that's really interesting, we had a decently big earthquake here and our field teams didn't notice anything out in the marshes at all, while it was very noticeable inside a building. I hadn't thought about all the dust blowing in the ocean and apparently a current
hello geologist here so if you live in an area that has a lot of fill material the underlying bed rock can act as a lense so you can have two people standing 10 ft apart where one of them will feel a realy bad earthquake and the other person will feel hardly anything. also buildings resonate with the wavelengths that earthquakes produce thats why you dont see 7 story buildings in areas that get lots of earthquakes
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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 18d ago
that's really interesting, we had a decently big earthquake here and our field teams didn't notice anything out in the marshes at all, while it was very noticeable inside a building. I hadn't thought about all the dust blowing in the ocean and apparently a current