Did I miss an earthquake?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (179740)
United States
November 28, 2023 12:49pm CST
Someone wrote into Nextdoor asking if anyone had noticed anything during the night that felt like an earthquake. Someone said yes, they thought it was an explosion though. I was just checking to see if anyone had written anything in the news or on an earthquake ledger which is kept online. The last thing I saw was in 2022. We are a bit sensitive to quakes around here, because there was a large East Coast quake in 2011 which was centered in this county. There is a fault line that runs through it. Some of those aftershocks of the 2011 quake were scarier to me than the original quake. Have you ever been in an earthquake?
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
29 Nov
@RebeccasFarm Yeah, but I wasn't home when the big one hit. I had another roomie and a friend here at the time though. Whole lot of shakin goin on apparently. Things out of cupboards, broken mirror. I was outside a Starbucks doing some work North of here. They sent everyone outside and closed the store. I was actually at a table outdoors in the first place since it was a nice day. When they opened the store back up..there were coffee bags all over the floor.
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@RebeccasFarm (89741)
• Arvada, Colorado
29 Nov
@snowy22315 Oh I did not read it like that sorry..so were you affected I mean like your house being shaken and all?
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
29 Nov
They happen all the time in different parts of the world.
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@LadyDuck (470798)
• Switzerland
29 Nov
@snowy22315 The volcanoes are also erupting in different parts of the world.
@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
28 Nov
They can be scary. One of our aftershocks hit when we in bed and was terrifying.
@LindaOHio (176675)
• United States
28 Nov
Yes, twice. The largest was 5.0. Have a good evening.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
28 Nov
I think the East Coast Quake was either 6.2 or 6.4.
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@LindaOHio (176675)
• United States
28 Nov
@snowy22315 That's a LOT bigger than a 5.0.
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@florelway (23282)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
28 Nov
Just last week a major earthquake affected an area near our place. That time we were about to enter a membership store when we saw all the lights swaying and the store personnel said there's an earthquake. We didn't feel it while we were still in the parking area.
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@jnrdutton (3132)
• United States
28 Nov
When I lived briefly in California I experienced one, then we got the residual effects of one a few years ago here, after it hit a town relatively close by us.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
28 Nov
I think they are scary as heck. I was more nervous with the quake aftershocks then when I had a tornado here, but I guess if my windows were breaking and blowing the glass out, that would have been a different story.
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
28 Nov
Here we just experience a little tremors once in a while but never a big thing
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