Has anyone experienced an earthquake?

Three that scared me here in central Oklahoma. Each one was different. The first one I heard a boom and then a few seconds later the house shook like a giant had grabbed it shook it. I thought that a military plane had gone down or that there was terrorism explosion somewhere. The epicenter was about 6 miles away. The second one was a long lasting rolling earthquake. And the third one was a single shake and I was sleeping and nearly fell off the bed. We had a lot more smaller ones that sounded like a “whoosh” up against the sunroom. I’d check online in about 20 minutes and sure enough it was a smaller quake.

Grew up near SF, and experienced many quakes. Little ones feel like your laying on a raft in a pool with waves underneath you. Medium sized quakes feel like someone is shaking your bed. Big ones are just plain scary...especially when shit starts falling down.

A very weak one recently for the first time. It felt as if I was sitting on a vibrating pad. I almost didn't notice because I often balance on the edge of my chair with wheels and I was basically doing that at the moment so at first I just thought I found the spot where the balancing felt more distinct but then I realized something was off.

I guess I wouldn't be able to recognize if it was serious.

Well coming from New Zealand also known as the 'shaky isles' was brought up with them. Aotearoa lies directly on a major fault line being part of the Pacific rim of fire. We had earthquake drills at school. Just prior to any earthquake the animals in the zoo all sounded off.....they sensed it before they hit.

I'm in California so many. Including the two 'big ones' in San Francisco and L.A. You know the earthquake is here when things start moving. There are alert systems but it's typically seconds before it hits. So there's really no warning which is a trippy thing to feel. The power is crazy.

When they first start, and if they have some size, then it becomes a matter of how long it lasts. And what kind of shaking. Some roll and some are back and forth. Typically they don't last long but it's when the cross the line in terms of power and length is when it gets a little wild.

And as far as vacating, that's the wrong thing to. If you're inside you stay inside. Outside you want to stay away from buildings and power lines. You might want to run a search on how to stay safe. What you don't want to do is flip out and start running around. So the more you know the less likely that will happen.

Feels like a funhouse

As a teenager in the 1980’s. It felt like somebody kicking my chair, but when I turned to confront them, there wasn’t anyone. I was later told we had experienced a low magnitude earthquake

Yeah 40 years ago
i was lay in the couch and is shook the house

Sure. Only very minor ones. If you've ever been in a shaky elevator-it's sort of like that,

Yes once when living in san diego in the late 80's. I happened to be in an auto parts store at the time, so for 20 seconds or however long I heard the sounds of hanging tools and parts and such swaying into each other

In college in western MT, this long room had small successive waves. In another part of the state we got shaken. A third time it felt more abrupt like a small explosion took place.

Only once and very weak. It woke my family up one night. A very strange noise. Happened for less than 20 seconds but move some of the chairs around.

don't get many here in the east but about 15 years ago a small one hit but shook the house pretty good

Strange. I had no idea what happened until I read and heard about it in the news.

A few. You need to seek shelter under office furniture, when things start shaking.

Yes.... just a small tremor, 1994, 4.6, as i was on the eastcoast of th US

A very mild one. I just felt my bed wiggle

long time ago, the lamp went swinging.

We get light temblors fairly regularly. Usually, it’s like a jolt; the building shakes for a millisecond, and then that’s it. You always hope that it’s going to be only one, and it generally is. There are lighter ones that you don’t even feel. In 1989, there was the Loma Prieta earthquake that destroyed a few buildings, collapsed part of the Bay Bridge and trapped several commuters on the Cypress freeway.
But where I am (San Francisco Bay Area) that’s as bad as it’s gotten. There was the Northridge earthquake in Southern California (1994) that did a lot of damage as well.

Yes a 5.2 back in 2008, April 18th. I woke up out of my sleep cause i heard something hitting the wall. I was half asleep..tried waking my husband about the noise but the the noise stopped. I didn't feel like the earth was moving but i also knew i heard something hitting the wall but i just stumbled around and then went back to sleep.

Woke the next morning and saw the news and then there were aftershocks all day.

Yes, two. They were very mild.

Te earth was quaking the bed was shaking😋

March 1993, 5:32am, a 5.4 near Salem, Oregon, that lasted 32 seconds, also known as the Spring Break Quake, the house shook and the floor shifted back and forth like how they do at carnival fun houses.