Anyone experienced an earthquake

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I was in one in Milan. Just felt the wardrobe shaking.

 

[kiwigull]

new zealands always been like that, its why theres so many mountains etc. that being said those were the first proper ones i'd felt, wasnt fun.

The ground moves for NSC member Woodchip on a regular basis. Stay safe fella!

(Has NZ always been like that or is just more widely reported nowadays anybody know?)

Nearest I ever came was a three point something in Crete once, just enough to wobble chairs on the balcony. Still made the papers back home.

 

[SockMonster]

I was in Christchurch for the big earthquake in 2011. Just checked into hotel when whole place shook. Heard buildings falling and saw fires break out. Flooding in the street etc. Absolutely terrifying! Then spent next 24 hours inside a military lockdown around centre of the city. Aftershocks were continuous. Horrible experience and of course a terrible thing to happen to the people of this lovely city.

 

[rcf0712]

In Tokyo a year after the bid tsunami they were still having regular aftershocks, we were at dinner one night when all these phones started going off, then seconds later all the chairs and tables started shaking a the cutlery started jumping around - they were early warning phone apps warning of an aftershock offshore which took a fe seconds to hit. Then the next night I thought I was having a nightmare and the bed was shaking in my 28th floor hotel room only to wake up to realise it was! That was freaky.

 

[rcf0712]

I was in Christchurch for the big earthquake in 2011. Just checked into hotel when whole place shook. Heard buildings falling and saw fires break out. Flooding in the street etc. Absolutely terrifying! Then spent next 24 hours inside a military lockdown around centre of the city. Aftershocks were continuous. Horrible experience and of course a terrible thing to happen to the people of this lovely city.

That was dreadful, lost a few colleagues in that one

 

[Foolg]

Olu Deniz last year, think someone said it was a 6.0 on the Richter scale.

Bloody scary, we were in a little supermarket buying some water as it was baking (as usual), and all of a sudden the shelves were all falling down, and it was a mad scramble out the shop with everybody screaming, things falling off the ceiling etc. So much stuff on the floor it actually made it a bloody task to get out the shop

 

[AZ Gull]

I have just had an earth-shattering* experience here in Chandler, AZ.

(*that might be slightly over-egging the pudding)

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[Not Andy Naylor]

I think I experienced a mild quake while staying in a very cheap hotel in San Francisco. But it could have been a rather energetic couple in the next room.

 

[alfredmizen]

i slept all the way through the 1985 mexico city earthquake

 

[gregbrighton]

The nearest to an earthquake experience was in 1978 going on the earthquake simulation machine at the Science Museum in London. It was pretty shakey...

 

[The Guvnor]

Yeah I slept through it because I was so steaming and Im the guvnor

 

[heathgate]

Yep...woken up by serious vibrations in Cape Town...a few buildings minor damage,...but scary nonetheless.