Experienced three earthquakes. 1989, 1994 and 2003. The last one was the worst and the deadliest, around 6.9 on Richter scala, and I wasn't in a building made following Japanese standards. It razed the neighbourhood I grew up in to the ground, killing a lot of friends and people I knew.
It's by far the most humbling and most terrifying thing I've ever experienced in my life. I literally tasted fear in its most primal sense. What people will never understand is the hellish racket, that's something words fail to describe, a literal outcry coming from the depths of the Earth. Combined with your whole surroundings shaking and breaking down like there's no tomorrow, it truly makes you feel how insignificant and powerless you are when nature decides to have a tantrum.
Given that the magnitude of an earthquake is exponential, I can't even begin to imagine what a 7.6 earthquake feels like.