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♪ I feel the earth move under my feet ♫
Aug. 7th, 2013 02:02 pmI've been informed after the fact about earthquakes before. I've slept through them, and had people scratching their heads about how I failed to notice that the freaking land was unstable.
Today, in the office, I noticed, all right.
The movement felt like it was parallel to my desk, pushing side-to-side, and seemed to last somewhere between five and fifteen seconds (you don't realize it'd make sense to time these things until they're already in progress); it sort of sneaked up on us, so by the time my brain processed the thought "hey, the building's swaying", it had started to subside.
Other members of the office have been through earthquakes before, and were talking about how this particular temblor seemed to lack a vertical aspect to its motion. The closest analogue I can come up with is that the instability of the ground felt like being on a boat, which I've experienced quite a bit this summer (I've taken three trips out to the islands this year, and have tickets for a fourth), or perhaps an airplane flying through turbulence.
When I put "earthquake safety" into Google, somehow the search engine drew a parallel between the search and current events, and popped up an information card stating that the earthquake was near Lamia, northwest of Athens and northeast of Patras.
Hopefully there won't be aftershocks. Hopefully this wasn't a pre-shock.
Today, in the office, I noticed, all right.
The movement felt like it was parallel to my desk, pushing side-to-side, and seemed to last somewhere between five and fifteen seconds (you don't realize it'd make sense to time these things until they're already in progress); it sort of sneaked up on us, so by the time my brain processed the thought "hey, the building's swaying", it had started to subside.
Other members of the office have been through earthquakes before, and were talking about how this particular temblor seemed to lack a vertical aspect to its motion. The closest analogue I can come up with is that the instability of the ground felt like being on a boat, which I've experienced quite a bit this summer (I've taken three trips out to the islands this year, and have tickets for a fourth), or perhaps an airplane flying through turbulence.
When I put "earthquake safety" into Google, somehow the search engine drew a parallel between the search and current events, and popped up an information card stating that the earthquake was near Lamia, northwest of Athens and northeast of Patras.
Hopefully there won't be aftershocks. Hopefully this wasn't a pre-shock.
