Earthquake
Jul. 16th, 2010 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astra_nomerFirst, we get record snowstorms in February, and now we get hit with the biggest earthquake since 1974! A whopping 3.6, which will certainly make anyone from California laugh mockingly.
I got woken up just after 5am by the deep, low rumbling, then felt the room shaking and heard objects on shelves and windowsills rattling. The shaking passed after several seconds, but I could still hear the rumbling fading off into the distance.
DH was already up and sitting in front of the computer downstairs. Apparently he hadn't felt any of the shaking down there.
The epicenter was only about 15 miles away.
I went back to sleep soon after. The kids never stirred, and I'm not sure they even really believed me when I told them there had been an earthquake.
But hey, this one wasn't nearly so bad as the one I experienced in Chile in 2000, which was 4.6 and happened in the dead of night and I was sleeping on the 15th floor of a high rise and entire building shook and I thought I was going to die. Having been raised in the Midwest, I'm happy to let the atmosphere do whatever it likes, but the Ground. Never. Moves.
I got woken up just after 5am by the deep, low rumbling, then felt the room shaking and heard objects on shelves and windowsills rattling. The shaking passed after several seconds, but I could still hear the rumbling fading off into the distance.
DH was already up and sitting in front of the computer downstairs. Apparently he hadn't felt any of the shaking down there.
The epicenter was only about 15 miles away.
I went back to sleep soon after. The kids never stirred, and I'm not sure they even really believed me when I told them there had been an earthquake.
But hey, this one wasn't nearly so bad as the one I experienced in Chile in 2000, which was 4.6 and happened in the dead of night and I was sleeping on the 15th floor of a high rise and entire building shook and I thought I was going to die. Having been raised in the Midwest, I'm happy to let the atmosphere do whatever it likes, but the Ground. Never. Moves.
