oh shit i brought them home with me

[mousapelli]

Mousapelli um
my apartment is....shaking
Kira erm
M like.......there's no way we are having an earthquake
K O_o
M what the
u
Kira O_o you ok??
Mousapelli yes? i mean, it wasn't like crazy, just my couch was sort of going back and forth
and then i looked up and the plants outside were doing it too? it felt like the 3 i felt at rachels
but we don't have earthquakes here

So, we just had an earthquake. We don't, um, have those in the PA like, ever, so when my couch started swaying back and forth, I only knew what it was because it felt exactly like one of the ones I felt in Japan this summer.

I have CNN on so I know the epicenter was in Virginia and stuff. I didn't even know where to look up if we had actually just had one.

I'm okay, really here it was like a 3 and things just swayed for about a minute so there isn't any damage or whatever. But I'm kind of shaken up because we never have earthquakes here at all, so. scary ;_____;

Comments

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

I felt it too! I'm in upstate NY and had no idea what was going on. I was actually sleeping and woke up to that annoying "gonna fall off!" sense. Turned out my bed swaying. O_o A little unnerving, to say the least.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I had been in one before so that I knew what it was right away, because that was scary enough much less if I hadn't had any idea what was going on.

[mbdancer8o8.livejournal.com]

Awwww.... Glad you're okay though!

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

thanks.

[coriolis]

You go here: http://www.usgs.gov/ :)

/geologist

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

lol, thanks. I ended up googling.

I guess i could bookmark that, but since this happens about once every hundred years...

[aliquot.livejournal.com]

I felt it here in NJ, too

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

ugh, not cool.

[kittiec.livejournal.com]

I know! I work in VA. We felt the building shake. Scary!

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

I noticed nothing, but then I never did in CA either. Glad you're okay!

[elij-0650.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the rock and roll, peoples.
It's so normal here I don't even think about it.
Granted, after the Christchurch quakes we were more conscious of safe points to run to and my emergency kit is fully stocked for the first time ever, but it's just another way to experience the joys of tectonic plates shifting.