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[fightingthecage]

My whole front room just shook. Bad enough for the computer to visibly wobble. And there were weird noises from downstairs.

What. The fuck.

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[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

It was really odd. My first thought was, 'wow, that feels like an earthquake,' and then I reminded myself that they rarely happen in this country so it couldn't have been. And then I failed to come up with anything else that could feasibly have caused it so I was sitting there in a big 'ol state of wtf.

It's quite a relief to find out what it was, actually.

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered what one of those is actually like. The one that happened near us was TINY. I think I heard on the news not many people in the place it happened even realized what it was. I think it woke us up because even shifts that minor are just SO rare around here, there's some part of the ol' body/brain that can tell when things ain't right. Me, I seem to be sensitive to stuff like that -- I can feel when a weather front causes the barometric pressure to shift, and I'd know it was a full or new moon if I'd been kept in a basement without a clock or a window for a month.

Related: Have you ever read "Job" by Robert Heinlein? There are descriptions of earthquakes in there that are the best I've ever gotten to what it's like to actually be in one.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

It must have been pretty small where I was. It was 5.3 on the scale but the epicentre was a couple of hundred miles away from me. I presume they get smaller the further away you are from the centre - it was still enough to make the floor shake and the computer wobble on its (very sturdy) table. Was a very odd feeling.

Never read it! Sounds prety good. I've always wondered what it would feel like to be in a huge one - though I imagine you'd really just be fairly terrified and dodging falling buildings and whatnot, so p'raps not.