How Cool!

[deird_lj]

We just had our very own earthquake!

Apparently measured 4.7 on the Richter scale - which might be mini to you overseas living-on-a-faultline-people (or might not, I have no idea), but out here, it's pretty exciting.

I was babysitting Caleb at the time, and the stovepipe for my sister's fireplace was rattling incredibly loudly. And the couch was shaking.
I started mentally calculating how long it would take me to run into Caleb's room, grab him out of bed, sprint to the back door, and dive for cover before the house collapsed... and then the earthquake settled down.

So, no death-defying leaps from collapsing buildings today.

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[draconin.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're ok - I've only once been in an earthquake; the Meckering earthquake of 1968 (I was pretty young but old enough to remember being terrified). That was 6.9 strength and, even 50km away where I lived, was enough that we had huge cracks in the walls and kitchen cabinets falling over. It apparently only lasted for 40 seconds but it felt like forever!