Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Earthquake Last Night

I was sitting at the Eagles meeting last night with my friends Ferdie and Sonny. Without any warning, I felt all wobbly, like a prodrome of passing out. Involuntarily, I was slowly lurching forwards and backwards, and the table below my elbows felt very unsteady to me. Then at about the same time I noticed the Christmas Tree in front of me was swaying as well, Sonny said, "Hey! An Earthquake." Then it stopped.

Coming from New York, I haven't experienced many earthquakes. One other one actually, while in college: There are fault lines in New York State. That one felt more like a large truck driving over speedbumps in front of my house... like a rumble that lasted for about 2 seconds. This one, as described, was completely different, a very gentle swaying, like being afloat.

Anyway, no damage or anything according to the press release.

1 comment:

Mike said...

HI jil acually there was 3 earth quakes within 18 hrs of each other rangeing 4.6 to 5.6 with epicenters about 26 miles apart. the closest one to you was about 50 miles and the furthest was about 75miles. i have google earth and thats one of the cool features on it.