Monday Morning Earthquake

Becky and I were suddenly jostled awake at 6:15 am this morning by a very loud bang and the house shaking. We had no idea what had happened. I initially thought a very loud truck had come down the street but Becky thought it was something much more serious. She thought something hit our house. I got up and looked around. I was especially concerned that a tree had come down in our backyard and had struck the house but everything looked alright. 

I got back into bed and looked at my phone and it was then that I saw all the postings about an earthquake in Buffalo. At first people were asking each other if they felt their house shaking. It turns out it was all over the region. The Earthquake measured at 3.8 so if was fairly small but it certainly felt big.

It turns out the really big earthquake today happened in Turkey and Syria where a truly devasting quake leveled many communities with over 2,000 people killed. The death toll will probably be much higher. It made us feel how lucky we were in Buffalo to have that comparatively small earthquake happening around the same time.

There is a fault line along the Niagara escarpment and there are small earthquakes here from time to time. This one today was supposedly the biggest in 40 years. The last one we remember happening was probably about 30 years ago when we were living on Shirley Ave.