On Wednesday we both experienced our first earthquake. It was about 8pm and I had just arrived home from work when our building started to sway. Everything was peaceful as usual, and the world was going along outside as usual – cars driving along the roads and buildings lit up. There was no rattling of glasses or anything remotely dramatic. But our building did noticeably sway for 5 – 10 seconds – which was very disconcerting… almost like we lost our balance.
We decided to climb out onto the roof – which to be honest I don’t know was the finest idea, but it was quite fun sitting up there looking at the world go by. There was no more swaying and after some time we got bored and went in to have our diner.
Apparently the epicentre was about 35miles from where we live, and was somewhere between 3 and 4 on the Richter scale.
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