2nd Floor Of House Is Shaking A little Tiny Bit Can Not Find Out What Is Causing It. (floors, foundation)
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I am on the 2nd floor of a rent house I have a a decent amount of stuff on the 2nd floor maybe a tiny bit more than should have up here. Every 4 to 7 seconds it feels like a very small earth quake my feet notice it weird things you can not see anything shaking. I thought it might bed cause by one of my 2 computers I have I raised both off the flood and also turn off both for like 30min the floor is still shaking just a little. There are 3 small cracks on the ceiling blow my room could be from the weight or could be the house settling a little. The shaking is like 70% on one side of the house from the other. I think the floor shaking could be caused from something outside the house but I do not hear any running. The the shaking is like 40% to 50% worse at night. Anybody have any idea what could be causing the floor to have mini earth quakes??
2 other people and they stay mostly on the lower level. There is train tracks just over a mile away. House is located right next to a big power line tower that is like 120ft to 150ft and there is also a gas line that is a few feet under ground right next to the big metal tower. I will say that in the last 10 days the shaking has been 24/7 before it would happen at night for 2 to 4 hrs. the shaking it kinda annoying I need to figure out way it causing it so I can stop it.
Probably no help here, but I recall MANY years ago in our first home that my wife and I would feel a slight "rumble" through the floors at around 4:00 pm Mon-Fri. I finally found out there was a huge rock quarry about 4 miles away from us.
The workers would do their deep, underground tunnel blasting at 4 :00 pm and then go home. Just so the dust would be settled better overnight, right in time for the 7:00 am shift workers to get the newly blasted rocks loaded in to their dump trucks, and drive out of the tunnels with them.
I am on the 2nd floor of a rent house I have a a decent amount of stuff on the 2nd floor maybe a tiny bit more than should have up here. Every 4 to 7 seconds it feels like a very small earth quake my feet notice it weird things you can not see anything shaking. I thought it might bed cause by one of my 2 computers I have I raised both off the flood and also turn off both for like 30min the floor is still shaking just a little. There are 3 small cracks on the ceiling blow my room could be from the weight or could be the house settling a little. The shaking is like 70% on one side of the house from the other. I think the floor shaking could be caused from something outside the house but I do not hear any running. The the shaking is like 40% to 50% worse at night. Anybody have any idea what could be causing the floor to have mini earth quakes??
That doesn't sound normal at all. Are you in sinkhole country? Houses settle but you wouldn't notice it as it happens over years or decades.
If you are in fracking country it may be that.
There is nothing you could be doing to make your house shake. If you had soft floor and it shook a little when you walked would be the most you could do.
I would call the township or ask neighbors about it.
Unless you have a massaging bed you don't know about.
Where do you live, city, county, state? Call the non emergency fire department phone number. They might know. Maybe the soil in your area is prone to transmitting vibrations from some industry in the area, or trains.
Kind of sounds like some heavy industry operation going on that is creating ground vibration. The house foundation could transmit it through the whole structure. Maybe a Google map search for industrial plants nearby? Refineries? Utility pumping plants? I'd bet vibrations would be apparent outside the house too.
Last edited by Parnassia; 02-26-2019 at 03:02 PM..
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