I slept through it.
I remember one centered in Virginia few years ago. It was in the afternoon and I was at work. There was a rumbling, and I noticed the water in the bottle on my desk was sloshing around.
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Aftershocks are not immediate.
USGS guy explains here
Congrats, all! :cool:
BTW, the first earthquake I ever experienced was while I was still living right outside of Boston, it was centered in southern Maine.
No place is completely immune.
Weren't there also 2 small quakes in Sonoma county?
One of my neighbors posted a photo of the devastation wrought by our horrible quake:
I was offsite at a work meeting and the chair of the committee was from LA. He started the day saying something about as a new transplant to California (I think he was at Hopkins before there) he enjoyed that he got to be here to experience our big earthquake. He said he had heard there were rampant stories of crooked pictures. :)
I had woken up just before THE SHAKE; heard something, felt maybe 5 seconds of shaking, wondered if it was an earthquake, and then fell back asleep until it was time to get up to swim. I couldn't even find anything out of place in the house.
My first earthquake ;)