http://www.flixxy.com:80/japanese-tsunami-viewed-from-a-car.htm
this video, taken from a car, shows both the quake, and the tsunami.
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sure have! was out in Palm Springs back in the 90's- in the Coachella Valley set up outside of town in the desert. first I heard it rumbling in the foothills, then I saw the shock wave coming towards me across the desert, stirring up clouds of dust and sand, then 3 seconds later felt it. Heard, Saw, Felt - never will forget it...
Yes indeedee! Back in the early 60's I was sitting in my car between classes in the parking lot at Santa Ana College. I looked up from my book for some reason and glanced at the shopping center across the street. The windows were moving in waves from bottom to top. I looked around and the trees are all shaking. Meanwhile in my car, I could feel nothing. Very strange!!
> sure have! was out in Palm Springs back in the 90's- in the Coachella Valley set up outside of town in the desert. first I heard it rumbling in the foothills, then I saw the shock wave coming towards me across the desert, stirring up clouds of dust and sand, then 3 seconds later felt it. Heard, Saw, Felt - never will forget it...
I think I would need clean shorts if I lived through that. It must have felt like the end of the world for a few seconds.
Seems like it was a 5.8 -5.9 .. - not a bad one when you are standing out in the middle of nowhere with no buildings around. I was right at the instrument and do remember the bubble going completely out of the "circle" for a few seconds then leveled back up.
The part that got me the most was watching it come towards me- it looked like a sand storm coming at me at 1000 mph but wasn't that intense- just a really fast moving dust cloud from the underground shock wave!
Northridge quake, Orange County, California 1992+-. Standing in the middle of John Wayne airport runway doing construction staking in the middle of the night. I looked thought the level, the cross hairs were moving. Looked around for equipment approaching, and nothing. Look through the level again and it is still jumping around. I say to my chainman that I think an earthquake is coming! He laughs, and then, approaching, in the light of the portable light tower we are towing, is a wave in the asphalt as the earthquake passes like a wake from a boat on a calm lake, 12"-20" high. I started watching for fissures to jump over if they were too appear. Then a few seconds later the sky lit up with exploding transformers. Scary stuff! The ironic thing was that the construction was being held to ridiculous tolerances vertically. After the earth quake I went into the job shack and told the Federal inspector that all bets were off, because I just witnessed the ground move a foot and there is no way to know if it returned to where it was. Jp
There was an earthquake in the Pacific NW, midmorning, in Feb 2001. Were I was you could definitely feel thing moving, the building creaked and the overhead lights swayed, but nothing more than that. Lasted about 1/2 a minute. Up closer to Seattle/Tacoma there was some real damage done.
