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@catsalad
I was living in Seattle years ago. There was a 6.8 or so. I remember running out of the house and standing on the street. Two things i remember.
Looking down the street, the road surface was rolling like waves in the ocean. The second was that I was standing still, but I was moving back and forth.

@catsalad I've only ever noticed one and it was fairly minor. It woke me up in the hotel I was in at the time, but I thought it was just loud drunk people being annoying and so went back to sleep. Woke up next morning to see quite a few messages from people who knew I was travelling asking me about it...

@catsalad unpleasant. I’ve been through quite a few here in NZ - including two large ones - one of those being the M7.8 2016 one.

Our house moved a lot, the force was enough to buckle our metal fencing in places and went on for around two minutes! Happened after midnight so was asleep… we still have unusable building in the capital due to that one - which happened in 2016… the cats however are generally unfazed by them, they can however tell they are coming somehow as they’ll all wake up and sit bolt upright then just go back to sleep after it passes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kaik%C5%8Dura_earthquake

@catsalad I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if a cat reacted like "bloody hell, what's going on? anyway, feed me "

@catsalad it can be like having a large truck driving near your building. Everything is vibrating.
It was a small one (no damage to building but strong enough to be noticed by people)

@catsalad our cat ignores them. our dogs gets confused - what is that rumbling and why did the wine bottles tip themselves over? as an adult only one has made me concerned enough to do something. i was at the theater with my ~9yo daughter. at first i thought someone bumped into the projector then realized "earthquake. big." picked up my daughter and started to the exit. the quake stopped by the time we got to the exit door. everyone kinda stood there for a beat then went back and sat down. they rewound a few minutes back and the show went on. my daughter remembers the movie (burton's alice in wonderland) but not the earthquake.

@catsalad it depends a lot on where you are and of the strength of the tremor. You can hear a rumble (not if you’re higher up in a building). You can feel the ground shifting. Once, in a 5th floor flat, I could feel the whole building swaying slightly and all the roof beams were making cracking noises. Not my best memory 😬

@catsalad when there was an earthquake in Seattle, (Very rare) our Maine Coon Raiden did not seem to care. Raiden also did not care about fireworks ect.

@catsalad

cats fall from trees during earthquakes, much like Florida lizards during freezes

@catsalad Only felt one, on the Isle of Man at the end of the 1980s.

A few weeks earlier I'd looked out of the office window and was deeply astonished to see a steam train go past, as I was a long way from the line and out of sight. It was on the back of a truck, and it was so heavy, the entire building rumbled slightly.

A month or so later, it happened again, slightly more so... but this time, there was no truck. It was the ground. It just rumbled like a very long 100 tonne truck drove past slowly.

@catsalad Small ones, you only notice the chandelier swinging. Big ones are like being on a ship on a stormy sea, noticable rocking/shaking, glasses clinking, cabinets opening, objects falling down, the noise can resemble thunder. Earthquakes also cause disembarkment syndrome, even months later. (The strongest one I experienced was 6.2 ML.)

@catsalad

Depends. I live about 100 yards from an active fault. Little ones are like somebody bumping into a wall or a truck going by. You can sleep through those. Big ones feel like a giant picked up the house and is shaking it.

My dogs do not care for the earthquakes and sometimes start howling after a big one.

@catsalad I was in a mold one in midwest united states and it was fine. It just felt like someone just shook my bed to wake me up.

Our cats seemed to be fine. This happen over 15 years ago though. Big earthquakes are rare where I live.

@catsalad I live in PH which recently got hit with 6.3Magnitude + Aftershocks that gets to 4.2-5.0Magnitude💔😢 I ddnt notice my cat jury behaving unusual as the earthquake struck,Found him in the study table after the 6.3 hit, I noticed his behaviour whenver Aftershocks will happen either its subtle or a bit shaky, Jury would be very vocal & then "High Alert" mode goes ON. After few minutes, Aftershock Alert news is being broadcasted..

@catsalad Even the Loma Prieta quake, the biggest I ever experienced, just felt like someone jumping on the floor really hard. Ever been in a raised house while an unbalanced washing machine is running? It’s like that. The sound is scarier than the movement to me; it’s a low, ominous rumbling.