HOLY FREAKIN CRAP YO

[LOL UR FACE]

So I literally just experienced my first real earthquake.

I was just chillin reading threads on midorea when all of a sudden it sounds like the people upstairs are rapidly jumping and stomping up and down. Less than a second later the apartment starts shaking, I was just staring at my TV watching everthing around me shaking like crazy.

It was a 5.0 and lasted about 10 seconds but it scared the crap out me. AT the same time it was exciting though. The epicenter was in los angeles and we live like 10 miles away. >3>

[Striptease]

Whoa, that's crazy stuff! 5.0 isn't too bad, right? As long as nothing is splitting in half and things aren't violently flying around, you should be okay. I've never experienced an earthquake, except for this fake one at this ride in Universal Studios (in Florida). The most I've experienced was a really bad thunderstorms, which caused a lot of trees to burst into flames or fall down. Oh, and I've also experienced a really bad flood. Our basement was the size of our house, and it was flooded with 6ft of water. It was insane stuff! Our ferret luckily survived (thanks to my cousin), but one of our neighbors' had their dog drown from their flood. They weren't home, and the dog was in the cage. It was really sad!

[kaishi]

LoL, as long as nothing terrible happened XD I remember we had an earthquake here (in Richmond, VA) and it woke me up. I thought it was the washing machine!! XDD But I quickly realized it wasn't o_o;; The epicenter was in my grandparents' old house's back yard. LoL, crazy stuff.

[LOL UR FACE]

Do you live in florida? I'm from central florida. ^_^

Nothing was damaged but it was shaking like crazy. It was scary, I just found out that the epicenter was even closer than I thought it was, less than 5 miles!

10 seconds doesn't sound like a lot of time but when your whole apartment is shaking violently and all you can hear is things rattling and the earth groaning it's pretty scary and time slows down. I just hope there's no big after shocks.

7.0 is a SRSRSRS earthquake. 5.0 won't bring my apartment down but it's still pretty big.

It was exciting though because I am a geology major and have been absolutely dying to feel my first real quake. <3

I ain't gonna lie though, I was shaken up. o3o

[Striptease]

Whoa now, that's some scary stuff. I can only imagine how you were feeling when you experienced it. Wanna know something funny? When my friend "experienced" her first earthquake in California, she was dead asleep. She didn't realize what happened until she got up to use the bathroom, and her medicine was all in the sink and there was toilet bowl water spilled on the floor. Funny stuff!

But no, I don't live in Florida. I'm from Chicago, where it gets super freaking windy, even when it's super hot outside. I love the weather that we get though (most of the time, at least). It was around 1997-98 when we had the flood, and a ton of people in Chicago experienced it. It was something about the sewage system flooding with water because it rained so hard and so long that day. While this happened to our house, my parents and godparents were all at Six Flags Great America.

[Mika]

x.x I've never experienced an earthquake... or really any natural disaster. Closest I get is extreme "God if you love me so much, kill me now" cold winters.

But when I move to asia, I'll have to deal with them. Watch me freak out and spazz. X.x I can just tell something like that will scare the shit out of me.

[sychobunny]

My ex was from Cali and loved Earthquakes. It was one of the things he missed while living in Wisconsin.

<.< Never been in an earthquake. Or tornado which is the more common occurrence in the middle of the country.
Been through a lot of blizzards though. Those are cool some times, though really freaky at the same time.

[Mika]

>> Blizzards fail. Always.

I haaaaaaaate them. We get white-outs. DX They're actually uber uber dangerous and cold and yucky.

[Vanilla-coke]

We've had a few earthquakes here, the first one though I slept through and only knew about it when I went to school and everyone kept asking if I'd felt it. We had another one last year I was working on an assignment and my desk started shaking that was weird.

[Usakoneko]

Never been through an earthquake, but I'd imagine it can be kinda scary. Plz for the ground not to be shaking, ktks, bai! lol I'm more used to dealing with tornados and blizzards. Always flippin' blizzards. >.< Kentucky isn't supposed to be that cold, right? Ha! ^^;;

[Aaya-Tan]

I remember my first earthquake it scared me half to death.

I was in the back room (Now my bedroom) playing on a Toy Story movie computer game when the ground started shaking.

My uncle had walked into the room previously and I figured he was just doing jumprope again. I was about to tell him to go into another room, but when I turned around, he was squatting in front of the movie cabinet.

He hadn't been jumping, and the ground was still shaking. We both kind of freaked and I ran into the living room to my mom.

It wasn't a huge earthquake, but it was scary none the less. I was young, too, I think around.. I dont know, the Toy Story movie wasn't even released yet, just in threatres?

[Regina]

I've never experienced an earthquake before. But there's a lot of glass and stuff in our house, so I don't even want to imagine what would happen if all of that managed to fall.. D:

[LOL UR FACE]

It wasn't so much that the actual earthquake was scary, what was scary is that it's just utterly and completely out of nowhere. An earthquake could happen at any second of any day. There's no warning.

I was just sitting on the couch, chilling, lurking Midorea, thinking about how sleepy I was, when all of a sudden everything was freaking shaking. @.@

[Bound]

I've experienced 2 earthquakes, here in the extremely dangerous earthquake hotspot known as the UK. :D

The first one was a 4.8, which I slept through completely. I went to school the next day and had no clue what everyone was talking about.

The second was last year, and I was actually awake for it. = w= But I didn't really notice anything - my glass of water and bookshelf shook a bit and I was like, "Huh." I found out later that it'd been more violent in other cities, and even in other buildings close to me. I guess I'm just a magnet for undramatic earthquake experiences? Stay close to me if you want to be like, "Oh, did something happen just now?" XD

[kerryfox]

I remember the first time I was in an earthquake. It was one of the first months I was in Japan and we had a moment where it felt like some thing hit the house. My Host mum thought the where blasting down the road for some construction but when I was like that was no blast, we flipped on the TV to see the earthquake info scrolling across the bottom.
It happed a few other times most of them where pretty small or I was just waking up wondering what was wrong. I learned too about the website that let you see where they had happen and was allways checking that to see what was up.
My families house had been in the earthquake that had leveled most of Kobe, and you could tell it had shifted because there was a door that met at the top and not the bottom.
However I was in Japan when the China one struck, it was all that played on the news for weeks. Sad thing was about 2-3 weeks later Japan had a 7.0 one and was just peachy with only the earth sliding about and I wanna say the death toll was under 20 people.