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Originally Posted by astroron
I have never experianced an Earth Quake,it must be a strange feeling as the ground and the buildings start to move all around you  |
I have a few examples.
16 Oct 1999, 09:46 UTC (02:46 local). My cousin Christine's birthday. She lives in San Francisco. We were asleep in one of the hotels in Anaheim.
Out near
Joshua Tree NP there was a 7.1 quake. This was bigger than the 6.9 that flattened the freeways in
San Francisco 17 Oct 1989.
From the 12th floor we watched:
- the pool next door emptying itself across the carpark,
- powerlines arcing as they swung against each other,
- transformers exploding within Disneyland from the power surges.
No-one was reported killed. The worst injuries were on an Amtrak train which was derailed.
Before that, I was at work in Pitt St Sydney when the Newcastle quake hit. A New Zealand co-worker exclaimed quite loudly "It's a <impolite words removed> earthquake." The only one I remember before that was either the 1961 Robertson or the 1973 Picton one. Those three were all about 5.5
Andrew