East Coast Quake 5 years ago today
By snowy
@snowy22315 (169967)
United States
August 23, 2016 10:25pm CST
I live in the county where the East Coast Quake of 2011 hit. It was pretty scary, there was a lot of damage around here,,and several people had to rebuild chimney's and garages. Also, the HS had to be rebuilt. What was really scary was the aftershocks...I remember one very violent happened when we were in bed. We have had small quakes since that time but none too major...Have you been in an earthquake?
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@marguicha (215424)
• Chile
24 Aug 16
I have been in many earthquakes of different magnitudes as my country is the place where there are more quakes in the world.
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@snowy22315 (169967)
• United States
24 Aug 16
It is hard to be in a big one for sure
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@marguicha (215424)
• Chile
24 Aug 16
@JudyEv I am very much scared of earthquakes. So my husband, who built my house, made the master bedroom in the first floor even though the househas 2 floors.
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@shivamani10 (11038)
• Hyderabad, India
24 Aug 16
Yes. I was doing job in Latur..A place near Ahmadnagar. I have seen many business people in that place. I was working as sales Representative. There was a very rich merchant. He was living in a placiolus building. A quake in the year 1993 took place. The damage was immense. Till morning he was rich. By evening he was on the road begging some food on the road.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Aug 16
Wow, that is a very big change in circumstances isn't it?
@sallypup (57869)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Aug 16
A tornado when I was a kid. It looks like Italy just had a bad earthquake. Poor people.
@snowy22315 (169967)
• United States
24 Aug 16
The history there hopefully is not damaged extensively
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@sallypup (57869)
• Centralia, Washington
24 Aug 16
@snowy22315 I worry about that too. The descriptions! Ancient stone buildings falling on sleeping residents.
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Aug 16
I can imagine that being in an earthquake would be very scary indeed. We were on the very edge of a small one once so that doesn't really count.
@snowy22315 (169967)
• United States
24 Aug 16
The small ones are virtually unnoticeable
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