Halloween & an Earthquake!

Tomorrow is halloween and I could not believe how much fun the grown-ups were having last weekend carving pumpkins and taking scary photos. The other bit of excitement is that I experience my first "big" earthquake tonight! It measured 5.6 on the Richter scale... pretty BIG! Here is some information on it! Wikipedia describes earthquakes of this magnitude as "Can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions. At most slight damage to well-designed buildings." Only 800 quakes of this magnitude (5.0 to 6.0) occur each year. To tell the truth - I slept through it - but mom and dad were impressed and just a little frightened...