Well, today we had a phenomonon that I've never experience before. An earthquake hit about 128 miles from here. It was so incredibly cool! I'd always heard about earthquakes, but they aren't something you truly know about until you've experience it. And I was awake during the whole thing.
It all happened at about 4:30 in the morning. WHF and I had fallen asleep on the couch and we woke up around 4:00 am and went to bed. (I still had to get ready...brush my teeth, take out my contacts, so I was up for a little longer than he was.) I had just about drifted to sleep when all the sudden I heard a rattling going on with my windows in my bedroom.
I said to WHF, what the hell is going on...looked outside and there wasn't a tree limb in sight moving. It was then that I realized that we were experiencing an earthquake! WHF asked me what we were supposed to do and I said...I don't know...get under our desks?! (As we'd learned in school. lol! ) So, I just got back in bed and then all the sudden I started feeling my bed rolling around. Yep...this was definitely an earthquake.
We've only felt one tremor since so far, but I can only assume we'll feel at least a couple more. I'm just facinated by all this though b/c I remember learning about it in geology and now, I'd finally gotten to experience it. And it's really not so bad. (Please, don't let a bigger one come! lol! ) It's cool though that I can put to use some of the knowledge I'd gained out of a stupid class I had to take for my prerequisites. Let's just hope this earthquake didn't loosen any other faults close to here!
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