On October 16, 2012 we experienced our SECOND earthquake since living in our home. Our night was going as per normal. Conor had been put to bed just before 7pm (which was a little early but he hadn't really napped) and Josh and I were making dinner when all of the sudden there was a LOUD noise and it felt like a train was running through our house (about 7:11pm). And just to be clear - when I say LOUD noise I mean so loud we thought there was an explosion in the basement. The noise was so loud and the feeling of shaking so strong that Josh ran upstairs to get Conor (who was sitting up in his bed but was mostly asleep) and I ran to the basement stairs and slowly opened the door to see if I could smell fire or smoke as my initial thought was the boiler or oil tank had blown up (everything was fine down there).
I came back up and met Josh back in the dinning room where he handed a very sleepy and confused Conor to me and we looked at each other and at the same time said "Earthquake"?!?!?! We grabbed Hunter (who seemed 100% unfazed by the turn of events) and ran outside. We saw that our neighbor was also outside with a flashlight so we yelled to her and asked her if she had felt or heard that. She said she had and had thought her propane tank or boiler had blown (turns out that this is what MOST people thought happened).
We then went inside and I went to put Conor back down to bed. While I was doing so the entire world was checking up on us. My phone was lighting up like crazy - text messages, actual phone calls, and through Facebook. Apparently this earthquake was felt throughout New England and at that time they were reporting it was a 4.7 and that the epicenter was a few miles from out home (which is why it was so strong - the house shook for several seconds). After checking in with everyone (we felt very loved that so many of you checked in to make sure we were ok) we watched the story unfold on the television. We were both pretty shaky for a while because we were waiting for any aftershocks and we simply couldn't believe that we had experienced another earthquake (the prior one had been the year before in the summer).
There were no aftershocks and the only damage to our home were a few crooked picture frames :)
-- Erin
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