Shook Me All Night Long

So I have officially been in an Earthquake. As you may have heard, the Midwest experienced an earthquake this morning. It measured 5.2 on the Richter scale and happened at about 5:37am.

I woke up to a painting hanging above my bed rattling against the wall and everything in the room vibrating (including the bed). I remember thinking that it might have been an earthquake but as soon as I thought about it, it stopped and things were normal. I went back to sleep. I chalked it up to being a dream.

When I got to work, I asked co-workers if there had been an Earthquake and they laughed because it had been all over TV and the radio. We joked about it and I went on with my day. Around 11:00 I was in our warehouse packing and shipping conference supplies with a colleague. We went upstairs and someone asked if we felt the tremor. Assuming that they were still picking on me for asking about it this morning, I told them that it was a "funny joke". Several other people confirmed that there had been an after-shock which shook their office walls and was very much felt. Oddly enough, in our first floor warehouse, we had felt nothing.

It took me a while to get over the tornadoes. Now I'm contending with earthquakes. Indianapolis is on a major fault line and it's said that because the earth here is older than in California, we are more likely to have a major earthquake that far surpasses anything on the west coast.

HR needs to include this information in a potential employee's job offer.