I feel like I can relate to Avi just a little better now.

[The Dope]

I was just woken up from my nap by an earthquake.

 

[minxnim]

wtf?

 

[avi]

fun!

 

[The Dope]

All I know was my bed was shaking any my roommate was yelling at me. It was like, "Ben! Are you feeling this? My chair is moving and the fridge is shaking, what the hell is going on??!"

My response: "What the fuck, I'm asleep!"

 

[azal]

maybe it was a fat couple above your room having stinkhole sex.

 

[The Dope]

Yeah, the funny thing is that my roommate thought for a second that it was the room below us playing some massively bass-heavy music or something. But no, it turns out it was a 100+ mile radius earthquake.

 

[minxnim]

wow scary!

 

[The Dope]

I'm kind of disappointed by the fact that nothing, and I really mean NOTHING fell over - not even my toothbrush, which is prone to falling off of the shelf I keep it on at the drop of a hat.

 

[minxnim]

maybe there's a huge gaping crack in the earth somewhere nearby that you just haven't seen / fallen into yet

 

[xfer]

dude watch out for chthonians. sayin'.

 

[avi]

what was teh magnitude?

 

[The Dope]

I guess there's a fault line along the James River or something. There was an earthquake nearby during the summer too, but I didn't feel it at my house (100 miles west of Richmond), so I'm guessing it was a lot smaller.

Funny thing is, I was joking around with my out-of-state friends that the only thing we were missing this semester was an earthquake, considering we had a hurricane and a tornado within a week of each other. I figured since there just was one, we wouldn't likely have one anytime soon.

I was wrong I guess.

 

[The Dope]

Magnitude = 4.5

 

[avi]

not bad at all

 

[The Dope]

Apparently it was felt all the way from NC to Delaware. Largest earthquake in the state since 1897. Too bad I slept through most of it.