temblorrrrrrrr (july 6, 2009)

I survived my first earthquake today (july 6, 2009). It registered a 5.4 on the Richter scale. Not sure where the epicenter was (since july 6 i have learned it was in the Atlantic coast region). I was in Spanish class and my rocking chair began to rock from side to side instead of front to back. I kept searching the ground looking for answers, thinking something was stuck under my chair, or that Casey’s chair was bumping mine. Never did it occur to me that it might be seismic activity. Then my Spanish teacher says “¡Había un temblor!” so then I knew, but if she hadn’t said anything I’d still be ignorant as to what was shaking my chair. Us New Yorkers don’t get much of that earthquake action. Nothing even fell off a shelf. I’d like to say I’m a tad disappointed, but if guess I had to be part of it, that is about the extent of an earthquake I care to experience.