An earthquake experience

It's about 9 in the morning. Uncle, Nammu and I are in the dining room.......something happens.....and we turn to each other with this unsure feeling...... and uncle says "did you feel that earthquake?"

And Nammu and I were both like "oh, my god.... that's what that was " "what..that was an earthquake" !

It was just a couple of seconds, and it's hard to describe how it felt.  It was like a wave, a wave that passed through the body, a couple of seconds of something pretty disorienting, and before you even begin to understand it, it's gone...yet it's very distinctive, nothing like I've ever felt before.

And I'm telling uncle "really, is that what an earthquake feels like...that was just so strange" and he's like "this must be 2.4 on the richter, it's only when it goes above 3.5 that you'll hear objects shake". With Kilauea, they've been having over 700 earthquakes a day and by now he even knows how much each might measure just from how it feels.

And it was so cute to hear him say "the big ones can be scary, but these little ones can actually be a nice feeling, don't you think?"

Well, talk of having new experiences.....this ones hard to beat :)