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tiny earthquake scared the **** out of me ...
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#21 - 2013-09-20 20:59:02 UTC
Baby ChuChu wrote:
I've only experienced one earthquake and it was in 2011. It was the tiniest little quake (sounds a lot like yours to be honest), but everyone made a huge deal out of it. The good news is we got this hilarious image out of it:

http://ctrlzstudio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Never-Forget-The-Great-East-Coast-Earthquake-of-2011-480x228.jpg

Ha, I remember that one. It took a couple of hours for everybody in our office to calm down. One girl completely disappeared. It turned out she'd evacuated the building and gone straight home. No waiting around to see what happens for her.

Says here that Japan retired its earthquake-predicting catfish. The problem was they were detecting every little quake 2-3 days before it happened. The government wanted something that would just warn of big, dangerous earthquakes.
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#22 - 2013-09-20 21:05:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Solstice Project's Alt
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Ha, I remember that one. It took a couple of hours for everybody in our office to calm down. One girl completely disappeared. It turned out she'd evacuated the building and gone straight home. No waiting around to see what happens for her.
This sounds like it was in an area with more regular earthquakes happening ?

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Says here that Japan retired its earthquake-predicting catfish. The problem was they were detecting every little quake 2-3 days before it happened. The government wanted something that would just warn of big, dangerous earthquakes.
That's quite hilarious. xD

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#23 - 2013-09-20 21:36:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Ha, I remember that one. It took a couple of hours for everybody in our office to calm down. One girl completely disappeared. It turned out she'd evacuated the building and gone straight home. No waiting around to see what happens for her.
This sounds like it was in an area with more regular earthquakes happening ?

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Says here that Japan retired its earthquake-predicting catfish. The problem was they were detecting every little quake 2-3 days before it happened. The government wanted something that would just warn of big, dangerous earthquakes.
That's quite hilarious. xD


No, that was the East Coast U.S.A. earthquake Baby ChuChu was talking about. They're rare around here. Everybody really freaked out for a while.
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#24 - 2013-09-20 21:49:35 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Everybody really freaked out for a while.
I feel with them, tbh.

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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#25 - 2013-09-20 21:54:34 UTC
I have a question.

Besides it seemingly being only a small, short earthquake ...

What the **** was that sound ? I understand if it was the wave of the earthquake moving, (i guess)
but it sounded like a heavy Gustav driving through the street
at a ******* hundred miles per hour.

When the noise got louder and louder i seriously thought i would die,
because i could clearly hear it approach me at a way too high speed ...

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Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#26 - 2013-09-20 22:21:49 UTC
the noise was the earth beneath you shifting.

sound travels faster through it (dunno about further), so you were hearing things from 20,000 leagues under the sea

about that sine wave, seeing how you're in australia... wouldn't it be somewhat .... inverted

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Baby ChuChu
Ice Cream Asylum
#27 - 2013-09-20 22:23:00 UTC
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
I have a question.

Besides it seemingly being only a small, short earthquake ...

What the **** was that sound ?


Science!

It's definitely an unsettling noise. I totally get why it scares you. It's not like thunder where it just comes and goes. It's that slow build up that feels eerie.
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2013-09-21 02:44:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Graygor
We've had a few rumbles here in Tokyo in the past week weeks. Nothing big though. They had a 5 in Fukushima on Wednesday though.

The build quality the Japanese put into dampening the effects of earthquakes is amazing. I live on the 37th floor of my building. Yet due to the dampening I hardly ever feel a thing.

And to me, a big earthquake sounds kind of like a freight train with the de-dung-de-dung noise thingy from all the buildings shaking.

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Lido Seahawk
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2013-09-21 04:08:42 UTC
I used to top trees for the power company in Santa Cruz, back in the day. My first quake, I was 75-80 feet up in a Redwood tree. I had just snapped in, the tree starts swaying like crazy, and I'm thinking "Wtf, I haven't even started the saw!"

Then the groundsman yells "Quake", so I repel out. Of course, it stopped as soon as my feet hit the ground. Every climb I made the rest of the day was just a little bit more exciting!

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baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#30 - 2013-09-21 05:27:24 UTC
Sounds like a rockslide. Felt a few of them in Tirol and I slept through an earthquake.

I wouldn't worry about it, the earthquakes are in Italy.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#31 - 2013-09-21 12:02:59 UTC
17 years in San Fran, so let me tell you about earthquakes.

Nah....not really. Didn't really have a big one in the 17 years.

My first one was a double-header. Just a 3.6 about 6 miles away. A 2nd one followed exactly 3 minutes later. THAT's the one that unnerved me when it hit, as there is a 25% chance of a 2nd one being larger. IT wasn't that time though.

Was on the phone with a friend in San Jose (about a 90 minute drive away) when one hit there. Took it 10 seconds to hit and rattle me off my feet in SF.

The funniest was when I suddenly stumbled a bit walking down the hallway while what sounded like a large truck drove by. I didn't even realize it was a quake till an hour later when my mother in Houston called to ask how I was.

Having been through tornadoes, hurricanes, and all that, I'll take an earthquake any day. It's over and done with. Hurricanes can trap you in your house for days, and keep away electricity for months afterwards.

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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#32 - 2013-09-21 13:05:32 UTC
Graygor wrote:
We've had a few rumbles here in Tokyo in the past week weeks. Nothing big though. They had a 5 in Fukushima on Wednesday though.

The build quality the Japanese put into dampening the effects of earthquakes is amazing. I live on the 37th floor of my building. Yet due to the dampening I hardly ever feel a thing.

And to me, a big earthquake sounds kind of like a freight train with the de-dung-de-dung noise thingy from all the buildings shaking.
We don't have this kind of technology here,
as earthquakes are rather rare (although my city is in a region where they are possible to happen).

37th floor. I couldn't live up there with earthquakes and i couldn't do it without either, tbh ...

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#33 - 2013-09-21 13:13:51 UTC
What's been astonishing is finding out that the most volatile fault is actually the one in Utah that runs right underneath Salt Lake City.

It apparently only goes off every few millenia here and there, but is incredibly destructive. They expect the city to be utterly pulverized with no survivors if a 'normal' one happens on the fault.

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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#34 - 2013-09-21 13:18:46 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
What's been astonishing is finding out that the most volatile fault is actually the one in Utah that runs right underneath Salt Lake City.

It apparently only goes off every few millenia here and there, but is incredibly destructive. They expect the city to be utterly pulverized with no survivors if a 'normal' one happens on the fault.

Brigham Young, in declaring his followers to come to the Promised Land, didn't finish his sentence: it's The Promised Land of Ultimate Doom.
That sounds really bad...

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Fomol620 BrewGuard
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#35 - 2013-09-21 16:54:02 UTC
i live in central america for about 10 years now. i used to live in a small mountain town in Panama near the costa rican boarder. usually once a year or once every few years we would get a 5.0 - 6.0 quake that would be centered right off the pacific coast (20-50 miles away).

i remember on Dec 24, at around 2am (morning of the 25th) a nice quake hit. before i felt it i heard it. it sounded like a freight train barreling down. it felt like the whole town was a giant subwoofer. the quake was strong enough to shake the chandeliers around and shake my bed around. it lasted about 15 seconds or so.

when it finished i called out to everyone and we were all ok. i was pretty slow though. i never ran around and opened all of the doors...i just stood there.

the most terrifying thing for me was the lack of control. you had no warning with no possibility for preparation. and during the event, there is nothing that you can do. at least with a hurricane you know its coming days, or weeks in advance.

ill take a hurricane any day over an earthquake. mainly because in a hurricane you have days of warning to either get out or prepare....plus hurricanes are not as dangerous as most people whom have never been through a hurricane think they are. almost all deaths in hurricanes are because they have no idea what they are doing (their fault) or they make the wrong decision (stay in your home that is already below sea level).
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#36 - 2013-09-21 18:03:15 UTC
Fomol620 BrewGuard wrote:
it sounded like a freight train barreling down.
I hear you ... and it.

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i was pretty slow though. i never ran around and opened all of the doors...i just stood there.
I was lying in my bed, when i noticed it.
When i realised it, i just thought a lot about what to do, but didn't move a limb.

For my case, i guess that's pretty normal. I was also trying to analyze the waves, for whatever reason,
and understand how they affect my environment. I couldn't grasp how my feeling of them moving me up and down
translates for something like a brick wall ... without instantly crumbling it.
(which obviously isn't happening at 4.3, close-ish to center)
I will definitely train myself to *do*, instead of *think*, for the next time.

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the most terrifying thing for me was the lack of control. you had no warning with no possibility for preparation. and during the event, there is nothing that you can do. at least with a hurricane you know its coming days, or weeks in advance.
Yes !

This is something that tunes in a reality most people, including me, have either completely blocked out,
or are simply ignoring it the same way as they would ignore a smell, which is always there.

The event shoved me right into *actual* reality,
which hilariously compares to the feeling of lowsec
(due to earthquakes, robbery, the batch of ice that falls from a roof and hits you right on your head, etc ...)

... i'm just not realizing it yet. (i'm weird, get over it)

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selket Shihari
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#37 - 2013-09-21 19:12:06 UTC
the first earthquake i experienced was the 9.0 in Japan. that scared the **** out of me...i thought my house was going to collapse

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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#38 - 2013-09-21 19:36:55 UTC
selket Shihari wrote:
the first earthquake i experienced was the 9.0 in Japan. that scared the **** out of me...i thought my house was going to collapse
Holy cow, 9.0 O_O

How is that like (and how loud??) and why didn't your house collape ???

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#39 - 2013-09-21 20:39:45 UTC
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
selket Shihari wrote:
the first earthquake i experienced was the 9.0 in Japan. that scared the **** out of me...i thought my house was going to collapse
Holy cow, 9.0 O_O

How is that like (and how loud??) and why didn't your house collape ???

9.0 mag is pretty much the top of the scale, so yeah quite loud.

and it didn't collapse because it was probably a very good anti-seismic construction.

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Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#40 - 2013-09-21 20:43:18 UTC
Grimpak wrote:
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
selket Shihari wrote:
the first earthquake i experienced was the 9.0 in Japan. that scared the **** out of me...i thought my house was going to collapse
Holy cow, 9.0 O_O

How is that like (and how loud??) and why didn't your house collape ???

9.0 mag is pretty much the top of the scale, so yeah quite loud.

and it didn't collapse because it was probably a very good anti-seismic construction.
mag ?
not richter ?

I have to look that one up.

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