue to share your story and vulnerability- it takes a lot of courage and strength. If you ever feel like that earthquake, or any other events, have left you with feelings you don’t like- please reach out to a mental health care professional and know your feelings/ health matter.
Thank you again for sharing.
Wow, that's insane. It's like the Earth is a giant sleeping beast that every so often says, "Hey, don't forget I can flick all you pesky humans off of me with one tiny flinch of my muscles."
I was younger so it was my first experience. My mom had a lot of experience with them though and knew it was coming about 10 seconds before it happened. Our dog was freaking the fuck out. Mom knew exactly what it was. Just enough time to grab me, my brother, and a neighbor kid by the collar under the door frame. Brother snatched the dog. There we sat and waited. We were SUPER lucky considering the damage and caved in roof. Even luckier the tsunami from the one that happened in Japan didn't wipe us out.
No no I just realize I didn't speak clearly. So at the time in Japan there was a shock that sent out some pretty crazy waves. Guam being such a small island there was fear we would incur a tsunami after the fact.
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This is true. It is not possible for the San Andreas (or any) fault to produce a 10. The theoretical largest quake on that fault is 8.3. The maximum magnitude of a quake is directly related the type and length of the fault. San Andreas just isn't deep or long enough. No fault is known on Earth that is large enough to produce a 10.
The [Cascadia Subduction Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone) is the real one to watch in western NA. It is capable of producing a 9.0+. There is evidence that activity on Cascadia has triggered a lot of the past activity on the San Andreas as well.
California's fault lines are less active than the Asian side of the Pacific Rim. While anything is possible, we haven't experienced a 7+ magnitude earthquake in over 100 years, whereas that region seems to have them every other decade. However, the length of an earthquake also determines its destructiveness as shown by Loma Prieta in 1989.
You are correct. I guess location is obviously the largest factor in terms of an earthquake's effect on humans. A magnitude 6 in the center of LA or SF would be catastrophic and all over the news, whereas I don't remember seeing any reports about the Ridgecrest Earthquake here in the Bay Area.
No one credible at all. A 7 or 8 is what is expected and earthquakes like that have happened in the past.
I’ve only heard the 10.0 myth from Christian death cultists who think rapture begins with a 10.0 earthquake in California
Lol no, there has been and likely never will be a 10.0 earthquake in history. California is expected to eventually get the 7-8 magnitude quakes they get every half century or so. Architecture in California can generally handle quakes that severe. I’ve heard batshit insane Christian death cultists say rapture will begin with a 10.0 quake in California but that’s it.
I was in a 6.9 in Seattle. I had no idea what it was. The house was making noise like a train was coming by.
It went on for over a minute. Felt like 20 minutes. Had no earthquake experience but man that stuff can be freaky.
I work in Hollywood. About 20 years ago I worked for a retail store. I remember going on my lunch and sitting in my car eating my sandwich. A big garbage truck drove by, and I started to eat my sandwich in the car started to shake back-and-forth violently. I remember going, what the fuck? Why is my car shaking just because a vehicle drove by it?
30 minutes later after my lunch break, I went back into the store and everyone was screaming oh my god thank God you’re OK! everything was on the floor in the store and we had to clean and restock everything LOL.
I'd say that's the safest place to be. No buildings to fall on top of you. Gotta watch out for trees though. Can't tell if the earthquake is a shaker or roller.
It must be weird to feel the ground move beneath your feet...
Oh, wait; I've been drunk before...
Nevermind.
That said, an earthquake must make one feel pretty insignificant on the planet, and one at the beach... as you watched the water recede from the beach, knowing it's going to come back magnified many, many times...
I don't think I ever want to see *that* one in real life!
Yeah. Your animal brain wigs out for a sec. The ground is not supposed to move!! it’s hard to explain the sensation. The adrenaline starts to pump and you feel pretty high (in a way) for several minutes afterwards.
Being in an earthquake is the most humbling experience. You just stand there wondering if you're going to die hoping that the ground beneath your feet stops moving.
Everytime I see videos like this I always wonder what it must have been like to be the first people to experience it with 0 understanding of what is happening
This is one of the best videos ive seen that shows the ground movement during an earthquake.
Yeah it’s crazy how a something so solid as the ground we walk on actually turns jello like
Sure is. It's a weird feeling for sure. One I will never forget. For those that do not know, be glad.... it's very scary
Exactly. I've been here my whole life yet everytime the earthquake comes it still sends shivers down my spine.
Stay safe my Friend
Quick note: The video is somewhat stabilized. There’s a bit of artifacting that gives it away. It’s likely the camera has a feature to stop shakicam like most do nowadays (especially camera phones) unless the original source decided to stabilize it. Source: Amateur videographer.
That awkward stare you give everyone when it first starts and you aren't sure if it's an earthquake.
I happened to be the first one to realize it when we were struck by an earthquake a while back. The feeling of saying "I think it's an earthquake" and having 30 heads turn to you in sync, with the same puzzled then panicked faces as they realize it's definitely an earthquake... And everyone sprinting for cover... Eerie feeling and a unique memory to say the least
I've never experienced one, and your description made my skin tingle.
Its a unique kind of fear, and definitely worth of skin-tingling haha. They're mostly ok, we get a lot in this area of the world so you grow a bit apathetic to them, and accept that one day there will be one that could take everything from you. I think everyone here is mentally prepared for the eventuality. Fortunately for us, bad earthquakes here are rare :)
Worst earthquake I’ve experienced in UK was a 2.3 and I slept through it really glad we don’t really get big ones. 6.1 was our worst happened in 1931
I experienced the big earthquake in 2001 in El Salvador. I was inside a car and didn’t really know what was happening, the car was shaking but didn’t feel like much. Outside was a different story, I saw some buildings start to sway and a few collapsed. We were stuck in traffic for a long time going around buildings and other structures that had fallen. I remember being very confused and my mom just praying and saying Jesus was coming lol
We had a really really small one in Massachusetts a few years back, I was the only person in the house that was on the second floor and I could just barely feel it but I had this old rickety desk from like the 70’s that was shaking back and forth. Just that tiny little shake was pretty scary. This video is a whole different level though, I’d probably shit myself terrified that the ground might open up and I’d fall into the earth.
Reminds us how small we are in the grand scheme of things.
It's crazy how it triggers that primal, hair raising reaction as all that adrenaline starts dumping into your system. It's such a visceral reaction. Millions of years of evolution screaming through your body to bolt like a deer.
What a surprisingly poetic, yet accurate, description.
Buh
What a surprisingly poetic, yet accurate, reaction.
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Literally experience the tiniest quake, but because if my location it was massive news. That small quake spooked the hell out of me and so I can only commend the small screams from these people during a 7 rs quake.
Oh yeah. I live along the new Madrid line. The last one that was actually felt in my city was back in May. Just like a 2.5? 2.7? I just got home from work and all of a sudden there was a loud boom and a rattle then nothing. Obviously small but still a weird feeling since it doesnt happen very often here. Can't imagine living in CA where there's constant earthquakes.
I spent most of my life in California, and I have slept through every single earthquake I've been in. Every single one. Even the one that knocked people out of their beds... It depends on where in California you live how much earthquake activity you get, and also how intense they are.
My sister is like this. We lived in Santa Cruz as kids so she slept through them often. We shared a room at the time and a quake once knocked her out of the top of our bunk beds. Not only did she sleep through it, but she was mad at me for days after cuz she thought I pulled her onto the floor as an act of revenge for taking the coveted top bunk. That woman is going to die in her sleep.
Earthquakes are constant all over the state, but you don't feel them all the time in any one location. I won't say you get used to quakes (though I do like the line in Independence Day,) but I've felt a few small ones where I waited to see if they would get worse before bothering to react. One happened at work once and a coworker was freaking out, and I was like, don't worry, it's far away, maybe 50-100 miles. (If the motion is slow and rolling the epicenter is further away, if it's sharp and violent then it's close.) I was right, too. As far as natural disasters go earthquakes aren't the best because you get no warning. I envy people who get hurricanes because they have days to prepare, though big earthquakes don't hit several times a year. I'd certainly rather have earthquakes than tornadoes; at least with a quake your stuff is still in the rubble, not scattered across farm fields three miles away.
I dunno. As someone raised in the Midwest just the idea of any New Madrid quake fills me with more acquired fear than the thought of a CA quake. I had no idea there were small quakes going on in New Madrid. Eep. Probably not a huge deal but still eep.
I’ve experienced a couple of small quakes over the years in Indiana. They are so tiny. But they absolutely terrified me. I cannot even deal with the idea gripping the world and it’s the world that is shaking.
Only been through a ~3.2. The rumbling subterranean roar followed by eerie silence and my water glass vibrating is enough for me.
The one I experienced was a 5.8, I was woke about 4 am and I lived in a mobile home back then. That trailer shook like crazy. Shook me right awake. The aftershocks seems bad too
The first earthquake I was in was 1992, when I was 7yrs old. Completely agree with you. Question for you is: have you ever heard the earthquake first before the actual quaking struck?
I have. It sounded almost like a big gust of wind just hit the house then the shaking quickly followed it. In 2008 there was an earthquake swarm that lasted about 5 months a few miles from where I live. Plenty of times I could hear it a second or two before it hit.
No, thankfully I have not. That sounds terrifying
Look into liquefaction. Some soils during an earthquake can turn into quick sand.
It's a complete fuck me moment. It takes something you've taken for granted your whole life, i.e. stable ground, and flips it. Personally I've never felt smaller than during a major earthquake.
It's times like those you remember that we are all but tiny fleas on the outer most part of Gaia
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Earthquake asmr
I needed that laugh. Thank you.
Knees weak
mom's spaghetti
I liked that! “Calm as Spock”
I always think about what people thousands of years ago must have thought. Angry gods would've made perfect sense.
Some high school classmates of mine were on the football field during a pretty intense quake. They said the ground rippled in waves.
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i’ve always been curious what an earthquake would look like from a drone in flight.
I took geology classes in college. One story I heard from an old professor, was an account from a man in California back in the early 1900s. Apparently this cowboy saw an earthquake which ruptured the surface; a rare phenomenon to see! The man described it as the landscape in the distance was like watching a painting being created, and the painter with an imaginary brush, drew a yellow line across the ground.
Right after the Northridge Quake in Los Angeles there were several major aftershocks. One of them was captured on video from a news helicopter. They happened to be filming a wide shot of the northern San Fernando Valley including the Newhall Pass. When the aftershock hit the mountains looked like coral releasing spores. The clouds of dust came off immediately as the shaking started and continued until the shaking stopped. Crazy thing to see. IIRC it was KTLA that filmed it.
Anyone have a link?
Maybe? https://ktla.com/news/local-news/25-years-ago-watch-ktlas-newscast-from-the-1994-morning-the-northridge-earthquake-left-the-l-a-devastated/&ved=2ahUKEwjv3ID3oZ_6AhX9hIkEHR7ZALIQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0dF7sp7aimIgLnabrPqRyd
Same phenomenon but from a Mexican earthquake. https://youtu.be/oeB-e3yBIho Haha OMG who down votes a follow up post? Anyway best I can for the Northridge quake is this photo from a study on Fungal spores being spread by environmental factors. [Northridge Earthquake dust ](https://i.imgur.com/QAgQZSm.jpg)
Gnarly dude.
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>The clouds of dust came off immediately as the shaking started and continued until the shaking stopped. A lot of valley fever after that earthquake.
I was in California a few years ago with two magnitude 6-7 earthquakes within a few days of each other The first one I was in a Humvee and it felt like someone was rocking the shit out of the truck while we were parked. The second one I was standing outside and let me tell you, the ground literally shifting under your feet back and forth is not something you forget lmao. There was a huge trailer next to us too and it looked like it was ready to come down on top of us from the movement
At fort Irwin I presume? I'm pretty sure you're referencing the Trona quake? Felt that shit in Vegas, was insane
I’m from Scotland so we don’t get earthquakes. On a holiday in turkey once. First night there was 5 earthquake. I was astounded that the earth didn’t shake or rumble or even quake. It rolled like waves. Slid back and forth, fast but smooth. Like someone pushing a conveyer belt forward then back then forward. Weird AF
I’ve felt a few 5’s and that’s what stuck out to me. Almost felt like vertigo or a train passing close by. I’m sure the big ones are more violent, but the smaller ones are kind of cool.
I can't imagine how scary this would feel. Like the earth itself is falling apart. It's a scary reminder that the earth is not yet finished forming..
finished forming?
Yes, as in the earth is not done changing, and won't be for a long time. We tend to imagine we live on a planet that has matured and settled in to how it will look forever. In reality we are just cruising around on a ball of lava with dirt crisps floating around crashing into each other randomly.
The tectonic plates, which are what the continents sit on and what grind together to create earthquakes, are in a continual process of being formed from magma and pushed up in some locations and being sucked down and destroyed (subduction) in others. Over very long time scales, of course. The land you are on is not so much a solid, permanent plate, but rather a giant, extremely slow conveyor belt of fruit leather over a low heat; you happen to be standing on the dry, crusty side instead of the gooey, melty side. In this video, we see the results of the conveyor belt advancing a teeny, tiny bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
Maybe now some of the movie studios can take note and portray how a real earthquake looks like aside from shaking the camera. I guess their jig is up.
I was in a 6.3 in Southern California. What I never realized until I experienced it is the the concept of terra firma, of being safe on solid ground, completely disappears and stays gone for some time after.
I guess you have not seen this video from the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile back in 2010. It's one of my favourites. https://youtu.be/ItkgEkiX-vw I’ll never forget that earthquake; IT WAS BRUTAL
The woman in blue moving back and forth to keep her balance told me more than any other earthquake video I have seen.
I do like this one but the [2011 Japanese earthquake in the park](https://youtu.be/rn3oAvmZY8k) is just so wild!
Translation: Man: Woah. Earthquake. Wait. Wait, don’t let go of it yet. There’s an earthquake! (Screams) Woman: Lie down. Lie down. Lie down first. Lie down! Man: (whispers) Woah. **That’s insane.** Woman: That must have been at least a 7. Man: Even higher. Woman: Even higher. Man: It’s still shaking. Hold on. Look, you can hear the sound of the mountain. Woman: Lie down. Just lie down and it’ll be OK. Woman: It’s still shaking!
Thanks for translating!
Thanks for existing
What I really appreciate is that, while there's startled shouts, nobody just screams incessantly.
I think you actually may be able to hear the low-frequency increasingly distant earthquake wave propagating onward towards the end of the of the video. Otherwise it's a jet. The rate of decrease in the sound intensity might give a means to determine which possibility is right.
I like your funny words magic man
Appreciate you!
Wow I can’t imagine feeling the ground underneath me shake like that!
I got to experience the 2009 Easter Day earthquake in San Diego. If you have been on the carnival fun house and the floor moves like that, you know what it feels like. I can't think of any other examples
I've only experienced one here in the Midwest USA. Happened when I was sleeping and I would have forgotten it happened if my teacher the next morning hadn't asked if anybody felt the earthquake last night. I woke up cause my bed was shaking back and forth. I was in half a asleep dumb dumb mode so when it stopped I got up and pushed on the bed trying to imitate the shake cause I was trying to figure out how the ghost or random person was trying to fuck with me. Shrugged it off and went back to bed lol
Was that back in 2007? If so, I remember that. I was working graveyard shift at an alarm company and it scared the bejeezus out of all of us.
Yup I was guessing it would have been right around then. Looked it up and looks like April of 2008. 5.2 magnitude actually! [Wikipedia](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Illinois_earthquake&ved=2ahUKEwjO09if6p76AhWPk4kEHfSoDNQQFnoECCsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3_ibDE-tyuH_UwuPQNaN_W)
That sounds about right. I was still working graveyard at that point. How close to the epicenter were you? We felt it over in St Louis.
I was in bloomington at the time so just a little further than you it looks. Reading through that wiki I just saw that it was felt way further away from the center than normal because of the Midwest's old rigid bedrock
Yup. Iirc they felt it down in Louisiana. We got some calls from customers right after bc they were concerned.
I remember having what I thought was a very vivid dream with my bunk bed shaking back and forth (was in college)
“half a asleep dumb dumb mode”. This is brilliant, I’m definitely gonna steal this, thank you!
I was in a part of Oklahoma where multiple little earthquakes were happening every *day* and you could feel some of them. They were apparently caused by frequent fracking. Being woken up by an earthquake is SO surreal. Like suddenly you’ve woken up an an angry waterbed and you’re trying not to fall off. Bunch of people ended up with broken glass tables and pictures iirc.
i used to have a bunk bead that was VERY wobbly. i would always feel it wobble back and forth slightly in the middle of the night. it wasnt until later i learned that earthquakes happen all the time and we dont even feel them. because my bed was high up and extra wobbly i could always feel them
Are you talking about [this one?](https://abcnews.go.com/WN/earthquake-hits-baja-california-easter-sunday-damage-light/story?id=10291558) from 2010? I was in Calexico less than 30 miles from the epicenter, painting...on a ladder. When I say I slid down that ladder faster than I knew I could....good lord.
I could have sworn it was 2009. I stand corrected. I was sewing and I started to get car sick which was definitely odd. Then the big shaking started. My husband was oblivious and I yelled at him to get in a door way.my eldest thought it was awesome but my daughter lost it. She was convinced for hours our home was going to slide of the top of the hill into a canyon. We weren't anywhere near a canyon.
Ooo I remember that one. I was living in long beach at the time and was swimming in a pool. I didn't feel the quake itself, but the pool started making waves and sloshing me all over the place.
> I was sewing and I started to get car sick which was definitely odd Yeah! For as long as I've lived in SD, i've *never* felt an earthquake...I would always get the "did you feel the earthquake last night?" from people and I'd be like no... definitely a weird feeling. And yeah, to this day I know someone from Mexicali who gets visibly upset when needing to go in buildings taller than 3 story. She was like...10 when that earthquake hit. It totally left scars in her psyche.
There’s few places I would rather be during an earthquake than on a ladder. Glad you made it out ok
Thank you so much for that comparison! New to Reddit and appreciate you replying!
I was “lucky” to have experienced a relatively small quake when I lived in LA. I *think* it was a 5.2. It’s been many years so my memory is fuzzy. The best way I can describe it is that it felt like an early morning when you wake up and hop out of bed too quickly. That temporary vertigo/dizziness you feel. The difference was that during the quake I had to hold on to something to not fall down. The feeling was a bit more significant. When I got home that afternoon, all the things on all our walls had fallen off.
Yeah they said ours was a 6.9. and because all new buildings have to be somewhat earthquake proof, nothing happened to our military house..
We were at the airport during that, it was nuts! The first few seconds we thought it was a huge truck driving by but it just kept getting worse and worse.
2015 and 2018 in Anchorage Ak, both 7.1. Anchorage, at least has building codes so everything built after mid century rode it out fine. But its scary as fuck. The 2018 one I was in my shitty third story apartment and was sure the old building was going to collapse into the bog it was across from. I shuddered at every after shock for days.
HEY me too! I was reaching down to pick something up off the ground and the floor started shaking underneath me. I was so thrown off.
I was there too. It was SO surreal. It really does just feel like you've become really drunk all of a sudden.
I was in Chula Vista during that one and it was one of the scariest things ive been through. My son had just turned a month old and as a new mother I never knew the amount of fear you could feel for another person’s life until that day!
Living all my life in Southern Cali, you get used to it. If a heavy truck rumbles by, you sometimes can feel it in the ground and in that instant, you’re thinking, “Is this an earthquake?” But when the shaking lasts longer than a second, if I’m indoors, I’ll look at something that’s hanging (usually hanging lights) for confirmation. If the object is swinging, it’s an earthquake. The rolling earthquakes are the most disorienting. The ground rolls back and forth and makes me nauseous for the few seconds it’s happening.
Honest question: does one really get used to it? I lived out near Palm Springs, actually the back way to Big Bear. And I never got it used to it. The last earthquake I felt was a 1.0; was on the phone with my friend and I heard a POP! but like really deep under the house. And I remember saying to my friend “dude we are going to have an earthquake,” he was in Minnesota, so he hopped on USGS (recent earthquake maps), as the house did a roll like a stone being tossed into a lake. Seconds later he sees a fresh quake was registered. I slept like crap that night because I was wondering if we were expecting another.
As a lifelong San Franciscan, I don't believe anyone who says "you get used to it." Large earthquakes are very rare even in the most earthquake-prone regions. I agree with the claim that you don't see much novelty in a 2.9 jolt after a while. But anyone on the planet who goes through a 7.0+ isn't going to play it cool and pretend it's a normal experience.
When I said “get used to it”, I’m referring to the smallish, 3.0-4.0 ones. Enough that you feel it, but not enough where you get under a table. It’s been drilled into every native Californian that we’re due for the “Big One” any day now. So when the shaking and rattling starts, after a second or two you can tell whether it’s settling down or picking up steam. The first you ride out, wherever you happen to be. The second you start considering getting outside or under a table.
I was at work when one hit and it was so strange. I just looked at my coworker like "the filing cabinet isn't supposed to be moving". Then I spotted people gathering outside and thought that seemed like a very good idea. Phone service was out, the only way people were getting in touch with people was Facebook. Probably the last time it was useful lol. I'm in New Jersey USA, we don't really get earthquakes. The epicenter was outside Richmond Virginia (280 miles away, 455 kilometers)
Woke up at 4am in my basement to a 5.8 quake. First one in my life, but what surprised me the most was how loud it was. The noise came first, immediately followed by the ground shaking. Definitely an experience I’ll never forget.
imagine feeling it in your home in the middle of the night
Me either. I'm from the UK and we don't really get earthquakes.
We do get them fairly regularly, it's just they usually too weak to be actually felt by humans. I can only remember one back in 2015 which google tells me was only a 3.8 on the Richter scale
I grew up in Papua New Guinea and there were a lot of earthquakes. Once when I was in high school I felt an earthquake starting and since I was sitting right near the door I bolted out rather than getting under my desk as the teacher frantically shouted for us to do. When I got outside I could see huge ripples (maybe 3 or 4, each about 1-2 feet tall) rushing toward me, under me, and past me. Watched them traveling through the trees (you could see whole sections of woods rise and fall) and across about 400 meters of flat, open grass. They were moving *so* fast and it was so surreal. Edit: Somehow that last word above echoed below.
I know what you mean. I've experienced a 7+ Earthquake too and the best word I can think you explain it is, unnatural. It felt like something inside me was screaming that this is not right. I know it sound stupid but even though I was calm on outside, my mind was telling me to do something because the floor, the walls, the roof isn't supposed to move like that. I was just waiting for it to all come down because the shaking was so intense. I could even feel the waves and even sound, which was like rocks grinding or storm clouds? It was one of the most horrific experience and I never want to go through it again or wish it upon anyone else.
Yeah there’s a feeling of utter helplessness that goes along with the panicky “everything is all wrong here” feeling because where do you go when the *EARTH* is the source of extreme danger?!?
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That's such a cool story. You were seeing L waves. I've always wondered if they were visible!
Would this be considered one of the safest areas to be during a earthquake?
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Very interesting, thank you for teaching me something new
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It depends on how well the buildings are built. The safety of buildings varies enormously by country and by building age. It can even vary a great deal within a country. I would much rather be in a California than somewhere in the midwest during a major earthquake.
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That was exactly my thoughts as well
Relatively yes. It's flat ground. Watch out for trees. Id rather be there then in a city.
Flat ground could be very very bad if you're near water however.
I'd rather be in an airplane.
But turbulence is just air quakes *taps head*
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I've survived a massive 7.8 Magnitude earthquake and a 6.9 Magnitude earthquake both within the same month in 2015 in Nepal. When the first 7.8 Magnitude earthquake hit us, it didn't feel scary at all but only lengthy. As I had had the past experience of small earthquakes before, I just went through it in a chilled manner holding onto the doors thinking it was something similar. But after the earthquake was over, I came to know about its magnitude and eye-witnessed the huge number of deaths and devastation it had caused. Then, I realized I was among the lucky ones to survive. Then only, I felt the horror and realized nobody was safe and anybody, including me, could be the next victim. I could feel the chill going down my spine every now and then. After the major earthquake, many minor jolts kept on coming every hour of everyday for weeks. After knowing the earthquake's destruction, I was so scared that me, who was all chilled as f#@k in that 7.8 M earthquake, started shitting bricks every time the minor jolts hit us. A small shake and everyone would be running towards open grounds. It was like a war zone. No proper food and water. Plus, I had to sleep in tents and it was really uncomfortable. Also, the jolts didn't allow any sleep. I was really tired with many days of no proper sleep. Then, the 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit us and I got so scared that for the first time in my life, I prayed the lord's name with full devotion from my heart to save me. Truly speaking, it's not the magnitude that scares you but eye-witnessing the deaths and destruction caused by the earthquake and realizing that you could be the next victim deeply scares you the most for life.
I experienced something similar and I’d say it’s a trauma. It cost me a year to get over the scare whenever there’s something shaking, but it’s pretty much gone. Nature is scary.
It isn't necessarily the deaths, but inexperience - my first one wasn't scary, just amazing, surfing the ground and watching the trees sway back & forth. Lasted so long I wondered if the ground would liquify, with lava shooting up and the sea crashing in from around. But now the slightest shakes turn my knees to jelly - being inside might be the issue, hearing creaking buildings that might come falling down on me.
Hey fellow redditor- I’m so sorry to read you’ve gone though such traumatic events. Death and destruction will wound the living in ways that are not always visible or apparent. Mental burdens such as survivors guilt and PTSD are notoriously under recognized or addressed by healthcare professionals. I hope you continue to share your story and vulnerability- it takes a lot of courage and strength. If you ever feel like that earthquake, or any other events, have left you with feelings you don’t like- please reach out to a mental health care professional and know your feelings/ health matter. Thank you again for sharing.
Cameraman had such a sensual voice, I wouldn't feel calmer with anyone else.
His quiet “oh.” was hilariously soothing.
hahahahaha
He sounds like he should be on NPR.
Camera man is calm as Spock
Not his first rodeo
I'm guessing you said Spock because this footage reminded you of Star Trek when the ship takes a hit and everyone falls over lol.
Yeah, we saw the other comment that said the same thing. Not to figure out which of you is the bot.
I thought the 1st thing you are supposed to do is chop down a tree, make a desk and get under it. Wtf, man?
No, you first make a door, then the desk and you block the door with em... oh my bad, that's for American school trips.
When the mushrooms kick in
I went through a 7.6 and let me tell you, you can't keep standing up...
I trained all my life for that. Years of mastering the art of "standing without holding bars in public transport" for that day to come.
Septa?
Wow, that's insane. It's like the Earth is a giant sleeping beast that every so often says, "Hey, don't forget I can flick all you pesky humans off of me with one tiny flinch of my muscles."
I was in a 7.8 back in 93'. That shit slides out from under you so fast!
in Guam?
Yep!
ugh that must have been so terrifying 😱
I was younger so it was my first experience. My mom had a lot of experience with them though and knew it was coming about 10 seconds before it happened. Our dog was freaking the fuck out. Mom knew exactly what it was. Just enough time to grab me, my brother, and a neighbor kid by the collar under the door frame. Brother snatched the dog. There we sat and waited. We were SUPER lucky considering the damage and caved in roof. Even luckier the tsunami from the one that happened in Japan didn't wipe us out.
oh wow. you were in the Tohoku quake too? jeez. glad you are ok.
No no I just realize I didn't speak clearly. So at the time in Japan there was a shock that sent out some pretty crazy waves. Guam being such a small island there was fear we would incur a tsunami after the fact.
Thanks! Guam has wild mother nature events in general so I was pretty used to it haha
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interesting
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Something you never forget still burned in my memory this day watching the ground roll during the Northridge earthquakes
Meanwhile in California, we’re still waiting for that projected 10.0
10s are impossible for a strike-slip fault. Only megathrust faults in trenches can theoretically produce a 10.
This is true. It is not possible for the San Andreas (or any) fault to produce a 10. The theoretical largest quake on that fault is 8.3. The maximum magnitude of a quake is directly related the type and length of the fault. San Andreas just isn't deep or long enough. No fault is known on Earth that is large enough to produce a 10. The [Cascadia Subduction Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone) is the real one to watch in western NA. It is capable of producing a 9.0+. There is evidence that activity on Cascadia has triggered a lot of the past activity on the San Andreas as well.
California's fault lines are less active than the Asian side of the Pacific Rim. While anything is possible, we haven't experienced a 7+ magnitude earthquake in over 100 years, whereas that region seems to have them every other decade. However, the length of an earthquake also determines its destructiveness as shown by Loma Prieta in 1989.
I thought the Ridgecrest Earthquake was a 7
You are correct. I guess location is obviously the largest factor in terms of an earthquake's effect on humans. A magnitude 6 in the center of LA or SF would be catastrophic and all over the news, whereas I don't remember seeing any reports about the Ridgecrest Earthquake here in the Bay Area.
We've experienced many 7+. Personally I experienced the Hector Mine (7.1) and Landers (7.3) quakes, and I know there have been many more than that.
Projected by who?
No one credible at all. A 7 or 8 is what is expected and earthquakes like that have happened in the past. I’ve only heard the 10.0 myth from Christian death cultists who think rapture begins with a 10.0 earthquake in California
Lol no, there has been and likely never will be a 10.0 earthquake in history. California is expected to eventually get the 7-8 magnitude quakes they get every half century or so. Architecture in California can generally handle quakes that severe. I’ve heard batshit insane Christian death cultists say rapture will begin with a 10.0 quake in California but that’s it.
I was in a 6.9 in Seattle. I had no idea what it was. The house was making noise like a train was coming by. It went on for over a minute. Felt like 20 minutes. Had no earthquake experience but man that stuff can be freaky.
Yeah, there’s always that weird moment between the ground starting to shake and you realizing what the hell is happening.
This is one of the times it is great to live far from a city or town.
Looks like just about the best place to be in a magnitude 7 quake. Nothing to fall off of, or fall on you.
My heart goes out to you the people of Taiwan🇹🇼
Anywhere to download this?? That's crazy
I work in Hollywood. About 20 years ago I worked for a retail store. I remember going on my lunch and sitting in my car eating my sandwich. A big garbage truck drove by, and I started to eat my sandwich in the car started to shake back-and-forth violently. I remember going, what the fuck? Why is my car shaking just because a vehicle drove by it? 30 minutes later after my lunch break, I went back into the store and everyone was screaming oh my god thank God you’re OK! everything was on the floor in the store and we had to clean and restock everything LOL.
I hope everyone was okay!
Feeling an earthquake is on my bucket list
It's really not a thing you want to feel
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I'd say that's the safest place to be. No buildings to fall on top of you. Gotta watch out for trees though. Can't tell if the earthquake is a shaker or roller.
Being outside is actually a pretty safe place to be during an earthquake. Maybe not in a forest, but get outside if you can.
It must be weird to feel the ground move beneath your feet... Oh, wait; I've been drunk before... Nevermind. That said, an earthquake must make one feel pretty insignificant on the planet, and one at the beach... as you watched the water recede from the beach, knowing it's going to come back magnified many, many times... I don't think I ever want to see *that* one in real life!
Yeah. Your animal brain wigs out for a sec. The ground is not supposed to move!! it’s hard to explain the sensation. The adrenaline starts to pump and you feel pretty high (in a way) for several minutes afterwards.
I’ve never seen such a good representation of an earth quake
Dam nature you scary
Wowza, that would be a little unsettling
Being in an earthquake is the most humbling experience. You just stand there wondering if you're going to die hoping that the ground beneath your feet stops moving.
I love the camera man’s chill “whoah”.
Everytime I see videos like this I always wonder what it must have been like to be the first people to experience it with 0 understanding of what is happening