Been in a couple of small ones, nothing major enough to have a name. One was indoors, a single shock, no duration, no aftershock. Felt--and sounded--like a truck hit the house, kind of a whumping/crunching noise. The house wasn't damaged--nothing was damaged except a glass that fell off a counter--so the noise was probably the earth, not the house.
The other one, possibly more useful to you, I was outside--ten to twenty feet up a tree. *grin* That was thirty years ago, but as I recall I didn't notice sounds so much as the lack of sound. The tree swayed like it was in a high wind, but there was no wind, no sound of the wind. I think it was very quiet, but this is a well-polished memory, so I don't know how much of it is accurate any more--vivid, yes, accurate, who knows. This was on Guam in 1977 or 1978, and might have been the 5.2 quake in January of 1978 (or might have been one of the eleven less quakes in 1977). There were ample dogs and chickens around (and very few cars) so if they had been making a commotion I probably would have heard and remembered it.
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2007-12-09 21:22 (UTC)The other one, possibly more useful to you, I was outside--ten to twenty feet up a tree. *grin* That was thirty years ago, but as I recall I didn't notice sounds so much as the lack of sound. The tree swayed like it was in a high wind, but there was no wind, no sound of the wind. I think it was very quiet, but this is a well-polished memory, so I don't know how much of it is accurate any more--vivid, yes, accurate, who knows. This was on Guam in 1977 or 1978, and might have been the 5.2 quake in January of 1978 (or might have been one of the eleven less quakes in 1977). There were ample dogs and chickens around (and very few cars) so if they had been making a commotion I probably would have heard and remembered it.