earthquake!
Holy shit. I was gonna sleep in this morning but Planet Earth had other ideas. A magnitude 7.0 quake centered pretty much on my goddamn apartment woke me up some minutes before 9am. The room started shaking violently, to the point where I leapt from my bedding and dove for the doorframe. The shaking continued for about 30 seconds.
During the quake, several pieces of furniture pretty much moved away from the wall on their own. Two mugs fell from the shelves and shattered on the floor, my 50 pound CRT walked itself about a foot across my desk, the microwave nearly fell from the top of the refrigerator, and my motorcycle, which was on its stand, completely fell over.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Holy Shite! The apocalypse is here!! Gotterdamerung Kita yo~
June 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I wondered how close it was to you. YIKES!!!!
June 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Well, according to the earthquake map, it was a 6.8 and it WAS centered on your apartment! It appears you have had numerous aftershocks, too. Another sign it's time for you to leave! Was there any damage in your town?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
June 15th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Jeff. The earthquake is the lead story right now on http://www.cnn.com. Glad you weren't hurt. Ken
June 15th, 2008 at 12:27 am
The doorframe! Good thing we had all those earthquake drills in elementary school. Glad to hear you're ok.