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Do Earthquakes make a rumbling sound? Like can you hear the sound of the ground shifting or anything like that?
What is your favorite sound?
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Sometimes, depending on where you are in relation to it. But a whole bunch of buildings creaking is pretty weird, and that's not uncommon even when the epicenter is far off. Truthfully though it is hard to tell what your ears have to offer when your mind is shrieking full volume that the ground is moving...and you have to be incredibly jaded for your mind not to go there.
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Lived through serious ones in IL and WA already.
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Small ones are like a freight train going past your house. Then you realise you don't live near train tracks.
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There was one in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia maybe a week back. People reported it sounded like a large bang.
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Illinois? What??
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of my own voice
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You don't need to be near a faultline for earthquake. The possible explanation I read for the Dartmouth one was that a long time ago the crust under N.S. was pushed down by a lot of heavy ice during the Ice Age and the earthquakes are the mantle pushing the crust back upwards. I might have misunderstood/misremembered this though.
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That seems not unlikely. I was just surprised that there had been any serious quakes in Illinois without me hearing about them. Now I get it though cuz I looked it up.
@hobbsyoyo in furtherance of my efforts to turn you into a real Californian, please do not tell any of your neighbors or any other long term Californians that the earthquake you were in in Illinois was "serious." The Richter scale is logarithmic as I am sure you are aware, and serious doesn't start for most Californians until around six, at the very least. I know in most places anything you can actually feel seems like it must have great significance, but to Californians 5.4 isn't even worth checking the news over unless you are just right square on top of it.
EDIT RANT I am sooooooo jaded.
In 1973 we were in a level 2 quake in Maine. We thought a tree had fallen on the house and went outside to check. Nada. We learned the next day it a small earthquake.
My favorite sound is the synthesizer part at the beginning of Rush's "Tom Sawyer."
The sound of babies or kids screaming drives me insane.
The sound of babies or kids screaming drives me insane.
There are two types of baby cry. One is a quiet 'wa' sound. You know something's wrong, and you have full patience trying to fix it. The other sound, though, it's designed to pierce into some part of our brain that's just mindless.
Parents and especially mothers, have different responses than non parents. Any anguish is empathetic and heart rending.
I'm a parent. There really are two different types of cry
How does the child's mother respond to the "bad" crying?
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In my experience if it happens in public their solution is usually to follow me around the store until I’ve had enough and leave.
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cool cool I'll just remind everyone back east not to die in their non-earthquake resistant homes and offices next time the new madrid cuts loose with anything less than 'respectable californian' numbers
Edit: For non-midwesterners: the New Madrid fault runs through Southeast Missouri near St Louis and it has produced some of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded. However, they are extremely infrequent and there are few earthquake-resistant building codes in the region. Everyone knows its a looming disaster but no one does anything because the quakes are infrequent. The last time it let loose with a big one, it reversed the Mississippi river for a bit and messed up all the surrounding state's borders.
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High-pitched noises actually result in physical pain for me. So screaming children is something akin to torture.
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Good man. That's exactly what a true Californian would do.
Did they actually have building collapses in that 5.4? I just looked it up on the USGS site, which says magnitude and records that it happened...perhaps I should have looked for news reports.
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