Shaky Earthquake
by Rob Watcher on Sunday March 2nd, 2014 at 4:07amA Little Scary
We just got woken up at around 3:40, to a 6.4 earthquake. This is our first experience with one.
The bedroom walls and windows were shaking and clanging pretty good. A little weird standing up and not really feeling stable on the floor underneath. Standing outside writing this, the neighbours are now all up and abuzz in the streets.
No damage to our complex though - but at 6.4 hopefully not elsewhere:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
From USGS instant earthquake updates, an M 6.4 - 23km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua - 2014-03-02 09:37:56 UTC - 12.630°N 87.636°W depth=70.9km (44.1mi) - 54km (34mi) W of Chinandega, Nicaragua
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After going back to sleep and feeling a little bit of a uneasy feeling (but no noise) around 4:30 - we got up this morning to find that there was a second magnitude 4.2 earthquake at 4:30AM. The news headlines informed us that the initial earthquake that jolted us, was a "powerful and dangerous" quake - - - which we figured that M6.4 meant, even though we have no experience.
No damage it appears, but it was felt in much of the north west part of the country and of course us as the epicenter was just off the Pacific Coast a few miles from us in Leon.