The ants may have come out of the ground to escape being smothered by collapsed tunnels. Before the great eruption of Mt. Pelee on the Island of Martinique in 1902, foot long biting centipedes and poisonous snakes descended on the cities and towns near the volcano causing a number of deaths.
Fascinating.
My father lives on the 17th floor of a building near Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and he was still in bed at the time the quake struck. It was about 6:40 a.m., and the bed was shaking so hard that he thought it was his dog, Cookie, just playing around (which she does often in the mornings to wake him up.) But then he opened his eyes and saw that Cookie was still in her little bed on the floor, sleeping. My Dad got up and saw stuff falling off his drawer set. He said that the building was swaying.
However, my grandmother (who is 97 years old) lives on the 19th floor of the same building and said she didn’t feel a thing.
The building is about 1/4 of a mile from the Atlantic Ocean, so if there’s ever a huge earthquake in that area that would cause the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate to brush against each other, that would cause a massive tsunami because of all the water within the Puerto Rico Trench that would amass and would have nowhere to go.
SCARY...