Mainshock Earthquake tonight

We just had a large earthquake. I am OK. This time (8:19pm, July 5th 2019) it was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, centered about 11 miles from a town called Ridgecrest. This is where the "mainshock" was centered yesterday morning (July 4th) around 10:30am. That quake was a magnitude 6.4. Although the one this morning (July 5th) did not have me worried, this one tonight did. This one is now classified as the "mainshock" with the 6.4 one being called a "foreshock." It was long and bouncing and swayed the entiremt building of the Rosslyn for a long time. It didn't stop. This one I really did take seriously and made a bolt for my front door, under the re-enforced beams where there's more of a chance I wouldn't be caught trapped by stuff (if I can make past my fridge and stuff), like I told you guys. And then, I started to hear the sirens, quite a lot of fire engines, cops and paramedics screaming to answer the calls placed to them for assistance by people who thought the worst was probably over by 4th of July morning's 6-pointer. Although we may not have so many fireworks to weather still now, we still may have hell to pay at the Rosslyn for the next couple of days with how the ne'erdowells internalize such stimuli (not to mention the rest of us). Let's hope the earthquake aftershocks and ne'erdowell response don't last longer than that.

While nothing fell in my individual apartment  (thank god). Things were falling all around outside in the courtyard and the whole building moaned and wailed and creaked. It was like nothing I've ever experienced before and was the biggest one I've ever lived through (the '94 Northridge quake was only magnitude 6.7. And that was considered huge. This one just now tonight was 7.1. Remember, when the magnitude numbers increase, the effects of the quake increase exponentially. I was around for the Northridge one, but I was asleep at the time and the epicenter was far from me. The Northridge one had the biggest quake experienced in my lifetime. Now this one tonight is.). Tonight, people at the Rosslyn were yelling and hooting, with some laughing out of nerves. The building wouldn't stop letting certain things crash to the ground outside. Our building is over 100 years old and made out of brick, not retrofitted, etc.

And to top it all off, ne'erdowells only looked in on other ne'erdowells, if at all. Ok, I partially jest, but there was some cruel truth in that some crude poor folk only cared if other crude poor folk were ok and never even acknowledged the "we were in this all together" and that EVERYONE was scared, trying to think of what to do.