My husband lived in LA for a few years and didn’t flench when we had a couple of earthquakes here in Southern Indiana…but when any storms come around, he flips tf out.
Growing up here, you get a feel for them. If it's shaking, it's probably close. If it's rolling, it's usually miles away. You can usually guess the size of it before it's over, and there's hardly ever any panic.
@@ryanb.472 I was an hour away from the epicenter. I thought it was my best friend trying to wake me up during a sleepover and I shouted at her. She still makes fun of me for it.
People on a forum, talking about an earthquake, brought me here. My neighbors felt it, but I didn't. If it isn't a 6.0 or better, in SoCal, it probably didn't even happen. I slept through the 6.5 that we had many years ago, but did recall having a dream of sleeping in a motorhome and someone shaking it..........so I guess I felt it, but it wasn't a big enough deal to actually wake up.
It is funny how art imitates life. From an outsider it looks funny how they are used to the earthquake condition but if you live there your whole life it s a regular thing like walking or breathing air lol
They usually wake me up but I don't even know what woke me until I see the notification in my phone in the morning and I'm like "oh yeh that makes sense"
I remember my first earthquake when I was in Japan. It was 6am, I'm lying there sleeping and suddenly the room starts shaking. I'm up like a flash, adrenaline coursing through me listening for sounds of panic or anything but nothing. My GF mumbles, "it's just a small one. Come back to bed". So I do and she snuggles up close before saying, "there might be aftershocks". She fell asleep right after I must have stayed awake for a good 10 minutes just waiting. Years later I would sleep through a four or lower. You just get used to them.
