After spending a very tranquil Thanksgiving with FM and FG, I curled up to my book club novel “The Red Tent” at about 9:45 p.m. FG had just gone to bed and FM was in the living room going through old files. About 5 minutes later, the bed started shaking. At first, it reminded me of when Bennett would lean up against the bed and, with all 100 lbs of him, it would give the bed a good shaking. I could see Sport across the room curled up on his dog bed and Maya was in her crate for the night. That’s when it hit me ~ an earthquake!
As I made my way down the hallway to see if FM felt it, FG came out of her room. Her bed is elevated on stilts (you know, the IKEA special) so her bed really shook. FM, who was sitting on the floor, felt nothing. And so much for dogs have the sixth sense to predict an upcoming earthquake ~ both dogs were sound asleep.
FG was quite shaken (pun intended) and ended up sleeping with me that night. The local paper reported the magnitude of the quake was 4.6 and located 35 miles southeast of Guam’s capital, Hagåtña. After hearing about the earthquake on the Big Island in Hawaii the day before, it seems the Pacific Rim is a rockin’ place these days! Rocking in the New Year may have a whole different meaning for us this year…
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Cool! I’m with Angie–I’d like to feel one, but just a little one. There was an earthquake in Indiana when I was a kid, a truly rare occurrence. But of course, I was in Florida at the time! Not surprised about the dogs though. When we had our tornadoes in Tennessee, my dogs were snoring while I was stressing over which room to hide in!
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Wow…we just had one last week up in the mountains in Colorado. I think they said it was 3.3. I didn’t feel it but I’ve always sorta wanted to see what it feels like without being in danger. I know, I’m strange. Tornados, however, scare me to death! Especially when I don’t live in a house with a basement.
Glad everything turned out ok for you guys.
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Oh my – I would be TERRIFIED even if I were involved in only a little tremor. That is one good thing about Kiev… I may be getting radiation exposure, but no earthquakes! Thank goodness that you are all okay and that it was just a “good vibration…”
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