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Patrick:
I've lived in California on and off for half my life, and the only time I've ever experienced an earthquake was when I lived in Albania.

It's weird waking up in the middle of the night to your bed shaking, thinking it's just the cat scratching herself, and then you snap to full consciousness with the realization that your cat's been dead 5 years.

cesium133:

--- Quote from: Patrick on 04 Jul 2012, 11:55 ---I've lived in California on and off for half my life, and the only time I've ever experienced an earthquake was when I lived in Albania.

It's weird waking up in the middle of the night to your bed shaking, thinking it's just the cat scratching herself, and then you snap to full consciousness with the realization that your cat's been dead 5 years.

--- End quote ---

That's similar to how I felt here. "Oh, it's just the strip mine blasting. Oh, wait, there are no strip mines here."

Kugai:
My place rocked and rolled during that quake, and I live in Wellington, so it was quite strong

pwhodges:
The recording must have been made using directional mics (presumably coincidental), because the low frequency components of the quake are recorded very much more strongly in one channel than the other; if we knew the orientation of the mics, we'd know the direction of the earth movements.

VonKleist:
We had an earthquake when I was in Greece with my family in 2001 I think.
Sounded like this.. like underground thunder and crashing trees.

The sea was all brown and stirred up for days.

hah. This must be it
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004GeoJI.156..541R

http://www.perigialistudios.com/images/magazia-skyros-greece-3.jpg

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