Have you ever seen a tornado? Or felt a proper earthquake?

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Both fascinate me.
I felt a TINY earthquake in the UK many years ago. Woke me up from a sleep and felt the wardrobes shake.

Thought it was a dream till next day but I can't imagine what a proper earthquake feels like. To have the actual earth move under you.

Also I have a morbid fascination with tornados. They terrify me but I would absolutely love to see one in real life.

I have seen a tornado, I couldn't shut my front door and I was so scared. My then 2 year old was in the front room and I just remember being so frightened something would happen to her. I got the door shut and I cuddled her for ages!

I felt an earthquake in the UK (south wales) a couple of years ago. The house jolted and banged and I thought something had crashed into it from outside.

I was also on holiday in Rhodes laying on a sunbed when I thought DH had started shaking my bed. I sat up and watched a load of other people sit up and look at one another then we realised they were tremors. It went on a while and felt really odd. The staff came running out of the hotel, it was the weirdest thing ever.

We're you in the UK? How frightening.

Both! My sister lives in “Tornado Alley” in the US and last time I visited there was a tornado, we had to use the basement for shelter. Experienced an earthquake in Greece a few years ago, was very loud!

Yes I felt a UK one in the middle of the night, was up feeding my baby so must’ve been early 2008. I was also in Greece a few years ago just after a biggish quake and felt a few tremors.

As for tornados, Italy in the 80’s at a little market by the beach. I remember clothes going up in a spiral and beach umbrellas cartwheeling across the sand. A few people got hurt by flying things and we all got gritty eyes, but it was over in seconds and everyone helped the stalls set back up.

Yes when I went travelling in Arizona and we saw one in the distance. I was panicking and my friend said oh nothing to worry about it's miles away. Okkaaaaaay then. That was a long car ride.
Edit.
I looked up what it was - a cyclone

Yes to both. Thankfully just a small tornado, but have lived through some frightening cyclones too. One particular earthquake scared the living daylights out of
me, but was at uni so checked my family were okay, and went to an proper illegal garage bar and watched some bands afterwards. Nothing like youth!

Haven’t experienced any of the above since living in the U.K. the past decade though.

This was the one I felt in the UK

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/17/earthquake-hits-south-west-england-and-south-wales

The one on Rhodes was common, they happen often in Greece and Turkey.

Yes, to an earthquake many years ago

No and no.

We were in turkey one year and woke up to the travel rep asking if anyone felt the earthquake last night and no one had.

Earthquake. 8.9 that lasted almost 9 minutes. Bloody terrifying.

Only little ones in the UK.

I was on the 15th storey for one and the entire building was shaking from side to side which was quite unsettling. The other, a friend and I were walking through a park at night. We didn't feel anything, but all the birds woke up and started chattering which was very odd at 2 in the morning. It felt vaguely apocalyptic.

Yes, in Germany around 1991,
the whole house shook.

We had a small tornado in my N. Staffs village at 6.30 this morning,
it was terrifying, sounded like the roof was coming off, next door’s ridge tiles slid down and smashed into our glass conservatory roof.
Another neighbour’s fascias, soffits and guttering were ripped right off, the Church has been damaged and a caravan was blown over on someone’s drive. Dozens of rooves are severely damaged and someone’s large rabbit hutch was obliterated 😢
I’d hate to be in the path of a full on twister like they have in the US.

I used to live in Tokyo and small ones are quite normal. Used to wake up in the night with the room sort of shifting.

And in classes teaching where students wouldn't bat an eyelid and I'd be thinking 😮

Wow. Where were you?

Slept though an earthquake in Turkey, may or may not have had a few drinks… a number of balconies on the hotel had fell to the ground but we were quite unaware.

An earthquake in Central America. We were staying with family who lived there and they got us all under the table for safety - our house was fine but there were ornaments falling off shelves etc My main memory was watching the water in the fountain slosh about after the earthquake had finished: very odd!

Did you see the water sloshing in a rooftop pool during the Taiwan quake the other day? One guy in the middle of the pool, must have been a mad feeling!

Yes. A 6.4m earthquake. Woken in the middle of the night to it and evacuated the hotel. Remember seeing the car park cracking. as the second one happening. Truly terrifying.

The aftershocks went on for days - very unnerving.

I remember this, also in south wales. I was in work at the time!

I slept through an earthquake on Cephalonia many years ago.

I am really cross still.

Also we was abroad years ago (I can't remember where I was about 10) and we was out watching the night time entertainment when the wind picked up I'll never forget sand everywhere and strong winds and chairs and all sorts blowing everywhere, hotel staff ushering everyone to their rooms. The next morning there was cracks in the hotel wall and floor 😵‍💫

minor one on holiday in Turkey. Like a PP I thought my husband was shaking my sunbed

• Boxing Day earthquake, whilst in Thailand
• 'little' earthquake, while in Athens (some things fell off shelf, but nothing scary)

I've always wanted to see a tornado (from safe distance). I actually dream of them occasionally, in multiples! That Twister film must've made quite the impression...

Yes, I have felt an earthquake. I live in Spain. The windows rattled and the washing line fell down. I could feel it slightly, we were about 60 ish kilometres from the epicenter.