ever been in an earth tremor ?

Question

i just exprerienced my first one in the Americas and my last one .......I hope unless we get them in the UK !

Answer 1

We get them all the time in Japan.
I slept through my first few; kids were always running to school, so I thought that was the cause of the rumbles.
Most often, it feels like a really strong wind rocking your house, or a train or lorry rumbling in front of your home.
Some have been bad though.
One time I was in a class on top of a rackety building which really shook. It was very scary.
Another time, more recently, inside a huge D.I.Y. shop where the tall shelves began to sway and the lights went dim and I felt the floor shift ... All I could think of was how much I'd had to drink the night before! Which helped keep me quite calm whilst other shoppers went running for the exits.
We had a repeat of that one once I got home. My first reaction was to study my cats - they didn't panic. My bird was calm too ( this is really important because I had a pair of Rossella parakeets who sensed the big Kobe earthquake of early morning January 17th 1995 even though we lived really far away ).
I watched everything shake, but was really calm myself, saying softly to my pets "No problem. It's not the big one." and then realising all the time I had my hand on the fish tank to stop my fish from getting flushed out in the tremor!
All I can say is, it feels so long! It lasts only a minute or two, but those minutes seem like a lifetime! SO Looooooong!
Usually it never is as bad as it seems.

Answer 2

Yes, a few. I live in NYC and earthquakes and tremors are few here--but they do happen.

The strongest one I remember was in the 1980s. I was lying in bed in my apartment, on the 17th floor. Suddenly the bed started shaking violently side to side. This went on for about a minute. My mom and I got out of the apartment, out of the building, and walked around for a while. Nothing else happened.

I don't think I've felt an earthquake or tremor since then.

Answer 3

I,ve experienced two Earth Tremors in the UK

Answer 4

Would you beleive I felt an earth tremor in the midlands of England. The epicentre was in Fairy Meadows, a country park in Northamptonshire. It was enough to wake me, and it made a few things rattle in the bedroom, my husband laughed and said I had imagined it, but it was front page news in the local newspaper the next day.

We do happen to have the odd one in England, not as big as in USA of course, but enough to make you jump.

Happy Christmas to you x.

Answer 5

Yes, several as I live in Greece. Fortunately in this area we do only get the tremors and not the actual quake, but even so they are quite unsettling. Many towns in Greece have had terrible experiences of quakes.

Answer 6

Yeppers quite a few when I lived in CA. I lived in the Bay Area and experienced the quake of '89 that happened during the World Series. 7.1 on the ol' Richter Scale!

Answer 7

I've been in several big ones, two in California and a couple in Alaska too. It is funny how different they can be, either real shakers and rattlers or the ones that are rollers. I think the latter frightened me the most.

Answer 8

Yes, but only a small one, it woke us all up early one morning and it shook one of my heaters of the wall and broke it.
They are not fun things are they! I feel sorry for folk who get these big earthquakes on a semi regular basis.
Merry Christmas.

Answer 9

We get em all the time in the UK. We just don't realise it. I've been through a few ... never been upset though.

xxR

Answer 10

Yes, but I was in a bus at the time so I didn't feel it, Thank God. My Dad said that it was really scary though!!