Do you live where there are earth quakes?
By Chrissy
@Java09 (3075)
United States
6 responses
@RAVENBLADE0842 (493)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I live in California so I am used to earthquakes and tremors. 99% of the time they are really not that big of a deal. Then theres that one in a hundred that is significant and does some damage. My father once lost 6ft of water from his pool due to an earthquake. Other than minor things like that I have been lucky enough to have not had myself or anyone I personally know be seriously affected by them. When it comes to natural disasters earthquakes are really the least frequent in terms of actually doing significant damage. As you know Hurricanes and tornado's happen every year and do far damage for the most part than earthquakes. But when there's a big one it does alot of damage all at once, like Haiti.
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@May2k8 (18371)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 10
I'm actually far from the earthquake-prone places but still feels strongly that shake. The earthquake originated vanish soil layer, caused by the excavation of pipes that it exceeds one hundred meters into the ground.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
26 Jun 12
No, I don't live where there are earthquakes, although I do live in a state that is known for them...California. I have experience them before, both here and when I lived in the Bay Area years ago. When it comes to the ones that I've felt here, they were minor, but only because they didn't hit the area itself. The ones in the Bay Area, well, I lived directly on a fault line, so needless to say I had a few experiences there.
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@myhuni (112)
• New Zealand
8 Sep 10
Hey there yes I do live where there are earth quakes I live in Christchurch Newzealand I got woken up Saturday morning at 5:30am my time with a 7.1 and to date Wednesday 2:09pm my time there has been well over 100 with more to come and our biggest is meant to be 9 somethink which is still to come I am sick of them and it has all ready done anove damange to my city and every one is saying the 9 point somethink will do a lot more damage if not finish a lot more buildings off
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@marguicha (223297)
• Chile
27 Jul 12
I live in the country with biggest earthquakes: Chile. The last big one was on February 27, 2010. It was 8.8 on the Richter scale. So that you get an ides, Japan´s last earthquake was 9.0, just a little bigger. Japan would not have have so many problems if it had only been the madness of mother Nature. As it was, the niclear plants were much more dangerous than them. There are several reasons why earthquakes are worrisome. Haití´s earthquake had only a magnitude of 7.0 Richter, yet the lives it took were a lot more than our earthquakes.
@borg246 (539)
• Malta
14 Jan 10
Hey Java,
Where I live, I don't experience any: tsunamis, earthquakes, volcano eruptions or anything like that. I indeed consider myself to be very luck.
If I remember correctly, the last time there was an earthquake was in 2000, which was of mag 2.7...my mom and I could barely feel it, but it came out in the news anyway. Whilst the earthquake was going on, my grandfather was still in his bed not realising anything.
So, in general, no earthquakes, so far, are rare and if they do occur, where I live that is, they wouldn't be that strong.