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Benedict Arnold

Have you ever been awakened in the middle of the night by an earthquake?

It happens sometimes when you live in California. It just happened to me about 10 minutes ago! 4.5 magnitude quake in the Bay Area at 2:39 A.M.

Posted - January 4, 2018
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  • 17604
    I've never experienced an earthquake.....just tornadoes and hurricanes.
      January 4, 2018 4:23 AM MST
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  • 34331
    No, tornadoes.  We have had small earthquakes but I have never felt them.
      January 4, 2018 4:50 AM MST
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  • 19937
    No.  We have hurricanes and nor'easters, a tornado every now and again, but no earthquakes.
      January 4, 2018 6:38 AM MST
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  • 13071
    Yes, when I was six. We lived in San Francisco and my brother had the top bunk bed and I had the bottom one. A particular strong earth quake hit in the middle of the night that shook my brother out of bed. The fall caused him to bite half his tongue off (the top two were missing) It also knocked all the table ware off the shelves and cracked a huge hole in our bathroom.
      January 4, 2018 6:43 AM MST
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  • 34331
    Ouch!!
      January 4, 2018 8:36 AM MST
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  • 13071
    I know right. Thank god we only lived two blocks away from the hospital. He got it sewn up right away, but it was a bloody mess. 
      January 4, 2018 8:47 AM MST
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  • 5808
    yeah
    I Felt that one this morning...
    4.5 huh? I was guessing 4.0
    Bay Area Rocks...LOL
      January 4, 2018 7:01 AM MST
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  • Yep. I'm in Fremont this week. Felt my bed shaking!
      January 4, 2018 10:13 AM MST
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  • 23588

    We've had a couple (literally) but I've never felt them, let alone being awakened by one. Yikes!
      January 4, 2018 9:01 AM MST
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  • 7792
    I've only done that by my own snoring.
      January 4, 2018 9:04 AM MST
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  • 23588
    :)
    :)
      January 4, 2018 9:05 AM MST
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  • 22891
    it happened to me in yellowstone one time and another time in upstate ny
      January 4, 2018 4:34 PM MST
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  • 10026
    Nevan,  
    I've had one awaken me.  It was a few years ago.  
    Living in California can be pretty shaky down here too :s!  It is very scary not being sure the land is safe and secure.  I'm not a big fan of them either.  
      January 4, 2018 10:29 PM MST
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  • 5835
    Yes, that happens every now and then here. One might feel a quake at any time here, but they only go up and down, so it is easy to not notice, or top pass it off as a wobble in your chair.

    This one was quite an adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqUs6DMkEbg

    Notice the swimming pool!


      January 5, 2018 5:12 AM MST
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  • Nope. We get a lot of small earthquakes here in NH but they are rarely felt. We had one Thursday I think, the last significant one I remember was in the fifth grade so over a decade ago. I will fight any earth quake that wakes me up. 
      February 19, 2018 6:25 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Never.  The closest I came to any earth-trembling feel was when a sonic boom hit caused by jets going faster than speed of sound.



    A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate significant amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion to the human ear. The crack of a supersonic bullet passing overhead or the crack of a bullwhip are examples of a sonic boom in miniature.[2]

    Contrary to popular belief, a sonic boom does not occur only at the moment an object crosses the speed of sound; and neither is it heard in all directions emanating from the speeding object. Rather the boom is a continuous effect that occurs while the object is travelling at supersonic speeds. But it only affects observers that are positioned at a point that intersects an imaginary geometrical cone behind the object. As the object moves, this imaginary cone also moves behind it and when the cone passes over the observer, they will briefly experience the boom. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at February 20, 2018 4:51 AM MST
      February 19, 2018 11:35 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Yes......We were in Crete when a earth quake hit Chaina......it knocked down one of the very old Minoans boat sheds in the harbour....... 
      February 20, 2018 4:43 AM MST
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  • 1502
    China to Greece--that's some earthquake!
      February 20, 2018 4:49 AM MST
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  • 14795
    It's a Greek city in Crete    Spelt Chania and not Chaina ......my spell checks forever changing words....the building fell in Chaina harbour.....lol
      February 20, 2018 6:17 AM MST
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  • 1326
    I live in southern California and the town I live in sits right on top of a fault line. 
      June 14, 2018 10:22 PM MDT
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  • 5835
      June 14, 2018 11:32 PM MDT
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