I was awakened by an earthquake.
By marguicha
@marguicha (215478)
Chile
August 2, 2017 8:42am CST
Good morning, friends.
I´m still half asleep today. I was awakened last night at a little over 3 AM by a strong earthquake.
I got up, searched for my slippers and, fortunately, before I went out to the freezing cold, it stopped.
I left the outdoor lights on and went back to sleep. But the kind of sleep you have is not the same. So I woke up later and sleepy.
Do you live at a place with earthquakes? I searched today and the epicenter had been very near Santiago and 5.4 Richter. Enough to wake up everyone.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
2 Aug 17
I have never experienced an earthquake and I hope I never do. I am sure it's so scary.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
It is. I know my house is built well. But still...
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
@CoralLevang If there is anything called earthquake phobia, that´s mine.
@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
@CoralLevang I remember my first earthquakes, when I was very small and jumped down from the 2nd floor, 3 steps at a time, to the arms of my grandmother. I never know now how I did not break a leg then.
@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
My country has earthquakes all the time but I have not gotten used to them
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@rebelann (111190)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Aug 17
That makes total sense @marguicha I wouldn't be able to get used to them either.
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@rebelann (111190)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Aug 17
Double YIKES @CoralLevang now I'm really glad I live here in the desert, so far I've never experienced either of those events, Thank You Lord!!!
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@celticeagle (159080)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Aug 17
We haven't had an earthquake here since the mid 80's. I think we are due. I remember back in the 80's, when we had our earthquake, I was working with a gal that had really freaked out. She told me she had moved here to get away from the amount of earthquakes they had in California. Poor timing I think.
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@celticeagle (159080)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Aug 17
@marguicha .....That would be my concern as well.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
@celticeagle You never know when it starts to tremble.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
This earthquake we had last night (5.4 Richter) awoke everyone but it was not enough to cause any trouble. My trouble was that I was not sure is we´d have another one.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
2 Aug 17
it's scary when they happen deep in the night.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
It is. The dark of the night adds more to it.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Aug 17
The LA area is situated on the San Andreas fault line so earthquake happen. There have been big ones.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
We are also between the Nazca and the Sud American faults. Now, lately, they have discovered a small fault just there: the Ramon fault.
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@snowy22315 (170015)
• United States
3 Aug 17
Yes, there is a fault line near here. The large 6.4 I think it was earthquake the Eastern US experienced was centered in this county. It was scary, but the aftershocks were scarier!
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
Aftershocks can be scary too. The worst quake I´ve been near enough so as to be in it was the worst earthquake ever recorded in 1960 (9.5 Richter)
@prashu228 (37526)
• India
2 Aug 17
Oh my.. glad you are fine. Do you get frequent earthquake s there. No we don't get earthquake s where we live
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
If I were to ask the Seismological Institute I´d see that we have small quakes every single day.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
2 Aug 17
@marguicha Yes, you do. Often they correspond with deep earthquakes that happen in the Fiji region. There is some kind of seismic pressure transfer that goes on between Fiji deep quakes and Chile.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
@petatonicsca I know. But I prefer to think that nothing will happen, not ever.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
2 Aug 17
Oh goodness. I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
I guess that I´m used to quakes, even strong ones. So that, after my heart stopped pounding, I went back to bed.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
3 Aug 17
Hey @marguicha, I see our earthquake posts are right next to each other on the "interesting posts" page. 
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
2 Aug 17
That happened to me yesterday, twice. I also noticed your quake on the EQ3D app. I was in a YouTube chatroom of Dutchsinse earthquake monitoring livestream, and several people from Santiago came in the chat and said it was really scary.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
The worst was the hour. At night it is worse. Just like the earthquake we had in February 2010. But that was a really big one.
@kingspride (128)
•
2 Aug 17
Its a terribly experience I guess so,but I live in a country where we don't experience such natural occurrence
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
2 Aug 17
I have lived all my life amid quakes, yet still I get scared.
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@marguicha (215478)
• Chile
3 Aug 17
@kingspride As the planet goes, it is normal. If you choose to live in a place where there are hurricanes, or floods or earthquakes, it is only Mother nature.
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@kingspride (128)
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2 Aug 17
@marguicha you can never get use to it,is not normal,is natural you should be scared
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Aug 17
Strong one there.
Glad you are well though and safe from what it seems.
We have earthquakes here too although no one takes too much notice of them really.
