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ailbheMy feet knew it was an earthquake but my mind tried to talk me out of it. It was the most peculiar feeling. Only the front of our house shook - buzzed - and the shaking stopped halfway along the length of my bed. My feet fizzled with the vibration and my hips didn't. Afterwards I heard the bookshelves and wall resettling with a plinking sound.
When I came back from asking Rob if he thought it was a quake, it was 12:59 by the radio alarm clock. Rob was in the spare room at the back of the house and hadn't noticed a thing.
The strangest thing was that the only noise was the noise of the house; there was no noise of, say, a large lorry trundling down the road.
When I came back from asking Rob if he thought it was a quake, it was 12:59 by the radio alarm clock. Rob was in the spare room at the back of the house and hadn't noticed a thing.
The strangest thing was that the only noise was the noise of the house; there was no noise of, say, a large lorry trundling down the road.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-27 07:30 am (UTC)Was it scary at all? Or just weird?
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:48 am (UTC)I was quite happy with the quake idea; there aren't serious quakes here so a quake isn't scary. I did spend a little time, after I was fairly sure it was a quake, working out how to get both kids under the dining table if it happened again, but it didn't, so they slept through it.
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-27 10:41 am (UTC)Then I realised Glitz was awake too and one of us said "Earthquake!" and we both went, "Wow!" and then we went back to sleep.
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Date: 2008-02-27 12:42 pm (UTC)I experienced it as a noise, but I suspect that was because I was asleep and by the time I was properly awake my brain had rationalised it that way. I wasn't sure if it was a real noise or a dreamed one until Rob said he'd heard it too.
We're a fair way from the epicentre too, so we didn't get it as strongly.
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Date: 2008-02-27 03:25 pm (UTC)