Have you even experienced an earthquake?

I experience maybe at least 50 earthquakes in my lifetime. I have not yet experience like the big ones though. I just experienced the little shakes here and there.

Thanks God , I havent experienced a big earthquake. But, I have felt some small ones. Last year I was living in Taipei and sudenly we felt like we were swinging and then I looked at my christmas tree and it was shaking and making noise from the ornaments and the lamp on the ceiling too. I just stayed quiet with 3 children in the house , my heart started bitting fast , but , it stoped and everything was ok. In Taipei earthquakes are very common along the year.

I was still small when the killer quake happened.I it was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.I don't recall what happened since I was only 3 back then but I look at the news archives that it destroyed many lives & properties.

No, I have not experienced an earthquake. But, reading about it and seeing the news on the TV, it must be really very scary, and very dangerous. I always sympathize with the victims of earthquakes, and I make donations to the international organizations which help th victims.

Not the way I hear about in some countries but I did years ago in Bulgaria. I was visiting friends, sitting in their living in a high building.. it was a weird feeling the whole building moving from the left to the right. And earthquake wasn't something I was thinking about at all. Lately there was one in our country. I was in my kitchen and suddenly I saw the stove and fridge move and make a weird noise and the floor was kind of moving. Weird thing too was that I was not thinking about an little eartquake either. I first wondered if the fridge was broke, next I thought I was feeling sick because of the shaking and for a sec I thought it might be ghost. Days later my daughter asked me if I noticed that earthquake. so at that time the bell start ringing.

Hey what's up!! I felt an earthquake last summer. It was a weird feeling. I was on vacation with my friends at the beach. We were in seven people. A couple friends went to the beach during the afternoon and one friend and I stayed at the house to do lunch. During this time we seat in the deck it was at the second floor in the house, we felt some shake thing, we couldn't understand what was happening at this time. We felt the whole deck moving and we asked each other: "What is that?" I thing we felt for 3 minutes this weird thing. the same moment we were at the internet and we saw the news all over the place and everybody was talking about the earthquake that happened few minutes ago. After that we started talking about it all the time. Our friends that were on the beach they didn't feel it. It was really funny and the same time scary all this situation.

Hi venmanolov. It's real scary. It comes like a thief in the night because it happens without warning. The weather man does not tell us that an earthquake is expected today. The 1994 earthquake in Reseda at 4:26 on a Monday morning was a very strong one. The aftershocks were almost just as strong. I used to work as a security officer on weekends.The building to which I was assigned was red-tagged. Now, if it weren't a holiday, during the earthquake, I would have been at work at my regular job. The ceiling, we later found out, had fallen down on our desks. It made me shiver, thinking how it would have felt to have the ceiling on my head. Thanks to Martin Luther King, it was his Day. The damage to the building was really extensive that for a week, work was suspended. Meanwhile, at my weekend job, the building had a yellow police tape all over and so was its parking lot, where I used to do parking lot patrol. Telephone lines were down, water and power were out and I had to get my coffee from Seven Eleven. It was terrible. It's like normal life was put on hold. Most of our neighbors left and stayed at the park, where they felt safer. Worse of all, "The Big One", they say, will be coming soon. But, it's 2011 now, and thank God, it hasn't happened. I just feel safe now that I am not there anymore. Anyway, wherever we are, when our time comes, it will come. Have you experienced an earthquake, my friend? God bless you and grant you a safe and happy life,venmanolov.

yup i experienced it....but i didn't remember anything cuz i was in the 5th grade then..all i remember is that I was sitting in the classroom and then suddenly my school building begin to shake...it was really horrifying