Monday, October 6, 2014

Have you ever...

Have you ever experienced an earthquake? What did  you think was happening? How do you think earthquakes occur? 

78 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was cool and fun.

Kristina W. said...

I think earthquakes happen because there is to much energy in the ground so an earthquake happens

Anonymous said...

It was pretty weird.

Kanyon H. said...

Earthquakes ocour when the plates in the ground shift

Anonymous said...

Earthquakes happen when two tectonic plates hit eachother.

Chloe O. said...

Yes i have been in an earthquake and I thought our water pump exploded and I thought it was the heat and pressure ?

Olivia M said...

I was in an earthquake and it was a very interesting experience.

Nick C said...

Yea and it scared me at first but it was awesome.

dominic l said...

I think earthquakes occur because the earth is splitting apart.

Anonymous said...

I have experienced an earthquake. It was on October 12th, 2012. I knew it was an earthquake because the whole house was shaking. How I think earthquakes occur is by tectonic plates moving over each other.

Lamaara F. said...

I have experienced an earthquake. It felt like our house was falling down the hill it is perched on. Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates run into each other.

Braedon M said...

yes i have experienced an earthquake i thoght my dad was moving somthing i think earthquakes ocur when the tectonic plates move

Jade S said...

Yes i have i thought the earth was breaking when the plates on the ground shift.

Anonymous said...

I have experienced an earthquake, I thought that something inside of my house exploded at the time and then I learned it was an earthquake. Earthquakes are caused by plates in the earth shifting and moving, then it moves the earth's surface and it starts to shake because of it.

Anonymous said...

I felt the earthquake, then I feel to the floor and I thought a big truck was coming down the road. When my dad go to the house and we told him about it he said he didn't feel it because he was in his car.

Anonymous said...

Also, I thought that something in the garage exploded.

Anonymous said...

cheater

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Hannah Perkins said...

Earthquakes happen when the earths plates rub against each other.

Brooke C. said...

I have on October 16th, 2012 I think, and I thought it was a plane crashed in the yard. I think earthquakes happen when to rock plates under the surface of the earth collide, sending a shaking signal to the area around it, rupturing the area,

Jack B said...

I was freaking out and earthquakes are made by to lands or cylinders or earth plate rub to gether then makes the ground shake. (MAGIC)

Brooke D said...

Yes I've experienced a earthquake a couple years ago. I didn't even know what what happening but I think that when the plates shift it causes earthquakes.

Lexi Harmon said...

Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little.

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Tim D said...

I thought my boiler exploded.

Cordelia R said...

I personally have never felt an earthquake but I do know it occurs when the earths plates shift below the surface.

emily b said...

I have experienced an earthquake before i was at my house walking down the stairs and the whole house started shaking i almost fell down the stairs.Earthquakes occur when plates in the earth shift and move and the plates hit each other and make the area shake.

haley marsico said...

Yes, I thought our water heater blew up because our house was shaking. I think that two plates were separating in the earth and were causing an earthquake.

Kiara M said...

I have experienced an earthquake and I didn't know what it was at the time until later when I was watching the news and it said it was an earthquake. An earthquake is when two of earths plates hit each other because they shifted.

Tim D said...

I think an earth quake occurs when the tectonic plates shift.

Jacob Varney said...

I felt one on October 16, 2012. I was down in the basement when it happend with my sister. My mom thought we were messing with the furnace. I thought it was a nuclear bomb.

Paige M. said...

Everythung kept falling and I didn't know what to do o.o

Liz L. said...

yes i heaved experienced an Earthquake. It felt like my house was going to fall apart.

Jakob P said...

No i have not felt a earthquake and a earthquake is when the earth's plates' hit each other.

Hannah Perkins said...

I have experienced an earthquake.

Wayne Twombly said...

Well i have been in one I was walking downstairs when it happen I fell down the stairs and we all thought the boiler blew up and the other earthquake I have been in I was sitting in a chair playing games on my laptop when it happen my computer fell onto the ground and my patents told me to get down. It happens when tectonic plates clash together and make 3 types of disasters make a volcano, make a valley or just clash together making a earthquake.

Alicia F said...

Yes i have experienced an earthquake and i had no ida what was happing. they happen by titanic plats are costly hitting echother until one slips over etch other this makes the ground shack

Cameron. M said...

shake.

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darren a said...

A earth quake occurs when 2 or 3 earth plates smash and grind together under ground causing the ground to shaking and things on it to shake.

Cameron. M said...

I have been in an earthquake when I was upstairs playing Xbox i thought it was a bomb.

Richie P. said...

I was playing soccer and all of a sudden a rumble happened and we knew it was an earthquake








































































Jimbo

Abby D. said...

Yes i have experienced an earthquake and I didn't know what was happening, and Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates run into each other.

Ryan S. said...

I was in my room when it happend i thought there was a car crashing in are house.

Sameena F. said...

Yes, I have experienced an earthquake before! Right in Hollis, I think like two or three years ago? I think what was happening that plates were shifting or rubbing against each other below us or something. I think earthquakes are caused by plates shifting and causing friction.

Ian R. said...

I have experienced an earthquake, but it was a really small one. I couldn't really feel it. I think that earthquakes occur because the plates are constantly moving.

Anonymous said...

i thought a semi truck hit my house

Jimbo Z. said...

JIMBO!?

DYLAN N said...

I think a truck hit the house so I stay on the couch because I did not want to get up.

Isaiah w said...

I have been in a earthquake we thought our furnace blew up. Earthquakes occur when plates in the earth shift and the surface moves.

Lewin P said...

I have been in a pretty large earthquake and it feels like the whole world is shaking, and it kinda is. Earthquakes happen when plates a little beneath the surface of the earth shift slightly, causing the earth to shake.

Anonymous said...

I experienced a 4.0 earthquake a year or two ago. It was cool.

Anthony B said...

I have experienced an earthquake, it was very small but it still scared me. I thought our furnace was about to blow up.

Dakota Sanborn said...

When the earthquake happened, I thought the furnace was going to explode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake Esty said...

I've had two in my life and the first on scared me the second one didn't and I always thought they were caused by two plates below the Earth rubbing together.

Megan.A said...

Thing start shaking,smashing together.Earthquake occurs when the tectonic plates clash together that what make's a earthquake.

Nadia McElroy said...

I have. I was at my house and i playing with legos and all of a sudden I heard a big thump, thinking it was a thunderstorm so I just kept playing. Then the house started to shake and books fell. My mom came running upstairs and told us to go downstairs. At first she thought that it was the pipes rattling but she checked with the neighbors and they felt it too.

Hannah M said...

I have experienced an earthquake before, I was in my ballet class and we heard a rumble, there was a class on the floor above us and we thought that someone had fallen over on the floor above us. After the class my parents told me it was an earthquake. I think earthquakes are caused by movement of tectonic plates.

tanya .m said...

I have and it is when two or more tectonic plates hit each other.

_Aaron_Peter_Mills_ said...

When I was 10 or 11 i was getting ready for bed and i was downstairs sitting next to my mom on our couch. All of the sudden the ground starts shaking. i know earthquakes are caused by invisible plates. if one plate overlaps another, it causes an earthquake.

Emily P said...

I have experienced an earthquake before. Me and my dad thought that the furnace was blowing up. A ton of books fell off the shelves and frames fell off the wall. We were very close to where it happened, so it was pretty bad. I was scared, because i was only like 9. I think earthquakes occur when the plates of the earth rub/scrap together.

_Aaron_Peter_Mills_ said...

the first thing i heard before the earthquake was a loud boom. the boom sounded like an explosion.

kobe d said...

Yes\, I thought a bus hit the house,They occur when something hits the ground.

ethan.s said...

It was really scary because my whole house moved.

Zeke Sturgeon said...

A bomb being droped

Kayla H said...

Yes I was at basketball practice and I thought that a whale hit the building and an earthquake occurs when the plates sift and thats how an earthquakes occur.

cole s said...

yes i experienced a earthquake at standish house of pizza i thought one of the ovens blew up

earthquakes occur when the plate deep in the se colide

david r said...

I have experienced and earthquake me and my sister were home alone and me and my sister thought the furnace was blowing up then we looked on the news and it said we got and earthquake.

Maddy S said...

Yes, I have experienced an earthquake before, I was in fifth grade and I was at basketball practice. The building started to shake and we thought something fell and then my coach got a call and his wife said that we had just had an earthquake.
Earthquakes occur by these two plates where one overlaps the other other one.

Nicole Printy said...

I have experienced an earthquake. I was in my karate dojo changing room in a basement and then everything started shaking but i thought it was just the MMA class that was going on upstairs and me and my sister were joking around when we thought it was them saying " OH NO A EARTHQUAKE! " then we went upstairs and everyone was saying things about an earthquake and i said where and they said here.

Colby p said...

If plates over lap then it will cause an earthquake

Kassidy D said...

I have experienced one earthquake in a basketball practice and the whole gym shook up it wasn't that long at all! An earthquake occurs when two tectonic plates crash into each other.

Logan H. said...

YEAH I experienced an earthquake! It was last year, I believe. I knew it was an earthquake right as I felt the ground rumbling like it was made out of jet engines. Earthquakes happen when plates in the ground hit each other, and rumbles the ground!

Will H said...

I have experienced an earthquake before. I was sitting at the dinner table2 years ago when my house started shaking.I did not know what was going on then my dad told me that it was an earthquake. I think that earthquakes occur when two tectonic plates hit each other

Nicole Printy said...

Earthquakes happen when plates of the Earth move.

Emily P said...

It was in Hollis, which is where i live. It was VERY VERY VERY close to my house

Gianna M said...

I have experienced an earthquake about two years ago, I was watching T.V with my family and all of the sudden the whole house starting shaking! My mom thought that the furnace was blowing up and had us go on the porch. After the shaking started, we went back inside and turned in the new. The news said it was an earthquake. Earthquakes are caused by two underground boundary plates are forced together.

Xx__Anastasia_Davis__xX said...

I experienced a earthquake when I lived in Windham,I thought it was the ground shaking and my dad said it was an earthquake. It has to be over lapped by plates.