Earthquake...

While writing the previous posting I was interrupted by a feeling of "sea sickness" . At first I thought I must be getting something, but after a few seconds it was obvious that we were experiencing an earthquake. It wasn't violent but seemed to roll on for a long time. I decided to keep on working, but then there was a knock at the door. My host sister came to get me as the few hundred students still in school were evacuated onto the open area in front of the school. I saw a few tiles that seemed to have come loose on the steps, but everything else was just fine. We waited about 20 minutes and then headed back inside. I imagine it was another after-shock but I didn't hear anything specific as to the epicenter. In any case all of our students are home or shopping, and if they were moving or on the ground floor I doubt that they even noticed. Sitting still on an upper floor it was obvious. :)