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I live in Florida, we don't have them here.

When i was very young. I hardly remember how old. And then there were several earthquakes right after. Not that strong or destructive at all. In fact we would have regular earthquake drills in school. The strongest one i experienced was when my son was 6 or 7 yers old. I had to pick him up at school because we had a tsunami warning and schools cancelled classes because of that and because of the expected aftershocks. My son’s school was near the sea.

I've experienced some minor tremors but wouldn't call them quakes, but I did experience one several years ago in Niagara Falls. My girlfriend and I had gone to one of the casinos there to partake of their sumptuous buffet when the table started shaking. She accused me of making it move until she noticed the concern of other patrons.

I never experience it. Don't know what to expect if I ever do.

I have experienced several quakes, when I was young in Italy and later in the South of France where we lived 31 years.

Yes. The wardrobe and armchair moved. I was dizzy when this happened.

I remember many as my country is an earthquake country. So I sort of remember me crying and going down the stairs, three stairs at a time, and my grandma waiting for me with her open arms. But all that is nothing as compared ro the Valdivia earthquake on May 22, 1960. It was a Sunday and the earth started to shake in a horrible way. Later on, in the radio, we would know that the earthquake had been in Valdivia and that it had been 9.5 R. BTW, it is the biggest ever recorded and the geography was changed fovever. We were (as we are now) over 12 hours in a bus from there. But I felt it as if it had been under my feet. Later on, girls would start coming to my school as they had come to live with family here.

When I lived in NYC it happened rarely but once in a while you would feel the floor move in the apartment and it always scared me. However NYC is not prone to earthquakes so they were some kind of tremors.