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.