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I'm currently on my first trip to the US, and was in Napa Valley at the time of that earthquake. I (sadly) didn't feel anything. It probably sounds weird, but

• boringg 5y ago
  Sub 4.2 earthquakes feel like a truck rumbling by your house (if you have an old house/apartment). I used to live on a busy street in SF and whenever there was an earthquake it was always ... was that a large truck or an earthquake. Only when it keep rattling did it really differentiate.
• minitoar 5y ago
  It’s more like everything is shaking. The fact that the source is the ground is not obvious in the moment.
• yesco 5y ago
  I experienced my first and only earthquake (5.8 magnitude) while visiting the holocaust museum in Washington DC. It was very out of the ordinary for the region and so as strange as it sounds, myself, my family and some other people present all thought the shaking was a part of the exhibit and simply carried on.... only for a security guard to come running in several minutes later to kick us out of the building. I think earthquakes can by easy to miss sometimes for those unused to them because they feel so mundane. Like everyone's experienced a certain degree of shaking before, heck the turbulence in a plane isn't much different. This obviously changes at higher magnitudes but really changed my perspective.
• quartesixte 5y ago
  There is nothing quite like it. The whole earth moves. It’s like being on a boat but it’s solid ground.
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