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Name: Dakota
Status: Student
Age: N/A
Location: VA 
Country: United States
Date: January 9, 2006
Question:
I live in Northern Virginia. We have had a few earthquakes over the past several years. I always thought there was a rolling or swaying movement. But it's more like a boom and a shake. Why is this?


Replies:
The sensation of an earthquake is not necessarily a swaying or rolling motion. Often the sensation is one of a shock or "boom".

Vince Calder


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