Apparently I lived through an earthquake this morning. Hmm, guess I can strike that off my bucket list and proudly call myself a quake survivor! (insert sarcasm) :p
So what do we know of this, other than for Mother Earth telling us to quit playing with her home? It hit at 5.04am eastern time with a magnitude (what happened to using the Richter scale for seismic measurements?) of 3.6 and the epicenter was in Germantown about 10miles from where I live.
Right now we can divide folks into two categories: 1. Those that felt the quake and 2. Those that slept right through it (and judging from what i've read, most fall into this category, LOL*)
Me? Need you ask? Hell yea I felt it BUT rather than thinking it was an earthquake I actually thot is was the effects of my nite out and only getting to bed at 3am. Oops!
OK so i promptly went back to sleep and as i always do these days upon waking up I check twitter (judge me not) and lo and behold it was not the 100 little men doing the hangover jig in my head, IT WAS AN EARTHQUAKE!
I got a kick out of some of the tweets on #dcquake and i share some with u....
- The DC earthquake wouldn't have happened if my NASA friends didn't punch rockets through atmosphere. Like BPspill in reverse.
- So, the women of DC aren't scantily-clad enough for a Big One? Come on, ladies, kick it up a notch! Let's get to at LEAST 4.5
- West End Bistro offers Aftershock Cocktail, $3.60 in honor of magnitude. Californians have to be laughing at us weak Washingtonians
- Earthquakes are actually a lot like politics - great reminders that there's really no such thing as solid ground.
- Between the earthquake and the hot weather, today is "Quake and Bake" day in Maryland.
- Wait, that was an earthquake this morning? I thought it was just a car with some awesome bass driving down the street
- In fact that quake in Gaithersburg wasn't even an earthquake. It was more like an earthfart.
- Apologies for the earthquake this morning. Wife and I will try to tone it down a bit next time
- Two ex-boyfriends texted me after DC earthquake, asking who I was with and what I was doing
- Hey DC, Haiti and Chile just called, told you to shut the fuck about this tiny Earthquake & to send aid to them.
In summary, 2010 in Washington DC has given: Record snow fall. Record heat wave. Today's first quake since 1935. What's next? A Hurricane?? Bring It On baybeh :))
