Smack dab in the middle of our pastor's sermon this morning, we felt a bit of an earthquake. Pastor Gary just kept on preachin' until some of us in the congregation informed him that we'd just had a small earthquake. It's hard to say if God was giving an "Amen!" to Gary's sermon, or if it was a "Dude, you're wrong and you're pissing me off," but whatever the case, Gary said, "Well I'll go ahead and wrap this up then." He did point out that the large lighting fixture above our heads didn't budge an inch, but the older members of the church informed him that the fixture was so firmly attached that the entire building could fall down and it wouldn't even do so much as wiggle.
The earthquake we felt was small. That means that either the earthquake itself was small or that we were far enough away from the epicenter that it was small by the time it reached us. As it turns out, it was a pretty small one, magnitude 4.7, about 45 kilometers from the church.
The good thing is that it gave me an excuse to go visit one of my favorite websites, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/, and do fun stuff like finding the quake, getting the nitty gritty details, and my favorite part, DID YOU FEEL IT? It's so interesting to see how other people perceived it.
Posted by Shelby at September 2, 2007 11:45 AM