Minor Earthquakes felt in Alabama on Tuesday and Wednesday

[BirminghamExaminer]

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1172-Birmingham-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Minor-Earthquakes-felt-in-Alabama-on-Tuesday-and-Wednesday">Excerpt:

You may be asking yourself why a politics writer is writing about earthquakes. I don't normally deviate from issues that are political but the truth is that the earth rarely shakes in Alabama and so when it does, we Alabamians find it to be exciting.

Besides that, I happened to be awake when the quake took place at 5:25 A.M. yesterday morning, a time when most people are at least 30 minutes from the alarm clock waking them for the day.

I was sitting right here where I am now, in front of my computer screen, researching and writing when the earthquake made itself known. Suddenly my office chair moved (with me in it). For just a moment it seemed that the room was moving around me. The movement only lasted 5 seconds or less. It was frightening but to be quite frank, I didn't realize the room and my chair had actually moved because I didn't attribute it to an earthquake. I thought I had gotten dizzy from an inner ear infection I've been battling, a seasonal experience that I go through every Spring and Autumn.

It wasn't until an hour or two had passed that I received news that there had been an earthquake in Alabama. I confess that I was very excited by the news in the way that someone who has never seen a meteor shower is excited the first time they see a "shooting star."

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1172-Birmingham-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d23-Minor-Earthquakes-felt-in-Alabama-on-Tuesday-and-Wednesday">Read the entire article here and if you felt the Earthquake, find out where to report it. The U.S. Geological survey is asking people who felt either earthquake to report it.

[Berry Cool]

1. A mere 3.8?

When they get a 5 like Ohio did in '86, then they'll really have something to talk about. :-)