A small earthquake.

@marguicha (215978)

Chile

November 26, 2017 4:44pm CST

I was answering my notifications just now when the house gave the known sound of an earthquake. You see, when there´s an earthquake, not only does the earth tremble, but every manmade thing moves and gives out different sounds. The first thing I do is to turn my eyes to the lamp in the ceiling. There you can see it move. Then there are some beams that crack and light material that sounds. The concrete and the brick go along with the earth and have their own way of moving. I don´t like quakes, not even small ones. So I like to run to the garden where nothing will fall over my head. Do you have earthquakes where you live? What do you think of them?

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@amadeo (111948)

• United States

26 Nov 17

Not often.At one time while working here.I felt a shake and tumble.told mike what is that. Then our neighbors came over to tell us we had a minor shake.But sure felt weird.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

26 Nov 17

We have had many big earthquakes. That´s why I am scared of them.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

@amadeo I am scared because you never know how big it will be.

@amadeo (111948)

• United States

27 Nov 17

@marguicha yes this I know about this.

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@LovingMyBabies (85127)

• Valdosta, Georgia

26 Nov 17

I don't and I would be terrified if I ever felt one since it's foreign to me.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

@LovingMyBabies It is. The big ones, at least.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

I have been through quakes ever since I can remember and I´m still scared of them.

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@LovingMyBabies (85127)

• Valdosta, Georgia

27 Nov 17

@marguicha I am sure it is frightening.

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@snowy22315 (170679)

• United States

26 Nov 17

Yes, we sometimes have quakes the big East Coast Eathquake of 2011 was centered in this county. The aftershocks were scary..

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

26 Nov 17

The last big one we had here was in 2010. But we have had big ones after that.

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@JudyEv (326275)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Nov 17

We very rarely have an earthquake. I would be very frightened if it happened here.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

I get frightened with the bigger ones.

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@kobesbuddy (74830)

• East Tawas, Michigan

26 Nov 17

Oh my gosh Marguicha I'm so thankful you are safe! We don't usually have earthquakes in Michigan, but about ten years ago, we did have a small one. It was the first one ever recorded in this area!

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

26 Nov 17

When you check small quakes in my country, you see that there is one every 5 or 10 minutes. But most of them go unnoticed.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

@kobesbuddy I am a little scared, but not much when the quake is small.

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@kobesbuddy (74830)

• East Tawas, Michigan

26 Nov 17

@marguicha That's scary! I'm glad you are doing all right

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@Happy2BeMe (99390)

• Canada

26 Nov 17

I have only been through one earthquake and the after shocks that followed and that was enough for me. I would not like to be in a place where earthquakes happen quite often.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

26 Nov 17

I live in an earthquake country.

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@Happy2BeMe (99390)

• Canada

27 Nov 17

@marguicha that would be scary

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

@Happy2BeMe But they are better than hurricanes

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@KrauseHome (36448)

• United States

27 Nov 17

I have only experienced one Earthquake in my life, besides really small minor ones. The one I can remember was enough to last a lifetime, as they are not a Fun experience at all.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

The 2 biggest I remember are among the 10 biggest ever recorded on earth.

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@sjvg1976 (41131)

• Delhi, India

27 Nov 17

I have felt low intensity earthquakes in the past which didn't cause any harm. But I have read lots of damage due to the same.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

Big ones that do a great harm. Just remember the latest Mexico had.

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@averygirl72 (37763)

• Philippines

26 Nov 17

I remember an earthquake a long time ago while we are sleeping. We are in the second floor I feel the ground shaking like the floor is so soft it's shaking. I was so nervous at that time. I feel the house will collapse. What intensity is the earthquake in your place?

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

We have had from the biggest ever recorded in 1960 (9.5 Richter) to the one in 2010 (8.8 Richter) and many, many smaller ones. I wrote those two because they are among the 10 biggest in the world.

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@averygirl72 (37763)

• Philippines

29 Nov 17

@marguicha Maybe earthquakes are common in Chile

@valmnz (17099)

• New Zealand

26 Nov 17

Oh yes, here in New Zealand earthquakes are quite commonplace. We get some rather big ones at times too.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

We have had many very big quakes here during my lifetime.

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@cahaya1983 (11120)

• Malaysia

27 Nov 17

Oh fortunately we don't have any here, except very very minor ones but still very rare. How long did the earthquake last?

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

It was very small and did not last much. Enough for me to do out though.

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@JamesHxstatic (29303)

• Eugene, Oregon

27 Nov 17

I was in many small quakes when I lived in California, but did not live there when they had bigger ones. It is predicted that a major quake will occur off the Oregon coast sometime that will be very destructive for the state.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

Sometimes they predict something and it happens elsewhere.

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@JohnRoberts (109857)

• Los Angeles, California

27 Nov 17

I live in LA which is on the San Andreas Fault so we have had major quakes.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

I am always forgetting the name of the several faults (bigger and smaller) we have. They are responsible for us being the country with the biggest quakes ever recorded.

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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)

• United States

26 Nov 17

It sounds like it was a false alarm, I'm hoping so anyway. We don't really have earthquakes in Texas, but I lived with my husband in California, and I was always scared it could happen.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

26 Nov 17

It never is a false alarm here. But it was a small one. 3 Richter.

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@youless (112134)

• Guangzhou, China

27 Nov 17

I am lucky that here it is very stable and no earthquakes. When we travelled to Japan in summer vacation this year, we experienced the earthquake there. I was a little in a panic because it was a little strong. I didn't escape from the hotel since it was very late and I was very sleepy

Fortunately nothing worse happened after that.

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@youless (112134)

• Guangzhou, China

28 Nov 17

@marguicha Actually there are minor earthquakes in Japan everyday, but we just don't feel most of them.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

29 Nov 17

@youless Same here.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

Japan has had big earthquakes though.

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@kiran8 (15348)

• Mangalore, India

27 Nov 17

So was it a severe one or a mild one that you experienced? I have once experienced a mild tremor while in Bangalore when a lot of glassware trembled and some of them.crashed down , but it was over in 20 seconds or so

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

The one we had just now was a minor one. But I have experienced 2 of the biggest ones ever recorded in my lifetime.

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@kiran8 (15348)

• Mangalore, India

28 Nov 17

@marguicha That must have been a harrowing experience. There was a really bad one in Nepal in 2015 and we missed it by hours since we left Katmandu the previous evening and heard about the news just as we reached home

@LadyDuck (459621)

• Switzerland

27 Nov 17

We have only minor earthquakes where we live now, we had some when we lived in Monte-Carlo, the sounds can be more scary than the tremors.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

Some have a lot of noise.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

29 Nov 17

@LadyDuck I have been in some with a lot of noise too.

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@LadyDuck (459621)

• Switzerland

28 Nov 17

@marguicha We had one that was very noisy, the big bang that proceeded the earthquake scared everyone.

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@CookieMonster46 (13447)

• United States

27 Nov 17

We don't have them all the time but do have them yes, was the damage in the pictures from this quake?

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

It depends on where you get the picture.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

29 Nov 17

@CookieMonster46 I took a typical picture of the results of an earquake from pixabay. I don´t know where it was.

@CookieMonster46 (13447)

• United States

28 Nov 17

@marguicha I was talking about the picture in your post.

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@nitirrbb7 (4317)

• India

27 Nov 17

I am from India, we do have earthquakes here but rarely at our place "touchwood" I have experienced it twice and those few seconds are what you will never forget your entire life.

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

It is scary. Specially when houses are not built earthquake proof.

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@nitirrbb7 (4317)

• India

1 Dec 17

@marguicha Scary the word seems less intense I would say Terrifying or Horrifying like its the end of the world witnessing the tremble

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@BrittneyKaye05 (411)

• United States

27 Nov 17

I have have never been in an earthquake. It would be scary to me since I am not in an area that gets earthquakes. It would scare the crap out of me when everything is shaking and falling. All I get are tornadoes which never seen one yet in my life tone and snow storms

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@marguicha (215978)

• Chile

27 Nov 17

Houses don´t get destroyed if they are well built. Haiti had an earthquake years ago a lot smaller than our 2010 earthquake. Yet it did more damage.

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@BrittneyKaye05 (411)

• United States

27 Nov 17

@marguichaaybe if I experienced one I would get used to jt