I was in that Earthquake, but a little further away in Hokkaido. I spent the entire earthquake staring at my hyper expensive laptop and my expensive but shitty monitor, both took without much stress
Which is good because my wallet would of been even more stressed
I can't imagine the earth shaking like that. It's the ground! It's supposed to be the solid base of everything. I would would not do well in earthquake country.
It's crazy to see the soil become jello. I was in a 6.8 and the ground everywhere was like a wave pool of molasses and the covered sidewalk structures on campus looked like wacky inflatable tube men. The concrete sidewalks across the grass grounds looked like a ribbon floating on choppy water.
I lived in Japan for four years when I was younger, in the north in Aomori. The boonies. Lots of snow, lots of earthquakes. On average there were like three to four minor tremors a day. You just stop what you're doing, like spoonful of cereal midway to your mouth, then continue when it's gone. Most are barely perceptible and harmless.
Some aren't so innocuous, though. During one particularly bad one I was almost crushed by a CRT TV that fell over towards me when the nightstand it was on tipped over and the cord ripped from the wall. I rolled under the bed just in time to see it smash down onto the floor right where I was laying watching cartoons.
It’s not so bad. I once woke up from a nap to a 7.2 (? it was the Ridgecrest quakes from a few years back) realized what was happening then promptly rolled over and went back to bed while the building was actively rocking. Most buildings are rated for like ~8.5ish and you generally start getting a feel for how dangerous a quake is over time. 9/10 it’s no big deal and everyone kinda just moves on almost immediately after it ends. Fires from damage are the most dangerous things about earthquakes not the shaking itself.
It’s because your body puts your muscles to sleep so that you don’t act out your dreams in real life. This wanes as our circadian rhythm becomes more shallow and we’re in a phase where it is easier to wake up/were ready (like the opposite side of the spectrum from REM).
So, if you’re awoken suddenly, you are more likely to experience this as your body did not prepare for you to be awake in that moment.
If you were curious about that, anyways. I know it’s somewhat tangential to your comment, but hopefully you think it’s interesting.
It also happens a lot if you have narcolepsy. I get it multiple times a night every night alongside hallucinations when waking up/falling asleep 🙃 at least I'm so desensitized to it that it doesn't scare me lol
Damn, that's tough. I had quite a few episodes of sleep paralysis + hallucinations over the years, mostly when I was young. Back when I was a child, I thought I was cursed or something, I only knew other people had it when I was in my 20s
Being woken up by an earthquake is a weird experience. The only significant earthquake I've ever been in happened in the middle of the night a few days after a typhoon blew through, woke up incredibly disoriented thinking that my pots and pans clattering was the wind outside and that somehow the typhoon had come back. I figured out it was an earthquake with just enough time to think I should probably get outside or at least into a doorway when it stopped, at which point the earthquake warning went off on my phone.
It’s not always. There’s two ‘types’: jolts and rolling earthquakes. This is an example of a rolling one and these can last over a minute. Jolts are simply that, a quick jerking movement that startles the shit outta you and it’s over before you can really process it happened. Those usually occur when the plate kinda abruptly gives a bit and shifts ever so slightly. Rolling ones are large movements in the fault and are way scarier because they are the ones most likely to bring down buildings and cause tsunamis bc they have a lot of power and energy is getting displaced in spades. They can hit a vibration frequency, if they go on for too long, that’ll topple buildings even with earthquake reinforcement.
One of the things about earthquakes that these videos don't seem to convey well is the sound. Besides all the clattering noise from stuff shaking around, there's a big booming rumble that doesn't seem to come from anywhere, just kinda everywhere. A heavy sound that emanates from the ground itself. That can be quite scary
They are terrifying but I’ve also been blown away by the experience as well, just in awe of how “unstable” the ground below can be. Earthquakes are fascinating. During Loma Prieta I was in the Embarcadero 4 outdoor lobby, just under the walkway that leads to 3. I will never forget the weirdness of it all.
I watched a man grab a stoplight pole and hang on, while a laundry truck rolled by. In that moment I thought it was the laundry truck. A man next to me shouted Hey, you feel that shaker? Then a man ran out of a gift store screaming, and for some reason he felt the need to hug me. Down the block the brick front of a famous building collapsed. I frankly did not think to shout or anything, I just kind of watched. Then I realized where I was standing was not safe, so I moved to the open street. I realized I had to find my mom who worked at main and market but I never did find her. She actually left work early and was on BART in the tube when it hit. Her story is interesting too, but too long to retell here.
I've been in a few. The most interesting one was when I was in my office and there was a glass of water where you could see the water move up the side of the glass. It was shockingly smooth acceleration.
For the several times I’ve been in earthquakes, it felt like a massive, heady-laden freight train absolutely rucking it by RIGHT next to the wall, outside.
The thing is, no video will give you any preparation for how an earthquake actually feels when you experience one. You realize that your brain always took for granted that the ground is solid and won’t move. Especially if you were born in a place that never gets earthquakes. When you feel it move it feels like the impossible is happening.
One day, the teacher is yelling at me as everyone dove under their table. A minute later, as everyone was back in their seats, she asked me why I didn't duck and cover during the earthquake.
I live in Japan. About one person in 4 gets worked up over small earthquakes. Most people just shrug. 95% of the earthquakes are barely noticeable. And if the big one comes, there isn’t much you can do anyway—anything you could have done (bolt your bookcases to the wall, etc., stockpile food and water) had to be done long in advance.
I had a big one (maybe a 5?) hit when I was in bed. My bed shook for 30 seconds. The scariest thing was my phone shrieking “earthquake!”
A friend said she was sitting in a McDonald’s during an earthquake and 30 phones all screamed “earthquake!” at the same time.
I've been in a bunch of earthquakes. The only people that get hurt are usually the ones that dive under their desks. They smack their ankles, or something. Big ones are different, but still, be careful if you go under a desk.
What I do is to first look up and see what could fall on me. If there isn't anything, then I wave my arms up in the air like a crazy person and yell "earthquake!". Then I push stuff off my co-workers desk. This method has seen me through many earthquakes.
Well I live in New Delhi, India where earthquakes aren't that common and are also very mild.
One day I was sitting in my office and someone started pushing and pulling my chair in a very slow rhythm. I ignored it thinking it was a coworker. Then again it happened and I shouted, "Don't move my chair". He said mine is moving too. We ran for the exit as fast as we could. Felt like I was on a swing and the wind was pushing me.
Recently 8-9 months ago, that night I slept very late around 4 AM. My door is slightly loose, so it can rattle if someone tries to push it, which alerts me. That night it was closed, and suddenly I heard a loud bang as if someone closed the door at lightspeed. Mind you, the play in the door is less than half a centimetre and the sound was so dang loud.
Both earthquakes were only a 4 on the richter scale.
20 years ago while eating dinner in Tokyo a 6.2 struck with its epicenter out in the harbor. It was significantly less than this. But quite noticeable. We thought, hey cool, we’re having an earthquake. The we noticed the look of abject terror on our waitress as she was flat against the wall and the same on the faces of a young couple seated close to us. Then we realized maybe this isn’t so cool after all. And then it was over and everyone went back to normal. Quite a memorable evening.
i was sitting in the kitchen when the 6.9 loma prieta earthquake hit San Francisco Bay Area in 1989. It was TERRIFYING. Like the whole world is shaking. because it IS. you could fall down and the ground would hit you first.
While it's still scary, 7.5 is considered on the smaller side of large earthquakes. With Japan being as experienced with earthquakes as they are, I'd still feel pretty safe if I were caught in one there.
I was there for that, except up in Hokkaido, so close but still near, it was -5 on the Shindo Scale (which is not the richter scale).
The most abrupt chaos came from me falling out of bed to silence the alarm that woke me up informing me about the oncoming earthquake, it probably woke up the entire apartment block.
Although the quake can be sudden, it is not that scary. The scary part is when you find out a tsunami is on its way. That's terrifying! Even a 5m wave can be super destructive in smaller cities.
The one time I experienced an earthquake I was on the second floor of a house and things just started shaking slightly, so I went downstairs and outside into the yard. Standing there in the middle of the yard watching trees shift back and forth while feeling like the whole world beneath me was moving around was incredibly disturbing.
It felt like the whole planet was no longer reliable for the first time in my life, and it could all just split apart at any moment, but there was nothing I could do about it.
That's a pretty good sized earthquake. I've been in a 6.0 and it was a roller, not a shaker. It felt like driving down a road with lots of potholes and washboard. If you don't know what washboard is, it describes the ripples on an unpaved road. It's an old term
For a 7,5 it wasn't chaos. Shows how well they build their stuff to compensate for the seismic events - no falling crap, no breaking walls, not even a mess made really.
I have experienced one, about 4 on the scale.. my apartment building was close to the railway tracks that was used mostly by freight trains when the couch started rocking me at 3 am, my first thought was to “ignore the dream” but when the rocking persisted even after opening my eyes in confusion, my second thought was was a derailed freight train is about to take the building out, but then again there was no sound. Ensue more confusion.. by the time I got up to actually look out the tremors stopped…
It’d be the disbelief and confusion that would have got me if it were anything like 7 or 8 on the scale…
I took my daughter to Disneyland in 2010, when we got to the hotel in Anaheim she wasn't feeling well and went to bed early. Around 3am I was woken up by my bed shaking. At first, I thought it was my daughter trying to wake me up, then I realized it was an earthquake. I didn't even get out of bed since I figured there would be an alarm or something if it was a strong enough quake.
I've also slept through several of the quakes that have happened in Oregon over the years. The only other one I remember being awake for was when I was in a training class for the company I worked for, it felt like someone was kicking my chair leg but when I looked nobody was close enough, then I looked up and saw the lights swinging. The instructor was from California and he was just like "this is nothing, just wait, if they want us to evacuate they will tell us". It didn't hurt it was a newer building with earthquake protection.
we had a couple earthquakes here when I was a kid....the ONLY way I knew it happened when it did was is ALL pictures in the house were tilted. We don't get shit for earthquakes in Michigan. But we get some nasty tornados.
And never forget the fact that your buildings are probably not well prepared such a thing if it ever happens. Countries like Japan mastered this over decades, many other countries would dig up hundreds of thousands and more below the rubble.
Bro, i live in central America, we experience an earth quake every now and then, it is not that dramatic, (they 4.5, 4.7 it varies, like more or less strength)
I got the notification on my phone. I’m impressed there were no ceiling panels falling down, no papers falling, hell even the plant stayed upright. I can’t imagine going through one of these.
I was living in Louisville, my (near the New Madrid fault) and about 3 years ago thlongest rumble of thunder EVER woke me up…I thought “EARTHQUAKE???” and went right back to sleep until my kid came in and told me stuff was falling off his walls
That's nothing, the floor is stationary instead of rolling up and down. Well constructed building is what makes that possible. Also what makes it last so much longer
That monitor held up like a champ
And the clock on the wall!
Honestly everything held up really well. Except the stack of papers lmao.
The stacks of papers were not up to earthquake code.
We shall restack.
I was fixated on the ceiling and walls myself😅
I was in that Earthquake, but a little further away in Hokkaido. I spent the entire earthquake staring at my hyper expensive laptop and my expensive but shitty monitor, both took without much stress
Which is good because my wallet would of been even more stressed
Must be a software engineer. It's up to code.
I was fascinated by the chairs still staying in place and not rolling everywhere after that chaos 🤯
There must be easier ways to keep the monitor from going to sleep
So sad for all, that paper though.
I should stfu. I'm in SoCal for 22 years and have yet to feel one greater than a weak 5. Nom need to tempt fate.
Better than the Pacific NW. There is a monster due up there.
A monster so big it'll probably set off San Andreas and what will seem like everything else, too
Everyones monitor broke expect that one guy that always complains because he is the one doing all the work
I can't imagine the earth shaking like that. It's the ground! It's supposed to be the solid base of everything. I would would not do well in earthquake country.
it’s a bizzare feeling really knowing the ground below you is so uncertain of itself
It still sort of boggles my mind to think about how the earth is a big ball of lava with a thin crust of solid stuff on top.
So far. One day it'll be all crust!
It's crazy to see the soil become jello. I was in a 6.8 and the ground everywhere was like a wave pool of molasses and the covered sidewalk structures on campus looked like wacky inflatable tube men. The concrete sidewalks across the grass grounds looked like a ribbon floating on choppy water.
Liquifaction.
I lived in Japan for four years when I was younger, in the north in Aomori. The boonies. Lots of snow, lots of earthquakes. On average there were like three to four minor tremors a day. You just stop what you're doing, like spoonful of cereal midway to your mouth, then continue when it's gone. Most are barely perceptible and harmless.
Some aren't so innocuous, though. During one particularly bad one I was almost crushed by a CRT TV that fell over towards me when the nightstand it was on tipped over and the cord ripped from the wall. I rolled under the bed just in time to see it smash down onto the floor right where I was laying watching cartoons.
It’s not so bad. I once woke up from a nap to a 7.2 (? it was the Ridgecrest quakes from a few years back) realized what was happening then promptly rolled over and went back to bed while the building was actively rocking. Most buildings are rated for like ~8.5ish and you generally start getting a feel for how dangerous a quake is over time. 9/10 it’s no big deal and everyone kinda just moves on almost immediately after it ends. Fires from damage are the most dangerous things about earthquakes not the shaking itself.
The one time I ever experienced sleep paralysis was during an earthquake. Good times.
Well, damn. That really sucks.
So like, the paralysis demon wasn't just sitting down on your chest ? Was he like, shaking your shit like a bag of potatoes ?
Wrong guy, lol
It’s because your body puts your muscles to sleep so that you don’t act out your dreams in real life. This wanes as our circadian rhythm becomes more shallow and we’re in a phase where it is easier to wake up/were ready (like the opposite side of the spectrum from REM).
So, if you’re awoken suddenly, you are more likely to experience this as your body did not prepare for you to be awake in that moment.
If you were curious about that, anyways. I know it’s somewhat tangential to your comment, but hopefully you think it’s interesting.
Cheers
It also happens a lot if you have narcolepsy. I get it multiple times a night every night alongside hallucinations when waking up/falling asleep 🙃 at least I'm so desensitized to it that it doesn't scare me lol
Damn, that's tough. I had quite a few episodes of sleep paralysis + hallucinations over the years, mostly when I was young. Back when I was a child, I thought I was cursed or something, I only knew other people had it when I was in my 20s
Being woken up by an earthquake is a weird experience. The only significant earthquake I've ever been in happened in the middle of the night a few days after a typhoon blew through, woke up incredibly disoriented thinking that my pots and pans clattering was the wind outside and that somehow the typhoon had come back. I figured out it was an earthquake with just enough time to think I should probably get outside or at least into a doorway when it stopped, at which point the earthquake warning went off on my phone.
Same actually
Its crazy how long they last
Me reacting to porn for the first time
It's easy to last a while when you're already on your 6th scene of the day and your dick is totally numb
They also have a lot of pauses to move around, change positions, change the camera, adjust lighting, time for the director giving instructions...
I'd give you an upvote but you're on 69. I just can't do it
It’s not always. There’s two ‘types’: jolts and rolling earthquakes. This is an example of a rolling one and these can last over a minute. Jolts are simply that, a quick jerking movement that startles the shit outta you and it’s over before you can really process it happened. Those usually occur when the plate kinda abruptly gives a bit and shifts ever so slightly. Rolling ones are large movements in the fault and are way scarier because they are the ones most likely to bring down buildings and cause tsunamis bc they have a lot of power and energy is getting displaced in spades. They can hit a vibration frequency, if they go on for too long, that’ll topple buildings even with earthquake reinforcement.
Very good description and explanation. As a native Californian, I agree with this 100%.
It's also crazy how loud they are.
If you are ever on a highway overpass and feel it shake as a large truck drives over it, that’s what a mild earthquake feels like.
One of the things about earthquakes that these videos don't seem to convey well is the sound. Besides all the clattering noise from stuff shaking around, there's a big booming rumble that doesn't seem to come from anywhere, just kinda everywhere. A heavy sound that emanates from the ground itself. That can be quite scary
This is damn fine structural engineering doing it's job.
They are terrifying but I’ve also been blown away by the experience as well, just in awe of how “unstable” the ground below can be. Earthquakes are fascinating. During Loma Prieta I was in the Embarcadero 4 outdoor lobby, just under the walkway that leads to 3. I will never forget the weirdness of it all.
holy crap that sounds terrifying. i was just at home in the kitchen and it was scary af.
I watched a man grab a stoplight pole and hang on, while a laundry truck rolled by. In that moment I thought it was the laundry truck. A man next to me shouted Hey, you feel that shaker? Then a man ran out of a gift store screaming, and for some reason he felt the need to hug me. Down the block the brick front of a famous building collapsed. I frankly did not think to shout or anything, I just kind of watched. Then I realized where I was standing was not safe, so I moved to the open street. I realized I had to find my mom who worked at main and market but I never did find her. She actually left work early and was on BART in the tube when it hit. Her story is interesting too, but too long to retell here.
I remember Loma Prieta shaking as hard as in this video but it didn't last nearly as long.
That catfish needs to calm down.
Learned something. Thank you https://www.worldhistory.org/Namazu/
Earthquakes are only terrifying when they get big. The rest of the time they are kind of fun tbh.
You say that, but this past week we've been having an earthquake swarm of low 3's, but they've all been centered less than 500yds from my house.
When you're that close a 2.9 feels like a 6.5
I've been in a few. The most interesting one was when I was in my office and there was a glass of water where you could see the water move up the side of the glass. It was shockingly smooth acceleration.
For me, the most interesting one was out in the middle of the desert. I don't think it was even a 5, but you can hear them coming at you.
And a 7 is astoundingly loud.
And sometimes a stillness precedes them. I was in a gym before opening. Lots of glass and lots of weights.
So much shaking and sound after it started. I hightailed it outside.
Before it started that creepy train sound happened though.
For the several times I’ve been in earthquakes, it felt like a massive, heady-laden freight train absolutely rucking it by RIGHT next to the wall, outside.
We too!
The only thing missing is Kirk, Spock, and the bridge crew flailing around.
Lol
The thing is, no video will give you any preparation for how an earthquake actually feels when you experience one. You realize that your brain always took for granted that the ground is solid and won’t move. Especially if you were born in a place that never gets earthquakes. When you feel it move it feels like the impossible is happening.
my big fear was WHAT IF IT DOESN'T STOP. you have no idea whether it is going to get bigger or just stop.
Damn, gotta redo all that filing...
Moved from Japan to the U.S. when I was a kid.
One day, the teacher is yelling at me as everyone dove under their table. A minute later, as everyone was back in their seats, she asked me why I didn't duck and cover during the earthquake.
I was like 🤷♂️ what earthquake?
I live in Japan. About one person in 4 gets worked up over small earthquakes. Most people just shrug. 95% of the earthquakes are barely noticeable. And if the big one comes, there isn’t much you can do anyway—anything you could have done (bolt your bookcases to the wall, etc., stockpile food and water) had to be done long in advance.
I had a big one (maybe a 5?) hit when I was in bed. My bed shook for 30 seconds. The scariest thing was my phone shrieking “earthquake!”
A friend said she was sitting in a McDonald’s during an earthquake and 30 phones all screamed “earthquake!” at the same time.
I've been in a bunch of earthquakes. The only people that get hurt are usually the ones that dive under their desks. They smack their ankles, or something. Big ones are different, but still, be careful if you go under a desk. What I do is to first look up and see what could fall on me. If there isn't anything, then I wave my arms up in the air like a crazy person and yell "earthquake!". Then I push stuff off my co-workers desk. This method has seen me through many earthquakes.
ABA sign over there doing the “Dancing Queen”
Impressive that the power didn't go out.
Well I live in New Delhi, India where earthquakes aren't that common and are also very mild.
One day I was sitting in my office and someone started pushing and pulling my chair in a very slow rhythm. I ignored it thinking it was a coworker. Then again it happened and I shouted, "Don't move my chair". He said mine is moving too. We ran for the exit as fast as we could. Felt like I was on a swing and the wind was pushing me.
Recently 8-9 months ago, that night I slept very late around 4 AM. My door is slightly loose, so it can rattle if someone tries to push it, which alerts me. That night it was closed, and suddenly I heard a loud bang as if someone closed the door at lightspeed. Mind you, the play in the door is less than half a centimetre and the sound was so dang loud.
Both earthquakes were only a 4 on the richter scale.
Japan’s building code, kinda like cockroaches. They’ll all be standing after the apocalypse. But cleaner.
If the buildings a rocking don't come a knocking
But how fucked would your gunpla collection be
Experienced an earthquake in algebra class during my first day of high school.
Should've known those 4 years were gonna be shit right then and there.
IT Support saw that you were active on your desktop at 11PM. We just want to remind you that you must leave the building after your shift is over.
20 years ago while eating dinner in Tokyo a 6.2 struck with its epicenter out in the harbor. It was significantly less than this. But quite noticeable. We thought, hey cool, we’re having an earthquake. The we noticed the look of abject terror on our waitress as she was flat against the wall and the same on the faces of a young couple seated close to us. Then we realized maybe this isn’t so cool after all. And then it was over and everyone went back to normal. Quite a memorable evening.
i was sitting in the kitchen when the 6.9 loma prieta earthquake hit San Francisco Bay Area in 1989. It was TERRIFYING. Like the whole world is shaking. because it IS. you could fall down and the ground would hit you first.
Who moved my chair?!
Seems like an excessive way to implement a mouse jiggler.
You can tell this is NOT America because of the way the power stays on and the building isn't rubble
While it's still scary, 7.5 is considered on the smaller side of large earthquakes. With Japan being as experienced with earthquakes as they are, I'd still feel pretty safe if I were caught in one there.
That's a very well built building
I was there for that, except up in Hokkaido, so close but still near, it was -5 on the Shindo Scale (which is not the richter scale).
The most abrupt chaos came from me falling out of bed to silence the alarm that woke me up informing me about the oncoming earthquake, it probably woke up the entire apartment block.
My Dad surfed an earthquake in the middle of a street… at a busy intersection. We’re kinda used to them, but still unnerving.
Imagine being drunk and you stop be being dizzy for a minute cuz this evens out the balance
Although the quake can be sudden, it is not that scary. The scary part is when you find out a tsunami is on its way. That's terrifying! Even a 5m wave can be super destructive in smaller cities.
💀
It kicked on the screensaver on that one display.
Kicked off, actually.
I got stuck in elevators twince during quakes. Really not funny.
Anyone besides me wondering about if/where a tsunami will hit?
Aw hell nah nighttime earthquakes😭
I was home alone for the Loma Prieta earthquake, and that was a 6.9
This looks so much worse than what I remembered.
Loma Prieta shook this hard but I don't remember it lasting nearly as long.
The duration does more damage than the magnitude, from what I understand.
That looks inconvenient...
Was waiting for Bill Lumberg to walk out and remind everybody that they’ll still be expected to finish their TPS reports before going home.
The one time I experienced an earthquake I was on the second floor of a house and things just started shaking slightly, so I went downstairs and outside into the yard. Standing there in the middle of the yard watching trees shift back and forth while feeling like the whole world beneath me was moving around was incredibly disturbing.
It felt like the whole planet was no longer reliable for the first time in my life, and it could all just split apart at any moment, but there was nothing I could do about it.
I was in the 6.8 Northridge quake and that was scary enough. I can’t imagine the terror of one this size.
That's a pretty good sized earthquake. I've been in a 6.0 and it was a roller, not a shaker. It felt like driving down a road with lots of potholes and washboard. If you don't know what washboard is, it describes the ripples on an unpaved road. It's an old term
For a 7,5 it wasn't chaos. Shows how well they build their stuff to compensate for the seismic events - no falling crap, no breaking walls, not even a mess made really.
I have experienced one, about 4 on the scale.. my apartment building was close to the railway tracks that was used mostly by freight trains when the couch started rocking me at 3 am, my first thought was to “ignore the dream” but when the rocking persisted even after opening my eyes in confusion, my second thought was was a derailed freight train is about to take the building out, but then again there was no sound. Ensue more confusion.. by the time I got up to actually look out the tremors stopped…
It’d be the disbelief and confusion that would have got me if it were anything like 7 or 8 on the scale…
I took my daughter to Disneyland in 2010, when we got to the hotel in Anaheim she wasn't feeling well and went to bed early. Around 3am I was woken up by my bed shaking. At first, I thought it was my daughter trying to wake me up, then I realized it was an earthquake. I didn't even get out of bed since I figured there would be an alarm or something if it was a strong enough quake.
I've also slept through several of the quakes that have happened in Oregon over the years. The only other one I remember being awake for was when I was in a training class for the company I worked for, it felt like someone was kicking my chair leg but when I looked nobody was close enough, then I looked up and saw the lights swinging. The instructor was from California and he was just like "this is nothing, just wait, if they want us to evacuate they will tell us". It didn't hurt it was a newer building with earthquake protection.
Every time I hear about an earthquake of great magnitude, it's always Japan, I feel sorry for those guys.
we had a couple earthquakes here when I was a kid....the ONLY way I knew it happened when it did was is ALL pictures in the house were tilted. We don't get shit for earthquakes in Michigan. But we get some nasty tornados.
And never forget the fact that your buildings are probably not well prepared such a thing if it ever happens. Countries like Japan mastered this over decades, many other countries would dig up hundreds of thousands and more below the rubble.
I have experienced many earthquakes. Nothing like that though. And hopefully never have to.
An earthquake is one natural disaster. I’ve never been through, and I hope I never have to find out because it seems so damn scary.
I’ve only felt a 3.5 earthquake. Even that was pretty wild.
That was longer than I expected.
It’s like we’re on a moving train
That was a long one.
I like how people just assume it's an earthquake and not a malevolent poltergeist. People these days are so uncritical in their thinking.
I'll see this on 'Paranormal Caught on Camera' because of your comment 🤣
California resident here. That's like a Tuesday for us
An Earthquake*
Fuccckkkkkk no.
Imagine whacking a table with a hammer, and then slow down the vibration on the table that hitting it caused, and thats how this looks
Bro, i live in central America, we experience an earth quake every now and then, it is not that dramatic, (they 4.5, 4.7 it varies, like more or less strength)
If you said this was the early 2000s I would belive you
So, do they have to inspect every structure after one of these?
Flashbacks of 94, but dude that was fucking long
Worst Disney movie where inanimate objects come to life.
I've been in a few in Taiwan. Not terrifying, but an literally awesome experience to feel the earth move like that. Truely humbling
Every single time I go to Japan there is at least one earthquake while I'm there....but DAMNNNN, that's insane.
Lights didn’t even flicker.
Meanwhile, Texas goes black anytime the wind gets over 30mph.
AFK clicker went into overdrive.
meanwhile in Reno they had a "False Alarm" 5.9..... let that sink in
Must be time for another Pokémon episode that involves natural disasters…
That IT team needs to update their policies. Shouldn't be popping into the desktop after screen been off.
Looks like Japan has awakened a sleeping giant again.
All you gotta so is stand in an open field.
I got the notification on my phone. I’m impressed there were no ceiling panels falling down, no papers falling, hell even the plant stayed upright. I can’t imagine going through one of these.
This is just a Harlem shake video with the people removed
I was living in Louisville, my (near the New Madrid fault) and about 3 years ago thlongest rumble of thunder EVER woke me up…I thought “EARTHQUAKE???” and went right back to sleep until my kid came in and told me stuff was falling off his walls
Sad day for those who where transferring data to their HDD.
How is a building safe after such an event. Would the event cause cracks everywhere allow moisture and other elements to seep in everywhere.
Genuine question. If your out in the country is it as big of a deal? Like do you go outside and just wait because what's gonna fall on you? The cows?
AND THE FLOWERS ARE STILL STANDING!
Whoa, that monitor's got some serious core strength—impressive!
Its crazy to me that people ignored this and built a country there.
why is this the one video ive seen that makes me know what it would actually feel like to be in a high magnitude earthquake
Looks like earth hit some potholes while running circles around the sun.
Cool, but not abrupt or chaotic. Does not belong.
That's nothing, the floor is stationary instead of rolling up and down. Well constructed building is what makes that possible. Also what makes it last so much longer
Terrifying as in It'd take some guy 30 seconds on the next workday to clean up this mess?