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Are earthquakes a common occurrence in your area?

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Nope. But I grew up in Japan and California so I know what it’s like🤣
AngelKrish · 26-30, M
@mindstruggle how strong it was ?
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
AngelKrish · 26-30, M
@mindstruggle please stay safe....here last Earthquake was 6.7
NerdySoph · 26-30, F
Luckily no. I am worried if it occurs a lot in your area .. please stay safe.
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@NerdySoph
Thank you so much. 💕
Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
I live in SoCal…I don’t even notice anything less than a 4.0 🤷‍♂️
Sidewinder · 36-40, M
Very rare, like once in a blue moon rare.

In the village where I used to live when I was a child, I only experienced earthquakes, on two separate occasions, both occurring five months apart from each other in the same year.

All I just felt was the ground vibrating for about a minute the first time and the second time, only a few seconds.
Raaii · 22-25, F
no it's not common
I've just experienced it like twice or thrice and it was mild
Degbeme · 70-79, M
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Depends on how wide I consider my area to be. They are very rare in my city, less rare in my birth town where my grandmother lives but even there the noticeable ones occur once in a few years.
Starcrossed · 41-45, F
Not at all. Apparently we have few small ones every year but I've never in all my years experienced one.
SW-User
no. i've felt the slightest of tremors just a couple times in my life but we're not under threat of anything serious here
No. They occur years apart, and are only ever small tremors.
The strongest, a 4.0....like a big truck passing.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Not in my part of the country, though not totally unknown; but earthquakes are very common in the British Isles generally.

Most are too small for anyone to notice, or people do notice them but think them perhaps unusual vibrations from an unusually heavy vehicle or something like that. They are recorded by seismographs, though.

Most are natural but in some parts of the country some of them are tiny shocks from old mine workings collapsing.
OldBrit · 61-69, M
Nope very rare in England. Well rare to cause issues. One about 19 years ago in my county knocked some chimney pots off.
PinkMoon · 26-30, F
No but I live in a mining town so we have earth tremors every now and then.
AngelKrish · 26-30, M
Last month Earthquake...last to last month Earthquake
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@AngelKrish
Is it mild ones?
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
Very common
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
@mindstruggle 95% of them are not felt, the strongest one I felt was 6.4 I was at work and the ground felt like it was rolling, then my legs felt like jello. I have felt a 6.2 as well, shook my bed. Felt a few in the 5’s as well.
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@Jeephikelove
5’s is already terrifying to me. Stay safe please.
Jeephikelove · 51-55, F
@mindstruggle we live on an active fault, we’ll get a big one eventually, whether it’s in my lifetime or not who knows. I have only felt 6 in my lifetime.🤗
Fairly common, but most a really small in magnitude.
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
No I'm in the dead center of a tectonic plate. Only natural disaster risk is forest fires.
Thankfully not. I've never experienced one.
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
No, but when they do happen, the result is dreadful. The (plastic) trash bins timbers!

And that's about all that happens. 😂
SW-User
No, but I felt a minor one when I was in high school
Zaphod42 · 51-55, M
I’m in SoCal, so yes. Honestly though, anything under 3.5 I don’t even notice unless it’s practically under me. The last one I actually felt was a 4.2 up toward the LA county line, and before that it was that 7.x out in the desert toward Las Vegas before the pandemic.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
In alaska and California they are
scorpiolovedeep · 51-55, M
Quite a few mild ones , while in NZ.
Not in Australia.
No, thankfully.
HairbrushDiva · 31-35, F
Thankfully not.
SW-User
No, very rare.
ShaneMckay · 41-45, M
They are, but they're tiny. Can't feel them at all .
BLP11520 · 61-69, M
They were because of fracking
Temblors here, but rarely anything enough to cause damage. Even the small ones can be unsettling, though.
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@bijouxbroussard
That is true. Mild ones give me anxiety.
@mindstruggle Are you in Cali ?
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
DDonde · 31-35, M
No, I've never felt one before.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
earthquakes scares the earthworms
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@MartinTheFirst
I wish it was only the earthworms.
Yes. Most of them we don’t notice. There was a 3.4 this morning.
MethDozer · M
W had 9 this year I just looked it up.
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@MethDozer
Oh. Like 9 earthquakes not magnitude?
MethDozer · M
@mindstruggle yeah. All low magnitude. Some are barely noticable.
mindstruggle · 31-35, F
@MethDozer
I wish it was just like that in our place. Or none at all.
MethDozer · M
Have a few each yearo but they are very, very small and minor..
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
Fortunately no they are not.

 
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