The sound is the worst part for me. Nothing else even comes close to replicating it. All the little things rattling, and the deep rumbles of your whole house moving around.

Totally. The fact that the sound just comes from everywhere makes you realize how puny you are. The massive rock you've lived on forever, and get by day to day without thinking about in detail, is all of a sudden very, very real.

Yea, the first time I felt a decent sized quake I realized, oh, it’s not a localized shaking — the whole damn earth is moving.

I grew up in a canyon with a fault that splinters off the San Andreas Fault. You could hear the Earthquake right as it approached and as it rolled away. Always wild. A p wave could wake you, you would hear a rumble, start to shake, and hear it leave.

I had my first earthquake a few years a go and it is for sure a weird feeling. I’ve never felt an entire building move until that, it’s a unique feeling

My first experience of earthquake was when I was on vacation on Big Island. The wall rattled like someone is keeping hitting it with full force. Then things on table shaking. I tried to phone the frontdesk of the hotel I'm staying to check it, and the line was busy for at least 10 minutes. Guess everybody is wondering what's going on.

I'd been awake for over 24 hours when I felt my first earthquake. I also wrote it off as exhaustion.

The Northridge quake and its aftershocks screwed with my sleep patterns for weeks. Every single time an aftershock fired up, it was a no-sleep night that day.

Its very important to work on ones mindfulness during quakes.

happened to me in Delhi. My couch started shaking on its own. Thought my sibling was playing. Turned out to be an earthquake.