Who all felt it? I did... I was sitting in math class when suddenly, I felt really weird. I looked at my desk, and I was shifting around involuntarily. I looked at the people beside me, and then I, believe it or not, smiled. =)

Though I feel sorry for the Seattle and regional residents (well, excepting Gates), I thought it was hilarious. The funniest part was the expression on my math teacher's face.

You see, Port Moody Secondary School is built on a former garbage dump. It was a very old, long buried garbage dump, but regardless of that fact the ground it is built on is essentially, a giant marshmallow.

And I was sitting in the downhill-most portable classroom, exactly where the school would collapse and slide. The teacher was staring at the school out the back windows, half bewildered, half frightened, hoping that the school wouldn't fall on top of us. Just the dilation of his pupils was enough to make me laugh.

(Earthquake Readiness Example: During the shaking, no one got under their desk. Once the shaking stopped, THEN we got under our desks. Yeah, that's really brilliant, isn't it.)

Yeesh, my first 'quake ever, and I thought it was hilarious. Kind of humbling, though, to realise that the Earth has that much power...

(Actually, I was going to post this in my computer class directly after the quake, but the Seattle lines were probably down, so I couldn't get through.)