Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Have you ever felt the earth move, and what was the first time like?

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I'm talking earthquakes... m'kay? ;)

Comments

[jovi-diva.livejournal.com]

*sings* I feel the earth. move. under my feet. I feel the sky tumblin' down tumblin' down...*/sings*

*big cheesy grin*

We don't get many earthquakes in these here parts. Only one that I can remember...I was 14 or so I think. I was standing in the back of Dad's pickup truck and I almost fell on my bootie. Mom was in the house and she didn't even feel it.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes!

And yeah... That song... :D

[kingdavey.livejournal.com]

I've felt the earth move. Wow, just wow. But I'm not talking about earthquakes. LOL

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

LOL

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO! :D

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Weird.
I was in my office and wondering why my computer monitor was all blurred. First I thought it was my eyes doing this then felt that the computer table was trembling, then the ground (my office is on the first floor).
There was no particular noise, so I wasn't sure this WAS really an earthquake. But I was getting a little queasy (my body registered the move but my eyes did not - really).
Then I was told this was a volcanic quake (i.e. a vertical movement rather than the more destructive horizontal displacement caused by the tectonic quakes) since the little hills on which we are located are in fact old volcanoes and that they were fairly mild and common in the area of Naples and Rome.
One person died on that first quake, near the epicenter: an old man who was working on a ladder fell off and broke his neck.
It was a 5.2 quake. I have felt minor ones since then but not since one year.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... This was very weird and surreal... Like being on a train, but not...

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

To think that last time I was in London, I wanted to go into a museum (don't remember which one now - close to the V&A) which had a room simulating an earthquake in a Kobe supermarket!
I never managed (queue was way too long)...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the Science Museum :D

[honuhoney.livejournal.com]

having lived in alaska and california, many more times than i care to remember. in fact, i can't remember the first time. but i certainly remember the last. there were two big ones in los angeles that happened before i moved to arizona. it's one of those things where time stands still and mere seconds can seem like a lifetime while you wait to see if the shaking will ever stop and if the roof is going to fall in.

can't say i miss them.

:D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Oh yes... Definitely not something to be missed!

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Yep, both earthquake and otherwise, LOL.

Only the Manchester quake a few years ago though...we weren't the epicenter so it was only a weak tremor, but the house still swayed from side to side 0.0

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... All illusions of solid walls disappear... It's freaky!

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Yes. The first time was pretty scary. I didn't know exactly what was happening because it woke me up out of sleep. Things were falling off shelves and my bed was shaking. Nothing damaged..no one hurt.

After the earthquake in northern CA in the early 90's, I was terrified to be stopped in my car under a freeway overpass. I still get a little edgy when I drive under one.

[honuhoney.livejournal.com]

omg, so get the second piece. i have the same feelings about overpasses.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes... That is scary!

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm not a fan of earthquakes!!

Yup, I have felt the earth move

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

I was in the big quake in California in 89(?). It was the one that took the double decker down in San Francisco. I was like 13. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

Charlie makes the earth move every time he kisses my neck. Not very often, but he loves the reaction he gets from me...I sway, and the earth moves.

The earth moves when Raven tells me he loves me. I get all misty, and the ground just seems to shake beneath my feet..

I am easily aroused, therefore, easily moved....

Re: Yup, I have felt the earth move

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Awesome!

I'm glad, for the first one, you weren't terrified!

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I was on LSD. That's kinda earthquaky anyway.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

:D

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Yes I have but I knew it was coming before it hit. I have that extra sense along with my aunt but I digress. It just felt like I was swaying. Nothing major although it did do some damage in other areas.

I was living in California then. In the 70's.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

That's awesome :)

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's cool, now. When I was young it was not so cool because I did not understand it but my Aunt and (we still do in fact) I always knows when the is about to calls or when the other is thinking of one another.

Anyway, sometimes I have dreams. Some of the dreams are good, some are bad. Some do not happen for a long while but eventually do. Same with my Aunt. She predicted the earthquake that shook Japan. She had a dream and sure enough, exactly at the same time and place in her dream it occured with the exact structual damage.

Now, it would not do me harm if I would apply my gift to myself and think positive more than not. :o)

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Saw the quake on the news this morning. Hope everything is okay over there. Read that inanimate objects on shelves had a dancing party.

We've had a few minor quakes on the east coast fault line, but they usually don't register above an 18-wheeler driving by. So I have never felt the earth move to a degree that made me especially aware of it.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Pretty much ok where I am...

There were a few injuries at the centre, but that's around 50 or so miles from me...

This was a little freaky... Heh... Gladly, they don't happen here often!

[innerly.livejournal.com]

nope, never...i live in the safest place, no earthqackes, no hurricanes, no snow, nothing..

every time we go to Chiapas i tell Cris that i hope i get to experience one.. and everytime he tells me i'm crazy

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

After experiencing an earthquake... I'd rather not repeat it ;)

But yeah, everything should be experienced once :D

[nantosvelta.livejournal.com]

I live in a fairly stable (geologically speaking) part of the continent. So instead the planet throws tornados (which fortunately I also have not experiences), chinooks, floods, snow in july and golf ball sized hail at us instead.

Balances things out, I guess...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes!

Golf ball sized hail sounds terrifying!

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

First time was the Ardsley quake on October 20, 1985. (http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D17FD345D0C738EDDA90994DD484D81) It was a very small one, really, only a 3.0. But I lived at the top of a very tall building, and the fault line it came from was unknown until it decided to shift that morning.

Then I lived in Los Angeles for two years. Nothing major, but tiny ones happen so often you get pretty used to it.

I was sound asleep in bed at my mother's house on February 28, 2001 when this 5.8 came calling (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/02/28/northwest.quake.05/index.html). (This is taken as a sign not to visit my mother.) Her house was roughly 29 miles from the epicenter. Though her house suffered no damage save for a ceramic salt shaker (which I later restored), other homes on her little island were not so lucky and were damaged severely. Then again, had my mother's house slipped off its piers, it would have fallen down a slope, taken out the house below it, and wound up in Lake Washington.

Also, 37 seconds is a very long time when things are bouncing around like that. Just sayin.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes... The ten seconds this one lasted felt very long to me!

And wow... The one at your mother's house must have been a nightmare!

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

The only damage to my mom's place was a broken salt shaker. Some pictures fell, and a can fell out of a cabinet but that was it. No other damage. But her house is precariously positioned. So they overbuilt it when it was constructed, because the front of the house is resting on piers because of the grade of the slope.

Other houses near her didn't fare as well. They were old vacation homes built midcentury.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes...

Glad the damage was minimal!

That "precarious position" would give me nightmares!

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

I think they sold that house anyway (i have no idea- as you know I haven't been out there since then.) but I have photos (somewhere) of the house that show the piers. If I can find em I'll scan them up. Believe me, if the house didn't move during the Nisqually quake, it's not moving so easily.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Yes, and the first time wasn't so bad. It was like a big semi-truck driving by just outside my room, but without the engine sounds.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I always imagined it like that, but this was just a little more surreal...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Once, in Montana, I watched the trees across the street rise and fall. It was very... Unreal seeming.

[beloved-juno.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah... many times, and yes I mean earthquakes. Don't be sick.

I used to live in California, so it was something I was pretty used to. I remember I was actually moving when that big one went down in San Francisco in the late 90's. It was pretty screwed up.

I just remember trying to hold up this huge mirror that I'd just taken down from the wall so it didn't tip over and shatter, hoping the whole time that something didn't fall on my head and end me. Luckily nothing did, but in hindsight, perhaps I shouldn't have been worrying about the mirror.

Yeah... good times.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Me, sick?

Rumbled again! ;)

Yikes... But thankfully you (and the mirror) survived!

[avis-noctis.livejournal.com]

I can't remember the very first one. We get them here every once in a while, being right on a fault line. There was a huge one a few years ago that knocked me out of bed, made cracks in our walls/stairs, and split a three-foot crack in the highway outside of town. It was crazy.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yikes!

That's terrifying!

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever felt the earth move apart from in the bedroom ;P

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL! :D

No aftershocks of the ones in the midlands?

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

Nope. Never felt a thing.