more on the earthquake

Earthquakes don't happen too much here. When they do they aren't the kind of thing you immediately recognize and call "earthquake." Instead, your mind is lost for a while, it is desperate and it is grasping at straws. The kinds of straws your mind grasps at in these situations can tell you something about your mind, and your mind can tell you something about you. Everybody I talked to had their own play-by-play list as to what the hell they thought was going on. Here's a good one.