The Bed Was Shaking, The Earth Was Shaking...

[earthdome]

Was just drifting off too sleep tonight when the bed started shaking, the apartment building started creaking and the neighborhood dogs started barking.

 

I wasn't dreaming, it was a 4.9 magnitude earthquake 10km from Baguio where I live. It only lasted a few seconds, just enough to shake the bed a bit.

 

EQinfo#2:24June2013; 12:49AM, Mb=4.9; Depth=04km; 16.47°N, 120.53°E - 010km N44°W of Baguio City; Intensity IV- Baguio City

 

I have never experienced an earthquake before. Added just a bit of excitement to my evening. Now I have been up almost an hour to confirm it really was an earthquake.

 

I am not aware of any damage. All seemed calm and quiet within minutes.

 

http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/

[Jake]

Was just drifting off too sleep tonight when the bed started shaking, the apartment building started creaking and the neighborhood dogs started barking.

 

I wasn't dreaming, it was a 4.9 magnitude earthquake 10km from Baguio where I live. It only lasted a few seconds, just enough to shake the bed a bit.

 

EQinfo#2:24June2013; 12:49AM, Mb=4.9; Depth=04km; 16.47°N, 120.53°E - 010km N44°W of Baguio City; Intensity IV- Baguio City

 

I have never experienced an earthquake before. Added just a bit of excitement to my evening. Now I have been up almost an hour to confirm it really was an earthquake.

 

I am not aware of any damage. All seemed calm and quiet within minutes.

 

http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/

Hey Shipmate,

 

Oh, come on now -- I figured you are used to violent vibrations as a crew member of a nuke submarine.

Anyway, we appreciate that you and your neighbors are safe and sound.  

 

Next time, I will give you ample warning when I blow my ballast next time.....he, he.

[MacBubba]

Tremors are felt more keenly in high altitudes.  My wife remembers experiencing an earthquake in Baguio some 35 years ago.  Even in the state of being awakened from her sleep, she was aware that the sensation felt different from other earthquakes she had lived through in Manila.

[earthdome]

It was a moderate earthquake with intensity of IV which lasted less than 5 seconds:

 

Felt indoors by many to all people, and outdoors by few people. Some awakened. Dishes, windows, and doors disturbed, and walls make cracking sounds. Chandeliers and indoor objects shake noticeably. The sensation is more like a heavy truck striking building. Standing automobiles rock noticeably. Dishes and windows rattle alarmingly. Damage none.

[Jollygoodfellow]

When I read the topic title I thought I would be moving the post to the x rated section.  :)  Never felt an earthquake although one night a few years back I am sure the building I live in shock just slightly but nothing in the news or anything so one of those mysteries. 

[Americano]

The first earthquake I experienced was in Ozamiz City in Mindanao in 2010. One morning I was sitting in a chair watching TV in my hotel room when I started swaying left and right. I just thought it was a bad hangover until I noticed the bathroom door was moving too.

 

Last year my wife and I were watching TV in the afternoon when our apartment started moving back and forth in a East to West direction and our flat screen TV was shaking and making a sound. Later we told our neighbor about the earthquake but no one believed us.

 

A few months later at about 4am our bed started moving back and forth. It was dark in our bedroom so we couldn't see what was happening. I thought my wife was exercising her legs and she thought I was doing something without her.  My wife's cousin who was living with us thought someone was under her bed shaking it. Later that day we told our neighbors about the earthquake but they didn't believe us.

 

And then the big 6.9 earthquake came. It was during the day so I was sitting in front of my desktop computer probably reading on this forum when I started hearing a rumbling sound and a slight vibration. It was exactly like I had heard and felt many times in the past when a steam roller would come past our apartment. The difference this time was the sound and vibration kept getting louder and stronger until it sounded and felt like a freight train was going past my window. The very fast and strong vibration was so severe that I had to hold my monitor to keep it from falling off the computer stand. My wife and her cousin wanted to run outside but couldn't make it before the earthquake had already stopped.

 

A few minutes later my wife and her cousin went outside to talk to the neighbors. Most of our neighbors were out in the street crying like little babies and they stayed in the street for hours as the after shocks continued through out the day.

 

Will the neighbor believe us the next time?

[Papa Carl]

Glad all is well Earthdome, I have been asleep before and woke up because of or during an earthquake before, can get quite exciting!

 

We did not feel anything down here in Angeles, ....., unless of course that was during my wife and I......, ah well guess I am guilty of the same thing as the Boss Man, I too was expecting something a bit xxx rated, starting with a line like that.

 

 

Papa Carl

[JJReyes]

Baguio is within some fault line. Although we were no longer in the Philippines at the time, a major earthquake killed several friends staying at the Hyatt Hotel. This was astonishing since the hotel was shaped like a pyramid to withstand tremors. We stayed there thinking it was earthquake proof. The building collapsed. 

 

My wife and I were in Tokyo during a major earthquake. Our hotel room was on the 42nd floor. We moved away from the window in case of breaking glass. I also soaked towels and blankets in the bathtub as a precaution against fire if we needed to evacuate the building. The building swayed eight to ten feet. Our window view changed from skyline to the next building as we sat next to the room door. There was no panic since we knew the buildings were designed to sway. 

 

My brother-in-law was a patient at the University of Tokyo hospital during the last major earthquake and tsunami. The building gently moved left and then right, but it was very slow. The hospital is sitting on top of giant hydraulics to counteract earthquakes. Wow! They have over 200 buildings in Tokyo and Osaka on hydraulic systems.

[Call me bubba]

http://www.philippines-expats.com/topic/8743-earthquake-safety-tips/

 

 althou the chances of being in an earthquake is slim. its better to be PREPARED

here is a link to some safety tips  in a previous post

[jpbago]

And then the big 6.9 earthquake came.

 

This one was February, 2012. I was sitting on a plastic chair when it felt like the legs were braking. I looked down and the chair was moving. Then everyone ran out yelling "Get out! Lenog! Lenog!" I didn't know what a lenog was but I ran anyways. The ground was still moving. Some people fell as they were running. There were new cracks in the walls.