Earthquake!!

This truly is a momentous occasion. Yesterday afternoon, (Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010) I felt my first earthquake!! What a bizarre feeling... it was very strange. I've only lived in Southern California for EIGHT YEARS and this is the first earthquake I've ever felt. Sure, I've been in earthquakes, they happen all the time here, but this was the first one I ever noticed. Apparently I'm not as observant as I thought I was. :-)
The USGS (United States Geological Survey) is saying that what we felt was a 7.2 earthquake whose epicenter was in the the area of Baja, CA/ Mexicali CA which is pretty much (I think...) on the border between Mexico and California (hence it's called Mexicali, or Calexico). It happened at 3:40pm, but it wasn't the only quake that day. It looks like there have been several fairly large earthquakes down there along the San Andreas fault, most of them are being called aftershocks, but they're up in the 5.s. As of right now, I've only heard of two deaths caused by the quake... but who knows, maybe it's not over yet- some people do believe that one day California will fall into the ocean. Haha, I guess we'll see. :-)
Wow. I just checked the index map of recent earthquakes in CA/NE- since last night at about 9pm there have been somewhere upwards of 600 earthquakes in the state and it look like the majority of them were near Baja. They're all 3. and smaller, but that's still actually kind of frightening. 3/4s of the earthquakes in the state in the last week (there have been 966 quakes in the last week) happened yesterday. I tell you- were getting nearer to Christ's return- or something.
I'm having fun using my imagination today :-)
Samia