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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:39 PM Original message |
A question for those who've been in earthquakes - |
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somone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Infrasound |
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underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Elephants for example |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. I was in the Chile earthquake last year. What woke me up was the sound! |
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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Also in Chile |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:54 PM Response to Reply #20 |
47. a groan? I think I've heard a groan. Animals feel and sense as |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have never heard the ground make a sound. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I thought we'd had a very, very minor quake, then I noticed that indeed |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. I've been in a small one in Vegas... |
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LuckyStrykes (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. No rumble |
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zappaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. I've been in a few |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. I've been in many earthquakes. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I heard the noise during the quake - a very unique sound almost |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. There is a rumble after it starts beside the sounds of |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Right - I associate it with the quake itself rather than as a precursor. |
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upstatecajun (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. I heard a loud boom than the ground |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Sometimes in SD you hear them |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. I once slept through a minor earthquake, one which woke |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. I don't know about any low rumble from the ground. I CAN tell you that |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. The noise must depend on how many man made objects are around. |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Once you feel one, you know them instantly thereafter. |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. The NY Times had a column years ago - looks like there is an East/West difference |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
17. I've heard booms, bangs, and rumbling but usually nothing |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. The only earthquake I have lived through had to happen at 6 o freakin clock in the mornin |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. I have heard it |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. I only experienced small earthquakes when I lived in Japan... |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm a native Californian, been in several |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
25. i kept moving to them. watsonville, mammonth lake and outside san diego |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
26. Don't know but the animals shure started acying crazy prior to |
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Kceres (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
28. Memphis, TN many, many years ago. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
29. It depends. They can be quiet, stuff can be rattling, can sound like a loud truck approaching |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
30. I've been in a few in the Carribean...sounds like a noisy tractor trailer is pulling up to the house |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
31. I remember being in a quake in the midwest a few years ago. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
32. 1994 Northridge quake - cacaphony of sounds - building shaking, furniture falling, transformers |
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Lucinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. Add me to the no sound - California quake list |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:55 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. I was 60 miles away from Northridge (normally lived in Westwood but |
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Lucinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I was in college in the south when the Northridge quake happened |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm sure it depends on how far away you are |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. yes. Northridge quake was tremendously loud |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 10:59 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. we were two blocks from the epicenter in Northridge |
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Mojeoux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. It was like a super big truck was passing, only no truck, no passing. NT |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
40. Yonkers, NY over 20 years ago. i woke up to shaking and a loud rumbling sound. 5.7 earthquake. |
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SnoopDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
41. The low rumble woke me up before the quake occurred... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
42. I've been in lots of earthquakes. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
49. Cabin shaking in Fairbanks, thought was a moose on the porch |
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GreenStormCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
43. Sometimes there is a sound. |
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FourScore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
44. No. But I understand sometimes they do rumble. n/t |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
45. I was in the Northridge quake in '94 about a mile from the epicenter. |
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Drahthaardogs (482 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
46. I have been in a lot of earthquakes in Alaska |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Ironically, I was in Los Angeles during that one, |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-12-11 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
48. Panama ..many quakes (nothing big) |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
50. Believe it or not, the scariest part of a quake is the sound |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
52. More than antything, you hear the creaking of the wood |
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footinmouth (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-13-11 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
53. Hedgehog, I remember that same quake |
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