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No, no one gets used to it. Most people near the place in question and the people of Grindavík had to deal with near-constant earthquakes for hours. It caused s

No, no one gets used to it. Most people near the place in question and the people of Grindavík had to deal with near-constant earthquakes for hours. It caused some damage the to buildings and other things and some people started getting seasick. There's really not a lot you can do comfortably when everything is shaking nearly non-stop with intermittent, larger quakes that can cause real damage. You're constantly on edge.

mkl 3y ago
Okay yeah, "near-constant earthquakes for hours" is quite different from the dozens of short ones per day/week that I've experienced.
- runarberg 3y ago
  UPDATE: This volcanologist seems to think this is indeed quite similar to Christchurch. https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-11-13-skemmdir-i-grindavik-minna-a-christchurch-396911 https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-11-13-skemmdir-i-gri...
- runarberg 3y ago
  I was in Grindavík yesterday and stayed until the evacuation order. No you don’t get used to it. You may think you do, but your brain doesn’t. The larger earthquakes (the once above 4 M) started around 16:00. There was near constant—if not plain constant—shaking from then on until the evacuation order around 23:00, as in there was always at least a minor earthquake shaking the ground every 20-30 seconds. When the activity was at the peak (around 18:00) there were larger earthquakes (close to or above 5 M) every 10-20 minutes, those were above the constant shaking from the smaller once. Note that these quakes are really shallow (5-2 km deep) and close (some had their epicenter a couple of blocks away from me, but the furthest away were still less then 3 km away). So the shakes were really sharp and sudden. As the quakes went on, I noticed I started getting more jumpy whenever there was a bigger earthquake, some people reported feeling seasick from the constant quakes, but I personally didn’t. Today I have a headache and am just spending the day in bed at my safe harbor, I suspect the stress got the better of me.

mkl 3y ago

Okay yeah, "near-constant earthquakes for hours" is quite different from the dozens of short ones per day/week that I've experienced.

runarberg 3y ago
UPDATE: This volcanologist seems to think this is indeed quite similar to Christchurch. https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-11-13-skemmdir-i-grindavik-minna-a-christchurch-396911 https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-11-13-skemmdir-i-gri...
runarberg 3y ago
I was in Grindavík yesterday and stayed until the evacuation order. No you don’t get used to it. You may think you do, but your brain doesn’t. The larger earthquakes (the once above 4 M) started around 16:00. There was near constant—if not plain constant—shaking from then on until the evacuation order around 23:00, as in there was always at least a minor earthquake shaking the ground every 20-30 seconds. When the activity was at the peak (around 18:00) there were larger earthquakes (close to or above 5 M) every 10-20 minutes, those were above the constant shaking from the smaller once. Note that these quakes are really shallow (5-2 km deep) and close (some had their epicenter a couple of blocks away from me, but the furthest away were still less then 3 km away). So the shakes were really sharp and sudden. As the quakes went on, I noticed I started getting more jumpy whenever there was a bigger earthquake, some people reported feeling seasick from the constant quakes, but I personally didn’t. Today I have a headache and am just spending the day in bed at my safe harbor, I suspect the stress got the better of me.