[Myrddin]

My neighbor and highschool classmate was scuba diving off Honolulu when the quake struck. She was underwater. The seabed moved upward and a loud rumble was head. Not a great place to be in a 6.9 earthquake.

[Paul R.]

I must admit, I never thought about what it’d be like to experience an earthquake (seaquake?) UNDER WATER. Non- compressibility of water - hmmm...

[caww]

“There are lava tubes on our property,” said Dale Miller, 58, a Leilani Estates resident, referring to the natural tunnels underground that drain lava during an eruption. “The whole thing is Swiss cheese.

“It felt like there was something under the house – like a big snake was moving under the house,” said Lee Begaye, 61, Miller’s partner and housemate.

Lee added this was the first time in eight years of living by the volcano that they’d had to evacuate.

[MayflowerMadam]

Underwater? Underwater scares me even without earthquakes.

In Anchorage years ago I belonged to a health club in the basement of the Captain Cook Hotel. The hotel sits on top of the fault (they say), and it freaked me out every minute I was there. Finally had to end my membership. The thought of a big hotel crumbling on top of me...