Usually they do come with a bit of a warning

My experience of an 8.1 earthquake last year here in Northern Chile is a good example. There was weekly seismic activity leading up the eventual big one on 1st April 2014. Everybody in the city kind of knew it was coming, about 2 or 3 days beforehand I had been to the Supermarket to buy some stuff to make an Emergency Kit (water, tinned food, matches, torch, snacks, drinks...etc...) and pretty much all the bottles of water had already gone, which suggests many people were doing the same. The noise as much as the movement is the scary part, I was teaching in a factory at the time of the big one and I'll never forget the sound of the tons of metal crashing about, car alarms going off, glass smashing and of course the screaming.

Posted By: Brandonio, Jul 13, 20:52:23