Around 10:15 this morning I suddenly felt quite dizzy, which then made me feel slightly nauseated. I couldn't imagine what the heck was going on, until a co-worker popped out of his office and said, Earthquake! We're at the top floor of an 8-storey building and that sucker was swaying to beat all!

The central California coast area seems to have become much more active the last couple of years--particularly with larger earthquakes (they had a 6.5 back in December not far from where today's event was centered). Thank goodness no one was hurt today, apart from some frayed nerves. Looks like they had well over 100 aftershocks, though...many were only in the 2-3 range, but one right after the "big" event was 5.0. Ick.

Maybe it was the Universe's way of making sure us Californians didn't talk too much smack about the hurricanes in Florida...