Shadowing-Übung: Earthquakes Conversation| Learn Real English Conversations - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit YouTube

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Hey, check this out.
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You know what Eric asked me when I got into work this morning?
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I have no idea.
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What did he ask you?
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He asked me if I felt the earthquake last night.
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Earthquake?
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You've got to be kidding.
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I didn't feel an earthquake.
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I know.
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That's what I said.
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He told me it actually woke him up last night.
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What?
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Yeah.
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It happened at like 4.42 in the morning,
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so we must have been sleeping.
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But, I mean, it's possible that even if we had been awake,
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we might not have felt it because maybe it wasn't felt this far north.
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But, I mean, I thought he was pulling my leg when he first talked about it.
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Well, I guess that's not so far-fetched considering we live on a major fault line here.
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Yeah, but actually I think this earthquake was on a different fault line.
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because Eric lives just south of San Jose.
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Yeah.
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And the earthquake, he said,
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was due east of San Jose.
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So he was obviously a lot closer to the epicenter than we were.
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So I'm not even sure it was felt here.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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Well, you know, I've experienced quite a few earthquakes in the past several years,
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but I've been living here now a little over two years.
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I think I've only experienced one here.
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It was really strange too.
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I was, each, I should say each earthquake has been a completely different experience,
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but the one I, the one I felt here,
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I was standing outside a restaurant talking to AJ and another friend
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and all of a sudden it just felt like this shift.
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It's really hard to explain,
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but it made me think of like a cartoon,
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like how in the cartoon,
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like buildings might just shift to the right and then shift right back.
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Yeah, without falling.
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Yeah, without falling.
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And I had no idea what was going on for a few minutes afterwards.
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And then I realized, oh,
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that must have been an earthquake.
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Yeah, you know what I usually notice?
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The times that I've been at home here,
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and there's been an earthquake,
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it's almost as if there's this really big train or like a gigantic Mack truck
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going by and suddenly I start to hear the heater shaking
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and it's like the noise is like is loud for like a second and then it's gone.
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That's so weird.
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You know, it's almost like the first couple of times I felt it.
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I wasn't even aware it was an earthquake while it was happening.
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Well, that's so funny you say that because one that I experienced in Bangkok,
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it actually was after the tsunami and so later I found out
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that it was it was aftershock from the tsunami
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but anyway I was in a building up on the ninth floor
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and suddenly there was all this rattling and I'm thinking to myself it just it was so irrational I'm thinking to myself,
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God, there's like a train going by and I can't believe that this building is shaking so much from the train.
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And of course, a train wouldn't have made a building
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or at least me up on the ninth floor feel something to that effect.
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And I think it happened about two times.
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And that one wasn't until several days later when I was talking to people and they were like,
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oh, you feel the earthquake then it dawned on me oh
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that was an earthquake yeah it was no it's uh it's crazy how
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when you're not used to feeling them you could think it's
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something else yeah i mean yeah totally i've been living here for a
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while now and i've definitely felt my share of earthquakes i mean you know
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when you live here it's a given
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that you're going to experience earthquakes you just hope
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that you're not going to be here for the big one you know right when i first moved here.
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It was about five years after the Loma Prieta earthquake,
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which was a very big earthquake here.
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And there are a lot of people who lived here who
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I met who had actually been living in the area when the earthquake hit.
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So it was interesting to get their perspective.
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And it also made me remember where I was when I heard about the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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I was watching the World Series on TV and it was taking place in San Francisco.
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So as I'm watching it,
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suddenly the announcer starts saying,
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wow, I think we're feeling an earthquake here.
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And the cameras started shaking and all of a sudden the TV coverage cut out.
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So, you know, I wanted to get a rundown of what happened.
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So I turned to the news station
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and within a few minutes they were discussing this gigantic earthquake
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that had hit San Francisco
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and they started showing pictures maybe 30 minutes later of these
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people who were trying to weed through the rubble of these buildings
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that had been like coming down
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so I mean it was it was pretty scary I'll tell
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you yeah you know yeah well um you know the three
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months I was living in Japan I experienced two both of
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those were very different uh very different from the one I'd experienced here
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and also very different from the one in Bangkok
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but one of them I was actually up in my apartment
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which was on the fifth floor of a building
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and I was woken up at about five o'clock in the morning to the building swaying
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And because earthquakes are like a dime a dozen in Japan,
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they've built a lot of their buildings to absorb the shock.
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So that's why it was swaying.
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It was a very surreal feel.
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Hi, this is Kristen Dodds.
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And this is Joe Weiss.
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And we just wanted to let you know that this material is copyrighted in the year 2008 by Learn Real English, LLC.
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