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Old 06-12-2019, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Yes... I've never felt one before, but all evidence, including these videos and reports from witnesses -- from San Francisco in 1906 to my friends in Cleveland 2 days ago, said earthquakes feel like a giant, rolling motion that's totally unnerving because you have absolutely no control.
It depends on the location (compared to where one is) and the intensity. I remember a 3.0 back in 1990 or 1991 that was centered just north of Cleveland in Lake Erie. I was sitting in the living room of my Edgewater Drive apartment with a friend that evening, and instead of feeling a distinct trembling or "rolling motion", my window made kind of a "buzzing" noise and I got the sensation of someone moving a piano across the room in the apartment beneath me. Then it was over.
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Old 06-12-2019, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Lakewood OH
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My sister in LA called to see if I was okay. Of course she's used to all sorts of quakes. Funny thing is, I experienced many earthquakes when I was living in Portland, how soon they forget.
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Old 06-12-2019, 10:01 PM
 
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Yes... I've never felt one before, but all evidence, including these videos and reports from witnesses -- from San Francisco in 1906 to my friends in Cleveland 2 days ago, said earthquakes feel like a giant, rolling motion that's totally unnerving because you have absolutely no control.
With weak ones, they feel like short jolts or make you feel like you have vertigo, but the bigger ones make you feel like you're on a boat in rough seas or like trying to stand on a platform with wheels that someone is randomly moving violently in all directions. Living where I do, I experience several of them every year and you never get used to them, I don't care what anyone says. Living through 7s and 8s and seeing the collapsed buildings in person is a life-changing experience, to the point where there's a little PTSD and nightmares.
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Old 06-15-2019, 10:47 AM
 
Location: cleveland
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Old 06-15-2019, 01:47 PM
 
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Old 06-15-2019, 03:28 PM
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Was the earthquake even in Cleveland or is this another case of Cleveland trying to take credit for what happens in Eastlake just like when the blackout of 2003 happened?
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Old 06-15-2019, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH USA / formerly Chicago for 20 years
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Was the earthquake even in Cleveland or is this another case of Cleveland trying to take credit for what happens in Eastlake just like when the blackout of 2003 happened?
It didn't even happen in Eastlake. It happened in Lake Erie.
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Old 06-15-2019, 05:33 PM
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It didn't even happen in Eastlake. It happened in Lake Erie.
Yes but Eastlake felt it most with other locations feeling some aftershock.

https://fox8.com/2019/06/10/thousand...near-eastlake/
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Old 06-15-2019, 06:44 PM
 
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Yes but Eastlake felt it most with other locations feeling some aftershock.

https://fox8.com/2019/06/10/thousand...near-eastlake/
Yes, this is true of many major earthquakes; they often aren't centered in the area that suffers the most damage and, often, death... That's because cities have the highest density of humans along with, quite naturally, the greatest built up environment in the region at issue ... a density of structures that can come crashing down on all those humans in that tight space... I believe the infamous San Francisco earthquake of 1906, where many more people died in the fires touched off by ruptured gas lines and other tender set off by the quake, was actually centered off the SF shore in the bay.
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Old 06-15-2019, 09:13 PM
 
Location: Shaker Heights, OH
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Was the earthquake even in Cleveland or is this another case of Cleveland trying to take credit for what happens in Eastlake just like when the blackout of 2003 happened?
Where are you getting idea that the blackout in 2003 didn't happen in Cleveland but in Eastlake? All of downtown was without power. I was in the BP Building visiting my mom's office at the time and we had to walk down 20 flights of stairs since there was no elevator service with the blackout.

As for the earthquake, I'm in Pepper Pike & I didn't feel it.
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