Quake detection
Aug 30th 2013, 8:51 pm
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Quake detection
Are some peeps more responsive to tremmors ? 4.3 at 08.00 this morning and the wife feels it and me...nothing! This is not once but several times .....thick skinned comes to mind! Does anyone else find the same? 
Aug 30th 2013, 9:47 pm
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Re: Quake detection
I felt it, wife didn't, probably because I was still in bed and she was up and about making my coffee!!
Aug 30th 2013, 9:52 pm
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Aug 30th 2013, 11:17 pm
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Re: Quake detection
My sons teacher, whose a Maori, can feel them seconds before they are felt, she demonstrated during the recent quakes, shouting at the class the be quiet then seconds later the rumbling started
Aug 31st 2013, 2:36 am
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I feel the pressure change in my ear before the bang, not always but some of the time.
Sep 4th 2013, 10:33 pm
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I feel them straight off. Kind of instant , which is a bit odd . My ears prick up and the air changes. Weird I know. Mr BEVS has a slower re-action and sometimes misses them altogether or feels them just after. Bit like a sound time lapse thing.
I 'feel' the weather also, for some reason and get the headache thing hours before an electrical storm.
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Sep 5th 2013, 1:11 am
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Re: Quake detection
You're attributing early earthquake detection to a womans intuition?
Sep 5th 2013, 1:45 am
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Um....... Maybe not actually. Woodlea is XY I believe.
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Sep 5th 2013, 7:25 am
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Re: Quake detection
I was sound asleep on Saturday morning, and my housemates didn't feel it either.
Sep 5th 2013, 6:58 pm
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Re: Quake detection
I think it depends on the part of the building you're in, what you're doing at the time and how sensitive you are. I found I could hear/sense one coming before Mr S and would 'prick up my ears', he would say he could feel nothing and then it would arrive.
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Sep 5th 2013, 8:55 pm
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