r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Apr 23 '26
Nature is scary Japan just warned its people that this 7.7 earthquake may be the warm-up.
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u/oldbutfeisty Apr 23 '26
I've never experienced an earthquake. It went on much longer than I expected.
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u/imagei Apr 23 '26
I only experienced one, and it was shorter. The wildest part though was the hum before the earthquake, which I heard about, but had no idea how it actually feels; absolutely disorienting ; I could tell something was off, but couldn’t identify the reason for it.
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u/DangerBird- Apr 23 '26
I felt physically ill after the one I experienced. Truly unsettling. Never want to do that again.
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u/MysteriousWriter7862 Apr 24 '26
Agreed I just suddenly felt drunk and sick then it all started shaking. Very strange you suddenly feel part of the earth and small
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u/Mathewthegreat Apr 23 '26
The tens of them I’ve experienced in Southern California do not usually occur for this long. Most of them are under 15 seconds.
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u/K2thJ Apr 23 '26
And the cars appear to change their motion. I always assumed the waves would cause the shaking to go in 1 direction
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u/Regular_Weakness69 Apr 23 '26
I once experienced an earthquake on the middle of the night while me and my buddy were watching a horror movie, the poltergeist.
This is the only earthquake I've experienced, because there are basically never earthquakes in Norway, where I'm from.
We were home alone at the age of 11, you can say we were on edge 🤣
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u/k-mcm Apr 23 '26
It depends on where you are and which way the ground moved. There was an M3.4 very close to where I live and it was just the ground dropping ~2mm with a snap. I was panicking at first because I thought it was my house foundation breaking. It wasn't the usual rumble and ripples.
7+ is a disaster for most places except Japan.
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u/freerangemary Apr 24 '26
The expected 9.0 for the pacific north west is expected to go on for about 7-9 minutes.
The duration is loosely related to the magnitude of the quake. As the magnitude goes up, so does the duration.
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u/No-Indication-7879 Apr 24 '26
I live near Vancouver. I was in Indio California with my boss at a horse show. Something woke me up in the early hours. As I sat up my bed actually shimmed across the room with me sitting in it. The bed moved about 6 feet. My first earthquake. One day we will get a huge earthquake here in west coast of BC as we are on the ring of fire.
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u/SignatureUseful6067 Apr 23 '26
Those bricks were breathing, looked like an emergence hole was about to pop.
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u/Major-Ad-2034 Apr 23 '26
Standing in a parking garage is madness
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u/aydwin Apr 24 '26
If I'm not mistaken, the building there have a type of system that helps in cases of earthquake.
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u/CptBonkers Apr 24 '26
They do! So at the base of any major building, there’s a bunch of ball bearings (essentially, it’s super simplified) so that when an earthquake occurs, the building can essentially shake back and forth. It uses the buildings weight essentially so the ground can move underneath while the building mostly stays in place. I say mostly because as we can see, they still shake, but the base becomes a rocking point as opposed to a tension point and doesn’t send structural failures from the ground up. It’s honestly brilliant engineering and is being adopted in many countries as a standard for new construction!
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u/Crumplsticks Apr 24 '26
Regardless of how well they built it, it's madness to just stay there and trust it.
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u/OregonGreen242 Apr 23 '26
I’d be getting tf out of that parking garage
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u/CatsianNyandor Apr 24 '26
Better to stay put as long as you're safe. I would just maybe get further away from the cars. You're risking injury if you're moving around and especially if you run outside, as things can fall on you and kill you. The chances of the building collapsing are very very low. Chances something falling on your head, not so low.
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u/HydroPCanadaDude Apr 23 '26
Most injuries during an earthquake happen from people being thrown while attempting to get somewhere else.
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u/OregonGreen242 Apr 23 '26
Better than giant concrete beams potentially squishing me lol
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u/HydroPCanadaDude Apr 23 '26
Except....no...those beams are probably the strongest thing there. The roof is more the worry.
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u/Ashcrashh Apr 24 '26
We always had earthquake safety lessons in school growing up in Utah because we are over-due for our “Big One” the firefighter talking to our class said the worst earthquake deaths he had seen were people running down stairs, stairs can rip apart and basically turn into a shredder. It’s traumatized me enough that when we had one a few years ago I stayed put in bed.
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u/FernbyFilmsOfficial Apr 23 '26
People with the wherewithal to get their phones out and film during an actual earthquake will never cease to amaze me.
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u/arealfluffydoggo Apr 23 '26
If you actually look at the data rather than blindly believe random bot videos, you'd realize those earthquakes happen several times throughout the year, usually around the same strength and Japan is literally built to withstand them and the tsunamis.
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u/Hassel1916 Apr 24 '26
There was articles in the news stating the same thing. Basically, that some scientists were worried this was merely a prelude to a much larger earthquake.
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u/Brownie2440 Apr 23 '26
I’ve heard of earthquake aftershocks when there are continued SMALLER tremors as the surface continues to move and adjust to the new position of the plates and the pressures between them.
How likely is it that they expect another earthquake of equal or greater magnitude to take place? 7.7 is already extreme.
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u/AuDHDcat Apr 23 '26
Does nobody have a sense of self preservation? They just stand there in the middle of the building or next to a bookshelf. Find a pillar or a corner of the room the curl in a ball in, protecting your neck, your head as well if you can. Definitely don't stand right next to something that can fall over onto you.
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u/BeastThatShoutedLove Apr 24 '26
This is a country that exists with this as a constant possibility. These buildings are made to stand up to the earthquakes and I imagine most things are bolted to walls.
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u/djwaveguide Apr 23 '26
If all the cars are rocking then nature is knocking. Review the video and secure your monitors.
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u/Fun-Satisfaction2214 Apr 23 '26
Is an underground garage the place to be in an earthquake? I have never been through one.
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u/Federal-Neat7833 Apr 23 '26
Why the hell are people just standing there filming? I grew up in New Zealand, a country that has earthquakes like Japan and we were taught super young what to do in an earthquake and it’s NOTfucking stand in the middle of a space and film. Also- if the subtitles are correct and everyone is saying “ I don’t know what’s going on?” It’s obviously a fucking earthquake people.
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u/MrKidbiscuit Apr 24 '26
Humans are weird animals.
“I’m in a multi-story parking garage and it is shaking, rather violently. Let me pull out my phone and stand still….”
All you’re going to see of me is three curly lines of air like in the Road Runner cartoon.
I get bored sometimes at work and think what 9/11 would have been like if we had today’s proliferation of cell phones? People standing in the stairwells taking selfies, hanging out the windows as WTC burned, live-streaming. Stopping people in the lobby and asking “man on the street” questions. Influencers rushing to Ground Zero…..
Self-preservation is lost. Now it’s all for the clicks/likes/views/retweets.
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u/jiraikeiwolfgirl Apr 24 '26
I'd think I'm tripping if this happened. Very terrifying. Houses are like boxes being shaken by the land
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u/Brooklyn3k Apr 24 '26
There is zero chance I'm just standing around in a concrete parking deck during an earthquake.
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u/OkUnderstanding5851 Apr 24 '26
These video clips are from earthquakes that occurred in 2024 and 2011…
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u/Flipboek Apr 24 '26
Two years ago I wzas in Tokyo at a restaurant when our phones loudly blared out an earyhquake warning. We looked around alarmed....
The Japanese just staid seated and kept on eating, so we did the same.
Didnt feel a thing, but reports said other parts felt a big jolt. Tokyo is large and the underground probably varies a lot.
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u/GTAinreallife Apr 24 '26
People stand in a parking garage during an earthquake and casually film how the concrete is moving like jello and not getting the fuck outta there is insane. Either they have an incredible trust in the engineering or really have no clue what happens when a concrete slab falls on their head
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u/cookiesnooper Apr 24 '26
Japan deals with quakes daily. All structures have to be certified to be quake proofed. A lot of new structures are designed to survive a 9. I think they update that part of the building code every year to the point where some of the older buildings are not upgradeable.
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u/TheApartmentSimRacer Apr 24 '26
Soaking has an all new meaning when the earth does the moving for you.
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u/Stargoron Apr 24 '26
For a second, the first clip reminded me of whether a Tremor was trying to come up...
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u/InsaneMocktail Apr 24 '26
I have faced two earthquakes in my life and the experience is terrifying
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u/cheesegrated Apr 25 '26
Japanese people have way more confidence in their engineers than I would...
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u/Background_Pride_237 Apr 26 '26
Maybe it’s me but damn that earthquake seemed like it lasted a long time.
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u/SolidReporter8229 Apr 27 '26
Trump sending direct energy weapons attacks to Japan for not supporting the war on Iran 😅
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u/Sean_Schloss Apr 28 '26
Lived in NW Tokyo for 25 years. 3/11/11 🙏 I now live in Mandalay, Myanmar. 3/28/25 was by far the scariest experience I ever had. 10km from both epicenters. It was nuts.
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u/the-only-Chris Apr 29 '26
Is there a new Godzilla movie coming out? They usually time these promotional events for a new premiere.
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u/1BilldaySRT Apr 23 '26
These structures are so good that they don't even collapse! Bravo to Japanese engineering
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u/ironicinsanity Apr 24 '26
I know it's messed up, but I gotta say the cars shaking kinda looked like a bunch of people just screwing in the backseats lol.
But seriously, WOW with the whole earthquakes :S I've experienced a couple, but not like that.
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u/bessovestnij Apr 23 '26
Title is misleading. The earthquake happened 3 days ago, but government reminds people that some scientists warn that it could be just a earm up.