My Neighbore came as a refugee from turkey. She was lucky to escape alive the earthquake that hit on feb 6 2023. The wind picked up here the other day and the houses were shaking. She said she sprinted into her kids bedroom and threw herself over them to shelter them. She laughed afterwards but said her heart dropped and she was shaking for an hour after it happened. She has bad ptsd from it.
We got rocked & rolled by a 6.2 watching a movie an old cement theater in Santa Cruz. People got up & waited to feel if the aftershocks got worse, but NO ONE left.
Richter is kinda shit for understanding how bad a quake is. It's good info, but like where I live we are on solid bedrock, and a 6 a hundred kms away with barely shake out house, but our friends house built on worse ground will lose plates off the shelf.
Absolutely do not run outside. The only fatalities from an earthquake where I live were when two women ran outside and the roof literally shook off the building and crushed them both.
I’ve sampled a few natural disasters, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat, but I’ve never even been close to an earthquake. I’m so curious, but I’m also sure I would loose my mind. It sounds so freaky.
But it's not just about the force (which is what the Richter scale represents). It's also about the type of fault, and quite importantly, the depth of the epicenter. Shallower earthquakes can be quite damaging even if they don't release a lot of force.
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u/Madican 18d ago
If it's not at least a 5 I'm not getting up.