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Had the biggest earthquake I have ever been in today. It wasn't really so violent, but it lasted long enough for everyone in the office to

1. Stop and stare at each other for 10 seconds.


2. Ask the obvious "Do you feel that?"


3. Stare at each other longer.


4. I ask "So what should we do?"


5. Someone replies "We should go to the bathroom."


6. I say "How about outside?"


7. Everyone agrees it's a good idea.


8. Stop to make sure the building is still shaking.


9. Half the people slowly walk outside.


10. I make it to the steps when I realize I have forgotten my camera in the office. (don't want to miss out on all the death and destruction)


11. I run back inside to get the camera


12. Stop to chat with some of the people who stayed inside.


13. By now it was stopping or stopped. (one interesting thing I find is that after the earthquake, I still feel like the building is swaying for quite some time. -like when you get off a boat on to dry land. The only way to be sure is to look at objects hanging in the room to see if they are moving or not)

I wish I would have just gone outside. While inside we could feel some small swaying, those who made it outside reported that the telephone poles were causing quite a spectacle.

The first thing I did, once we were all out of danger, was to check mfop logs to see if there was a spike, indicating that the promise of faster than now reporting via mobile blogging devices was living up to it's promise. Nope. The first moblog came about an hour later. I have yet to see if it is related to the quake or not.

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