Earthquake

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The Northridge one (1-17-94) was my favorite. it rocked and only left a crack in the dining room ceiling. no other damage, however it did somehow left in a pathway for lots of large spiders to come in and infest the downstairs bathroom, so we were stuck with spiders for the rest of the time in that house

what's your biggest earthquake experience?

HonkyPunch

One time, I jumped, and missed the ground. No, really.
Edit: I've also played Quake once.

Scott Ruggels

On the freeway heading home from work, when the 1989 Loma Priet Earthquake struck, and hearing the San Francisco Radio stations, one by one, quickly go dead, while I stopped my car on the 101, and it bucked and wobbled,and the center divider rippled like a high tension wire struck with a hammer, I really thought it was "The big one"

Scott

hawken

I was having a shit when the 7.5 hit here in Tokyo last year.
My apartment almost fell over.

Been having a few low rumblers these days... yesterday a tremblor lasted for about 2 minutes. I'm kinda scared because my new apartment is on the 3rd floor - this in it's self is not the problem, it's just that the 1st floor (ground floor) is an empty shell used as a workshop. The rest of the building is supported by 6 iron supports.

Thegodzero

We had one rite under spokane once. A faltline runs under spokane so a few years back it moved a bit and we got a sudden bump at 7am. I woke up 15 seconds before it, i didnt know why i had awoken then suddenly it felt like some one just ran a mac truck into the house, and that was that it was done.

KDR_11k

My favourite Earthquake is Polycount's resident paedo!

killingpeople

he is fecking awesome, but he isn't a big experience by any means.

adam

I've never experienced an earthquake before..

Fordy

The great British quake of 2002 (no seriously!) Measured 4.2 and only lasted a couple of seconds. First and only quake I have experienced.

JKMakowka

That one time I woke up in the morning and my mom told me there had been a very small earthquake, and later that day I found a picture had fallen off the wall

Oh how boring it is to live in central europe

thomasp

an earthquake hit aix-la-chapelle (that's aachen for sauerkrauts) a few years ago in the morning. it was quite a mighty rumble but the only thing that fell down in our apartment was a flask made from glas. and it didn't break either, yes, that's european earthquakes. very civilized

the only stress i had was in keeping my girl in the bed. no reason to run outside screaming because of some stupid little quake. can you say contenance?

Wells

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Striff

Ive slept through a couple..but finally felt one not too long ago in Southern CA..it knocked my wacom pen off my desk..something like a 4.0

Vailias

In 2000 I was in San Francisco when a 5.1 hit napa. The house I as in rumbled a bit, shook a little. At first I thought that the garbage truck was showing up at a very strange hour. Course once it got louder and the table shook I remembered I had moved to an active seismic region.
I think it cracked some pavement and broke a waterline at one intersection in napa. Went pretty much unnoticed. heh. I suppose 5 pointers are standard fare for anyone along the san andreas.

Joshua Stubbles

Scott - ditto that EQ.
I was actually with some freinds, herding a bull across the highway, into a pen. When it hit, I was on the top of a 60degree slope, running a rope around the pen. Dirt shot out of gopher holes, about 10ft into the air. The road also rippled like water, and cracks popped all over it.
Daaaamn. I was only 9yrs old Good times. :P

Mongrelman

Same one as Fordy.

Was sitting on my bed, watching Casino on TV in Birmingham (UK) a few years ago. Suddenly it started shaking a bit and I thought "umm, wtf mate?". I thought maybe some plane flew very low overhead (lots of planes pass over our house), then thought maybe it was some big truck passing by outside.
Then realised it was a wee earthquake.

joolz8000

I've had the pleasure to witness two. First was in 1989 or '90, I can't remember, in Olympia, WA. It happened in the morning and knocked me out of bed. My first impression was that a logging truck had run into my apartment. (They often drove by in the morning.) Several of the roof supports in the ceiling fell over and damaged my kitchen.

In 2001 I experienced the Nisqually quake (6.5?) in Seattle's Post Alley, close to Pike Place Market. My fellow coworkers and I scrambled to doorways. I got to the front door and saw a guy running down the alley as loose bricks from the upper levels of these old buildings rained down (okay, maybe a dozen, but still scary). The quake lasted a long time- it started with a low rumble and then everything shook for what felt like twenty seconds, then it slowly subsided. A minute later I answered the phone, "Happy Earthquake Day! How may I help you?" My friend's wife, working on a high floor in one of our taller buildings, was NOT amused.