Did you feel that?

Sitting in front of the fireplace, listening to the rain hit the glass, writing.
Knowing I should be getting to bed. It's almost 2 a.m. Need to work tomorrow. Albeit, not until noon.
When my house shakes. And keeps shaking, rattling and creaking for a few seconds.
It feels like the earth is moving.

Now there's been a lot of rain the last couple days. I live on a hillside. There was a major landslide in the Puget Sound region just recently. It's in the front of my mind.

But it felt like an earthquake. At least, my experience with earthquakes.
I only get a couple of antenna TV channels and not all the time. I can't just click over to some 24 hour news channel to check for Breaking News. My previous sound system had a radio tuner. But this new one doesn't.

Then it occurs to me. Duh......Internet, Barbie. (And I work in IT?)

For the first ten or fifteen minutes, nothing current comes up in a search. But then this link comes up, where it hadn't a few minutes ago:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/?region=Washington
It's a pretty cool site.

I clicked the Real-time Earthquake Map link on the left side. On the world map that comes up is a bright red dot on the Puget Sound. I scroll down and the top, most recent quake beneath the map says:
1 km ENE Key Center, Washington. 

Wow! It was an earthquake. In Key Center. Holy crow!! And I felt it. Maybe the piece I was writing was the epicenter. (It could happen!) 

I wonder if it woke anyone up. I feel fortunate to have felt it and wonder why. I was so tired and ready for sleep only 20 minutes ago. Just before the earthquake.

Now, I'm energized, excited and can't imagine falling asleep. Plus if that shaking was a precursor to a huge quake, big enough to open up the ground and swallow my house, I need to hurry up and get that Seattle/Sacramento NBA Blog post written. There's no time to lose!

(Too bad I've felt an earthquake before, otherwise this could have been a New Thing! Dang.)