a quake!

[jazzfish]

Well that was exciting.

My first thought was the (small child? large dog?) upstairs being especially stompy. Felt like it was hitting the whole apartment, though. It kept going and thought "Oh. This must be an earthquake." Mr Tuppert jumped off the chair and ran, stopping in mid-run to look back at me kind of freaked out. I was about to get up and ... I dunno, stand in a doorway? Leave the building? when it stopped.

First earthquake I've ever been through. Looks like it was northwest of me, "22 km north of Sechelt", 5.1 Richter.

Neat but not something I really feel compelled to repeat.

Comments

[jessie_c]

Welcome to the Left Coast experience!
I was about to get up and ... I dunno, stand in a doorway? Leave the building? when it stopped.
That's exactly the same as I was doing.

[jazzfish]

Heh. Glad my instincts were decent!

[reedrover]

Yay! You are a real resident of the offside of the ring of fire now!

[jazzfish]

Bit startled that it's taken me fourteen years, but I'll take it.

[queenoftheskies]

Was it a very big earthquake?

[jessie_c]

Richter 5.1, Where I am it felt a bit like a very heavy truck driving past combined with a bit of rocking like a boat. It lasted about 5 or 10 seconds.

[jazzfish]

Here it felt more significant than just a truck driving by, but not a lot more. Enough to be noticeable, to me anyway, as a quake, not enough to knock anything over.