Honest question. What's it like being in an earthquake?
Also, how do cats usually react to them?
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@catsalad Small ones, you only notice the chandelier swinging. Big ones are like being on a ship on a stormy sea, noticable rocking/shaking, glasses clinking, cabinets opening, objects falling down, the noise can resemble thunder. Earthquakes also cause disembarkment syndrome, even months later. (The strongest one I experienced was 6.2 ML.)
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@rhelune Disembarkment syndrome? That's what sailors experience, right?
@catsalad Passengers can too, I got it after two 15-hour ferry trips 2 days apart, and it lasted over a month. My mother had it for almost a year after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake (it didn't help that a milder foreshock happened first). You feel an earthquake and have to check in an app if it really happened. My team lead even tried to gaslight me when I felt it during a call, but I had the app to prove that it really happened.