The World's Longest Earthquake
"Oh my god! Do you guys feel that too?"
This was a unique way start to science class on this lovely lovely splendid morn. At 10:58 am on Wednesday, May 12, my wife, daughter an myself started 'vibrating'.
"Hey honey!" I said to my wife. "Do you feel that?"
"How do I not! It's so big!"
My students faces all gleamed and snickered as they were laughing at the 'noobies' (that being my family and I who were new to Peru and life along the fault line. My students one at at time all gave a thumbs up and our cohort's chat on 'WhatsApp' blew up with teacher diving for cover between blocks 2 and 3 of what would turn out to be not such an average day.
Aftershocks were next and happened up till 10 minutes after the initial event. "Can you feel that?" I asked my wife again. It was like our apartment was a roller coaster and we were 4 years old again, enthralled at movements that were so subtle for for us at a moment in our life, so life changing.
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