vibration

“The vibration from San Francisco goes up to the steppes of Kazakhstan,” said Sanzhar, who is staying at a hotel in the Nob Hill neighborhood.

The vibrations in such shaking may feel like a truck has passed by.

"When other fish get caught in those nets they sort of flail and it sends out a vibration underwater, sort of like ringing the dinner bell," says Prof Pepin-Neff.

I perceive vibration through my body first — literally through skin, bone, breath, pressure — and that completely shifts how I engage with instruments.

He and McNamara have changed up nearly everything in this disaster except its vibrations of dread.