Whole lotta shakin’ goin on…

At about 4:30 am I was abruptly awoken to my bed doing a great recreation of a scene from The Exorcist. My first thought was that the guy in the neighboring condo was doing laundry really early (he has a new front loading washer and is apparently ignorant of how to level and balance it but that idea quickly vanished as it got louder and LOUDER over the next 20 seconds or so.

There are only a handful of quakes I’ve felt here in St. Louis, and all of them were of the variety that felt like a small wave just passed under your floor, but this is the first one I’ve experienced that had real side-side motion. It was ‘interesting’ from a science geek perspective, but not something I care to repeat any time soon!