And apparent watching that video I just linked you to Is equally impossible. It also seems impossible for you to consider that all earth quakes are not the same as the one you experienced. Or that the distance to episcenter matters.
Considering your point for a moment, it is worth noting that explosions register on the richter scale, though similarly not all earth quakes exhibit high amounts of horizontal or vertical motion.
The closer to the epicenter, the earth drops. The further away, the more it rolls. 30 miles away from a 6.8 will still drop if it's located near the surface. They're over so quickly your better off just staying put. I watched the Silmar quake in '68 and how the telephone poles swayed. I was within 10 miles of the epicenter. Whittier in early 90's was in the 6s and laughed watching people try to run outside of the building we were constructing. The only one that really got my attention was Northridge in 92? I watched the earth drop over 2'. You could hear what sounded like a giant explosion and the rumble got louder. Took about 1 minute for it to get to me. The Mojave desert is about the most gentle place to experience a sizeable quake because the sand absorbs the shock. I've lived all over California and always seem to move where the next big quake hits. Rosemont quake was fun because nothing is around to bite you after
Thank you for sharing your personal expediences with us. The only quake I was awake for felt like pudding wobbling beneath me, and lasted around 15 seconds and measured 3.5. Extremely watery earth with 6" horizontal motion. No sound beyond that of car alarms.
Quakes really aren't that bad as long as you're not in (or on) the wrong structure. The way the concrete fell apart from what I saw in Turkey, someone put profits over people. I said on because my friend was on top of a beam getting ready to disconnect the crane cable when he saw a landslide. He noticed it was moving towards us and what it was. He held on tight and rode that one out, just under a 5.
And apparent watching that video I just linked you to Is equally impossible. It also seems impossible for you to consider that all earth quakes are not the same as the one you experienced. Or that the distance to episcenter matters.
Considering your point for a moment, it is worth noting that explosions register on the richter scale, though similarly not all earth quakes exhibit high amounts of horizontal or vertical motion.
The closer to the epicenter, the earth drops. The further away, the more it rolls. 30 miles away from a 6.8 will still drop if it's located near the surface. They're over so quickly your better off just staying put. I watched the Silmar quake in '68 and how the telephone poles swayed. I was within 10 miles of the epicenter. Whittier in early 90's was in the 6s and laughed watching people try to run outside of the building we were constructing. The only one that really got my attention was Northridge in 92? I watched the earth drop over 2'. You could hear what sounded like a giant explosion and the rumble got louder. Took about 1 minute for it to get to me. The Mojave desert is about the most gentle place to experience a sizeable quake because the sand absorbs the shock. I've lived all over California and always seem to move where the next big quake hits. Rosemont quake was fun because nothing is around to bite you after
Thank you for sharing your personal expediences with us. The only quake I was awake for felt like pudding wobbling beneath me, and lasted around 15 seconds and measured 3.5. Extremely watery earth with 6" horizontal motion. No sound beyond that of car alarms.
Quakes really aren't that bad as long as you're not in (or on) the wrong structure. The way the concrete fell apart from what I saw in Turkey, someone put profits over people. I said on because my friend was on top of a beam getting ready to disconnect the crane cable when he saw a landslide. He noticed it was moving towards us and what it was. He held on tight and rode that one out, just under a 5.