A whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I woke up early this morning and the bed was shaking. I thought that maybe Pepper was taking a very vigorous bath (hee), but she wasn't even on the bed. And Mr. G was laying there like a log. I figured I must still be dreaming, so I went back to sleep. And then 20 minutes later we woke up to the news that we'd had a moderate (5.2-magnitude) earthquake!
When I was living in Peru, I remember waking up in the middle of the night and going out to the dining room, where all the plates were shaking and the room was tilting side to side. I have no idea what the magnitude was, but it was pretty scary for a little kid. I know that there were other earthquakes during the years we lived there, but that's the one I remember.
You'd think that, having experienced a terremoto before, I would have recognized what the bed-shaking meant. But we just don't get earthquakes around here! And I thought animals were supposed to warn you about this kind of thing ... Pepper, you failed!
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i heard that the quake was felt through several states.
Yes, the epicenter was in southeastern Illinois, and I've heard it was felt as far north as Chicago and as far south as Georgia. My friends in northern Indiana and in Kentucky all felt it.
I have no idea where Pepper was or what she was doing. I just looked down at the end of the bed where she usually is, and she was gone. I wish I knew whether it affected her at all! She certainly wasn't acting any differently last night ...
Hee, I agree that it was very exciting! But it cracked me up how the morning news shows were all preempted for special quake coverage ... most of which consisted of people calling or e-mailing to say "I felt it!" or "I didn't feel it!" This quake, along with the "UFO" sighting in Kokomo a couple of days ago, is really giving the news outlets a workout. :)
Oh, and now we know for the next time: Don't rely on the animals.