Bastet
05-12-2004, 12:29 PM
Last night at 3 o'clock in the morning our time (about 2 yours) my dad, me, and the dogs were woken up by an earthquake!! :shock: Tamino went bonkers barking and shivering, Penny was better as shes been in earthquakes before.
It was scary, they measured it in Zurich as being a 5.4 on the richter scale :shock: I've been in badish quakes before, from living every summer in Greece for 7 years, but this was one of the worst I've felt EVER. The house shook so hard it made my lava lamp fall over and break :( Our house is very squarely built! So when it shook so hard the windows started rattling and dishes and glasses fell over I started getting alarmed (as did my dad :lol: ).
Strange though, as we aren't near any faults or edges of any tectonic plates. :| I thought (in my sleepridden stupor) that it was coming from the Mediterrian and nearly had a panic attack thinking of my mum and sister who are in Greece now :roll: Almost called them, which would not have gone down well with them. But as it turns out, the epicenter was by Baden-Baden, in Germany, somewhere in the Black Forest :shock: Very wierd
So........ from Kate, who is happy to be alive and still posting :shock: It made me realise how much I love you guys :lol:
It was scary, they measured it in Zurich as being a 5.4 on the richter scale :shock: I've been in badish quakes before, from living every summer in Greece for 7 years, but this was one of the worst I've felt EVER. The house shook so hard it made my lava lamp fall over and break :( Our house is very squarely built! So when it shook so hard the windows started rattling and dishes and glasses fell over I started getting alarmed (as did my dad :lol: ).
Strange though, as we aren't near any faults or edges of any tectonic plates. :| I thought (in my sleepridden stupor) that it was coming from the Mediterrian and nearly had a panic attack thinking of my mum and sister who are in Greece now :roll: Almost called them, which would not have gone down well with them. But as it turns out, the epicenter was by Baden-Baden, in Germany, somewhere in the Black Forest :shock: Very wierd
So........ from Kate, who is happy to be alive and still posting :shock: It made me realise how much I love you guys :lol: