"A Quake! A Quake! The House Begins to Shake..."

Today I felt my first earthquake!  It was crazy.  I heard it before I felt it.  I was washing my hands in the bathroom at work, when I heard a noise.  Then I felt the shaking.  At first I thought maybe it was a big truck that hit the building or something.  I didn't think about it being an earthquake until I came out of the bathroom and the ground started shaking some more. I walked toward my office while the ground was still shaking and all of my co-workers congregated in the hallway. It's funny because none of us ran to a doorway or ran outside, we just all went to the hallway and started talking about it. (I guess the only thing is that my co-workers who worked upstairs ran downstairs when it started.)  It didn't last for very long but it was undoubtedly an earthquake.

I went outside a minute or two after it happened to bring something to the recycling bin and all of the other people who worked in our building were outside.  They excitedly talked to me about how they all ran outside as it was happening and they asked us what we did when it happened.  It was all pretty funny in my book. Oh and the richter scale said it was a 5.9 earthquake, which is pretty big for this area.

Well I think that's all for now.  I am tired and need to go to sleep.  Good night.

P.S. Peter and Mika and family and Matt and Karey and family are all fine.  Pete works on the 17th story of a high-rise building and he really felt it.  Matt works on the 5th floor of a building and felt it too.  Mika and Karey both felt it and were at their homes when it happened and all are doing fine.