Second Earthquake
So, just a few days ago Eric asked if we have felt another earthquake after that first one. Well, now, the answer is yes! Today, right after we got home from work and were sitting around checking our email and whatnot the earth started to shake.
This one was a magnitude of 3.7 at the epicenter and was much closer than last time. It is such a strange feeling to have the earth just start shaking with the walls making a little bit of noise.
I do kind of wonder when, if ever, this will get old. Or, will we leave in a few years with a half dozen posts about all the different minor (hopefully) earthquakes that we have felt.
I’ve felt several earthquakes in Japan and was never really impressed by them. Then again I’ve been through at least three earthquakes in Seattle, one of them strong enough to actually be a little bit scary.
I’m guessing they don’t have earthquakes in the midwest?
Nope. The midwest is pretty much void of earthquakes. Not impossible, but extraordinarily unlikely. In all my years of living there I never felt one.
That being said, this earthquake was not terribly noteworthy. But coming from a place that doesn’t have them at all, it is sort of interesting, if not a little off-putting when the earth starts to move. It’s just one of those things that seems like it isn’t supposed to happen.