Earthquake

Well the excitement continues. We had an earthquake early this morning. I was just getting home and was getting ready to head to bed, when I thought I heard a really loud truck driving up the road. The apartment began to gradually shake, and it took me a bit, but I finally realized what was going on. It was a 5.9 and happened just outside Bologna with a couple minor ones following. It was a quite a bit south, but was pretty strong in Vicenza. It woke everyone up at 4 am this morning. Only the people that had lived in CA knew what it was. The strangest thing about earthquakes is the fact that you can hear them coming. It's a little odd to have experienced an earth quake. The whole time I've been on this trip, I have wondered what would happen to all these old buildings in an earthquake. At least in Vicenza, there were no damages.

We've been getting aftershocks all morning. Most have been to small to feel but there have been a couple pretty large ones. We just had a 5.1 at about 3:15 while I was in studio. This one lasted for quite a while and no one seemed to know what to do. We've since googled it and if we need to, we are prepared if it happens again. No one will be leaving the building and we'll be under our desks.

So, we are still getting aftershocks. There have been 5 that I've felt with the largest one being a 5.1 earlier this afternoon. It's been really interesting just how many we've felt in the last 16 hours. We have a window in studio that will begin to shake just before we are able to feel the building shake. It's become a good indicator for an oncoming earthquake.