Earthquake! I have now survived my first London earthquake. I feel privileged to have experienced such a rare occurence; it's kind of like spotting a panda in the wild or something (although, admittedly less cool, as pandas are awesome).
I happened to be on the phone with my mom at the time, and our conversation was going something like this:
Me: [yammer yammer]
Mom: [yammer yammer]
[apartment begins shaking]
Me: ... Uh... Mom? Does England get earthquakes?
Mom: Don't be silly. England doesn't have earthquakes.
Me: Well, something's going on because my apartment is moving.
Mom: Maybe it's a train or the underground.
I was actually afraid it was a bomb or something nearby, but didn't feel I should voice that concern when my mom was thousands of miles away. Well, it was not a train or the underground or a bomb! It was an earthquake! I feel vindicated that I was not hallucinating, that the shaking was actually real and significant, and relieved that nothing around me is now a pile of rubble.
Currently, BBC and CNN are competing for the prize of Least Interesting Earthquake-Related Graphic in their stories on the Great Quake of '07. I'll let you be the judge of which one sparks your interest least.
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Wow, you warned me, but I was unprepared for how truly boring those pictures would be.
BBC: Bloody hell! This earthquake caused a wee crack in the ceiling of my mum's flat!
CNN: Maybe these nondescript firemen were like trying to respond.
See, those are actually both more interesting photos than the ones they started with (apparently sending out photographers to the earthquake-torn regions of rural England was a time-consuming job for two of the largest news organizations in the world). BBC originally just had a photo of a house, with bricks from the chimney on the pavement. CNN? A seismograph reading. Bricks? Seismograph? Hell, the crack is high drama by comparison.
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