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WriterArtist, Thank you for stopping by and writing such an interesting account of your unsettling experience with the ground ceasing to be secure under one's feet.
My recentest experience is a bit less scary than yours since it took place during the day in the university library stacks. The carpeted floor moved quickly back and forth under my feet! And that was all there was to it where I was even as it was longer than a second and scarier elsewhere.
With irreversible climate changes, we all are not immune of havocs caused by tsunami and earthquakes. My earliest experiences with earthquake was small tremors felt at midnight. I was a student then, my roommates came out of their hostel rooms and gathered in panic. Company of others gave courage and we could call it off when the vibrations stopped after sometime. I vividly remember the shaking of ground and my bed vibrating along with the chair and table.
I can understand how catastrophic a earthquake can be be with its casualties and shocking waves. Japan for one, has taken preventive steps to tackle earthquake disasters.
frankbeswick, Is it a case of the unknown earthquake casualty or is the person's name known? I've been through two, one in Utah and another in Virginia (about which I wrote for Wizzley). In both cases, the floor moved back and forth quickly under my feet, almost like the experience of skating backward and forward.
Britain does not suffer very bad quakes, I have only personally experienced three, the worst being a magnitude 2, which was part of an earthquake cluster of mainly magnitude ones, though we have had larger. No one was hurt, in fact Britain's recorded death toll from quakes is one, in the eighteenth century.
Cumbre Vieja will cause Atlantic-wide problems, but when we don't now. However, by the time the wave hits Britain it will have diminished in size, and it is Eastern America that will take the brunt. Our South Coast has cliffs that can take a direct hit. But any tsunami coming from the South West will vary in its effects according to the varying sea bed and coastal conditions that it meets on its way.
frankbeswick, Yikes! I hope that the United Kingdom has effective earthquake and tsunami preparedness.
Speaking of Krakatoa, did you know that some scientists believe that the sky in Edvard Munch's The Scream art work reflects the influence of that volcanic eruption on Oslo's skies? There's a recent alternate interpretation of it as mother-of-pearl cloud configurations in an article by Mariëtte Le Roux, Weird Clouds May Have Inspired 'The Scream,' for Phys.Org April 24, 2017.
It is not widely known that the tsunami from Krakatoa hit Britain. Ok, by that time it was 4 centimetres high, but it was measured. I have thought about the issue and am concerned that any shock might cause Cumbre Vieja, a volcanic island off Africa, to have a submarine landslide, which will cause tsunamis to hit the Eastern USA and the coast of Britain.Some time in the next ten thousand years it will happen, but I can wait. But it could happen any time, and I have a daughter who dwells near the coast in West Britain.
frankbeswick, Amen! It's a scary scenario if all the weak points from coastal and offshore Canada, the United States and Mexico become actively problematic at the same time and if area nuclear power stations find their back-ups failing like Fukushima's did.
A mega-quake would have repercussions across the whole Pacific region, possibly with world wide implications.
CruiseReady, The truly scary version is a mega-earthquake that runs from coastal North America down through Central America!
Amazing information, DerdriuMarriner ! I never would have guessed those areas as quake prone, either. (An uncle and aunt lived through the Alaska one when I was quite young.) Hopefully, one day, we'll find out how to predict the big ones ahead of bime. It's their sudden and unforecast onset that makes them far more terrifying than hurricanes, I think.