My boyfriend is in DC and apparently they shut down his university for the day. Everyone was freaking out and he calmly packed his laptop. In Pakistan if a quake is less than 6.0 or 6.5 nobody even moves from they're sitting, we're kind of an apathetic people. The Dean at his school thought it was a bomb and he was all....'uh, no, I'm from Pakistan, bombs kind of tend to be louder.'
*facepalm*
But 5.8 is pretty terrible. Before the 2005 quake here (it was 7.8, scariest experience ever) I used to freak out over quakes of that magnitude. Especially if you're a couple of floors up.
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Date: 2011-08-24 11:48 am (UTC)*facepalm*
But 5.8 is pretty terrible. Before the 2005 quake here (it was 7.8, scariest experience ever) I used to freak out over quakes of that magnitude. Especially if you're a couple of floors up.