EARTHQUAKE!!!!

  

   We had a small 4.0 earthquake here in Cairo a couple days ago.  I was in the room with the boys and Hany was on the balcony with his mom when it occurred. He felt it but the boys and I didn't feel a THING!!   My sis in law lives in a high apt building just across the street from us, my niece and my other sis in law (who was visiting at the time) felt the couch moving....and I am fairly certain they said the chandelier was swaying as well. That is the THIRD time I have been in or near an earthquake and felt nothing.
      I was at Yokota Air Force Base (in the city of Fussa, Japan), about 330 miles from the city of Kobe when it was hit with a devastating 7.2 magnitude quake. I was working as a flight attendant with Evergreen International Airlines at the time and we were doing military flights in and out of Japan and Korea. We woke to find Japanese citizens huddled around TV's everywhere we turned.  We knew something had happened but it took us a while to figure it out.  That quake killed more than 6000 people. The city was leveled.  We were shocked when we learned how close we were to it.  I believe I later found out that the air base was on a separate "plate" than the city of Kobe. I really wanted to know why we didn't feel anything when we were so close and such devastation had occurred.  Apparently there are many tectonic plates in this region, we were fortunate to NOT be located on the same one as the city of Kobe. Even though were were fairly close, we didn't feel a thing. I was also sound asleep through a small one in Oregon. The newspaper falling off the table in the middle of the night (scared the bejeezers out of me) and hearing several car alarms going off is the only "experience" I can claim for that one!  I will not claim to have been in an earthquake until I actually FEEL it.  Mind you, it needn't be anything LARGE....but if I don't at least have a mild panic attack and get a bit excited from actually feeling it...then it didn't happen. The local news did report the recent Cairo quake, but I could not find it on any of the world earthquake maps that keep minute by minute updates on where quakes are occurring.  I know the ones that occur here tend to be very mild, guess they are not significant enough to keep track of!  Oh well.


 I want to see a swinging chandelier......



On to the next adventure....Inshallah.