So last night around 4:03am an earthquake hit Central Chile, which is right where we live. I had just rolled over and was just falling back asleep when everything started shaking and there was a low rumble. One of my roomies screamed and that kind of jolted me in to "Ok, this is not a dream, this is an earthquake and other people are feeling it". I'm not really sure how long it lasted, but I believe it was about 10 - 15 seconds, but it felt like forever!
We all got up slowly and opened our doors to see if others felt it. I live with 6 other girls and 2 of the girls slept through it! I just can't believe that because it was shaking our beds like crazy. We all hugged and said "oh my god" about 200 times! Nothing had really fallen down and there were not sirens outside so we assumed everything was ok. However, we looked up on the news and saw it was a 5.6 on the Richter scale. I don't know much about that scale, but that seems pretty high to me!
I actually felt sea sick from all of the swaying of the building and thought I was going to throw up for a minute..... visions of the Canada airport and being woken up to throw up were flooding my mind.
But, luckily we all calmed down and went back to bed after a little while.
The scary thing..... apparently these aren't that rare!!!! Chile is right on a fault line and gets a good amount of earthquakes. (Someone really should have done some research before moving to this country).
Also, apparently the coastal towns ( one hour away) know what to do in case of a tsunami and have signs pointing to higher ground. Well were were thinking about going to one of the beaches this weekend, but now I just don't know anymore! Again, someone should have done some research on this country!!!
I was going to post some pics, but that will have to come later in the day. We are very lucky that nothing bad happened and everything was ok. I just hope this is the only one we every experience!
Ciao!
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