Earthquake!

Its a quiet Wednesday. rox worked from home as it was a public holiday, Brenna is on school holiday, and Im just home. Since it was a day off of running for me I decided to do a little core workout here at home, Brenna and Roxanne decided to lay down and read. Suddenly I feel dizzy, so I figure "i must be dehydrated." then I notice that the tv is shifting and things are falling off the desk. I stumble out of the office and notice that Brenna and Roxanne are standing in the doorway of our bedroom. This is not dehydration, its an Earthquake. Having never experianced an earthquake, we were all a bit scared and dissorientated. Brenna was in a panic. So for the next minute we felt three big shakes. Once it stopped we decided to get out, along with a majority of the other residents of the apartment. On the way down the stairs it was all I could do to keep Brenna from a full on panic. we met an older Chinese man that reassured her that we would be fine and that seemed to help. He confided in me however that this was the worst he had experianced in all the time he has lived in penang (he was a lifelong resident). Once downstairs Brenna calmed down, Roxanne had to go back to the apartment to get Brennas hamster, so i think once she caught up to us, Brenna was alot calmer. After about 1/2 hour we decided to go back inside. All of this took place between 5:00pm and 5:45pm. The first aftershock was felt at around 6pm. lasting about 30 seconds and consisting of only one big shake. In the meantime, we had been watching CNN, and discovered that an 8.6 quake had taken place off the shoreline of Indonesia, so the next threat was Tsunami waves. In 2004 a quake had taken place in a similar spot off of Indonesia, and wiped out the city of Ache, Indonesia. This same wave system hit Penang causing some significant damage to the nortn western part of the island and moderate damage where we are. So we were a bit concerned and although we knew an alert had been issued for Penang, everything the "experts" were saying on CNN led us to believe that nothing was going to happen. so we decided to wait it out, being 15 stories up we were pretty confident we were safe. There were no further aftershocks, and by 9:30pm the alerts had been lifted. So chalk up another first time experiance here in Penang.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2012/04/11/cabrera-8-7-magnitude-earthquake.cnn

If you look next to his left shoulder you see "Pulau Pinang"...thats us.