Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
Feb 19th 2012, 4:18 am
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
I've been through two minor ones. One in Kefelonia (Greece) which managed to move all the furniture three inches to the left and one when we lived in Hong Kong, which was just a big BOOM, but it came from the floor.
Feb 20th 2012, 11:36 am
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
There have been a few in my time in Spain.The last one in the Sierra Mariola was like a large lorry had driven a few inches past the house at speed.Went outside (as you do) everthing tranquil found out the next day epicentre had been Ontinyente way.
Feb 21st 2012, 3:01 pm
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Feb 22nd 2012, 1:28 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
I live just outside Velez Rubio in Almeria so we're about 30miles as the crow flies from Lorca where they had the big quake last May and loads of aftershocks i nthe following days / weeks. It was wierd, the windows and doors rattled, everything in the cupboards moved and my chimney has moved approx 3mm to the right. This area is very seismically active so there are rumbles every now and then. Lorca is the only biggish one I've felt. The others just moved things in teh cupboard resulting in a bruised toe when the tomatoes fell out!!
Feb 22nd 2012, 1:32 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
I live just outside Velez Rubio in Almeria so we're about 30miles as the crow flies from Lorca where they had the big quake last May and loads of aftershocks i nthe following days / weeks. It was wierd, the windows and doors rattled, everything in the cupboards moved and my chimney has moved approx 3mm to the right. This area is very seismically active so there are rumbles every now and then. Lorca is the only biggish one I've felt. The others just moved things in teh cupboard resulting in a bruised toe when the tomatoes fell out!!
Feb 22nd 2012, 5:02 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
I'm a lot further than that and while I can't say I felt it, that day I had gone for a siesta after work and woke up at the time of the quake. I sometimes wonder if that was what woke me - a long way away but 8th floor so not impossible.
Feb 22nd 2012, 9:14 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
That is a very good description of how it feels!
I've actually felt six in the last four years, but the land around here is quite unstable anyway, we often get sink holes and land slips in this area, perhaps if our houses were built on solid rock we wouldn't feel the quakes so much.
I've actually felt six in the last four years, but the land around here is quite unstable anyway, we often get sink holes and land slips in this area, perhaps if our houses were built on solid rock we wouldn't feel the quakes so much.
Feb 22nd 2012, 10:53 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
But then coming from Lancashire where the mine shafts ran under the houses and one house went down the hole... I guess I'm conditioned to the slim chance.
Feb 22nd 2012, 11:26 pm
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Re: Does the earth move for you? (Quakes, people!)
I've felt tremors, there again I'm in New Zealand. Some are noisy and rumble. Some bump . I've seen my light fittings sway , heard our house crack. I've been jolted on my settee. Enough for me to be up out of the house smartish.
Thankfully nothing like the Christchurch quakes where it still shakes with regularity.
Thankfully nothing like the Christchurch quakes where it still shakes with regularity.
