Earthquake!

O_o

In all my years living in California, I was never one to be bothered by earthquakes. I'm a heavy sleeper -- dead to the world and oblivious to all distrations. Heck, I even slept through the rumblings of the Northridge earthquake back in 1994 (at about 45 miles away from the epicenter of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake), when things were really rattling.

And yet I actually felt one this just now and that woke me up. I was in the middle of a dream where I was trying to find a number 2 pencil for a test when the quake occurred. I thought maybe it was a nightmare, then realized that I actually heard the rattling of the lampshade of the lamp sitting on my night stand. The lampshade was clearly not a part of my dream.

A quick visit to the US Geological Survey website just now confirmed it. It was an earthquake at 5:24AM with magnitude of 4.7. The epicenter was near Morgan Hill/Gilroy, about 30 miles away from me.

I must be getting old. Aight, back to bed (hopefully).