Survived the 7.4 magnitude that hits palu 3 weeks ago. It was so scary and intense it even triggers a tsunami and in 3 spots moved an entire neighborhood kilometers away. Thousand was killed and we lived outside for about 2.5 weeks now the city is beginning to recover from the impact.. just a reminder that the earth we stood in is not as solid as we thought it is
Wow it's so interesting reading the comment section and seeing how many people have experienced earthquakes before. I live in the UK so we don't get any here but it must be crazy having one happen beneath your feet!
just to emphasize the logarithmic scale here, log 1 is 10, log 2 is 100. So when you go from 1 to 2 in this scale, there is a increase of 90 units (100-10). Now, consider log 3 and log 4. Log 3 is 1000 and log 4 is 10000, although that's the same 10 fold increase, its a increase of 9000 units! And that is the main reason why there is such a huge difference between 7.3 and 7.8!
I'm from Denmark and we don't really have any fault lines near us. But one early morning a few years back, I was working on my computer and a quake hit our neighbours, Sweden. The quake was big enough to be registered in Denmark, but to me, it was like my desk chair was on the surface of a solid, slippery plate and someone decided to slightly move that plate underneath me, like the base of the chair moved a tiny fraction of an inch, only just enough to throw me out of my concentration while being completely stationary. None of my relatives felt it, as they were either asleep or already in motion, e.g. walking around their house, taking morning showers, etc. Hardly an earthquake, but still a cute reminder that the firm, solid ground beneath our feet, isn't all that solid as we tend to make it out to be.
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since our initial 7.1 in sept 2010, we've had almost 15,000 aftershocks, two of which measured 6.3 and 6.4 centered just outside the city. On the Mercalli scale, one recorded X in the central city and X+ in surrounding suburbs. The quakes also had the second and third highest ground accelerations ever recorded of 2.2G (2.2 x the acceleration of gravity) and 2.13G.
I am from Katmandu and I've experienced small forgettable shakes before, but this one was like mother nature going all batshit crazy on us. Saying that the ground shook would be a massive understatement, rather it flung us about and that too for a whole minute. On a side note, that shirt... I want one too.
It's been a while but last time I was in Southern California in 1999/2000, we felt one. It got me wondering what happened. at first everything was shaking up and down side to side and in every direction, vibrating violently, and after a few long lasting moments everything started to swing just like rocking chair or a baby cradle - two different things all together. The earthquakes we felt in the late 80's and perhaps 1990, did not feel like that. They just shook - who knows how or in which direction. When I was a kid, I wasn't worried about having earthquakes but today I often wonder about everything that is going on around us. We use to have them often.
2001 Gujarat Earthquake, Man... Ground moves under your feet so violently it's hard to stand. Trees shaking violently, loud noises, plus it gets worse when you hear and see buildings collapsing. Around 20,000 died back then. It's scary, people slept outside in winters in fear of roof collapsing... We did had huge international response from world, Thank you for that... :)
Well there was a magnitude 2.6 earthquake in Massachusetts in my city. I felt it a little bit. I balanced 3pecils and all of them fell after a second of letting them go
Iloilo, Philippines, 2012 a 7.0 (6.9) earthquake hit, it was an intensity VI, it was scary, at first, we felt a small jolt, suddenly, we were thrown up, down, side, to side, i can never forget that. I was 6 when it happened, hundreds of aftershocks followed for months. Though my hometown experiences at least 10 light to moderate earthquakes annually, a major earthquake definately isnt common. Just november of 2018, we felt magnitude 4.0, 4.6, 4.9 earthquakes. They ranged from intensity III to V, it was very intense since we were in the third floor of my school. Glass rattling stuffs falling, our lockers almost fell, and my classmate fainted, later that day, 8 more earthqaked ranging from 2.0 - 3.0 hit, i didn't feel the 2.0 earthqakes tho.
I rember mom coming home from work telling me there was a woman at work said she felt an earthquake nearby in a town called "Burlington ". I told mom ,we're going to have an earthquake here in Toronto and that evening after 12 midnight I heard the sound of "ROCKS GRINDING AGAINST EACHOTHER " coming closer and louder then the house shook for about a 20 seconds . Years later in Ottawa we had magnitude 5.0 and I told dad we're having an earthquake , then about 3 minutes later the house really shook . My co worker told me his wife was at home in a 10th floor of 20 floor high-rise appartment and it really shook and things flew out of cupboards she was scared hehe was with kids all alone while husband was at work .
I was in an earthquake that me and my brother could barely feel. I was walking on this low wall when suddenly I just felt the ground vibrate a little. It was probably a II on the Mercalli scale since no damage was done. Both me and my brother felt it. 'Twas cool to experience a minor one :3
i remember i watching the screen of my laptop wobbel like a jelly on top of loud speakers...then i ran towards the stairs and jumped 😂😂😂and somehow remember that people tend to get hurt more in stairs as they are pretty weak...so i again ran up in panic and there are like 5 people under one pillar screaming"oh god oh god"😂😂 thinking of it now, it was chaos and funny.....i remember there were some boys on the down floor who literally dived(like literally head dive) under the table and got bruised 😂😂😂
Isn't it the moment magnitude scale, not the richter scale? I thought that the Richter scale was replaced by the moment magnitude scale in the mid 20th century
1:45 That's not precise enough. Each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured AMPLITUDE; in terms of ENERGY, each whole number increase corresponds to an increase of about 31.6 times the amount of energy released.
I lived the 2009 L'aquila quake in italy.. and until you actuly fell one you can't understand how terifing it is. I live on third floor in an 8 story building and on the last floor furniture fell in the appartments. I slept outside for a month.
I lived through the 1985 and 2017 earthquakes in Mexico City, both falling on exactly the same date, as a matter of fact, the 2017 quake occured a couple of hours after a nationwide drill!!!...also I'm here because no recent times we've had quakes with epicenters below the city surface instead of the usual Pacific coast ones. Although much lower on the Richter scale, they are much more noticable but at a much lower number!!!
I was in the January 17th, 1994 Martin Luther King Holiday earthquake in Los Angeles county. The whole house shook and everything seemed to rattle. I was in Palmdale, California. Outside all the light standards were rattling. In the distant south, I could see flashes or arcs of light. The sound was a low-pitched but loud and rapid rumble. It occurred shortly after 4:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time. As I was watching a second quake hit within a minute. The entire freeway from Palmdale to Interstate 5 at the bridge collapsed. I was a meteorologist with NOAA at FAA Air Traffic Control Center in Palmdale. Dogs were howling like wolves all over the neighborhood.
I was in Washington DC when that earthquake struck in Virginia in August 2011. Worst damage it did where I was was to knock some of my mom's pictures and artwork askew and some other belongings over. Definitely a relatively minor one, especially compared to Nepal.
I and my mother late felt the one that hit down Mexico about 5 yrs. ago and it was around Easter time when it hit but I don't remember what the magnitude was she had never felt one that strong from what she said
The Richter Scale IS NOT the best way to measure earthquakes. The moment magnitude scale is the most accurate. The Richter Scale is the most popular because of how fast it calculates the seismograms.
Can someone please explain to me how each value in a R scale for eg.. if quake with magnitude 2 is 10 times greater than magnitude 1. But how come that earthquake with magnitude 3 is 100 times greater than 2 and so on so forth.. how is that.. ??
I thought the Moment Magnitude scale superseded the Richter scale decades ago and that the term "Richter" is only still used due to media and improper naming. Someone verify this though, correct me if I'm wrong.
Been in lots of earthquakes, 7.1 ,6.2, 7.8 and many smaller ones , i live in Canterbury New Zealand and my main memory of earthquakes is feeling the start if one ir hearing it coming and hoping its not big the after it stops guessing the size location and depth (many of us got so good at it we could guess the magnitude of it +/- 0.2 , or now that we have less of them the constant thought in your brain thinking about where you will go if one happens now and what could fall and injure you
John M omg wow ya been through a bit, I have felt quite a few in Wellington, biggest one I felt was the 7.8 in Kaikoura, was scary, ran outside and the sky was flashing with earthquake lights
I am Nepali and both big quakes were frightening and caused damage of both life and property and till today after shocks are going and felt I know it's the process after the bigger shocks but how and when it is going to end ? It's a question every Nepalese have?
I'm from Northridge California, and I figure we're only on the world map possibly because of our 6.8 or possibly 6.3 earthquake. They still say or I haven't got the right information on that just correct Richter number yet?. When earthquake information was first released, it was quoted I believe at a 7.1 and it this earthquake was the most violent thing I ever felt (and I was born and raised in Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley also )I felt that it was violent. Based off the damage I could see I think maybe if it's in the 6's then it was definitely a high 6 after watching this video. More than pictures fell off the walls we had freeways collapse, we had chimneys fall off houses, so I'm not sure where puts with those other scales or possibly the Richter scale also, you know our real number since it reportedly changed 3 times?!
e had one in SW Michigan about two weeks ago, 4.2. First one I have experienced and was not sure what it was until I looked on Facebook, I wasn't scared just curious. The house shook and there was no damage.
In my country am earthquake destroyed a whole town . It was 6.3 and the one before that was 5.2. I will have anxiety and fear of earthquakes for the rest of my life
No Korean commented here ever? The land is rarely hitting serious quake, that is why. How to read richter scale is not common sense, but professional assessing.
