"Well - excited and scared"
I just had my first real earthquake! Sure, on a couple of occasions I've felt a quick jolt around the house, but never enough to even be completely sure it was actually a quake. No doubts about this one, though. While my first thought was "What did they drop upstairs this time?", I quickly realized that the rumbling and shaking was stronger and longer lasting than the usual bumps from the lab above, and I scrambled under my desk just as the ripples hit. (Thanks to my Fields and Waves class at Harvey Mudd, I know pretty precisely what was going on at each stage of the way.)
It didn't last long, and it didn't seem like anything disastrous had happened, but we were evacuated from the college buildings as a precaution. I'm obviously new at this (and I may have been more flustered than I thought), because I didn't think to grab my bag lunch off of my desk (it was almost noon) and or even to close my door behind me (we've got laptops in here). Fortunately, someone else closed it for me, and they let us back in before I got too hungry. All in all, it made for a more interesting day, and happily it sounds like there weren't any serious injuries anywhere (one news story commented that a couple of people had minor head injuries from taking cover under tables). If you want all the latest California earthquake news, I highly recommend this USGS site.
It didn't last long, and it didn't seem like anything disastrous had happened, but we were evacuated from the college buildings as a precaution. I'm obviously new at this (and I may have been more flustered than I thought), because I didn't think to grab my bag lunch off of my desk (it was almost noon) and or even to close my door behind me (we've got laptops in here). Fortunately, someone else closed it for me, and they let us back in before I got too hungry. All in all, it made for a more interesting day, and happily it sounds like there weren't any serious injuries anywhere (one news story commented that a couple of people had minor head injuries from taking cover under tables). If you want all the latest California earthquake news, I highly recommend this USGS site.