Serious question: What's it like living with earthquakes?
 

Every time you feel one, to you brace yourself like it could be the end of days or do you just walk around like, "fuck it... another quake..."

What's the worst or hardest you experienced and during those times? What went through your mind. I know we have some vets that have been through it all. Why stay there out west knowing that it's unstable as fuck knowing you could live elsewhere and not have that issue in your brain?

Just interested.

I lived in LA till I was about 20 and went through a lot of them. The Northridge one was the only one that scared the shit out of me.. The rest were kinda fun.

I lived in Vancouver, also earthquakes all the time - typically smaller ones. You don't really think about it much to be honest...just sorta feel you apartment building swaying from time to time. Stuff in these areas is built with earthquakes in mind. You sleep through many even.

I didn't even get out of bed and I'm only a few miles from today's quake. Lived my whole life in socal so I shrug them off. Agreed with above though, Northridge was the only crazy one and I was around 10 or so when that happened. Still remember it vividly.

depends on where you are just like a hurricane in Florida. Safe place makes it a lot more fun. In a tall building from 1940 you might shit your pants unless you like like Rochard who is afraid on nothing

No biggy, been thru a lot of them here in LA, been back to la 3 years now and this is the first one I felt. My girl rolled over and went back to sleep.

I was lying in bed this morning when the quake hit, and it was kinda fun getting shook up for a few seconds. When it was over I thought, "Call that an earthquake?". But TBH, the Northridge quake almost put the fear of God in me, and if we ever get a big one--magnitude 8.5 or more--it'll probably be the end of LA as we know it.

I live in Canada. No earthquakes here. Just lots of fluffy snow durring the winters.

Great responses. Keep em coming

Sorry but i found that dudes reaction hilarious! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I felt a few in San Diego. My reaction was always the same: sweet!

Granted, they were small and kind of fun. No clue what big ones are like.

We had lots in New Zealand - Wellington is the worst - You can get swarms and they come every day for weeks...

My biggest was a huge 7.1 but it was on the other side of the island - When it reached us it was like a sea rolling - I was in bed and it felt like being on a boat - I was injured - By the fucking cat that decided to attach itself to my face, how he thought that was going to help I have no idea.....

Also I owned an aquarium shop at the time with dozens of full tanks on shelves - I feared the worst but luckily they stayed up...

I imagine it's pretty...shaky.

Aside from that, depending on how strong a quake is, it's not that bad, lived in LA for a few years and I barely even noticed it.

I lived in Hunting Harbor when the Northridge Quake hit. Huntington Harbor is pretty much built on stilts over the water. I thought for sure we were going swimming during that one.

Must be transplants. I don't think I ever jumped under the desk during an earthquake.

P.S... looked like he stuck his head up her skirt.

I must have slept through this morning's shaker, but I live 150 miles up the coast so it may not have been noticeable here.

I grew up in California so earthquakes were always a part of life, you didn't spend a lot of time worrying about them and always joked about "The Big One" that's supposed to hit us "someday".

If you're smart you have 5-10 gallons of drinking water stored away along with some food and a way to cook, a gun and some ammunition, a bug-out bag with some cash, first aid kit etc.

I live in a low area one block from the ocean so my plan for a big one is grab the bug-out bag and head uphill. :)

I remember the Loma Prieta quake of 89, the World Series was going on at the time, you could tell who in the crowd were Californians and who weren't pretty easily.

The Californians were the ones standing up and riding the movement like a surfboard whooping and hollering the whole time.

The out-of-staters were the ones with the death-grip on their seats and the terrified look on their faces screaming like a bunch of little girls. :1orglaugh

no shit on that one.... it felt like had the quake lasted another 5 seconds the place would have come done... really an unenjoyable experience.

yup gonna be on a major fail vids for ever now :1orglaugh

been in LA for 13 years now..been through maybe 5-6 quakes. Most are by the time you figure out what the weird feeling is you gut is, it's over.
Recall one when I was living on the 10th floor of a condo bldg on Sunset. I was sitting on the balcony when one rolled through, I looked back into the condo and saw the lamp swinging then, looked down over the valet area & pool it made me think... hill+high rise+quake=im gonna have a bad time.
I can see how a big one would make you pack your bags.

Living almost anywhere in the US has it's own tradeoff. In CA, we have earthquakes, smog, bad traffic, mud slides and wildfires. Hillbillies from the Midwest have to deal with floods and tornadoes that pop up out of nowhere. If you're a Southerner, you've got devastating hurricanes and blistering heat. Residents up North and on the East coast have bone chilling winters. People in Hawaii are living on top of an active volcanic area. Those in the Northwest are sitting on top of North America's largest active supervolcano or have to deal with year round rain and gloom. For me, the beautiful weather here is worth the risk of an occasional quake. I'm not going to live my whole life in fear of the big quake, which may or may not ever hit here in my lifetime. As they say, live life every day like it's your last day on Earth.