Am I the only one in Kuwait who didn’t feel the earthquake. A short while ago my phone and twitter blew up asking me if I had felt the earthquake. I didn’t! I was shopping with a friend at Wholesome Foods when the earthquake hit and neither me nor my friend felt anything. So weird, I feel like I’ve totally missed out!
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You did it was really strong and scary.
Felt it real bad here in Salwa!
Felt badly in Abu fatira. First my bed was shaking and then moving slowly like a boat. Enough to make my head spin and dizzy..scary shit..
I was in Shaheed Park and didn’t feel a thing!
Building was swaying for over 10 seconds in Saba Al Salem
Felt really strong in salmiya, scary. People are all on the road.
Perhaps View Mall is earthquake proof? Lots of friends in Salmiya near view mall felt so strong. I was in Salaam and felt it so strong too
When a building is earthquake proof, it would withstand the quake and won’t collapse.. you would still feel it no matter what.
Hi Mark. Yup I felt it here in Salmiya too for about 30 seconds..wasn’t that bad..something like a rocking motion you’d feel in a train. Weird thing though is that most people in Mahboula felt it although epicentre was at Iran Iraq border
Yeah, had to come down from the 11th floor. Took the elevator though.
That was risky on your part.
That’s smart.
I feel you, Mark. Didn’t feel a thing but everybody else around me did and I feel like I missed out.
Literally exact same post
This is the first time I have really experienced an earthquake in Kuwait. I was confused the first 5 seconds, but then realized it was an earthquake. Evacuated everyone from the house.
I also felt little 10 second earthquake while I was watching from couch this is first time I ever felt
I was so nervous and scared for the first in my life
Hopefully we will be in safe and also i willl pray for us and other countries will be safe from earthquake
Just moved here from Alaska where we get 100s of earthquakes a year and I got to say this was a big one!! Had no idea I’d be feeling them here!! Crazy!!
Hi Lindsey, could you tell me how was Alaska like.Its really a magical place there aint it. Must have been awesome there ….
In Jabriah at Groundfloor and in the Basement Studio an intense shake! Our Dog and the Cats were very nervous. I had one quake some years back, in Salmiya, sitting on the Balcony!
Will there be aftershocks ? Should one be worried or packed up? Been trying to look for any news on the subject but nothing.
felt it real bad in salwa! book shelf fell over. glasses, etc
I think people along the coast felt it the most. In Salwa we had some serious swaying for a good 5 minutes; even the windows shook which never happens here.
Its slowly showing up in the news now.
Stick to official sources like the USGS ( https://earthquake.usgs.gov ); and a news aggregator like ( https://news.google.com )
5 Minutes??
I was at M&S Salmiya and didn’t feel a thing!
The earthquake magnitude should be stable throughout most of the country especially the inhabited areas, so I everyone pretty much had the same magnitude. What causes how intense you feel it is the stability, or rather instability, of the building you are in.
Hi. I live in Mangaf and I felt the earthquake… I was sitting on my couch watching stranger things and felt the couch shaking..
That must have felt strange!
Which season?
The second one..
We were watching Fargo on Netflix in Fintas and the sofa on which we were sitting started shaking. I thought, wow, now they’re showing TV series with 4DX!
Running down to the street LOL. Kuwait is not considered to be an earthquake zone, and you’ll never ever feel anything more than tremors from far away earthquake zones.
So stop being drama queens.
I agree.
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The first thing that came into my mind when the earthquake started was that most of the buildings were not designed for seismic loads. A lot of things were also running in my mind, like, how could there be such a strong and long earthquake in kuwait? How could I study the earthquake more? If this building collapses, which way would be the best way to get out?
I too didn’t feel the tremor. I missed the experience
I was in Surra and I felt it. But my own dad didn’t, which was weird.
“He revealed that earthquakes occur in Kuwait on a weekly basis but their magnitude is less than 3 on the Richter Scale, which is why nobody feels them, stating that repeated small earthquakes is an indication of the likelihood of a huge earthquake in the future.”
https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwait-faces-threat-major-quake-huge-damage-official/
Crazy! I’m in Costa Rica and felt one of the strongest ones here since 2009 and was thinking about how this was never something to worry about growing up in Kuwait.
Similarly I’m in New Zealand and we have 100’s of earthquakes a year. No drama, we evacuate and go about our daily lives, if it’s safe to do so.
It wasn’t an earthquake, it was a 5-second tremor that radiated from Iran/Iraq where the actualy earthquake happened.
It lasted longer than 5 seconds though…
It was a 7.3 magnitude earthquake (not tremor) that lasted 18 seconds.
Earthquake vs Tremor:
Earthquakes are the vibrations caused by rocks breaking under stress against an underground surface called a fault plane while a tremor is an involuntary movement of earth surface caused by stress in the underground rocks.
I was walking in Boulevard Salmiya, and I only knew about it after someone called me to let me know. Maybe open spaces was the reason? Were you indoors Mark?
You terribly missed it!
I was walking on the seaside near Marina Crescent and felt nothing and neither did anyone around me (lots of people out last night).
Mark said “So weird, I feel like I’ve totally missed out!”
I find that somewhat flippant as people died from this earthquake. Yes the tremors or shockwaves felt in Kuwait are from the same incident.
It wasn’t an earthquake, it was seismic shock waves felt from the epicenter about 600 miles north of us in Iran. If it was a real earthquake, many of us would be toast by now. I felt it and it was like a train passing by our house or a very powerful subwoofer giving three slow “Hums”. It lasted about 20-30 seconds.
I also want to add, if you didn’t feel it, chances are you were in a public space (Malls..etc.) where there is a lot of ambient noise. What we experienced was mainly low frequency sound reverberating underground.
Stop repeating things you hear and read. It was an earthquake, there is no debate about this. True it was far away, and we felt it weakly, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t an earthquake.
What the weather man was trying to say, and he said it badly was: Kuwait didn’t get hit by an earthquake, we just felt it from a distance. He also tried to say it was a tremor not an earthquake, which again is wrong. It was an earthquake, and a damn big one, and we did feel the seismic waves from 600km away.
There was a earthquake and a damn big one…IN IRAN! What we experienced here in Kuwait was seismic shock waves, basically vibrations of sound underground. There’s a huge difference between the two. The earth didn’t move here, you simply heard the earth moving in Iran. What happened there was a terrible natural disaster, but I am explaining what people experienced here not there.
Good then, now we’re saying the same thing.
EVEN MOR DRAMA!!! What was it exactly???? I can’t take this anymore.
Just to clear things up, an earthquake IS basically what you’re referring to as seismic shock waves/seismic waves activity due to the moving plates of the earth. What we experienced is most likely called an “aftershock” type of earthquake. I honestly don’t know where you came up with that earthquakes are something entirely different than a “seismic shock waves” – a term I don’t get how you stumbled upon.
I was sleeping i didnt even feel it in Riqqah but it was there. i thank almighty
ti save me from this.
Late reply, cant resist commenting though. xD I so agree with you here and I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t feel a thing during this. There was too much unnecessary drama over the so called “earthquake” in Kuwait. I had to remind people about the difference between an earthquake and a tremor.