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The sound is the worst part for me. Nothing else even comes close to replicating it. All the little things rattling, and the deep rumbles of your whole house mo
by kart23 7y ago
The sound is the worst part for me. Nothing else even comes close to replicating it. All the little things rattling, and the deep rumbles of your whole house moving around.
- frizkie 7y agoTotally. The fact that the sound just comes from everywhere makes you realize how puny you are. The massive rock you've lived on forever, and get by day to day without thinking about in detail, is all of a sudden very, very real.
- gdubs 7y agoYea, the first time I felt a decent sized quake I realized, oh, it’s not a localized shaking — the whole damn earth is moving.
- sethammons 7y agoI grew up in a canyon with a fault that splinters off the San Andreas Fault. You could hear the Earthquake right as it approached and as it rolled away. Always wild. A p wave could wake you, you would hear a rumble, start to shake, and hear it leave.