May 14, 2024

[lizzybuffy2008]

14. In 1643 an earthquake killed a third of the population of Santiago in Chile. Have you ever experienced an earthquake?

I have experienced one that I actually felt. It was in Boston many, many years ago. K thought I was crazy until we heard that night on the news that there had been one.

Comments

[twelvthdoctor]

I remember feeling one when I was about 10 or 11. My best friend had come over after school, and she and my mom and I had just been standing outside. It was the spring. And I think I remember it being on the news later that night. It wasn't a huge earthquake or anything, I think they might have said a 3-point-something on the Richter scale, but just enough that we could feel something for a second or two. I don't remember there being reports of any real damage or destruction anywhere, and I think its epicenter was Ohio, but this was so long ago that the details of my memory are gone. I just remember the tremor. I think even when it happened, we were pretty sure. We don't get a lot of seismic activity in Michigan, so that was an interesting experience.

[lizzybuffy2008]

We have never lived anywhere that got them regularly; I don't think I would like that much. I think the one in Boston was pretty small and short, but I was on the 21st floor and definitely "felt the Earth move."

[kazzy_cee]

I can't even imagine what an earthquake would feel like. Terrifying?

[lizzybuffy2008]

This one was small and very short, but I was on the 21st floor of a 29 story building, so definitely felt it move. It only lasted a second or two, so not enough time to get really freaked out. I would not like living where it was a regular occurrence.