earthquake!

Not sure where it would register on richter's scale or whatever they use these days, but this morning here at like 7:08am, approximately, we had a fairly severe little earth tremor. My first thought was that the dogs were all running together along the lanai, but then realised the lanai isn't quite long enough to sustain that amount of dog tread, and wait, how did the dogs get get into the roof? We bustled outside and felt the ground shaking under our feet, and listened to the house buckling and groaning a little under the strain. It was kind of cool, and yet really horrible. The spare gas fridge that is sitting next to the glass doors in the back of the barn was rocking back and forth, and the house was actually rumbling, as though it were generating thunder. About 10 minutes later, as I was beginning to write this post actually, there was another little aftershock, but by the time I could say, "Fuck!", and we were on the lanai, it had passed. Oh, yeah, the first one set off a car alarm somewhere up on Ula Lena... Nothing appears to have broken, I guess I will go and check gas lines and such. Crikey!