Earthquake, Natural phenomenon | Awoken by an earthquake: – I didn’t understand anything

Bergensavisen: Trygve Lyshagen Tømmerås was one of the residents of Voss who noticed the earthquake.

– It started with me waking up from a dark storm, and it sounded like a landslide, says Tømmerås, who lives just outside Voss, the local politician tells BA.

Tømmerås says he is not the type to wake up easily.

– My roommate also woke up. I think everyone at Voss must have woken up. It was a special experience to wake up and wonder what was going on and where the sound was coming from. You don’t think of an earthquake when you wake up in the middle of the night in Norway.

Shaking and rumbling

He says that he has lived in Central America, and is not used to earthquakes every now and then.

– What surprised me was how long this earthquake lasted. I managed to wake up, get up and get out of bed. I have never experienced an earthquake last so long before.

The first report of the earthquake was registered at 0422 on Monday night.

– A man in Vaksdal had felt the earthquake. He described it as a clear shaking in the house and as a kind of rumbling, says Berit Marie Storheim, senior engineer at the Department of Geosciences, to NTB.

She states that the earthquake is located at Mjølfjell, which is located east of Raundalen in Voss municipality in Vestland county. The strength is calculated at 3.3 on the Richter scale.

– Little in the world context

There are many who say that they woke up from the earthquake. A BA tipster describes that it felt like a drone over the whole of Bolstad. Several people in Bergen state that they felt shaking.

– 3.3 is a small earthquake in the world context. In Norway, it is not unusual for earthquakes of magnitude 3.3. We have quite a few tremors at this force in Norway, says senior engineer Storheim.

West police district informs BA that they did not receive any calls about the earthquake. Storheim says that people have no reason to be afraid or anxious.

– No, there is no reason to be anxious. We don’t expect any damage to buildings or infrastructure, she says.

– Like a freight train under the house

Another person who woke up to the quake was Anne Grethe Aalandslid, who lives in Voss.

– I slowly but surely woke up to a loud noise. It was like a freight train was passing under my house. There was a loud sound approaching, then it shook a bit before the sound slowly disappeared again, describes Aalandslid.

– It was fun. It is so safe here that I didn’t feel afraid, she says.

Aalandslid says that she received Snapchat messages from several others who had noticed the quake, and that her colleagues at work had also noticed it.

– It is a bit special when it is so powerful, and that it happens so far into the country, she says.