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I've never been on one, we don't get earthquakes here. Let's hope and pray the people will not suffer [heart]

Last year there was a mild earthquake in New York where I live. Nothing was damaged, but I felt the building shake, and I live on the seventh floor. Other than that, I have no earthquake encounters

Today we were discussing about the earthquake at chile and I told my cousin it might be fun to experience a minor earthquake and all she said was, "If you're there, the earthquakes are bound to stop!" I feel offended. [XD]

There have been some really minor ones around here, but not actually close enough for me to feel them. Those are/were thought to be caused by oil well fracking, but no one really knows for sure.

Over the past week there have been several in Yellowstone Park, I've heard. The biggest one was around a four magnitude, I think it was. Now people are saying that buffalo and antelope and, I guess, other animals are leaving the park in mass, possibly preceding a bigger one to come. Whether THE big one or not, no one knows.

hummy: I had heard about the animals this morning on Facebook. The person who posted about it did not know if it were true or not, and was going to try to check it out. He asked everyone else who was interested to check it out too. I did, and there seems to be some truth to it. I had also googled earthquakes in Yellowstone Park and got the worldwide Earthquake site which listed a number of them for that location recently. So.... I don't know.

My area happens to be on the parallel major fault to the one of Japan though I have only been in two large ones in my lifetime.
One of them I do not remember, I only know the stories as I was only two years old.
1989 Loma Prieta
San Francisco-Oakland earthquake of 1989 (United States) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
Earthquakes--Loma Prieta--Forces of Nature--Science, Maps, Photos, Video (National Geographic)

Little fun fact:
According to the stories I was told a television set fell from the entertainment center during this quake. Years later when I was around 7 or 8 my father revealed to me that the television set I had been so familiar with in his apartment was that same one. It took no damage from that fall!

The second one I was well aware of. October 30, 2007, a 5.6 hit just as I was saving my work for my first Graphic Design class. It was my first large quake technically since what is not in my memory can not effect me, and yeah I freaked. XP
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...rthquake_N.htm

Recently I have heard that there have been several large tremors in LA, I only live a 5-6 hour drive away and my aunt wondered if they are making their way here. It's always been predicted that we shall have one even more huge and devastating than the one in '89. Hopefully it's not in my lifetime.

I was getting ready for work during the Northridge earthquake in 1994. I was living with my folks at the time, and their house is on the San Andreas fault line. I grew up in California and experienced my fair share of earthquakes, but most were fairly mild. With the Northridge quake, I recall sitting on the couch eating my breakfast with this huge lamp above my head hanging from hooks. It was swaying - which was remarkable considering it weighed at least 40lbs and seldom moved. I watched it for a while and decided to mosey to a doorway - then it stopped.

Both of my parents slept through it.

When I drove off to work and turned on the radio, the station was cautioning people to avoid getting out of bed without shoes on if possible. Look for downed power lines, turn off power in houses with gas, etc. The freeway was practically deserted. My shift started at 6AM, so traffic was always there but never heavy. When my co-worker and I clocked in and started working, we discovered our computer system was down. Our boss called us and told us to clock out for the day since our computer's mainframe was near the epicenter and down.

Yeah. I remember that one. Another hit San Francisco in the late 80s. I was working in an office in San Diego (considerably far away) and we could see the windows vibrating in our office. That was a bit freaky.

We have quakes in Georgia, but nothing like that. The quakes and reported animal activity is a bit freaky to me. I heard it could be a hoax or related to a pending massive earthquake/volcanic eruption.

Elmira Swift: San Andreas fault, that's the one I was referring to. I've been in California all my life.
In 1994 I was in the third grade and I do remember once while in the classroom there was a very faint shake just as I was finishing my project for the day. Later that day I saw my dad and he'd asked me if I felt the quake.

I live in the Appalachian Mountain range right now and we do have very minor quakes. People freak out here and I look at them like: THAT was a quake?? They can be pretty scary when they're bad, but when you live in an area where quakes happen frequently, the small ones are not biggie.

When I lived in Southern California I was so accustomed to earthquakes I didn't even feel them. They don't scare me or worry me in the slightest. Now I'm living in Alaska, where we have earthquakes randomly as well...and yeah. Still not a problem...I still don't feel them. xD

I remember moving to the East Coast and going into one of my classes where people were talking about natural disasters (we had a hurricane coming up the coast) and everyone was all humm dee dum about the hurricane while I was going OMG! And they started talking about how horrifying an earthquake would be. I started laughing. >.> Really, it all depends on what you grew up with as to what will scare you I guess. xD Ground shaking, not an issue! Huge torrents of wind and water coming to destroy my house? Yeah, bit scared from that!

Indeed, well put. I've never been to the east coast in my life so a Hurricane would terrify me.

We live in an area with tornadoes and experience milder effects from hurricanes than along the coast. The good thing about hurricanes and tornadoes is you know it's either coming or the potential is there for it to happen. Earthquakes usually don't give a lot of warning.

Drove out to Savannah a few times and they have special hurricane evacuation lanes along the interstate. I suspect other states have similarly designated lanes as well.