02:10 pm - Maryland Earthquake
(Oddly enough, I think I've slept through most of the other earthquakes that have happened near me until now. Today I was awake.)
- I think that if I had not read descriptions of experiencing minor earthquakes by friends in more earthquake-prone parts of the country than here over the years, the last few minutes would have been rather more disconcerting than they were.
- I think that if I had not spent so much time in taller, more flexible structures where large trucks passing can shake the floor noticeably, the "single storey houses built on concrete slabs in quiet residential neighbourhoods DON'T MOVE LIKE THIS" aspect would have freaked me out quite a bit more. (I'm at Mom's house.)
- While I didn't really experience it exactly as 'fear' after I realized the scale of the motion was too large (and too sustained) to be anything rlse, my nervous system did get a "set peripheral nerves tingling" jolt, so yeah, it affected my physiologically in a way that fits somewhere on the fear spectrum.
Now to see how long it takes before I can Google news reports about it ... maybe by the time I finish writing this ...
[Edit: Ah, Twitter has it. 5.8, huh? Gotta look up the location of the epicenter...]