Was giving my daughter a bath when it started. At first I thought I was fainting, because it was a really slow rolling motion like I was on a boat. Then noticed the shower door moving.
My daughter kept saying she wanted to go see the earthquake. I think she thought it was outside.
Same about the fainting. I was standing in line at Target on the 4th, and I could have sworn I was gonna pass out there and then until the lady behind me asked if anyone else had felt that. Then I noticed the aisle signs swinging!
Ah yes, the Jurassic Park method of shake detection.
> “The mirror shaking was easy … put a little vibrating motor in and shook it.” Lantieri said. “But the water was another story. It was a very difficult thing to do. You couldn’t do it. ”
> “In order to replicate that for the eventual shot, they “fed a guitar string through the car, down to the ground, and then I had a guy lay under the car and pluck the guitar string,”
I always get the names of the different types of quakes confused, but this one was definitely a lot of long slow movement. I have felt some that were more like loud bangs and big jolts, but this one was just like being on a boat.
These are surface waves, which have a much greater amplitude on the earth's surface than P-waves (which are faster). It's pretty unlikely that anyone can feel P-waves unless they are fairly close to the epicenter. P-waves are also basically a very short pulse; the S waves, which come later, last a bit longer, but also may have relatively low amplitude, and then the surface waves come last and cause the most perceptible (and damaging) ground motion.
My daughter kept saying she wanted to go see the earthquake. I think she thought it was outside.