earthquake

[cellio]

This afternoon I was in a meeting when someone else said the room was shaking. I hadn't noticed but did after she pointed it out. I figured it was a large truck rumbling by outside; she said it felt like an earthquake ("but smaller", I said). Who knew that a magnitude-5.0 earthquake on the border of Ontario and Quebec could be felt in Pittsburgh?

The coworker, it turns out, used to live practically on top of the San Andreas fault and is sensitized.

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[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The earthquake led to the evacuation of the building that houses our pediatrician's office, but neither of us felt it.

[cellio]

That surprises me, but I guess in the moment you don't know whether it's a 4.0 right under you, a 5.0 a couple hundred miles away, or an 8.0 farther out but the impending shock wave is going to be a doozy.