Hey, my very first earthquake! It just felt like someone was running up the stairs outside --- but for a long enough time to make my laptop shimmy and my wompum jiggle.

I'm amazed to read it was a 5.0. and so near-by.
My boyfriend was picking up dinner down the street and didn't feel it at all. Now he's espousing that Xankou Chicken has some kind of super-natural, earthquake-deflecting, force field.
Good to know.

I don't miss those earthquakes!

Am glad folks are OK. I was in Denver, in 1968, sitting in a Rathskeller and said, "The subway..." feeling the vibrations, and realized there was no subway in Denver. Someone said the little shakes were common. I was in Skopje, the former Yugoslavia, in 1964 and we were driving a DeuxChevaux we'd leased (little car that looked like a WWI tank; wonderful car). Not able to speak the language, we didn't find out until later that the rubble, big cracks in deserted buildings were from an earthquake earlier that year.

The USGS website has great maps and loads of information updated constantly. It's a wonderful resource.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

BILDERBURG 2009 MEDIA BLACKOUT

(no I don't blame you)

But I do BRING IT UP ANYWAY.