I think I need a 'wtf is this?' icon

[aria]

...The whole house just shook inexplicably for thirty seconds, so I'm going to assume it's an earthquake. Quick googling doesn't turn up any news (oh self it happened like three minutes ago, even the internet isn't always that quick) but does tell me that my town is on a wee fault line, so it probably wasn't a hallucination.

Live in California on the fucking San Andreas fault for fifteen years: always out of town or asleep during quakes. In North Carolina a few months of the year for less than five years: EARTHQUAKE.

ETA: Not a hallucination! That seems to be all the details the news has so far; I hope everyone near the epicenter was all right.

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[jumpuphigh]

Here you go: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/

[aria]

Oh hey, awesome! Okay, it was in Virginia, but it was a magnitude of 5.9, so I'm not surprised I felt it.

...And, I mean, possibly not awesome. I hope everyone near the epicenter is okay.

[jumpuphigh]

Yeah. That's big enough to be felt at a longish distance.