Shake Rattle N'Roll or IF THE ISLAND'S ROCKIN' It's Just Another Beautiful Day in Paradise!

As you may have heard we had an earthquake last week here on Guam. All right, you probably didn't hear anything about it. Turns out it's not that big a deal, happens all the time.  5.2 is large enough to make note of at the US Geological Survey and the local news, but that's about it. Except for Amber and the boys, no one else on the island made a single comment about it to me. Matter of fact, I didn't even feel it. Here I've been waiting all my life to experience an EARTHQUAKE, and I'm standing right here and MISSED IT! Well, actually I was walking and as I was passing through the living room I heard what I thought was thunder. I got to the bedroom and Amber was sitting on the bed looking mildly alarmed and said, "Are we having an earthquake"? "Nah, just another thunderstorm" I said. I completely blew her off! Sorry Hon...next time I'll listen to you better. You see, she has some experience. That was her second 5+ quake. The first being right after she got to the island while the rest of us were still in Iowa.

Our house has a few cracks in the walls above doors
from earthquakes. 

But never fear, two days later while sitting at my desk we had another one. Smaller one. Didn't make any headlines. But I felt it and heard it. I went running out the back door where the electrician was working on the air conditioner and yelled "Did you feel that!"  "What? ........ Earthquake?"  he said. And then a big grin spread over his face and he said "We get them all the time". Okay, now I feel really stupid. He might as well called me a silly haole [hou-lee, -ley] and told me the next time it happened I wouldn't be so impressed. I wondered how safe the buildings are. But while they were installing the  new air conditioner in our kitchen, it took them 40 minutes to drill a 2 inch hole through 12 inches of concrete and steel rebar.
Turns out that it wasn't even a big enough quake to get noticed. Nothing in the news or even the USGS website. Oh well, I felt it and heard it and now I can say I've lived through it! When we lived in Clinton, MO there was a 3.3 magnitude quake. Some people said they felt it. I think the person that felt it the most was the guy who printed up all the "I lived through the Great Clinton, MO Earthquake" t-shirts. Yeah, right in the old pocket book.
Anyway it was an uneasy feeling. Best described akin to the feeling you get when you step on something and it moves under your weight and you feel like you are about to fall......Only, I was sitting....