How many earthquakes have you experienced in your lifetime?

Question

ok, we just had an earhquake here in london, first time? it's my 4th time and I really thought my neighbours were havign s*x and I'm not even joking. I now have cracks up my wall and ceillings.

One more question, what was your reaction like?

:D

Answer 1

i think i was in a really small one .. i was on my bed and it felt like my bed was viberating and stuff started shaking

Answer 2

I've never experienced and earthquake. At least not one that was that evident. truly, i think that is very funny. If i had experienced one, I would be taking precautions in case of another. Hee HEE =)))

Answer 3

Two.

I thought that i was going crazy or that something/someone massive was trying to get into the house. good times.

^_^

Answer 4

One in 1984 and then one in California in 1987, one in England in 2002 and then this one!........The others were babies compared to this......don't want anymore like it....too scary........so for me 4 altogether!!

Answer 5

In 1980 we had a 5.2 or 5.5 , in that range and I was at work.  Our office was in a building on a street with extremely heavy and busy traffic, I thought a heavy truck (lorry) was barreling down the street.   I finally (after a few seconds) realized it was an earthquake, I was about to hide under my desk, when it stopped.  It only became scary, once I knew what it was.  My Mom's basement walls never showed a crack until then.  Now it goes down the whole wall.

This took place in northern Ohio.  My friends and relatives in California started poking fun at us, because we always laugh at people in CA, telling them when the San Andreas fault finally blows, California is going to fall into the Pacific.  

I didn't know until recently there is a fault line that is called the Missouri Central fault zone or something similar to that in the Midwest.  In geology classes in high school and college, we didn't learn about plate tectonics, so I  believe more fault zones have come to light in recent years.

Answer 6

Only one that I remember.  The others I was too young.  I was with my family in Mexico City, and I really wanted cheesecake.  We were looking for a place to eat, and my family did the usual 'Let's walk all over the place and end up right where we started an hour later" thing.  We go in to this restaurant, and I see a beautiful slice of strawberry cheesecake.  When we sat down, I immediately asked for it.  The waiter returned with the dessert tray, set it down in front of me, took the cheesecake off of the tray, and gave it to the next table.  He then turned to me and said, "I'm sorry, but we have no more cheesecake."  I was SO MAD!  Cheesecake was the only thing I wanted!  I thought I was going to explode.  I looked outside and I felt the wind blow.  Yeah, the building was swaying in the breeze...Wait!  The building is SWAYING IN THE BREEZE!  OK, I'm in an earthquake!  I was really scared, but the weird thing was that the way I experienced it, I thought that my being angry had caused it.

Answer 7

we just had it in derbyshire about 2 1/2 hours ago. i thought it was a big lorry going passed then realised it was a quake.. was a bit concerned and excited also. opened the front door though just in case it repeated.

Answer 8

Only one and it was just a 3.0.  I was out of town on business and I got sick so I spent the day at the hotel.  We never have earthquakes so it scared the c**p out of me.  I didn't know if I was losing my mind or if something was happening.  

Sorry about the cracks in your walls.

Answer 9

Quite a few, we get them regularly in Spain although most are very small, I also experianced a couple in New Zealand which were slightly bigger, for some reason they don't phase me at all.

Answer 10

4, all in the UK,

the first confused me as I was little, the second kind of scared me as it was when I was slightly older and was accompanied by scaremonguring kids and the third was when I was at secondary school and the science teacher explained again what and why it happened. The forth was about 5 years ago. just felt like things were swaying slowly back and forth for about three swings.

None were major, they all seemed to have started arounf the central part of the county and I live in London so we only feel it a tiny bit- they can often go unnoticed.

I am waiting on this one.

Answer 11

One very small one: was half awake lying in bed early one morning when something slightly shook my bed, since my apartment is in large apartment building and other building had been bothered by subsidence-- mentally said building must be sinking and went back to sleep. The next day heard there was small earthquake about twenty miles from my home.

Answer 12

2 major ones, and numerous little ones that no one ever remembers if they count as aftershocks or new earthquakes.  I grew up in so. Cal.  The first time I was really scared because I was a little kid, but now I just kind of stop what I'm doing and just ride it out and try to judge if it's big enough to warrant climbing under a table or something for safety.  The biggest was the Northridge one, a 6.7.  You realize too that earthquakes move different, some are more rolling, others are like a sudden impact or boom.

Answer 13

I have experienced 10 I sleep right through the first one and was woken up by my mother telling me what happend the 2nd time I was awake and I was shocked

Answer 14

A couple. Only ever in Cyprus though. First time was when I was 13 years old and it freaked me out ;o(

Second time it didn't phase me!

Answer 15

Over two dozen. In California and Japan. I once experienced two of them about an hour apart on a Sunday morning in California. Not an aftershock. Two separate quakes. One in a desert town of Landers and the other in the mountains near Big Bear.

They make you realize that, when it comes to the planet's view towards us, we are the fleas on the back of the dog.

Answer 16

I felt it! Im in Worcester which is part of the Westmidlands.

Im 40/50mins South of Birmingham!

Things in my room rattled for about 10-seconds.

It even woke up my girl friend.lol

It shud of been a little bit stronger cuz that wud of been exciting and scary tho.

I was borning in South Africa and felt more powerfull earth quakes.

I've even seen amazing thunder storms which are so much more powerfull than we have here and even hail stones the size of golf balls! Seriously!

But I recon we may have more powerfull ones in the future.Cuz as we pollute and destroy the planet,the ice melts,temps rise causing strange effects as in odd weather pattens.

I mean weather is going to more extreme,everything to do with the world is linked together.I think we will see more earth quakes maybe not in the uk but any where in the world happening more often,extreme and out of places weather.

Any one agree with what im saying?

Answer 17

One, in florida last year. I was just on the computer and my chair started shaking but i thought i was imagining it. i got up and looked around and the windows were shaking. then i called my best friend and she said she had felt it too. immediately after i searched the news and found out that it was a pretty big earth quake especially for florida.

Answer 18

I'm just glad this is the worst we get earthquake wise! Thank god we got nothign mroe severe!

Answer 19

Once in the state of Washington, don't remember the year but there were a couple of people killed.  It was pretty scary.