Earthquake!

[Akasa]

Mother Nature rudely awakened me shaking me, then when that didn't work she made a loud BOOM. There were a few minutes of "WTF was THAT?!"
Then I realized it was an Earthquake. I also realized it was over, so I went back to sleep.

On a funny note the news anchors are calling it "The Shamrock Shake."

[Automan Empire]

Welcome to Los Angeles!

I still remember the Sylmar quake in 1971, my first; I was 4. 30 miles away it shook me awake and I still remember the dull dong-thud of a butter cookie tin falling from a top shelf. My Grandparents were near the epicenter and their house was literally falling apart around them.

Now you have your own earthquake story.

[Sheldonrs]

It just made my pictures tap the walls.
I would slept through the Northridge Quake
If my roommates at the time hadn't banged on
My door yelling my name. I woke up to all my books falling off
The shelves.

[prjkt]

There've been multiple small earthquakes around Melbourne the last 5-10 years. Haven't felt a single one?!(have I been sleeping?) Has lead to sites like this popping up.

[lordlundar]

A quake! A quake!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Chromatix]

I've felt the ground shake numerous times in Helsinki. Invariably, though, it's been due to tunnelling operations - the ground is ancient and geologically stable granite, so they have to blast it with dynamite.

[Greenday]

Slept through an earthquake when I was a kid visiting my aunt in California. Woke up that morning and my aunt asked me what I thought of the earthquake. "What earthquake?"

Two in Afghanistan. First one I was up on my laptop during the night when everything became blurry. I wasn't sure what happened but the next day someone mentioned it was an earthquake. I think it was a 5.0 Second one I was up in the lab working when all the equipment started shaking. 5.5 for that one.

Never felt like a big deal.

[cindybubbles]

I remember the room shaking when I slept. It was a little shaking, nothing more.

[TheSHAD0W]

In case anyone missed it, here's a video of the KTLA newscasters freaking out when the quake happens.

[MoonCat]

We've had them here, actually. Turns out this area sits on a large fault line. Yippee. First time, we had a parakeet who freaked out in the middle of the night (the cats slept through it). We found out that was the time the quake happened; it was a small one.

The next time, I was home sick from work and my sister and I were listening to a guy on the radio talk about - get this - what would you save in the event of a disaster? There was a loud rumble and a distinct shaking. Even though it was nothing compared to a California quake, I hated it (the cats slept through it).

There've been a couple other ones, very mild. The cats sleep through all of them

[Food Lady]

Mooncat, your cats are I grew up in So cal, so I'm very familiar with quakes. I miss them, actually. They're much more fun than tornadoes.

[Shpepper]

I miss them too. And remember living in California now, the earthquake has not officially occurred until you have called at least 5 people to discuss it.

[Mikkel]

When we had a Richter 4.7 here in Copenhagen, my cats panicked. The only reason why I woke up, was that both cats tried to hide under me .

[XCashier]

Slept through an earthquake when I was a kid visiting my aunt in California. Woke up that morning and my aunt asked me what I thought of the earthquake. "What earthquake?"

I did the same thing! Visited a great-aunt in Carmel when I was young, slept through a minor earthquake (knocked a few things off the shelves, that's about it.) Mind you, I was sleeping in the converted garage, so the concrete foundation may have dulled the impact a bit.

[MoonCat]

Heh, my mom slept through them too. She also slept through the infamous propane explosion (I wrote about that last Dec.) which occurred 5 miles away but sounded like a freakin' bomb going off. That woman slept through all kinds of crazy stuff