Have you experienced an earthquake?? What was the magnitude.?

Question

Where was the epicenter??

Answer 1

I live in California and we have a few earthquakes from time to time... no big deal. It's usually just a little shimmy.

One of my best childhood memories was of the Northridge earthquake in 1994 (Magnitude 6.7, epicenter Northridge). My brother, sister and I ran into my parents room scared out of our wits. My mom and dad let us all pile into their bed watch the news. We all fell asleep in their bed.

Answer 2

We have a lot of earthquakes in Alaska, but sometimes we can only feel them because of the waves in our 100 gallon fish-tank and our fish curse at us. Usually it does not go above 4.0.

The biggest earthquake here was The Good Friday Earthquake (also called the Great Alaska Earthquake) of Friday, March 27, 1964 (Good Friday, a Christian holy day associated with an earthquake, 5:36 P.M. AST (03:36 3/28 UTC) was the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the third most powerful ever measured by seismograph. The epicenter was about 10km east of the mouth of College Fjord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage. The epicenter was located at Lat. 61.04N, Lon. 147.73W, at a depth of approximately 25km. The duration of rupture lasted approximately 4 minutes (240 seconds). The magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which resulted in 131 deaths, was centered in Prince William Sound off the coast of South Central Alaska. The powerful earthquake also caused some parts of Alaska to be liquefied, causing much damage to property and leading to landslides.

I was not even been born then. We have a place in Anchorage where you can see what happened then, lot of pictures and maps. Crazy!

Answer 3

Oh yes...many in fact. I was born and raised in Northern California. The worst one for me was the one in Oct. 1989. It was called the Loma Prieta Earthquake. The epicenter was up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was a 6.9. At the time I was living in San Jose. I was home alone with 3 little ones and was actually on the phone with a friend in Modesto (60 miles) away. I felt a jolt and told him we are having an earthquake. And within a few seconds he said he felt it too. I got off the phone quick and gathered the kids and we huddled on the floor under a door. I could feel the floor rolling like waves underneath us. I was so scared, but I couldn't let them know. We just sat there for what seemed like forever. The aftershocks went on well into the night and we all ended up sleeping out in the family room together. Although, I couldn't sleep. Every after shock felt like another "big one" was coming. We didn't have too much damage. It was an old house and we lost some bricks on the chimney. My cousin from out of state called that evening cause when she was watching the news about the quake she said it looked like the whole state of Calif. was damaged and on fire. It wasn't of course but S.F. and Oakland were hit real bad. It wasn't long after that we moved out of California.

Answer 4

Once, about 20 years ago, a little wave came through. I was in Iowa. I have no idea where the epicenter was.
Then, about 5 years ago, we heard some rumbling in the middle of the night that lasted about 5 seconds and learned later it was a small earthquake. This time in Illinois. So, I don't have any real experience with real earthquakes.

Answer 5

In 1992? Landers, CA 7.4 or was it 8.2?? magnitude. Lived in 29 Palms, about 20 miles away from the epicenter in Landers. It happened at about 6 AM and the Big Bear Quake happened at about 8 AM the same day. We were farther away, but it still freaked me out. Lucky for us, we didn't lose anything except a flashlight that fell off the refrigerator.

Answer 6

Yes, .4 in San Diego epicenter was somewhere in the desert in 2004 cubicles were kind of shivering I thought someone was playing a joke. In 2005 as well we just got the aftershocks I felt my feet being tickled, and then I called my husband to see if he was ok...he didn't even feel it because he was driving...

Answer 7

I've experienced two earthquakes! One was a 5.2 and the other a 5.4! It sounded like a freight train was passing underneath us. In the 5.4 earthquake the water in our hot tub was sloshing around like an angry sea! The chandelier in our kitchen was swaying so wildly that I thought it would fly on it's own! They were both pretty frightening! Annie

Answer 8

I live in SoCal, so I experienced several, Including the Northridge quake in 1994 and Whitter Narrows quake in 1987.

Answer 9

Yes about 3, but only small ones, the biggest was around 3.4 the epicentre was in the middle of the Med Sea, I could actually hear the tremmor and feel the earth move, but as it was only a small one it wasn't scary, although some of my neighbours were afraid.

Answer 10

I was in the '89 Loma Preita quake, and the 2000 Napa quake.
I live in California, I feel about 3 quakes per month, most very mild.