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“Momma? You comin’?”

The other morning I woke up about 8 am and was listening to Sam (on the baby monitor) play happily in his room when an earthquake struck. Since I panicked over the last one we had, and I was pretty tired, I decided to wait it out and see what happened before I jumped up. It was all over in the amount of time it took me to think that through anyway. heh.

Just a rumble, rumble, rumble, SHAKE, rumble, rumble.

Sam was quiet for a minute and then spoke up in an alarmed voice:

“Momma?  You comin’?”

“Momma?  Sammy’s room is broken!”

Heh. He couldn’t think of any better way to describe it, and it just made me laugh!

The following comes from a great website that I follow (as well as everyone else out here). It is amazing to see how many earthquakes happen worldwide on a daily basis.

Check it out: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/  (click on the maps for details)

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 5.2
Date-Time
Location 12.412°S, 77.687°W
Depth 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Region NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU
Distances 75 km (50 miles) WSW of LIMA, Peru
145 km (90 miles) S of Huacho, Peru
205 km (125 miles) NW of Chincha Alta, Peru
270 km (170 miles) NW of Ica, Peru

As a point of reference, we live 107 km S of Lima, so we weren’t too far from the epicenter.

Categories: Peru
  1. June 11, 2008 at 3:55 am | #1

    5.2 and you just got some rumbles? Glad you all are okay!

  2. Stephanie
    July 2, 2008 at 8:37 pm | #2

    That is funny! I would have smiled big too when I heard Sammy.

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