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vanquisher1985 OP t1_j9zxe5b wrote

We rarely get these in the UK, the earth is pissed!

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Idolmistress t1_j9zzht2 wrote

I didn’t realize the UK got earthquakes. Must have been scary for those who experienced it.

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Mississimia t1_ja01wna wrote

People might kind of make fun of this, but the only earthquakes I've experienced in California were around this magnitude, and its scary as hell when you wake up and your bed is shaking.

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MitsyEyedMourning t1_ja03td9 wrote

Replying to Mississimia (#2,004,318)

I live in MD and when you live in an area not known for tremors they will really freak you out. In California a small shake is nothing but tomorrow's hottest new dance routine, in MD it might as well be the sky falling.

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crkokinda t1_ja07cus wrote

As opposed to only part of the bed?

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ACosmicGumbo t1_ja09wea wrote

Not trying to downplay it or anything, but myself and most people in California literally don't feel 3s, let alone having it shake your bed. Maybe if you near the epicenter.

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similar_observation t1_ja0a8rj wrote

Probably the most action that person's had in bed for a long time.

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SugarDaddyOh t1_ja0brs1 wrote

A 4.0 can barely wake me up. Been thru so many. 3.7 is like me rolling into bed.

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Boredandtiredbroke t1_ja0ga74 wrote

Lol in Cali a 4 might make your monitor shake depending on how your place is built. Outside you feel nothing. Granted most buildings that are built in the 90s I want to say were made up to code.

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rubyblue0 t1_ja0kuep wrote

I’d be pretty freaked out too after seeing the destruction in Turkey and Syria. Especially since I’ve never really felt an earthquake.

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Maxpowr9 t1_ja0rwvp wrote

If the bed's a rockin', don't come a knockin'.

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fookreddit22 t1_ja0upu9 wrote

I took one look at this post and immediately knew it would be filled with Americans. I live in Cardiff and felt it, it lasted approximately 1 second.

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fookreddit22 t1_ja0wi64 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,009,567)

How tf would I know, I'm not a paedophile. You are a sex tourist though, you are trying to solicit sex from someone between 30 to 18 years younger than you in a poverty stricken part of the world right? What's that like? Being that person?

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cote112 t1_ja0wmb8 wrote

Someone needs to get laid more often.

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542Archiya124 t1_ja0x99u wrote

Is it just me or UK is getting more and more earthquake lately? Or maybe I haven’t been quite aware and that there’s always been this much earthquake in UK?

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Not_invented-Here t1_ja15y5x wrote

Replying to Idolmistress (#2,003,929)

There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night and I found myself on my feet as what felt like the whole world shook for a brief while, and then I went back to sleep when it stopped. I thought tbh it was a very strange lucid dream I had had in the morning until I saw the news, because there was just no frame of reference for my brain to really process it, especially from sleep in the dead of night.

In the daytime I maybe would have guessed but it would have been more scary also because of it.

Using that as a frame of reference I genuinely think that the big quakes some countries get must be just unbelievably scary. The idea the mass of the earth can just shiver, is something you can think of intellectualy but not actually viscerally understand until it happens to you.

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truecore t1_ja1enza wrote

Replying to strik3r2k8 (#2,008,995)

Most people reading this won't realize that the magnitude system is literally orders of magnitudes in power. So a 4.0 is 10x as strong as a 3.0. A 3.8 is weak as fuck. But when you live in brick houses I guess it could still be dangerous.

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l0R3-R t1_ja1j2wi wrote

Is the earth trying to shake us off?

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dekachenko t1_ja1sgq0 wrote

Hey fellow Californians, can we not embarrass ourselves? A natural disaster is scary at any magnitude if its not expected or rare (and worse-not built for) in the area. We freak out and crash into each other at any sign of weather here.

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One_Curious_Cats t1_ja1tcpq wrote

Living in California, unless it's more than a 6.0 it doesn't really bother me.

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5spd4wd t1_ja1v0nk wrote

I don't think I'd even notice a 3.7, having grown up in southern California. I remember being in the 6.5 quake.

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5spd4wd t1_ja1vehq wrote

3.7 would feel like a heavy truck passing by.

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NettingStick t1_ja1zgkl wrote

Replying to MitsyEyedMourning (#2,004,640)

I've known a bunch of people from the PNW and California who move to the southeast and freak out at thunderstorms. Like, there's not even a tornado watch. This is just spicy sky.

Just depends on what you're used to.

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DootingDooterson t1_ja1zlf7 wrote

Replying to Not_invented-Here (#2,011,516)

>There was one about ten years or so ago that was around 4 - 4.5 I think, it happened in the middle of the night

I was playing WoW when this happened at like 1 am or something and I thought my dog was scratching himself under my desk and making it wobble, I told him to stop before I looked, saw he wasn't there, and realised it was my first (and so far only) earthquake.

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Zidane62 t1_ja24pgj wrote

Replying to Mississimia (#2,004,318)

Here in Japan, we’re pretty used to it. It’s crazy at first. Everything is shaking around you and everyone is just going about their day.

Now I’ll be sitting here gaming and ignoring my shelves swaying back and forth a bit.

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halborn t1_ja2604m wrote

I don't get up for anything less than 6 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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yagmot t1_ja2ffz0 wrote

Replying to Mississimia (#2,004,318)

The Richter scale is a shitty way to judge what people actually experience. The key factor is the depth, which I rarely see reported in the news. You can have a relatively low magnitude quake near the surface that causes a lot of shaking or a high magnitude quake quite deep that doesn’t. This one was VERY shallow (1.8mi deep) which explains why such a low magnitude quake felt so strong to those folks.

Here in Japan we use the Shindo scale which measures intensity at the surface. I really wish the rest of the world would adopt it because it makes it very simple for people to comprehend just how bad a quake was in a particular area.

To put things in perspective, we experience M3+ quakes on a very frequent basis without feeling anything at the surface.

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shewy92 t1_ja3f4nu wrote

3.7 in an area that doesn't have any earthquake codes for their buildings. I felt the 5.8 2011 east coast earthquake and I lived 180 miles from the epicenter. It was kinda scary. I saw half my kitchen floor raise up because it was flexing I'm guessing. It felt like I was on a boat

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getBusyChild t1_ja3n3dy wrote

Meanwhile as someone that lives in Memphis, Tn... we are way overdue for one. Several decades in fact, or if you listen to others well over a century.

But this is all a moot point if somehow the fault has shutdown or w/e (is that even possible?).

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DeMalgamnated t1_ja4kptt wrote

i once woke up because there was a massive bang outside but i never found out what it was.

is that what's like to wake up to an earthquake?

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ajaxandsofi t1_ja4l5ef wrote

Replying to Mississimia (#2,004,318)

The sound of the world around you shaking adds a new dimension of terror as well. Then when things fall around you, if you're awake before they do, reality of the situation hits and you are suddenly alert and clear. Whether or not you're terrified is up to you.

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DorisCrockford t1_ja56947 wrote

Well, it would be kind of weird if only part of the bed shook. I think that would freak me out a bit.

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