Cool! Earthquake! …That is exceptionally rare around here.
Big relief too, as for a moment I thought that something in the air conditioning and/or venting system in my house was SERIOUSLY malfunctioning. Truly, if the vibrations are causing the couch to actually bounce up and down off the ground, you need one heck of a repair job.
Nope. Just the Earth moving. Much cheaper.
Tags: earthquake, natural disasters that aren't actually disasterous which is good because we haven't paid off our mortgage yet, the doors on one of our bookcases were shaking for minutes afterward - just the one set (this had me totally confused)
Supposedly it was felt all the way over here in Michigan. My dad felt it- And I was in the same (big) building as him, and had no clue. WTF!? I missed what could quite possibly be my only chance to feel an earthquake. I feel deprived.
No earth-shaking in Minnesota. I’m a little disappointed. I’ve never felt an earthquake. I’d probably be scared out of my mind, all after the fact, once I had time to imagine all the horrible things that could have happened.
I’m glad it wasn’t your house falling apart. Insurance only goes so far.
At first I thought it was a large truck. Then I briefly considered getting out of my chair and sitting under a doorway or something. Then I realized I was too lazy to get up so I just kept working.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard – I thought it was a weird joke!! Everyone ok?
I’m thinking that moving across the room to stand right under one’s tallest and heaviest piece of furniture is probably not what they teach people to do in earthquake school, but that’s exactly what I did. Up off the couch to go be perplexed in front of our giant bookcases with the doors that wouldn’t stop shaking. Part of me thought “earthquake,” but the other parts thought maybe I was completely cracked for thinking that.
Clearly inquisitive people were not meant to survive long.
SuzRocks – That sucks! I would be so bitter! Tsunamis and hurricanes and stuff I’ll pass on, but a little earthquake is kind of cool. My husband was in his office building when it hit, and he said nothing shook – everything just sort of swayed for a while. Were you singing sea shanties at the time? That might explain it.
Zannah – It was a little scary until I realized that nothing was going to collapse and/or shatter, and/or fall on me. Then it was just totally exciting. Very surreal.
notquiteawake – I thought it was just a really bad gust of wind at first, battering against my closed windows. And then the wind started blowing my furniture. And that was odd.
Natalie – I don’t blame you. As mentioned, I was here experiencing it and I didn’t believe it either.
I need to make a bucket list so I can put that on it and cross it off.
I had friends visiting Toronto at the time and Facebooked them all like “what was the earthquake like??”.
They didn’t even feel it because they were driving.
*snore*
I wondered briefly whether people in cars would still feel it. …Or possibly all simuntaneously think their cars were breaking down.
I wondered if you felt it up there–I think it was stronger in your direction. Lots of people here in upstate NY felt it, but I was oblivious…