Quote:At least it was only a 5.0.A 5.0 slightly over 40 km away - EDIT: I was misinformed; it was closer to 60 km - from where I was sitting at the time. We get these roughly once a decade; at 12 years since the last one, we were due.
It ruined my afternoon, though - somebody panicked and pulled the fire alarm, and I'm on the emergency organization so I had to make sure everyone on my floor was out.
My thought process during the 'quake: Why are we shaking? Why are we still shaking? Oh; earthquake. That's an emergency situation. I'd better do what I've been trained to do. Thus, five seconds into the quake, I loudly said "Everyone Remain Calm", letting folks know that Somebody Is In Charge And There Is No Reason To Panic. (It worked - the building evacuation went smoothly after that, at least from my floor.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012