Anyone else feel that?

[Myz_Lilith]

Uk just got hit by an earthquake.

Magnitude 4.7 so not a huge deal on the global scale, but I've certainly never felt anything like it... we don't get many tremors here.

It was most inconsiderate. I was having an early night because I have a job interview first thing tomorrow, and it woke me up! The cheek!

[Ceryn]

blame them damn southerners... especially people that hale from lowestoft...

[Negs]

heard about it on the news does that count?

[Kyrros]

I've done the waking up to one before on a 5.2 here in Seattle, that wasn't that bad. Going on a walk or a jog when the earthquake hits is the pits. You feel like you should be walking or running just fine cause your eyes tell you the horizon and other features are level but your inner ear is telling you that you're bouncing all over the place. Movies where people run 200 yards during an earthquake are BS. You slow down or stop.. or you fall over.

[Vallikat]

Maybe the earthquake is a positive sign for your interview.

Good luck with it, Myz!!

[Acushla]

I've done the waking up to one before on a 5.2 here in Seattle, that wasn't that bad. Going on a walk or a jog when the earthquake hits is the pits. You feel like you should be walking or running just fine cause your eyes tell you the horizon and other features are level but your inner ear is telling you that you're bouncing all over the place. Movies where people run 200 yards during an earthquake are BS. You slow down or stop.. or you fall over.

Not personally tried this in spite of having been born in southern california, however I think that you might consider the effect of panic on what a person can/cannot do.

[Firia]

I've done the waking up to one before on a 5.2 here in Seattle, that wasn't that bad. Going on a walk or a jog when the earthquake hits is the pits. You feel like you should be walking or running just fine cause your eyes tell you the horizon and other features are level but your inner ear is telling you that you're bouncing all over the place. Movies where people run 200 yards during an earthquake are BS. You slow down or stop.. or you fall over.

Not personally tried this in spite of having been born in southern california, however I think that you might consider the effect of panic on what a person can/cannot do.

Having been involved in as many as Kyrros (I can say that cause he's a local. ), I can safely say that you do stop, or you do fall over.

[Kyrros]

I suppose if it's a little hiccup like a 1.0 or a 2.0 you could keep running or what have you, but ya don't normally feel 1.0's anyways unless they're right under ya. Like a really really really fat man jumping off the top of your apartment close.

[Talidro]

I was in the big earthquake in Cali. back in 1989 (was there for my grandpa's funeral actually). Ya know, the big quake that stopped the World Series, between the San Francisco Giants, and the Oakland A's (aka the Bay Bridge series).

It IS possible to run during the actual quaking of the ground, just not for very far, and definitely not very fast. The tendency is to fall over, due to exactly what Kyrros mentioned, the inner ear and sight disagreeing with each other. It is possible to focus though and maintain forward movement, I imagine, if one trained in a sort of ground quake simulator thingie, it'd be possible to overcome the internal bodily disagreement and to be able to run full speed. lol

[Jugsmalone]

hmm wonder if blind ppl could run fast without falling, but they may just run into a big hole in the earth

[Kyrros]

Good point, Talidro but the other problem with earthquakes is that your inner ear is all messed up -cause the ground is moving under you-. lol

So even if you were running there's a very good chance that your already messed up balance would be further messed up cause the expected elevation your foot should land on may or may not be there. It's similar to walking down a flight of stairs and forgetting about the last step or thinking there's another step when there's not. I'm sure you could probably train to run in that kind of environment but 99.9999% of all people or more on Earth wouldn't have that experience when the quake hit.

Only exception I can think of there are say, people in Japan or another quake-prone region being able to overcome the inner-ear/horizon conflicts from experience with multiple quakes. In that case they'd automatically gain the Tumble feat and likely end up being level 1 rogues.

[Ceryn]

honestly.. it's quite easy to run on a moving surface, if you get enough practice at it..

[Acushla]

hmm wonder if blind ppl could run fast without falling, but they may just run into a big hole in the earth

blind people, probably not .... now deaf people (inner ear messed up before quake hits) .... just possibly

[Ceryn]

deaf people would still be shaken by the vibrations, which would potentially affect them more...

[Kyrros]

Ceryn: Hehe ya but the point I was making was that most people don't have that kinda practice so they stop or fall over. Earthquakes aren't like a normal moving surface either cause the ground looks like it's not moving when you look at your feet but if you look a bit farther off it's doing a kind of weird ripple. You don't have any visual cues at all to try to anticipate the ground's movement. lol

[Twisty]

Wouldn't that be rather similar with being on a ship in a storm then, or in a fast moving train. Both of them seem to have a stable ground too when you look at your feet but there's also constant shaking of your body. And you could basically run on them, the reason why you dont is more because of tight spaces than moving surface.

[Kyrros]

Sea-legs are basically attuning your body to the back and forth sway of the boat. Depending on the size of the waves and the size of the boat that can be fairly extreme or fairly non-existant (like a cruise liner in 3-5' wave) the good thing with sailing is that you can use the horizon to counterbalance if you're out on deck or have a window cause you see that you're tilting and how much you are.. then your ear and the horizon agree for the most part.

Personally for me and sailing, I used to run into a little bit of sea sickness and balance issues when I went below deck were my eyes weren't able to find a point of reference that explained why my inner ear and feet weren't stable. The difference between sailing and an earthquake is that waves have a sort of cadence to them so once you learn how it works you can deal with them fairly easily. Earthquakes are just all kinda of messed up motion without any rhyme or reason to it at all.

[Firia]

As I told Kryros; folks just need to go for a jog durring their next earthquake, and see how well that works out for them. Every quake I've been in have evoked the stop-or-fall responce in me, and I have very keen ballence.